burger

See also: Burger, Bürger, and -burger

English

Lounge Burger with Bacon

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɝɡɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ɡə(ɹ)
• Homophones: Berger, -burger, burgher

Etymology 1

Clipping of hamburger, rebracketing it as ham +‎ burger. From around 1939.

"American" sense likely a back-formation from Burgerland.

Noun

burger (plural burgers)

1. (informal) A hamburger.
2. (chiefly as a combining form) A similar sandwich or patty.
3. (Australia, Fiji, India, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, UK) Any sandwich that uses two bread rolls or buns (in North America it only refers to a sandwich with two buns or bread rolls and a meat patty).
4. (Pakistan, usually derogatory) A stereotypical well-off Pakistani aspiring to a westernized lifestyle.
5. (Internet slang, 4chan, derogatory) An American.

Coordinate terms

• (fast food): taco, burrito

Derived terms

Terms derived from burger (noun)

• Assburgers
• Aussie burger
• baconburger
• banquet burger
• beanburger
• beefburger
• buffaloburger
• burger bar
• burger bun
• burger burn
• burger flipper
• Burger League
• burgerless
• burgerlicious
• burgerlike
• burger menu
• burgernomics
• burger sauce
• burgery
• butterburger
• California burger
• Carolina burger
• charburger
• chicken burger
• chori burger
• clamburger
• crabburger
• crab burger
• Dagwood burger
• deerburger
• eat a burger
• elkburger
• fishburger
• fur burger
• garden burger
• garden-burger
• hamburger
• Hawaii burger
• lamburger
• Luther burger
• miniburger
• mushroomburger
• nonburger
• noodleburger
• nothing burger
• nothing-burger
• nutburger
• Oklahoma onion burger
• olive burger
• pizzaburger
• porkburger
• rebracketing
• salmonburger
• shrimpburger
• smash burger
• soyaburger
• soyburger
• steakburger
• tofuburger
• tunaburger
• turkeyburger
• turkeyburger
• vealburger
• vegan burger
• vegeburger
• vege-burger
• vegetarian burger
• veggie burger
• veggieburger
• venisonburger

 

Related terms

• cheeseburger

Translations

informal: hamburger

• Arabic: بُورْجَر m (būrgar), بُرْغَر m (burḡar)

  Hijazi Arabic: برقر m (burgar)

• Armenian: բուրգեր (burger)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 漢堡 / 汉堡 (hon³ bou²)

  Hokkien: 漢堡 / 汉堡 (hàn-pò), 肉敆 (bah-kap)

  Mandarin: 漢堡 / 汉堡 (zh) (hànbǎo)

• Danish: burger (da) c
• Esperanto: burgero, hamburgero
• Estonian: burger (et), burks (slang)
• Faroese: burgari m
• Finnish: purilainen (fi)
• French: burger (fr) m
• German: Hamburger (de) m, Burger (de) m
• Hindi: बर्गर m (bargar), हैमबर्गर m (haimbargar)
• Irish: borgaire m
• Japanese: バーガー (ja) (bāgā)
• Korean: 버거 (beogeo)
• Maori: pākī
• Norman: bourgaille f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: burger (no) m

  Nynorsk: burgar m

• Polish: burger (pl) m
• Portuguese: xis (pt) m
• Russian: га́мбургер (ru) m (gámburger), бутербро́д (ru) m (butɛrbród), бу́ргер (ru) m (búrger)
• Swedish: burgare (sv) c
• Thai: เบอร์เกอร์ (th) (bəə-gə̂ə)
• Turkish: burger (tr)

Further reading

• burger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Noun

burger (plural burgers)

1. Alternative form of burgher

Anagrams

• Gruber

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbœr.ɡər/

Etymology 1

From Dutch burger.

Noun

burger (plural burgers)

1. citizen

   'n Persoon is gewoonlik 'n burger van die land waarin hy of sy gebore is. ― A person is usually a citizen of the country in which he or she was born.

Derived terms

• burgerlik

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English burger, shortening of hamburger.

Noun

burger (plural burgers)

1. burger

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English burger.

Noun

burger c (singular definite burgeren, plural indefinite burgere)

1. burger

Dutch

FWOTD – 8 September 2014

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏr.ɣər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bur‧ger
• Rhymes: -ʏrɣər

Etymology 1

Related to burg (“fortified town”), burcht (“castle”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

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

1. citizen, civilian
   • 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

Synonyms

• (citizen) staatsburger

Derived terms

• burgerachtig
• burgerbestaan
• burgerbevolking
• burgerdeugd
• burgerdienst
• burgerdode
• burgerdom
• burgerij
• burgerinitiatief
• burgerjongen
• burgerjournalist
• burgerjuffrouw
• burgerkleding
• burgerlijk
• burgerluchtvaart
• burgerlui
• burgerman
• burgermeisje
• burgermens
• burgermoed
• burgeroorlog
• burgerplicht
• burgerpot
• burgerrecht
• burgerregering
• burgerrups
• burgerschap
• burgerslachtoffer
• burgerstand
• burgertrut
• burgervader
• burgervrouw
• burgerwerk
• burgerwetenschap
• burgerzaal
• burgerzin
• ereburger
• inburgeren
• staatsburger
• tweederangsburger
• uitburgeren

 

Related terms

• bourgeois
• bourgeoisie
• hamburger

Descendants

• Afrikaans: burger
• Negerhollands: borger
• → Papiamentu: birger (dated)
• → Sranan Tongo: borgu

Etymology 2

From hamburger or directly borrowed from English burger, both from English hamburger, from the German city Hamburg, from the name of a fortress in the area, Hammaburg. Related to etymology 1.

Noun

burger m (plural burgers, diminutive burgertje n)

1. a burger; a hamburger or similar type of fast food, typically but not necessarily containing meat

Derived terms

• groenteburger
• kaasburger
• vegaburger
• veggieburger

Estonian

Etymology

From hamburger.

Noun

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

1. burger

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• burks
• hamburger

Derived terms

• burks

French

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English burger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœʁ.ɡœʁ | byʁ.ɡœʁ/

Noun

burger m (plural burgers)

1. Synonym of hamburger (“burger”)

Related terms

• cheeseburger
• fishburger

 

Further reading

• “burger” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
• “burger” in Dictionnaire Le Robert.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

A shortening of hamburger

Noun

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

1. a burger

Derived terms

• burgerbrød

See also

• burgar (Nynorsk)

References

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

Polish

burger

Etymology

Borrowed from American English burger.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbur.ɡɛr/
• Rhymes: -urɡɛr
• Syllabification: bur‧ger

Noun

burger m animal (related adjective burgerowy)

1. (colloquial) burger (ground beef, especially that intended to be made into hamburgers)

   Synonym: hamburger

   Hypernym: kotlet

2. (colloquial) burger (hot sandwich consisting of a patty of cooked ground beef or a meat substitute, in a sliced bun, sometimes also containing salad vegetables, condiments, or both)

   Synonym: hamburger

   Hypernym: kanapka

   Hyponym: Big Mac

   Coordinate terms: cheeseburger, fishburger

Declension

Declension of burger

	singular	plural
nominative	burger	burgery
genitive	burgera	burgerów
dative	burgerowi	burgerom
accusative	hamburger/hamburgera	burgery
instrumental	burgerem	burgerami
locative	burgerze	burgerach
vocative	burgerze	burgery

Derived terms

nouns

• burgerownia
• burgeryzacja

 

Further reading

• burger in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• burger in Polish dictionaries at PWN