burger

• (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

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

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

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.

• (fast food): taco, burrito

• cheeseburger

• burger on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

burger (plural burgers)

1. Alternative form of burgher

• Gruber

• IPA^(key): /ˈbœr.ɡər/

From Dutch burger.

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.

• burgerlik

Borrowed from English burger, shortening of hamburger.

burger (plural burgers)

1. burger

Borrowed from English burger.

burger c (singular definite burgeren, plural indefinite burgere)

1. burger

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏr.ɣər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bur‧ger
• Rhymes: -ʏrɣər

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

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

• (citizen) staatsburger

• bourgeois
• bourgeoisie
• hamburger

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

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.

burger m (plural burgers, diminutive burgertje n)

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

• groenteburger
• kaasburger
• vegaburger
• veggieburger

From hamburger.

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

1. burger

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• burks
• hamburger

• burks

Unadapted borrowing from English burger.

• IPA^(key): /bœʁ.ɡœʁ | byʁ.ɡœʁ/

burger m (plural burgers)

1. Synonym of hamburger (“burger”)

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

A shortening of hamburger

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

1. a burger

• burgerbrød

• burgar (Nynorsk)

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

Borrowed from American English burger.

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

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

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