bower

(Engels)

Noun

1. A bedroom or private apartments, especially for a woman in a medieval castle.
2. (literary) A dwelling; a picturesque country cottage, especially one that is used as a retreat.
3. A shady, leafy shelter or recess in a garden or woods.
4. A large structure made of grass, twigs, etc., and decorated with bright objects, used by male bower birds during courtship displays.

Verb

1. To embower; to enclose.
2. (obsolete) To lodge.

Etymologie (Engels)

Overgenomen van Middelengels: bour

Overgenomen van Oudengels: būr

Verwant aan Saterfries: Búur

Verwant aan Duits: Bauer

Verwant aan Oudnoors: búr

Verwant aan Deens: bur

Verwant aan Noors - Bokmål: bur

Verwant aan Zweeds: bur

Overgenomen van Middelengels: boueer

Verwant aan Nederlands: boer

Verwant aan Albanees: burrë

In summary

From Middle English bour, from Old English būr, from Proto-West Germanic *būr, from Proto-Germanic *būrą (“room, abode”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Búur (“storage room, utility room; cage”), German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr (“cage”) (Danish bur, Norwegian Bokmål bur, Swedish bur).

Concepten

prieel

tuinhuisje

Synoniemen

arbour

arbor

pergola

boudoir

embower

cottage

chamber

thicket

grove

trellis

square gazebo

shade of tree

bow-maker

bower anchor

booth

dinner party

jollification

meeting

party

🥳

soiree

summerhouse

summer house

Vertalingen

tonnelle

Laube

pergola

κληματαριά

emparrado

enramada

glorieta

altana

πέργολα

gloreita

Gartenlaube

Altan

emparrat

pergolato

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