Bosworth Toller's

Anglo-Saxon

Dictionary online

æ
þ

búr

  • noun [ masculineneuter ]
Dictionary links
Grammar
búr, es; m. (not n.).
Add: A (private, inner) chamber (as distinguished from the heall)
Show examples

  • Búr

    camera,

      Wrt. Voc. i. 58, 6.

  • Gemétton hí ðás cnihtas on ánum búre tó Gode gebiddende,

      Hml. S. 23, 140.

  • He wolde wyrcan þá healle on eástdǽle, and þá óðre gebytla bæftan þǽre healle, bæðhús and kycenan ... and wynsume búras,

      36, 98.
a bedchamber
Show examples

  • Búr þrybeddod

    triclinium, Wrt. Voc. i. 58, 5: 83, 30. (1 a) a bridal chamber (cf. brýd-búr) :-- Búre (nuptiali) thalamo,

      Hpt. Gl. 511, 34.

  • Ic eom nú in Crístes búre,

      Shrn. 140, 28.
a supper-room
Show examples

  • Búre

    triclinio, sede,

      Hpt. Gl. 423, 36.

  • On búr

    in triclinium,

      480, 68.
the chamber of a great man
Show examples

  • Drihten behýdde mé on his búre (

    tabernaculo

    ),
      Ps. L. 26, 5.

  • Hé (

    the emperor

    ) wæs him ána on his inran búre,
      Hml. S. 23, 395.

  • Com se apostol intó ðæs cyninges búre,

      Hml. Th. i. 458, 27.

  • All hígen eódan tó mínum (

    the bishop's

    ) búre on Weogorna ceastre,
      C.D. ii. 100, 29.

  • Eádríc ealdorman bepǽhte hí intó his búre (

    in camera sua

    ),
      Chr. 1015; P. 146, 2.
a lady's chamber, bower
Show examples

  • Hé ábræc intó þám búre þár heó inne læg,

      Ap. Th. 2, 1, 8.Eóde hé intó dám búre þár his dohtor inne wæs, 22, 17.

  • Geáscode hé þone cyning on wífcýþþe on Merantúne, and hine þǽr berád, and þone búr útan beeóde,

      Chr. 755; P. 46, 30.
Similar entries
v. bed-búr.
Entry information
Citation

Bosworth, Joseph. “búr.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/41103.

Checked: 0
Full form

Word-wheel

  • búr, n.

Copyright

All the data provided here are free for any purpose. If you use the data for academic purposes, we ask that you kindly cite us as your source. In case you need a large portion of the dictionary data or you need it in a specific format, let us know through the contact form, we are happy to do custom database dumps for researchers.

How to cite

You can cite the entries of the online version of the dictionary, or you can cite the scanned pages of the original paper editions.

  • To cite the online version of the dictionary, click the icon right under the entry.
  • To cite the scanned paper version of the dictionary, click the "show/hide this scanned page" link under the entry, check the scan and use the citation information right above it.