bour

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === boure, bowre, bowur bur (Early Middle English) === Etymology === From Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /buːr/ === Noun === bour (plural boures) A residence, house, or dwelling. A bedroom or chamber (especially of a woman). (figuratively) Something's resting place. (rare) A pen or stall for an animal. ==== Related terms ==== neyghebour ==== Descendants ==== English: bower Scots: bour ==== References ==== “bǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. == Romanian == === Alternative forms === buăr, buar, boar — archaic === Etymology === Inherited from Latin būbalus, from Ancient Greek βούβαλος (boúbalos, “antelope, wild ox”). It may have passed through a Vulgar Latin intermediate form or was influenced by bubulus; cf. the form bobulum. Compare also Albanian buall. Doublet of bivol, which came through a Slavic source. === Noun === bour m (plural bouri) aurochs (Bos primigenius) wild bull wisent (Bison bonasus) the old emblem of Moldova (with the head of a wisent) ==== Declension ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (wisent): zimbru ==== See also ==== bou