Last names linked to BURRE

Origin

Bouras : 1: Greek: from Albanian burrë ‘man husband’. Compare Booras and Buras.2: French: from b(o)ure ‘frieze’ a type of coarse reddish brown woolen cloth with long hairs (from Late Latin burra ‘coarse untreated wool’) + augmentative suffix -as applied as a metonymic occupational name for a worker in the wool trade or perhaps as a nickname for someone who habitually dressed in brown. Compare Bourassa.3: Muslim (Maghreb): unexplained; likely non-Arabic.

Burr : 1: English: nickname from Middle English burre ‘bur’ (a seed-case or flower-head with clinging prickles) used by Shakespeare to denote someone who sticks like a bur a person difficult to ‘shake off’ a sense which may well be older.2: German: topographic name from Burr(e) ‘mound hill’ or in the south a variant of Burrer.

Burri : 1: Swiss German: from a pet form of the personal name Burkhard (see Burkhart).2: Albanian: nickname from burrë (definite form burri) ‘man’ figuratively ‘brave man’ ‘man of his word’ and ‘distinguished person’.

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