bourse

Borrowed from French bourse, from Old French borse, from Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa). Doublet of purse, compare Danish børs, Swedish börs, German Börse. See also bursar.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /bɔːs/, /bʊəs/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /bɔːɹs/, /bʊəɹs/
• Homophone: boss (some accents)
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s, -ʊə(ɹ)s

bourse (plural bourses)

1. A stock exchange.
   1. (figuratively) Any place, real or imagined, where the value of a thing is settled.
      • For quotations using this term, see Citations:bourse.
2. (philately) A meeting of stamp collectors and/or dealers, where stamps and covers are sold or exchanged.
3. (botany) The swollen basal part of an inflorescence axis at the onset of fruit development; it bears leaves whose axillary buds differentiate and may grow out as shoots.

• burse

• bursar
• burse
• purse
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• bourse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Brouse, besour, bouser

Inherited from Old French borse, from Medieval Latin, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide”).

• IPA^(key): /buʁs/

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bourse f (plural bourses)

1. (dated) coin purse

   Synonym: porte-monnaie

2. a purseful of money; by extension, any sum of money available to be paid
3. financial grant
4. bourse, stock exchange
5. (anatomy)
   1. (generally in the plural) the scrotum

      Synonym: scrotum

      • 1805, Georges Cuvier, Les organes de la génération:

        Les testicules [...] sont suspendus au-dessous du bassin dans une espèce de bourse ou de scrotum [...]

        The testicles [...] are hanging below the pelvis in a sort of purse or scrotum [...]

   2. (in the plural, slang) balls

      Synonyms: testicules, (slang) couilles

      Ça remonte à quand, la dernière fois que tu t’es vidé les bourses ?

      When was the last time you emptied your balls?

• → English: bourse
• → Persian: بورس (burs)
• → Romanian: bursă
• → Turkish: burs

• Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
• “bourse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French borse.

bourse f (plural bourses)

1. bag or purse

• French: bourse
• German: Börse

From Old French borse, Late Latin bursa, from Ancient Greek βύρσα (búrsa, “hide”).

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bourse f (plural bourses)

1. (Jersey) mermaid's purse
2. (Jersey) shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris)
3. (Jersey) corn salad (Valerianella locusta)

• (mermaid's purse): bourse au dgiâbl'ye, chiviéthe à bras, crapaud d'mé
• (shepherd's purse): pid d'ouaîthé

• English: burse