borse

See also: Börse

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbor.se/
Rhymes: -orse
Hyphenation: bór‧se

Noun

borse f

plural of borsa

Anagrams

bersò, serbo, serbò

Old French

Alternative forms

burse (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Late Latin bursa.

Noun

borse oblique singular, f (oblique plural borses, nominative singular borse, nominative plural borses)

small bag used to carry money; a purse

Descendants

Middle French: bourse
- French: bourse
  - → English: bourse
  - → Persian: بورس (burs)
  - → Romanian: bursă
  - → Turkish: burs
Norman: bourse
- English: burse
→ Middle Dutch: borse
- Dutch: beurs
  - Afrikaans: beurs
  - Negerhollands: beers
  - → Danish: børs
  - → German: Börse
  - → Norwegian: børs
  - → Papiamentu: bèshi, bersji
  - → Russian: би́ржа (bírža) (possibly via German) (see there for further descendants)
  - → Swedish: börs
  - → West Frisian: beurs

References

Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “borse”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.
burse on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub