different between burin vs bruin

English

Etymology

From French burin. Doublet of boline.

Noun

burin (plural burins)

1. A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.
   • 2006, Stefan Zweig, Chess, translated by Anthea Bell, London: Penguin,

     I kept staring at the same wallpaper on the same wall; I stared at it so often that every line of its zigzag pattern has etched itself on the innermost folds of my brain as if with an engraver’s burin.

2. A prehistoric flint tool

Derived terms

• burination
• burinate

Translations

Further reading

• burin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Bruin, Bruni, Rubin, bruin, rub in, rubin

A-Pucikwar

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *bur?/in

Noun

burin

1. hill
2. mountain

References

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 22 (2009)

Aka-Kede

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *bur?/in

Noun

burin

1. hill, mountain

References

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, p. 7

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian burino.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.???/

Noun

burin m (plural burins)

1. burin, graver

Derived terms

• buriner

Further reading

• burin on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr
• “burin” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• bruni

English

Etymology

From Middle Dutch bruin (“brown”) via William Caxton's 1485 translation of a Dutch version of the legend of Reynard the Fox. Bruin is the bear, named for his brown color. Doublet of brown.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?u??n/
• Rhymes: -u??n

Noun

bruin (plural bruins)

1. A folk name for a bear, especially the brown bear, Ursus arctos.
   • 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XVII:

     The mother sought the one gone / astray, for the lost she longs: / she ran great swamps as a wolf / trod the wilds as a bruin / waters as an otter roamed […].

Anagrams

• Bruni, Burin, Rubin, burin, rub in, rubin

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bruin.

Adjective

bruin (attributive bruine, comparative bruiner, superlative bruinste)

1. brown

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brœy?n/
• Hyphenation: bruin
• Rhymes: -œy?n

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch bruun, from Old Dutch *br?n, from Proto-Germanic *br?naz.

Adjective

bruin (comparative bruiner, superlative bruinst)

1. brown

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bruin
• ? Papiamentu: bruin
• ? Sranan Tongo: broin

Etymology 2

From the adjective bruin.

Noun

bruin n (uncountable)

1. the color brown

Noun

bruin c (uncountable)

1. (slang) heroin

Usage notes

The expression aan de bruin zijn is used for the addiction to heroin only, not for individual shots.

See also

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Dutch bruin.

Adjective

bruin

1. brown