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buruntu

Pronunciation: /bu.ɾunˈtu/

“buruntu” is a Turkish word. Its 2 meanings in English:

noun

  1. A sharp pain in the bowels; gripes, colic.
  2. tenesmus

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish بورندی (burundu) or بورنتی (buruntu, “a griping of the bowels, colic”), from the verb بورنمق (burunmak, “for the bowels to pinch and gripe with pains of colic”). Morphologically from bur- + -un- + -tu.

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