burga

Galician

As Burgas, Ourense

Etymology

Debated. Documented as burgana in Medieval Latin local documents. Either from Vulgar Latin, or from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuɾɣa̝/

Noun

burga f (plural burgas)

  1. hot spring

Usage notes

Whilst toponomy shows that once this word was in use in most of Galicia, today it is mostly reduced to name the hot springs of the city of Ourense.

References

  • “burgaa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “burga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “burga” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

    Italian

    Etymology

    Unknown.

    Pronunciation

    • Hyphenation: bur‧ga

    Noun

    burga f (plural burghe)

    1. A kind of basket filled with stones and used to prevent the erosion of rivers banks

    Romansch

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    From Latin purgō, purgāre (“clean; purge”).

    Noun

    burga f

    1. (medicine, Sursilvan) diarrhea

    Synonyms

    Uzbek

    Other scripts
    Cyrillic бурга‍
    Roman burga‍
    Perso-Arabic ‍‍

    Noun

    burga (plural burgalar)

    1. flea

    Declension

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