burin
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See also: Burin
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French burin. Doublet of boline.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
burin (plural burins)
- A chisel with a sharp point, used for engraving; a graver.
- 2006, Stefan Zweig, translated by Anthea Bell, Chess, 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.
- A prehistoric flint tool
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
chisel
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Further reading[edit]
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A-Pucikwar[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Great Andamanese *burə/in.
Noun[edit]
burin
References[edit]
- Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 22 (2009)
Aka-Kede[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Great Andamanese *burə/in.
Noun[edit]
burin
References[edit]
- Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, p. 7
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
burin m (plural burins)
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- burin on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia fr
- “burin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*boro”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 15/1: Germanismes: A–Bryman, page 191
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