buro

Meanings

1. an office
2. a desk, usually with a cover and compartments for storing papers etc. located above the level of the writing surface rather than underneath.
3. a chest of drawers for clothes

Etymology

Borrowed from French bureau (“desk”, earlier “coarse cloth (as desk cover), baize”), from Old French burel (“woolen cloth”), diminutive of *bure (compare Middle French bure (“coarse woolen cloth”), French bourre (“hair, fluff”)), from Late Latin burra (“wool, fluff, shaggy cloth, coarse fabric”); akin to Ancient Greek βερβέριον (berbérion, “shabby garment”).