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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

Alternative forms

• burien, berien

Etymology

From Middle English bür?en, from Old English byr?en, bur?en (“burying-place, grave, sepulchre, tomb, burial”), from Proto-Germanic *burginnij? (“burial”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erg?- (“to shelter, protect, save, preserve”). Related to Old English byrgan (“to raise a mound, hide, bury, inter”). More at bury.

Noun

burian (plural burians)

1. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A tomb; sepulchre.
2. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A barrow; mound; tumulus
3. (now chiefly dialectal, Scotland) A camp; hill-fort.

Anagrams

• Urbina, rubian