burin

From French burin. Doublet of boline.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbjʊɚ.ɪn/, /ˈbɝ.ɪn/

burin (plural burins)

1. 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.

2. A prehistoric flint tool

• burin on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Bruin, Bruni, Rubin, bruin, rub in, rubin

From Proto-Great Andamanese *burə/in.

burin

1. hill
2. mountain

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 22 (2009)

From Proto-Great Andamanese *burə/in.

burin

1. hill, mountain

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, p. 7

Borrowed from Italian burino.

• IPA^(key): /by.ʁɛ̃/

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burin m (plural burins)

1. burin, graver

• buriner

• 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, volumes 15/1: Germanismes: A–Bryman, page 191

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