buro

Meaning

Noun

• an office
• a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
• a chest of drawers for clothes

Origin

• Borrowed from French bureau ("desk”, earlier “coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize"), from Old French burel ("woolen cloth"), diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure ("coarse woolen cloth"), French bourre ("hair, fluff")), from Late Latin burra ("wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric"); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον ("shabby garment").