What is the name meaning of BURK. Phrases containing BURK
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Altered form of Swiss and South German Bürkle, Bürkli (see Burkle).English
Altered form of Swiss and South German Bürkle, Bürkli (see Burkle).English : variant of Berkeley.
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English
English : status name, from Middle English burghman, borughman (Old English burhmann) ‘inhabitant of a (fortified) town’ (see Burke), especially one holding land or buildings by burgage (see Burgess).Americanized spelling of German Buhrmann (see Buhrman).
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English
English : variant of Burkett.Dutch and German (also Swiss) : from the personal name Burkhart.
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English : variant spelling of Birks.
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German
Variant spelling of German Burk, BURKE means "castle, fort, protection."
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North German
North German : probably from a nickname for someone who was spiteful or stubborn, from Middle Low German puch ‘defiance’.German : from a short form of a medieval personal name such as Burkhart.Respelling of Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) Puk, a habitational name for someone from Puki, in Belarus.English : nickname from Middle English puck, pook ‘goblin’, ‘mischievous sprite’.
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English : habitational name from any of three places in Devon named Burridge, from Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke) + hrycg ‘ridge’.English : from the Middle English personal name Burrich, Old English Burgrīc, composed of the elements burh, burg ‘fortress’, ‘stronghold’ + rīc ‘power’.
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English : variant spelling of Birkhead (see Birkett).Americanized form of German Burkhart.
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German
From the Germanic word burg, BURK means "castle, fort, protection." Used as a short form of longer names containing the same element.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a cooper or else a nickname for a rotund, fat man, from Middle English, Old French busse ‘cask’, ‘barrel’ (of unknown origin). The word was also used in Middle English for a type of ship, and the surname may perhaps have been given to someone who sailed in one. The byname seems to occur already in Domesday Book, where a Siward Buss, and a John and Richard Buss are recorded at Brasted in Kent.German and Swiss German : from a pet form of the personal name Burkhard (see Burkhart).Danish : variant of Buus.
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English : topographic name for someone who lived by a hill or tumulus, Old English beorg, a cognate of Old High German berg ‘hill’, ‘mountain’ (see Berg). This name has become confused with derivatives of Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke). Reaney suggests a further derivation from Old English būr ‘bower’ + hūs ‘house’.
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English : habitational name from a place in Lancashire, recorded in the early 13th century as D(e)ukesbiri, from the genitive case of the Old English personal name Deowuc or Duc(c) (both of uncertain origin) + Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke).
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English : variant of Burman.Possibly an altered spelling of German Bergmann or Burgmann (see Bergman and Burgman).
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English
English : variant spelling of Burkett.
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English : habitational name from Bury in Lancashire (now part of Greater Manchester), or from some other similarly named place. The place name comes from the dative case, byrig, of Old English burh ‘fortified place’. Compare Burke, originally used after a preposition (e.g. Richard atte Bery).French : habitational name from places so named in Marne and Oise. The place name is from Buriacum, the name of a Gallo-Roman estate, composed of the personal name Burius + the locative suffix -acum.German : probably a variant spelling of Buri. According to Gottschald, however, it is from French Purry.Czech (Burý) : topographic name from bur ‘pine wood’.Czech (Burý) : descriptive nickname from burý ‘dark’.
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English : from an Old English personal name, Burgheard, composed of the elements burh, burg ‘fort’ (see Burke) + heard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’. The name was reintroduced into Middle English by the Normans in the forms Bou(r)chart, Bocard. In the form Burkhard it was a very popular medieval German name. There has been considerable confusion between this English surname and Birkett.Perhaps also a variant of German Burkhart.
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English : habitational name from Birkenshaw in West Yorkshire, named from Old English bircen ‘birches’ + sceaga ‘copse’.
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English : variant of Birkin (see Burkins).
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English : habitational name from a place name that is very common in central and northern England. The derivation in most cases is from Old English burh ‘fort’ (see Burke) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
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English : variant of Birkin, Burkin, a habitational name from the parish of Birkin in West Yorkshire, so named with Old English bircen ‘birch grove’, a derivative of birce (see Birch).
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Indian
Smart and Brightness; Bright of Win
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Tamil
Chandrapal | சஂதà¯à®°à®ªà®¾à®²
Master of the Moon
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Australian, Greek, Polish, Slavic
May God Protect the King
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Noble, Wise, Faultless, Transparent
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Embodiment of Righteousness
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Muslim
The greatness
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Indian
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Biblical
Affliction, warning.
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Hindu, Indian
Large Settlement
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v. t.
To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary question.
n.
The practice of killing persons for the purpose of selling their bodies for dissection.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Burke
imp. & p. p.
of Burke
v. t.
To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection.