burger

Coined around 1939 from hamburger, due to incorrect analysis of that term as ham + burger and shortening.

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)ɡə(r)
• Homophones: Berger, -burger, burgher

burger (plural burgers)

1. (informal) A hamburger.
2. (chiefly as a combining form) A similar sandwich or patty.

• cheeseburger

• (fast food): taco, burrito

• burger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

burger (plural burgers)

1. Alternative form of burgher

• Gruber

Borrowed from English burger.

burger c (singular definite burgeren, plural indefinite burgere)

1. burger

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏr.ɣər/

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• Hyphenation: bur‧Ger
• Rhymes: -ʏrɣər

Related to burg (“fortified city”), burcht (“castle”).

burger m (plural burgers, diminutive burgertje n, feminine burgerin)

1. citizen
   • 1988, Het Boek, International Bible Society, Richteren 8:9:

     Daarom zei hij tegen de burgers van Pnuël: […]

     So he said to the citizens of Penuel: […]

2. middle-class or bourgeois person, burgher

• (citizen) staatsburger

• burgerij
• burgerlijk
• burgermoed
• burgerrecht
• burgerschap
• burgerzin

• Afrikaans: burger
• → Sranan Tongo: borgu

From hamburger, from English hamburger, from the German city Hamburg, from the name of a fortress in the area, Hammaburg.

burger m (plural burgers, diminutive burgertje n)

1. burger

From hamburger.

burger (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. burger

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• burks
• hamburger

• burks

A shortening of hamburger

burger m (definite singular burgeren, indefinite plural burgere, definite plural burgerne)

1. a burger

• burgerbrød

• burgar (Nynorsk)

• “burger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “burger” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).