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burd

burd noun: maiden, young woman.

Noun

burd (plural burds)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) maiden, young woman
    • The hall was furnished in a manner equally grand, and at one end of it was a glorious couch of velvet, silk and gold, and there sate Burd Ellen, combing her golden hair with a silver comb.1890, Joseph Jacobs, “Childe Rowland”, in English Fairy Tales, page 122

Proper noun capitalized: Burd

Burd (plural Burds)

  1. A surname.

burd meaning in Urdu

burd in Urdu

بی بی, خاتون

Forms of burd

Noun
pluralburds
Proper noun
pluralBurds

Origin of burd

From Middle English berde (“woman, lady, young lady”), possibly from Old English byrde, ġebyrde (“of noble birth”), from byrd, ġebyrd (“birth”), or from an unattested *byrde (“embroideress”). Possibly the origin of the English slang bird for a young woman.

Questions about burd

What does burd mean?
Burd means maiden, young woman.
What is burd in Urdu?
Burd in Urdu is بی بی, خاتون. See Burd meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is burd?
Burd can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of burd?
The plural of burd is burds.

Words near burd in the dictionary

  1. burclover
  2. burclovers
  3. Burco
  4. burcucumber
  5. burcucumbers
  6. burd
  7. burd-alane
  8. Burda
  9. Burdak
  10. Burdaks
  11. burdalane

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Adapted from Wiktionary: burd (page history and authors); Burd (page history and authors); burd (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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