Bure
German, noun/buːʁə/
Bure is spelled B-U-R-E (4 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written German, the 98,214th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bure is a German masculine noun meaning “Boer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The German Wiktionary defines it as “Siedler, überwiegend niederländischer Herkunft, im Bereich des heutigen Südafrika und Namibia”.
What does Bure mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineBoer
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Siedler, überwiegend niederländischer Herkunft, im Bereich des heutigen Südafrika und Namibia
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of Bure
- Buren genitive
- Burin feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce Bure?
- /buːʁə/
- [ˈbuːʁə]
Sources: English Wiktionary, German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to Bure
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is Bure in German?
Bure appears about once in every 4 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).