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BURGH
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places in Cumbria, West Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk named Burgh, from Old English burh ‘fortified manor’, ‘stronghold’.
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English
English : habitational name from Burghfield in Berkshire or Burfield in Sussex. The first is named with Old English beorg ‘hill’ + feld ‘open country’. The second is from Old English burh ‘stronghold’, ‘fortified manor’ + feld.
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Shakespearean
King John' Hubert De Burgh.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : from the Old English personal name, Burgheard (see Burkett).
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English
English : topographic name from Middle English atte bery. This generally denoted a servant ‘at the manor house’, but the Middle English word bery also meant ‘castle’ or ‘stronghold’. In form it is from Old English byrig, dative singular of burh ‘fortress’ or ‘fortified town’. (The nominative case gave rise to the Middle English word burgh ‘borough’, ‘town’; compare Burroughs and Bury.)
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English and Dutch
English and Dutch : variant spelling of Burger.
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English
English : habitational name from Canterbury in Kent, named in Old English as Cantwaraburg ‘fortified town (burgh) of the people (wara) of Kent’.
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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).
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English
English : from the Old English female personal name Wīgburgh, a compound of wīg ‘war’ + burgh ‘fortress’.
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English
English : possibly a habitational name from Burghfield in Berkshire, named from Old English beorg ‘hill’ + feld ‘open country’.
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English
Strong as a castle.
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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 : from the Old English personal name Burgheard (see Burkett).Dutch and German : variant of Burkhardt.Thomas Burchard came from London, England, to MA in 1635 aboard the True Love, and by 1652 he was in Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : occupational name for the gatekeeper of a walled town or city, or the doorkeeper of a great house, castle, or monastery, from Middle English porter ‘doorkeeper’, ‘gatekeeper’ (Old French portier). The office often came with accommodation, lands, and other privileges for the bearer, and in some cases was hereditary, especially in the case of a royal castle. As an American surname, this has absorbed cognates and equivalents in other European languages, for example German Pförtner (see Fortner) and North German Poertner.English : occupational name for a man who carried loads for a living, especially one who used his own muscle power rather than a beast of burden or a wheeled vehicle. This sense is from Old French porteo(u)r (Late Latin portator, from portare ‘to carry or convey’).Dutch : occupational name from Middle Dutch portere ‘doorkeeper’. Compare 1.Dutch : status name for a freeman (burgher) of a seaport, Middle Dutch portere, modern Dutch poorter.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : adoption of the English or Dutch name in place of some Ashkenazic name of similar sound or meaning.
Girl/Female
Teutonic
From the town.
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English
English : probably a habitational name from clere, a component of several place names in north Hampshire (Highclere, Burghclere, Kingsclere). This is of uncertain origin, probably from a Celtic stream name meaning ‘bright’ (cognate with Latin clarus ‘clear’, ‘bright’).English and Irish : variant of Clare.Translation of German Klar 1.
Boy/Male
English
Lives at the fortress.
Boy/Male
British, Dutch, English, German, Swedish
Strong as a Castle; Powerful Protector; Stronghold
Surname or Lastname
English
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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German
Mountain.
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English
English : possibly an unflattering nickname for a boastful, swaggering person (one who huffs and puffs).German (Hüffer) : from the Germanic personal name Hugifrid, composed of hug ‘head’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + frid ‘peace’.North German (Hüffer) : status name for a prosperous small farmer. Compare South German Huber.German : probably an American spelling of Hof or Hoff.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Deer; Gazelle
Female
Czechoslovakian
, of Magdala.
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Hindu
Divine, Part of God
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Arabic, French, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Muslim, Sindhi
Courageous and Generous; Courageous; Generous
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Hindu, Indian, Marathi
Strongest
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Indian, Sanskrit
Uninterrupted; Without Interior
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Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Intelligent King
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Hebrew
Dog; brave. In the Old Testament, Caleb was a companion of Moses during his time in the wilderness.
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Arabic, Australian, Christian, Greek, Kurdish, Muslim, Pashtun
Royal; Kingly; Eagle; King; Basil (the Herb); Falcon; Diminutive of Basil
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n.
An officer who directs and lays out the meres or boundaries for the workmen; -- called also bailiff, and barmaster.
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A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
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An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.
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A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
a.
Belonging to a burgh.
n.
A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.
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A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.
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A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.
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See Burgomaster.
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In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.
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A contribution toward the building or repairing of castles or walls for the defense of a city or town.
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One who seceded from the Burghers (1747), deeming it improper to take the Burgess oath.
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The state or privileges of a burgher.
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The offense of violating the pledge given by every inhabitant of a tithing to keep the peace; breach of the peace.
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A burgomaster.