Burnouf & Leupol, Dictionnaire Classique Sanscrit-Français (BUR)
BUR is the Dictionnaire Classique Sanscrit-Français of Émile Burnouf & L. Leupol (1866) —
for decades the only French Sanskrit dictionary, until Stchoupak–Renou (STC)
superseded it in 1932. It gives French glosses and frequently notes Indo-European cognates.
At a glance
| Code | BUR (GitHub repo BUR) |
| Full title | Dictionnaire Classique Sanscrit-Français |
| Authors | Émile Burnouf, L. Leupol |
| Year / size | 1866 · ~781 pages |
| Direction | Sanskrit → French |
| Accents | No |
| Source | csl-orig/v02/bur/ |
| Open | Basic · List · Advanced · Mobile |
| Data | Downloads |
| csl-doc | bur.rst |
Stchoupak–Renou's Dictionnaire Sanskrit-Français (STC), 1932, is the fuller modern
French dictionary; its preface explicitly set out to replace this one. Use BUR for the older
French tradition (and its etymological notes); STC for everyday French lookup.
When to use it
Reach for BUR for the 19th-century French treatment and its comparative-etymology notes.
For modern French glosses prefer STC; for the broad reference, MW.
Looking up a word
Open the Basic display, pick your input/output transliteration (see Encoding & Transliteration), and type the headword. The List and Advanced displays browse and search inside entries — see Search & Display.
Reading an entry
Burnouf gives the SLP1 headword in {#…#}, the IAST and French in {%…%}, separates senses
with ||, and notes cognates. The entry aṃśa (csl-orig/v02/bur/bur.txt):
<L>1989<pc>066,1<k1>aMSa<k2>aMSa
{#aMSa#}¦ {%aṃśa%} <ab>m.</ab> {%(aṃś)%} partie; portion. || <ab>Vd.</ab> une des 21
{%virāt%} de la <s1 slp1="gAyatrI">gāyatrī</s1>. || Epaule. <ab>Cf.</ab> {%aṃsa.%} <ab>Lat.</ab> axilla;
<ab>ancien germ.</ab> ahsala.
| In the source | Meaning |
|---|---|
{#aMSa#} · {%aṃśa%} | the headword (SLP1 <k1>) then its IAST form |
<ab>m.</ab> {%(aṃś)%} | masculine, from the root aṃś |
partie; portion · Epaule | the French glosses ("part; portion"; "shoulder") |
|| | separates senses |
<ab>Lat.</ab> axilla; <ab>ancien germ.</ab> ahsala | the cognates — Latin axilla, Old German ahsala |
See Data Formats for the markup reference.
What makes it distinctive
- The older French dictionary. The standard before STC (1932) replaced it.
- Comparative-etymology notes — Latin and Germanic cognates.
Headword key conventions
<k1> = <k2> = SLP1 stem. The entry body immediately gives the IAST form in {%…%}. Senses are separated by ||. Burnouf includes Latin and Germanic cognates.
| Convention | Marker / form | Example | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search key | SLP1 stem | aMSa | k1 = k2 |
| IAST display form | {%aṃśa%} after headword | {#aMSa#}¦ {%aṃśa%} | The printed form follows the SLP1 key |
| Sense separator | ` | ` double bar | |
| Cognate notes | <ab>Lat.</ab>, <ab>ancien germ.</ab> | <ab>Lat.</ab> axilla | Latin and Old Germanic comparanda |
Abbreviations
Grammatical & general 284
Show first 60 of 284 abbreviations
| (?) | douteux |
| 1p. | 1re personne |
| 2p. | 2e personne |
| 3p. | 3e personne |
| a. | adjectif |
| A. | adjectif |
| a1. | aoriste 1er |
| a2. | aoriste 2nd |
| A2. | aoriste 2nd |
| ab. | ablatif |
| Ab. | ablatif |
| abs. | absolutif |
| abslt. | absolutif |
| Absolt. | absolutif |
| absolt. | absolutif |
| Abst. | abstrait |
| abst. | abstrait |
| ac. | accusatif |
| Ac. | accusatif |
| acc. | accusatif |
| act. | actif |
| Act. | actif |
| Actt. | activement |
| actt. | activement |
| adj. | adjectif |
| Adjectt. | adjectivement |
| adjt. | adjectivement |
| Adjt. | adjectivement |
| adv. | adverbe |
| Adv. | adverbe |
| advt. | adverbialement |
| Advt. | adverbialement |
| afghan. | pachtoun; dialectes afghans |
| anat. | anatomie |
| anc. germ. | ancien germanique |
| ancien germ. | ancien germanique |
| Ancien germ. | ancien germanique |
| ang. | anglais |
| Ang. | anglais |
| angl. | anglais |
| Angl. | anglais |
| Angl. sax. | anglo-saxon |
| anglo sax. | anglo-saxon |
| Anglosaxon | anglo-saxon |
| aor. | aoriste |
| Aor. | aoriste |
| arab. | arabe |
| arith. | arithmétique |
| astr. | astronomie |
| astron. | astronomie |
| aug. | augmentatif |
| Aug. | augmentatif |
| auj. | aujourd'hui |
| bd. | bouddhique |
| Bd. | bouddhique |
| bot. | botanique |
| bret. | breton |
| c-à-d. | c’est-à-dire |
| c. | causatif |
| C. | causatif |
+ 224 more — see the full list in the source file
See also
- Stchoupak–Renou (STC) — the modern French dictionary that superseded it
- Monier-Williams (MW) · Böhtlingk-Roth (PWG)
- The full catalog of all 43 dictionaries · csl-doc bur.rst