burga

Debated. Documented as burgana in Medieval Latin local documents. Either from Vulgar Latin, or from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuɾɣa̝/

burga f (plural burgas)

1. hot spring

Whilst toponomy shows that once this word was in use in most of Galicia, today it is mostly reduced to name the hot springs of the city of Ourense.

• “burgaa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “burga” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “burga” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

Unknown.

• Hyphenation: bur‧ga

burga f (plural burghe)

1. A kind of basket filled with stones and used to prevent the erosion of rivers banks

• (Surmiran) purgia

From Latin purgō, purgāre (“clean; purge”).

burga f

1. (medicine, Sursilvan) diarrhea

• fuera
• diarrea

burga (plural burgalar)

1. flea