burgh

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbʌɹə/    美 /ˈbʌɹoʊ/|/bɝɡ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. a small mound, often used in reference to tumuli (mostly restricted to place names).
  2. a borough or chartered town (now only used as an official subdivision in Scotland). UK
    — 1815, William Wordsworth, The Excursion, Book Eighth, The Parsonage, lines 95-104, http://www.bartleby.com/145/ww405.html With fruitless pains / Might one like me 'now' visit many a tract / Which, in his youth, he trod, and trod again, / A lone pedestrian with a scanty freight, / Wished-for, or welcome, wheresoe'er he came— / Among the tenantry of thorpe and vill; / Or straggling burgh, of ancient charter proud, / And dignified by battlements and towers / Of some stern castle, mouldering on the brow / Of a green hill or bank of rugged stream.

词形变化

burghs plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Blythburgh burghal burghbote burgher burghmote burgh of barony burgh of regality Edinburgh Edithburgh Musselburgh Newburgh parliamentary burgh Petersburgh Pittsburgh police burgh royal burgh

词源

From Middle English borwe, borgh, burgh, buruh, from Old English burh, from Proto-West Germanic *burg, from Proto-Germanic *burgz (“city, stronghold”). Cf. Strasbourg.
Cognate with Dutch burg, French bourg, German Burg, Persian برج (borj, “tower; battlement, fort”), Swedish borg. Doublet of borough, Brough, and Bury.
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