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{{also|Burn|bùrn}}
==English==
{{wikipedia}}
[[File:Fire burning.ogg|thumb|A '''burning''' fire.]]

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|bûn|a=RP}}, {{IPA|en|/bɜːn/}}
* {{enPR|bûrn|a=GenAm}}, {{IPA|en|/bɝn/}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-burn.ogg|a=US}}
* {{homophones|en|Bern}}
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* {{rhymes|en|ɜː(ɹ)n|s=1}}

===Etymology 1===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰrewh₁-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|bernen}}, {{m|enm|birnen}}, from {{inh|en|ang|birnan||to burn}}, [[metathesis]] from {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*brinnan}}, from {{der|en|gem-pro|*brinnaną||to burn}}, from {{der|en|ine-pro|*bʰrenw-}}, present stem from {{m|ine-pro|*bʰrewh₁-}}. {{doublet|en|brew}}.

See also {{cog|mga|brennim||drink up}}, {{m|mga|bruinnim||bubble up}}; also {{cog|mga|bréo||flame}}, {{cog|sq|burth||{{taxlink|Cyclamen hederifolium|species}}, mouth burning}}, {{cog|sa|भुरति||moves quickly, twitches, fidgets}}. More at {{m|en|brew}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# {{senseid|en|physical injury}} A physical [[injury]] caused by [[heat]], [[cold]], [[electricity]], [[radiation]] or [[caustic]] [[chemical]]s.
#: {{ux|en|She had second-degree '''burns''' from falling in the bonfire.}}
# A sensation resembling such an injury.
#: {{ux|en|chili '''burn''' from eating hot peppers}}
# The act of burning something with fire.
#: {{ux|en|They’re doing a controlled '''burn''' of the fields.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2006|author=w:Edwin Black
|title=Internal Combustion
|chapter=2|url=http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4103950W
|passage=One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single '''burn'''.}}
# {{senseid|en|intense non-physical sting}}{{lb|en|slang}} An intense non-physical [[sting]], as left by [[shame]] or an effective [[insult]].
# {{lb|en|slang}} An effective [[insult]], often in the expression ''[[sick burn]]'' {{gloss|excellent or [[badass]] insult}}.
# Physical [[sensation]] in the [[muscle]]s following strenuous [[exercise]], caused by build-up of [[lactic acid]].
#: {{ux|en|One and, two and, keep moving; feel the '''burn'''!}}
# {{lb|en|uncountable|UK|chiefly|prison slang}} [[tobacco|Tobacco]].
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2002
|year_published=
|publisher=Waterside Press
|editor=Julian Broadhead; Laura Kerr
|author=Tom Wickham
|title=Prison Writing
|chapter=A Day In The Wrong Life
|edition=16th
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=7IpXLpypY7IC
|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=7IpXLpypY7IC&pg=PA26
|isbn=9781872870403
|page=26
|passage=TOM: I’m serious bruv. Put my '''burn''' and lighter and all that in my jeans please and give them here, then press the cell bell.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2006
|year_published=
|publisher=Chipmunkapublishing ltd
|author=S. Drake
|title=A Cry for Help
|section=Chapter 7
|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=LvdPsZHXG3kC
|pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=LvdPsZHXG3kC&pg=PA94
|isbn=9781847470010
|page=94
|passage=“Any of you want to borrow some '''burn''',” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2006
|year_published=
|publisher=Policy Press
|editor=Peter Squires
|author=
|title=Community Safety: Critical Perspectives on Policy and Practice
|chapter=
|volume=
|volume_plain=
|section=
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y3zaAAAAMAAJ&dq=burn&focus=searchwithinvolume
|pageurl=
|isbn=1861347308
|page=23
|passage=It was like no one was looking out for me, and the older kids used to take the piss ...they were always threatening me and taking my '''burn''' [tobacco]{{...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2010|author=Stephen Fry|title=The Fry Chronicles|passage=As the prison week ended and the less careful inmates began to run out of '''burn''' they went through a peculiar begging ritual that I, never one to husband resources either, was quick to learn.}}
# {{lb|en|computing}} The writing of data to a permanent storage medium like a compact disc or a ROM chip.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2003|author=Maria Langer|title=Mac OS X 10.2 Advanced|page=248
|passage='''Allow additional burns''' enables you to create a multisession CD, which can be used again to write more data.}}
# The operation or result of burning or baking, as in brickmaking.
#: {{ux|en|They have a good '''burn'''.}}
# {{lb|en|uncountable}} A [[disease]] in [[vegetable]]s; [[brand]].
# {{lb|en|aerospace}} The firing of a spacecraft's rockets in order to change its course.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2004|author=David Baker|title=Jane's Space Directory|page=529
|passage=On 4 March 1999, the MCO performed its second course correction manoeuvre with a '''burn''' involving its four thrusters {{...}}}}
# A kind of [[watercourse]]: a [[brook]] or [[creek]].

=====Derived terms=====
{{der3|en|title=Terms derived from ''burn'' (noun)
|burn center|beard burn|burger burn|burn-out|welder's burn|afterburn|backburn
|burn-in
|burn time
|burn unit
|burnup
|carpet burn
|chemical burn
|first-degree burn
|fourth-degree burn
|freezer burn
|friction burn
|outburn
|powder burn
|rugburn|cool burn|slow-burn
|second-degree burn
|sick burn
|sideburns
|slow burn
|sunburn
|third-degree burn
|back burn|back-burn|burn bag|burn barrel|burn notice|burn pavement|burn phone|burn pit|burn rate|burn-baited|burn-beat|burn-clearing|Chinese burn|churn and burn|dad burn|deorbit burn|do a slow burn|feel the burn|frost burn|full-burn|hazard reduction burn|heart-burn|ice burn|Indian burn|lean burn|lean-burn|millipede burn|powder-burn|proof of burn|raster burn|razor burn|road burn|rope burn|screen burn|suicide burn|cigarette burn|controlled burn|prescribed burn|burnie|burnlike|burnover|burnproof|burny|cryoburn|freeburn|frostburn|heartburn|limeburner|moonburn|moorburn|mowburn|nonburn|noseburn|overburn|postburn|preburn|rainburn|screenburn|sideburn|underburn|windburn}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|physical injury}}{{multitrans|data=
* Albanian: {{tt|sq|djegje}}
* Arabic: {{tt|ar|حَرْق|m|id=verbal noun}}, {{tt|ar|سَفْعَة|f}}
*: Hijazi Arabic: {{tt|acw|حُرق|tr=ḥurq}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|այրվածք}}
* Asturian: {{tt|ast|quemadura|f}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|yanıq}}
* Breton: {{tt+|br|loskadur|m}}, {{tt+|br|devadenn|f}}, {{tt+|br|devadenn|f}}
* Breton: {{tt+|br|loskadur|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt|bg|изгаряне|n}}
* Catalan: {{tt+|ca|cremada|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{tt+|cmn|燒傷|tr=shāoshāng}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|popálenina|f}}, {{tt|cs|spálenina|f}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|brandsår}}, {{tt|da|forbrænding}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|brandwond|f}}, {{tt+|nl|verbranding|f}}
* Esperanto: {{tt|eo|brulo}}, {{tt|eo|brulaĵo}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|palovamma}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|brûlure|f}}
* Galician: {{tt|gl|queimadura|f}}
* Georgian: {{tt|ka|დამწვრობა|sc=Geor}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Brandwunde|f}}, {{tt+|de|Verbrennung|f}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|έγκαυμα|n|sc=Grek}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|כוויה|alt=כְּוִיָּה|f|tr=kviyá}}
* Hindi: {{tt+|hi|जलना|sc=Deva}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|égés}}, {{tt|hu|égési sérülés}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|bruciatura|f}}, {{tt+|it|ustione|f}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|やけど|tr=yakedo}}, {{tt+|ja|焼け焦げ|tr=yakekoge}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|화상}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{tt|ckb|سوتان}}
* Kyrgyz: {{tt+|ky|күйүү}}, {{tt+|ky|күйгүзүү}}, {{tt|ky|күйгүзүп алуу}}, {{tt+|ky|күйүп калуу}}, {{tt|ky|күйүп кетүү}}, {{tt+|ky|өрттөнүп кетүү}}, {{tt|ky|күйгүзүп алуу}}, {{tt+|ky|куйкалоо}}, {{tt+|ky|күйүү}}, {{tt+|ky|ачыштыруу}}, {{tt+|ky|жануу}}, {{tt+|ky|өрттөнүү}}, {{tt+|ky|өрттөө}}, {{tt+|ky|жануу}}, {{tt+|ky|ысуу}}, {{tt+|ky|кызаруу}}, {{tt+|ky|түтөө}}, {{tt+|ky|жалындоо}}, {{tt+|ky|жануу}}, {{tt+|ky|жаркыроо}}
* Lithuanian: {{tt|lt|nudegimas|m}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|изгореница|f}}
* Marathi: {{tt|mr|जळने|sc=Deva}}
* Mongolian: {{tt|mn|түлэгдэлт|sc=Cyrl}}
* Norman: {{tt|nrf|brûleuse|f}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{tt|nb|brannskade|m}}, {{tt|nb|brannsår}}, {{tt+|nb|forbrenning}}
*: Nynorsk: {{tt|nn|brannskade|m}}, {{tt|nn|brannsår}}, {{tt|nn|forbrenning}}
* Persian: {{tt+|fa|سوختن|tr=sôxtan}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|oparzenie|n}}, {{tt+|pl|poparzenie|n}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|queimadura|f}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|arsură|f}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|ожо́г|m}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{tt|gd|losgadh|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|опекотина|f|sc=Cyrl}}, {{tt|sh|опеклина|f}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|opekotina|f}}, {{tt+|sh|opeklina|f}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|popálenina}}
* Slovene: {{tt+|sl|opeklina|f}}
* Southern Altai: {{t|alt|ӧртӧ-}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|quemadura|f}}
* Sranan Tongo: {{t|srn|bronsoro}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|brännskada}}, {{tt+|sv|brännsår}}, {{tt+|sv|brännmärke}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|paso}}
* Telugu: {{tt|te|కాలటము}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|yanık}}
* Ukrainian: {{tt|uk|о́пік}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt+|vi|bỏng}}, {{tt+|vi|phỏng}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|sensation}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|polte}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|brûlure|f}}
* Japanese: {{tt|ja|[[ひりひり]], [[ヒリヒリ]]|tr=hiri-hiri}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|ardência|f}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|жжение́|n}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|pálenie}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|act of burning something}}
* Albanian: {{tt|sq|djegje}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|այրում}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt|bg|изгаряне|n}}
* Catalan: {{tt+|ca|cremada|f}}
* Chinese:
*: Eastern Min: {{tt|cdo|烧|tr=siu}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|pálení|n}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|afbrænding|c}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|verbranding|f}}, {{tt+|nl|afbranden|n}}
* Esperanto: {{tt|eo|brulo}}, {{tt|eo|brulado}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|polttaminen}}, {{tt+|fi|poltto}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|brûlage}}
* Galician: {{tt|gl|queima|f}}
* Gallurese: {{tt|sdn|brujà}}
* Georgian: {{tt|ka|წვა|sc=Geor}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Verbrennung|f}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|κάψιμο|n}}, {{tt+|el|καύση|f}}
* Hindi: {{tt+|hi|जलाना|sc=Deva}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|bruciatura|f}}, {{tt+|it|fuoco|m}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|태우다|alt=태움}}
* Latin: {{tt|la|cremo}}
* Lithuanian: {{tt|lt|deginimas}}
* Malay: {{tt+|ms|pembakaran}}
* Maori: {{tt|mi|kā}}
* Marathi: {{tt|mr|जाळने|sc=Deva}}
* Norwegian: {{tt|no|brenning|m}}
* Persian: {{tt|fa|آتشسوزی|tr=âtašsôzi}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|palenie|n}}, {{tt+|pl|spalenie|n}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|queimada|f}}, {{tt+|pt|queima|f}}, {{tt|pt|queimamento|m}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|ardere|f}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|сжига́ние|n}}
* Sardinian:
*: Campidanese: {{tt|sc|ardiri}}
*: Logudorese: {{tt|sc|abbruscare}}
* Sassarese: {{tt|sdc|brujà}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{tt|gd|losgadh|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|паљење|n}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|paljenje|n}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|pálenie}}
* Slovene: {{tt|sl|prižiganje|n}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|quema}}, {{tt+|es|quemar}}
* Sundanese: {{tt+|su|beuleum}}, {{tt|su|huru}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|förbränning|c}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|pagsunog}}, {{tt+|tl|sunog}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|yanma}}
* Ukrainian: {{tt|uk|зпа́лювання}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|intense non-physical sting}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|pijn|f}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|pisto}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|יְרִידָה|f|tr=yeridá}}
* Persian: {{tt|fa|دل سوختن|tr=del sôxtan}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|slang: effective insult}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|piikki}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|gland|m}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|physical sensation in the muscles}}
* Albanian: {{tt|sq|djegje}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|pálení|n}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|branden|n}}, {{tt|nl|branderigheid|f}}
* Finnish: {{tt|fi|kuumotus}}, {{tt+|fi|polte}}
* Galician: {{tt|gl|queimazón|f}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|καύσος|m}}
* Portuguese: {{tt|pt|queimação|f}}
* Spanish: {{tt|es|quemazón|f}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|yanma}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|slang: tobacco}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|rööki}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|operation or result of burning or baking}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|poltto}}
}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|vegetable disease|brand}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Occitan: {{t+check|oc|cremadura|f}}
* Romanian: {{t+check|ro|arsură|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

====Verb====
{{en-verb|past2=burnt|past2_qual=mostly Commonwealth|past3=brent|past3_qual=obsolete}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To cause to be consumed by [[fire]].
#: {{ux|en|He '''burned''' his manuscript in the fireplace.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2013-06-29|volume=407|issue=8842|page=29|magazine=w:The Economist
|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21580154-forest-fires-bring-record-levels-air-pollution-and-end-not-sight-unspontaneous Unspontaneous combustion]
|passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to '''burn''' it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To be consumed by [[fire]], or in [[flame]]s.
#: {{syn|en|combust|go up|Thesaurus:burn}}
#: {{ux|en|He watched the house '''burn'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2013-07-20|volume=408|issue=8845|magazine=w:The Economist
|title=[http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21581981-what-pollution-some-opportunity-others-welcome-plastisphere Welcome to the plastisphere]
|passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them '''burn''' so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To overheat so as to make unusable.
#: {{ux|en|He '''burned''' the toast. The blacksmith '''burned''' the steel.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To become [[overheat]]ed to the point of being unusable.
#: {{ux|en|The grill was too hot and the steak '''burned'''.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To make or produce by the application of fire or burning heat.
#: {{co|en|to '''burn''' a hole;&emsp; to '''burn''' letters into a block}}
#* {{quote-book|1=en|year=1886|translator=H.L. Br&aelig;kstad|author=w:Peter Christen Asbj&oslash;rnsen|title=Folk and Fairy Tales|page=78|passage=I posted myself near a place where they had been '''burning''' charcoal, and very soon the hare came running past, close to where I was standing.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[injure]] (a person or animal) with [[heat]] or [[chemicals]] that produce similar [[damage]].
#: {{ux|en|She '''burned''' the child with an iron, and was jailed for ten years.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|surgery}} To [[cauterize]].
# {{lb|en|ambitransitive}} To [[sunburn]].
#: {{ux|en|She forgot to put on sunscreen and '''burned'''.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To consume, damage, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat; to affect as fire or heat does.
#: {{co|en|to '''burn''' the mouth with pepper}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare King John|act=V|scene=iii|passage=This tyrant fever '''burns''' me up.}}
#* {{RQ:Dryden Spanish Fryar
|passage=This dry sorrow '''burns''' up all my tears.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1965|title=Amplified Bible|section=James 4:2
|passage=You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You '''burn''' with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To be [[hot]], e.g. due to [[embarrassment]].
#: {{ux|en|The child’s forehead was '''burning''' with fever.&emsp; Her cheeks '''burned''' with shame.}}
#* {{ante|1542}}, {{w|Thomas Wyatt (poet)|Thomas Wyatt}}, “[[wikibooks:The Devonshire Manuscript/What menythe thys when I lye alone|What menythe thys]]” in the [[wikibooks:The Devonshire Manuscript|Devonshire Manuscript]], folio 12 verso:
#*: In ſlumbers oft for fere I quake<br>For hete & cold I '''burne''' & ſhake<br>For lake of ſlepe my hede dothe ake<br>What menys thys
# {{lb|en|chemistry|transitive}} To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize.
#: {{co|en|to '''burn''' iron in oxygen}}
#: {{ux|en|A human being '''burns''' a certain amount of carbon at each respiration.}}
# {{lb|en|chemistry|dated}} To combine energetically, with evolution of heat.
#: {{ux|en|Copper '''burns''' in chlorine.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|computing}} To write data to a permanent [[storage]] [[medium]] like a [[compact]] [[disc]] or a [[ROM]] chip.
#: {{ux|en|We’ll '''burn''' this program onto an EEPROM one hour before the demo begins.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2015-10-22|author=Laura Snapes|title=How Arctic Monkeys’ debut single changed the music industry and ‘killed the NME’|journal=w:The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/oct/22/arctic-monkeys-debut-single-i-bet-you-look-good-dancefloor|passage=At first they didn’t do anything by design, beyond writing songs and gigging around Sheffield, distributing homemade demo CDs at shows. Their canny friends '''burned''' copies to leave on buses, but more importantly, uploaded them to filesharing sites and set up a MySpace page.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|computing|by extension}} To [[render]] subtitles into a video's content while [[transcoding]] it, making the subtitles part of the image.
#: {{ux|en|My old DVD player could play DivX files but didn't recognize the subtitle file, so I had to '''burn''' them in.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|slang}} To [[betray]].
#: {{ux|en|The informant '''burned''' him.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|slang}} To [[insult]] or [[defeat]].
#: {{ux|en|I just '''burned''' you again.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[waste]] (time); to waste money or other resources.
#: {{syn|en|fritter|squander}}
#: {{ux|en|We have an hour to '''burn'''.}}
#: {{ux|en|The company has '''burned''' more than a million dollars a month this year.}}
#* {{c.|1897}}, anonymous (lyrics and music), “{{w|Hallelujah, I'm a Bum|Hallelujah, I’m a Bum}}”:
#*: Oh, why don’t you save all the money you earn? / If I didn’t eat, I’d have money to '''burn'''.
# In certain games, to approach near to a concealed object which is sought.
#: {{ux|en|You’re cold… warm… hot… you’re '''burning'''!}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1860|author=w:Henry David Thoreau|title=w:The Last Days of John Brown|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70123/pg70123-images.html#Page_278
|passage=Not being accustomed to make fine distinctions, or to appreciate magnanimity, they read his letters and speeches as if they read them not. They were not aware when they approached a heroic statement,—they did not know when they '''burned'''.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|curling}} To accidentally touch a moving [[stone]].
# {{lb|en|transitive|cards}} In [[pontoon]], to swap a pair of cards for another pair, or to deal a [[dead]] card.
# {{lb|en|photography}} To increase the [[exposure]] for certain areas of a [[print]] in order to make them [[light]]er.
#: {{cot|en|dodge}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|physics|of an element}} To be converted to another [[element]] in a [[nuclear fusion]] reaction, especially in a [[star]].
# {{lb|en|intransitive|slang|card games|gambling}} To [[discard]].
# {{lb|en|transitive|slang}} To [[shoot]] someone with a [[firearm]].
# {{lb|en|transitive|espionage}} To [[compromise]] (an agent's [[cover story]]).
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2011|author=Thomas H. Cook|title=Night Secrets
|passage=He had already '''burned''' his cover with Mrs. Phillips, and it was not a mistake he intended to make again.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2013|author=Vanessa Kier|title=Vengeance: The SSU Book 1
|passage=Eventually they'd report back to Ryker, and he still didn't know if Ryker had personally '''burned''' his cover and sent assassins after him, or if the SSU had a mole. Until he knew for certain, he had to play this safe.}}
# {{lb|en|transitive|espionage}} To [[blackmail]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1979|author=John le Carré|title=Smiley's People
|passage="''How'' does Leipzig '''burn''' him precisely?" Enderby insisted. "What's the pressure? Dirty pix—well, okay. Karla's a puritan, so's Kirov. But I mean, Christ, this isn't the fifties, is it? {{...}}}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive|slang|US}} To desire or [[ache for]] (something); to focus on attaining (something).

=====Conjugation=====
{{en-conj|old=1|past2=burnt|past_2sg_old2=burntest}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der3|en|title=Terms derived from the verb “burn”|aburn|burnability|burnable|inburn|overburn|preburn|reburn|unburn|underburn
|burn a hole in someone's pocket
|burn, baby, burn
|burn book|burn one down|I've burned myself|Rome wasn't burned in a day
|Burn Bridge
|burn down||burn someone's ass
|burn in
|burn one's toast
|burn out
|burn rubber
|burn someone at the stake
|burn the roof
|burn through
|burn time
|burn up
|burner
|burnout
|burnt toast theory
|ears are burning
|forburn
|watch the world burn
|are your ears burning|I've burnt myself|get one's fingers burnt|ever-burning|keep the home fires burning|long-burning|slow-burning|two lamps burning and no ship at sea|burn away|burn bread|burn coal|burn daylight|burn in hell|burn off|burn one's boats|burn one's bridges|burn one's candle at both ends|burn one's fingers|burn someone's ears|burn that bridge when one comes to it|burn the candle at both ends|burn the coal|burn the coal, pay the toll|burn the midnight oil|burn the water|burn to a crisp|burn-the-wind|crash and burn|dump and burn|money to burn|slash and burn|slash-and-burn|to burn|turn or burn}}

=====Related terms=====
*{{l|en|brimstone}}
* {{l|en|combust}}

=====Descendants=====
* {{desc|srn|bron}}
** {{desc|djk|boon}}

=====Translations=====
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{{trans-top|to cause to be consumed by fire}}
* Ainu: {{tt|ain|ウフイカ|tr=uhuika}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|djeg}}, (''dialectal'') {{t+|sq|kall}}, {{t+|sq|flakërij}}
* Amharic: {{tt|am|ማቃጠል}}
* Arabic: {{tt|ar|أَحْرَقَ}}, {{tt|ar|حَرَقَ}}, {{tt|ar|ضَرِمَ}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{tt|arz|حرق|m|tr=ḥaraʔ}}
*: Hijazi Arabic: {{tt|acw|حرق|tr=ḥarag}}, {{tt|acw|وَلَّع|tr=wallaʕ}}
* Aramaic: {{tt|arc|שְׂרַף|tr=sraf|sc=Hebr}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|այրել}}, {{tt+|hy|վառել}}
* Assamese: {{tt|as|জলোৱা}}, {{tt|as|জ্বলোৱা}}, {{tt|as|পোৰা}} {{q|to roast}}
* Azerbaijani: {{tt+|az|yandırmaq}}, {{tt|az|yaxmaq}} {{qualifier|archaic}}, {{tt|az|yaxıb-yandırmaq}}
* Bakhtiari: {{tt|bqi|سوزنیدن|tr=suzniðen|sc=fa-Arab}}
* Belarusian: {{tt|be|палі́ць|impf|sc=Cyrl}}, {{tt|be|спалі́ць|pf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|изга́рям}}, {{tt+|bg|горя́|impf}}
* Burmese: {{tt+|my|ရှို့|sc=Mymr}}, {{tt+|my|မီးရှို့|sc=Mymr}}
* Catalan: {{tt+|ca|cremar}}
* Cherokee: {{tt|chr|ᎠᎪᎲᏍᏗᎭ}}
* Chickasaw: {{tt|cic|lowa}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{tt+|cmn|燃燒|tr=ránshāo}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|pálit|impf}}, {{tt+|cs|upálit|pf}}, {{tt+|cs|spálit|pf}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|brænde}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|verbranden}}
* Egyptian: {{t-egy|rḏj ḫt jm|h=r:a-x:t-Q7-i-m}}
* Esperanto: {{tt|eo|bruligi}}
* Estonian: {{t|et|põletama}}
* Faroese: {{tt+|fo|brenna}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|polttaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|brûler}}, {{tt+|fr|incendier}}
* Friulian: {{tt|fur|ardi}}
* Galician: {{tt+|gl|queimar}}, {{tt+|gl|aburar}}
* German: {{tt+|de|verbrennen}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|καίω}}
*: Ancient: {{tt|grc|καίω}}, {{tt|grc|φλέγω}}
* Haitian Creole: {{tt|ht|boule}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|שרף|tr=saraf}}
* Hindi: {{tt+|hi|जलाना}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|éget}}, {{tt+|hu|eléget}}
* Icelandic: {{tt+|is|brenna}}
* Ido: {{tt+|io|brular}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|polttaa}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|bruciare}}, {{tt+|it|incendiare}}, {{tt+|it|ustionare}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|燃やす|tr=もやす, moyasu}}, {{tt+|ja|焼く|tr=やく, yaku}}
* Jingpho: {{tt|kac|nat}}
* Kalmyk: {{tt|xal|түлх}}
* Kashmiri: {{tt|ks|زالُن}}
* Kazakh: {{tt|kk|жағу|sc=Cyrl}}
* Khmer: {{tt+|km|ដុត|tr=dot|sc=Khmr}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|태우다}}
* Kurdish:
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t+|kmr|sotin}}, {{t+|kmr|şewitandin}}
* Ladino: {{tt|lad|kemar}}
* Lao: {{tt|lo|ເຜົາ}}
* Latin: {{tt+|la|ūrō}}, {{tt|la|incendō}}, {{tt|la|cremō}}
* Latvian: {{tt|lv|dedzināt}}
* Lombard: {{tt+|lmo|brusà}}, {{tt|lmo|brüsà}}
* Macedonian: {{tt|mk|изгорува|impf}}, {{tt|mk|изгори|pf}}, {{tt|mk|гори|impf}}
* Malay: {{tt+|ms|bakar}}
* Manchu: {{tt|mnc|ᡩᡝᡳᠵᡳᠮᠪᡳ}}
* Mongolian: {{tt+|mn|галдах}}, {{tt|mn|шатаах}}
* Norman: {{tt|nrf|brûler}}
* Norwegian: {{tt+|no|brenne}}
* Occitan: {{tt+|oc|cremar}}
* Old Church Slavonic:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|cu|палити|impf}}
* Old East Slavic: {{tt|orv|жечи|impf}}, {{tt|orv|палити|impf}}
* Old English: {{tt|ang|bærnan}}, {{tt|ang|onǣlan}}
* Old Javanese: {{tt|kaw|tunu}}
* Polabian: {{tt|pox|zazăt}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|palić}}, {{tt+|pl|spalić|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|queimar}}, {{tt+|pt|atear}}
* Quechua: {{tt|qu|ninay}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|arde}}
* Romansch: {{tt|rm|brischar}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|жечь|impf}}, {{tt+|ru|сжига́ть|impf}}, {{tt+|ru|сжечь|pf}}, {{tt+|ru|пали́ть|impf}}, {{tt+|ru|спали́ть|pf}}
* Sanskrit: {{tt+|sa|ओषति}}, {{t+|sa|ज्वलति}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{tt|gd|loisg}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|запалити}}, {{tt|sh|спалити}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|zapaliti}}, {{tt+|sh|spaliti}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|páliť}}, {{tt|sk|spáliť}}
* Slovene: {{tt+|sl|zažgati}}
* Somali: {{tt|so|gubid}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{tt|dsb|paliś|impf}}
*: Upper Sorbian: {{tt|hsb|palić|impf}}, {{tt|hsb|spalić|pf}}
* Southern Altai: {{t|alt|јандырар}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|quemar}}, {{t+|es|fogarear}}, {{t+|es|foguerear}}
* Sranan Tongo: {{t|srn|bron}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|bränna}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|sumunog}}, {{tt|tl|sunugin}}, {{tt|tl|manunog}}, {{tt|tl|sumilab}}, {{tt|tl|silabin}}
* Tamil: {{tt+|ta|எரி}}
* Telugu: {{tt+|te|తగులబెట్టు}}
* Tetum: {{tt|tet|sunu}}
* Thai: {{tt+|th|เผา}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|yakmak}}
* Ukrainian: {{tt|uk|пали́ти|impf|sc=Cyrl}}, {{tt|uk|спали́ти|pf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Urdu: {{tt|ur|جلانا|tr=jalānā|sc=ur-Arab}}
* Uyghur: {{tt|ug|يانماق}}
* Uzbek: {{tt+|uz|yoqmoq}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt+|vi|đốt}}
* Yámana: {{tt|yag|kukata}}
* Yiddish: {{tt|yi|ברענען|sc=Hebr}}
* Zealandic: {{tt|zea|verbrande}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to be consumed by fire}}
* Ainu: {{tt|ain|ウフイ|tr=uhui}}
* Aklanon: {{tt|akl|sunog}}
* Arabic: {{tt|ar|اِحْتَرَقَ}}
*: Egyptian Arabic: {{tt|arz|اتحرق|m|tr=itḥaraʔ}}
* Aramaic: {{tt|arc|אִשְׂתָּרֵיף|sc=Hebr}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|այրվել}}, {{tt+|hy|վառվել}}
* Aromanian: {{tt|rup|ardu}}
* Assamese: {{tt|as|জলা}}, {{tt|as|জ্বলা}}
* Asturian: {{tt|ast|arder}}, {{tt+|ast|quemar}}
* Azerbaijani: {{tt+|az|yanmaq}}
* Basque: {{tt|eu|erre}}
* Belarusian: {{tt|be|гарэ́ць|impf|sc=Cyrl}}, {{tt|be|згарэ́ць|pf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Breton: {{tt|br|devi}}, {{tt|br|leski}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|горя́|impf}}
* Burmese: {{tt+|my|လောင်|sc=Mymr}}
* Buryat: {{tt|bua|шатаха}}, {{tt|bua|носохо}}
* Catalan: {{tt+|ca|cremar}}
* Chechen: {{tt|ce|дага}}
* Cherokee: {{tt|chr|ᎠᎪᎲᏍᎦ}}
* Chickasaw: {{tt|cic|lowak}}
* Chinese:
*: Cantonese: {{tt|yue|燒|tr=siu1}}
*: Mandarin: {{tt+|cmn|燒|tr=shāo}}, {{tt+|cmn|燃燒|tr=ránshāo}}
* Cornish: {{tt|kw|leski}}
* Crimean Tatar: {{tt|crh|yanmaq}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|hořet|impf}}
* Dalmatian: {{tt|dlm|ardar}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|brænde}}, {{tt|da|brænde op}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|branden}}, {{tt+|nl|verbranden}}, {{tt+|nl|verteren}}
* Egyptian: {{t-egy|ꜣm|h=A-m-Q7}}
* Esperanto: {{tt+|eo|bruli}}
* Estonian: {{tt+|et|põlema}}
* Evenki: {{tt|evn|дегдэми}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|palaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|brûler}}, {{tt|fr|passer au feu}}
* Galician: {{tt+|gl|arder}}, {{tt+|gl|queimar}}
* Gallurese: {{tt|sdn|aldì}}, {{tt|sdn|brujà}}
* Georgian: {{tt|ka|იწვის|sc=Geor}}
* German: {{tt+|de|brennen}}
* Gothic: {{tt|got|𐌱𐍂𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|καίγομαι}}
*: Ancient: {{tt|grc|[[καίω|καίομαι]]}}, {{tt|grc|φλέγω}}
* Guaraní: {{tt|gn|tendy}}
* Hebrew: {{tt|he|נשרף|tr=nisráf}}
* Hindi: {{tt+|hi|जलना}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|ég}}, {{tt+|hu|elég}}
* Icelandic: {{tt+|is|brenna}}
* Ido: {{tt+|io|brular}}
* Indonesian: {{tt+|id|bakar|alt=membakar}}
* Ingrian: {{t|izh|pallaa}}, {{t|izh|kärttyä}}
* Ingush: {{tt|inh|дага}}
* Irish: {{tt|ga|dóigh|id=burn}}
* Istro-Romanian: {{tt|ruo|årde}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|bruciare}}, {{tt+|it|ardere}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|燃える|tr=もえる, moeru}}; {{tt+|ja|焼ける|tr=やける, yakeru}}
* Jutish: {{tt|jut|bræm}}
* Kashmiri: {{tt|ks|دَزُن}}
* Kashubian: {{tt|csb|palëc|impf}}
* Kazakh: {{tt|kk|жану|sc=Cyrl}}
* Khmer: {{tt+|km|ដុត|tr=dot|sc=Khmr}}
* Korean: {{tt|ko|불타다}}, {{tt+|ko|타다}}
* Kurdish:
*: Central Kurdish: {{tt|ckb|سوتان}}
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t+|kmr|sotin}}, {{t+|kmr|şewitîn}}
* Kyrgyz: {{tt+|ky|жануу|sc=Cyrl}}, {{tt+|ky|күйүү|sc=Cyrl}}
* Ladino: {{tt|lad|kemar|alt=kemarse}}
* Lao: {{t-needed|lo}}
* Latgalian: {{tt|ltg|degt}}
* Latin: {{tt+|la|ūrō}}, {{tt|la|ārdeō}}, {{tt+|la|aestuō}}, {{tt|la|flammō}}
* Latvian: {{tt+|lv|degt}}
* Lithuanian: {{tt|lt|deginti}}, {{tt+|lt|degti}}
* Livonian: {{tt|liv|pallõ}}
* Low German:
*: German Low German: {{tt|nds-de|brannen}}
* Macedonian: {{tt|mk|гори|impf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Malayalam: {{tt+|ml|കത്തുക|sc=Mlym}}, {{tt+|ml|ജ്വലിക്കുക|sc=Mlym}}
* Mansaka: {{tt|msk|sonog}}, {{tt|msk|sosol}}
* Maori: {{tt|mi|pāhunu}}, {{tt|mi|kā}}, {{tt|mi|tora}}, {{tt|mi|ngiha}}, {{tt|mi|mura}}
* Mongolian: {{tt+|mn|шатах}}, {{tt+|mn|ноцох}}, {{tt+|mn|асах}}
* Nanai: {{tt|gld|дегдэури}}
* Nepali: {{tt|ne|जल्नु}}, {{tt|ne|डढ्नु}}
* Norman: {{tt|nrf|brûler}}
* North Frisian: {{tt|frr|bren}} {{qualifier|Sylt}}
* Norwegian: {{tt+|no|brenne}}
* Occitan: {{tt+|oc|cremar}}
* Odia: {{tt+|or|ଜଳିବା}}
* Old Church Slavonic:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|cu|горѣти|impf}}
* Old East Slavic: {{tt|orv|горѣти|impf}}
* Old English: {{tt|ang|birnan}}
* Old Portuguese: {{tt|roa-opt|arder}}
* Ossetian: {{tt|os|судзын}}
* Persian: {{tt+|fa|سوختن|tr=suxtan}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|palić się|impf}}, {{tt+|pl|płonąć|impf}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|arder}}, {{tt+|pt|queimar}}, {{tt+|pt|pirar}}
* Quechua: {{tt+|qu|kañay}}, {{tt|qu|rawray}}, {{tt|qu|pariy}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|arde}}
* Romansch: {{tt|rm|arder}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|горе́ть|impf}}, {{tt+|ru|сгоре́ть|pf}}, {{tt+|ru|пыла́ть|impf}}
* Sanskrit: {{tt+|sa|दधाति}}, {{tt+|sa|ज्वल्}}
* Sardinian:
*: Campidanese: {{tt|sc|ardiri}}
*: Logudorese: {{tt|sc|abbruscare}}, {{tt|sc|ardere}}
* Sassarese: {{tt|sdc|brujà}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{tt|gd|loisg}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|горети|impf}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|goreti|impf}}
* Sherpa: {{tt|xsr|འབར}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|horieť|impf}}, {{tt|sk|zhorieť}}
* Slovene: {{tt+|sl|goreti|impf}}
* Sorbian:
*: Lower Sorbian: {{tt|dsb|paliś|impf|alt=paliś se}}
* Southern Altai: {{t|alt|јандырар}}, {{t|alt|кӱйер}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|arder}}, {{tt+|es|quemar}}, {{tt+|es|quemarse}}
* Sranan Tongo: {{t|srn|bron}}
* Sumerian: {{tt|sux|𒅡𒅡|tr=KA×ŠÈ.KA×ŠÈ|sc=Xsux}}
* Sundanese: {{tt+|su|beuleum}}, {{tt|su|huru}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|brinna}}
* Tagalog: {{tt+|tl|sunog}}, {{tt|tl|silab}}
* Tajik: {{tt+|tg|сӯхтан}}
* Tamil: {{tt+|ta|எரி}}
* Tausug: {{tt|tsg|sunug}}
* Telugu: {{tt+|te|కాలు}}
* Thai: {{tt+|th|ไหม้}}
* Tibetan: {{tt|bo|འབར}}
* Tocharian B: {{tt|txb|sälp-}}
* Turkish: {{tt+|tr|yanmak}}
* Turkmen: {{tt|tk|köýmek}}
* Ukrainian: {{tt+|uk|горі́ти|impf|sc=Cyrl}}, {{tt|uk|згорі́ти|pf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Urdu: {{tt|ur|جلنا|tr=jalnā|sc=ur-Arab}}
* Venetan: {{tt+|vec|àrdar}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt+|vi|cháy}}
* Welsh: {{tt+|cy|llosgi}}
* Yiddish: {{tt|yi|ברענען|sc=Hebr}}
* Yucatec Maya: {{tt|yua|toc}}, {{tt|yua|took}}, {{tt|yua|tooc}}, {{tt|yua|elel}}, {{tt|yua|tóokik}}
* Zealandic: {{tt|zea|brande}}, {{tt|zea|verbrande}}
* ǃXóõ: {{tt|nmn|ʘʻáa}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to overheat so as to make unusable}}
* Azerbaijani: {{tt+|az|yandırmaq}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|прегрявам}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|spálit}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|laten}} {{tt+|nl|aanbranden}}, {{tt+|nl|verbranden}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|polttaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|brûler}}
* Galician: {{tt+|gl|queimar}}, {{tt+|gl|requeimar}}, {{tt|gl|esturruxar}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|καίω}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|焦がす|tr=kogasu}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|태우다}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|spalić|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|queimar}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|arde}}
* Scots: {{tt|sco|scowder}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{tt|gd|loisg}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|spáliť}}, {{tt|sk|pripáliť}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|masunog}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to become overheated}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt|bg|прегрявам се}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|spálit}} se
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|aanbranden}}, {{tt+|nl|verbranden}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|palaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|surchauffer}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|καίγομαι}}
* Hindi: {{tt+|hi|जलना|sc=Deva}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|焦げる|tr=kogeru}}
* Marathi: {{tt|mr|जळने|sc=Deva}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|spalić się}}, {{q|of food}} {{tt+|pl|przypalić się}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|queimar}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|arde}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|перегрева́ться|impf}}, {{tt+|ru|перегре́ться|pf}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|pripáliť sa}}, {{tt|sk|zhorieť}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|bränna}} {{qualifier|of food, meal}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|masunog}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to make or produce by the application of fire}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|branden}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|polttaa}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|vypáliť}}, {{tt|sk|vypalovať}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to injure with heat or chemicals}}
* Azerbaijani: {{tt+|az|yandırmaq}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|обгарям}}, {{tt+|bg|изгарям}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{tt+|cmn|燒|tr=shāo}}
* Czech: {{tt|cs|popálit}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|verbranden}}
* Esperanto: {{tt|eo|bruligi}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|polttaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|brûler}}
* German: {{tt+|de|verbrennen}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|καίω}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|megéget}}
* Italian: {{tt+|it|bruciare}}, {{tt+|it|ustionare}}
* Japanese: {{tt+|ja|やけど|alt=やけどする|tr=yakedo suru}}
* Korean: {{tt|ko|데다}}
* Mongolian: {{tt+|mn|түлэх}}, {{tt+|mn|хайрах}}
* Norman: {{tt|nrf|brûler}}
* Norwegian: {{tt|no|forbrenne}}
* Polish: {{tt|pl|oparzyć|pf}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|queimar}}
* Quechua: {{tt|qu|hapuy}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|arde}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|обжига́ть|impf}}, {{tt+|ru|обже́чь|pf}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{tt|gd|loisg}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|опећи}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|opeći}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|popáliť}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|quemar}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|bränna}}, {{tt+|sv|skålla}} {{qualifier|with liquid}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|pumaso}}, {{tt|tl|mapaso}}, {{tt|tl|pasuin}}
* Telugu: {{tt+|te|కాల్చు}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt+|vi|đốt}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|to cauterize|cauterize}}

{{trans-see|to sunburn|sunburn}}

{{trans-top|to consume, injure, or change the condition of, as if by action of fire or heat}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|polttaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|brûler}}
* Japanese: {{tt|ja|[[ひりひり]]する, [[ヒリヒリ]]する|tr=hiri-hiri suru}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|spáliť}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|to feel hot due to embarrassment}}
* Armenian: {{tt+|hy|այրվել}}, {{tt+|hy|վառվել}}
* Belarusian: {{tt|be|згара́ць|impf|sc=Cyrl}}, {{tt|be|згарэ́ць|pf|sc=Cyrl}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|hořet}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|brænde}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|branden}}, {{tt+|nl|gloeien}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|kuumottaa}}, {{tt+|fi|palaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|se consumer}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|καίγομαι}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|달아오르다}}
* Norwegian: {{tt+|no|brenne}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|płonąć}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|queimar}}, {{tt+|pt|arder}}
* Quechua: {{tt|qu|ruphay}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|arde}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|горе́ть}}, {{tt+|ru|пыла́ть}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|horieť}}, {{tt|sk|červenať sa}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|brinna}}
* Tagalog: {{tt|tl|mag-apoy}}, {{tt|tl|mag-alab}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|chemistry: to cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|verbranden}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|hapettaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|oxyder}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|spáliť}}, {{tt|sk|spalovať}}
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{{trans-top|chemistry: to combine energetically, with evolution of heat}}
* Finnish: {{tt|fi|hapettua}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|horieť}}, {{tt|sk|zhorieť}}
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{{trans-top|computing: to write data}}
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|пека}}, {{tt+|bg|записвам}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|vypálit}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|branden}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|polttaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|graver}}
* German: {{tt+|de|brennen}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|καίω}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|צרב|tr=tsaráv}}
* Hungarian: {{tt+|hu|ír|id=to write}}
* Indonesian: {{tt+|id|membakar}}, {{tt+|id|merekam}}
* Korean: {{tt+|ko|굽다}}
* Malay: {{tt+|ms|membakar}}, {{tt|ms|merakam}}, {{tt|ms|menulis}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|tāmau}}
* Norwegian: {{tt+|no|brenne}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|wypalać|impf}}, {{tt+|pl|wypalić|pf}}, {{tt+|pl|nagrywać|impf}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|gravar}}
* Romanian: {{tt+|ro|arde}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|записать|pf}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{tt|sh|пржити}}, {{tt|sh|снимити}}, {{tt|sh|нарезати}}
*: Roman: {{tt+|sh|pržiti}}, {{tt+|sh|snimiti}}, {{tt+|sh|narezati}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|napáliť}}
* Spanish: {{tt+|es|quemar}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|bränna}}
* Ukrainian: {{tt|uk|записати|pf}}
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{{trans-top|to betray}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|verraden}}, {{tt+|nl|in de steek laten}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|käräyttää}}, {{tt+|fi|polttaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|griller}}
* Korean: {{tt|ko|데다}}
* Norwegian: {{tt|no|foræde}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|spalić}}
* Portuguese: {{tt+|pt|queimar}}
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{{trans-top|slang: to insult or defeat}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|kwetsen}}, {{tt+|nl|beledigen}}, {{tt|nl|liggen hebben}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|nokittaa}}, {{tt+|fi|servata}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|avoir}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|pojazd}}, {{tt+|pl|wjazd}}
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{{trans-top|to waste}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|verspillen}}, {{tt+|nl|verliezen}}, {{tt+|nl|doden}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|tappaa}} {{q|time}}; {{tt+|fi|polttaa}} {{q|money, resources}}
* Hebrew: {{tt+|he|שרף|tr=saraf}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|bruciare}}
* Norwegian: {{tt+|no|brenne}}
* Polish: {{tt+|pl|tracić|impf}}, {{tt+|pl|stracić|pf}}, {{tt+|pl|marnować|impf}}, {{tt+|pl|zmarnować|pf}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|vyhodiť}}, {{tt|sk|zabiť}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
* Telugu: {{tt|te|తగలెట్టు}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|harcamak}}
* Vietnamese: {{tt+|vi|tốn}}
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{{trans-top|to approach near to a concealed object which is sought}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|polttaa}}
* French: {{tt+|fr|brûler}}
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{{trans-top|curling: to accidentally touch a moving stone}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|palaa}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
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{{trans-top|pontoon: to swap a pair of cards for another pair; deal a dead card}}
* Swahili: {{tt+|sw|choma}}
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{{trans-top|photography: to increase the exposure for certain areas of a print}}
* Finnish: {{tt|fi|lisävalottaa}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{tt|nb|etterbelyse}}
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{{trans-top|physics: to be converted to another element in a nuclear fusion}}
* Finnish: {{tt+|fi|fuusioitua}}
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{{trans-top|card games: to discard}}
* Finnish: {{tt|fi|[[heittää]] [[pois]]}}, {{t+|fi|polttaa}}
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{{checktrans-top}}
* Albanian: {{t+check|sq|djeg}}
* Aromanian: {{t-check|rup|ardu}}
* Basque: {{t-check|eu|erre}}
* Ido: {{t+check|io|kombustar}}, {{t+check|io|brular}}
* Korean: {{t+check|ko|타다}}, {{t-check|ko|연소(燃燒)하다}}
* Kurdish:
*: Northern Kurdish: {{t+check|kmr|sotin}}, {{t+check|kmr|şewitandin}}, {{t+check|kmr|şewitîn}}
* Lao: {{t-check|lo|ເຜົາ}}, {{t-check|lo|ຈຸດ}}, {{t-check|lo|ໄໝ້}}, {{t-check|lo|ໄຫມ້}}
* Norwegian: {{t+check|no|brenne}}
* Occitan: {{t+check|oc|cremar}}
* Rohingya: {{t-check|rhg|zalo}}
* Telugu: {{t+check|te|మండు}}
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}}

===Etymology 2===
{{root|en|ine-pro|*bʰrewh₁-}}
From {{inh|en|enm|burn}}, {{m|enm|bourne}}, from {{inh|en|ang|burne}}, {{m|ang|burna|t=spring, fountain}}, {{inh|en|gmw-pro|*brunnō}}, from {{inh|en|gem-pro|*brunnô}}, {{m|gem-pro|*brunō}}.

Cognate with {{cog|fy|boarne}}, {{cog|nl|bron}}, {{cog|de|Brunnen}}; also {{cog|sq|burim||spring, fountain}}, {{cog|grc|φρέαρ||well, reservoir}}, {{cog|xcl|աղբիւր||fount}}. {{doublet|en|bourn}}. More at {{l|en|brew}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun}}

# {{senseid|en|stream}} {{lb|en|Northern England|Scotland}} A large [[stream#Noun|stream]].
#* {{RQ:Hopkins Poems|poem=Inversnaid|stanza=1|page=53|passage=This darksome '''burn''', horseback brown, / His rollrock highroad roaring down, / In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam / Flutes and low to the lake falls home.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1881|author=s:Robert Louis Stevenson|title=s:Virginibus Puerisque
|passage=He may pitch on some tuft of lilacs over a '''burn''', and smoke innumerable pipes to the tune of the water on the stones.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=1950|month=October|title=Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line|journal=Railway Magazine|pages=708-709|text=At this place, the clay in the 52 ft. embankment had been under water pressure for some weeks before the water level could be lowered, and the '''burn''' diverted through a temporary culvert.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=2008|author=w:James Kelman|title=Kieron Smith, Boy|page=105|publisher=Penguin|year_published=2009
|passage=When it was too heavy rain the '''burn''' ran very high and wide and ye could never jump it.}}

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|Burn Bridge}} {{q|possibly}}
* {{l|en|Burnmouth}}
* {{l|en|Burnside}}

=====Related terms=====
* {{l|en|bourn}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top-also|stream|stream}}{{multitrans|data=
* Bulgarian: {{tt+|bg|ручей|m}}
* Czech: {{tt+|cs|potok|m}}
* Danish: {{tt+|da|bæk}}, {{tt+|da|strøm}}
* Dutch: {{tt+|nl|stroom|m}}, {{tt+|nl|beek|m}}, {{tt+|nl|sloot|f}}
* German: {{tt+|de|Bach|m}}
* Greek: {{tt+|el|ρυάκι|n}}
* Norwegian: {{tt+|no|bekk}}, {{tt+|no|strøm}}
* Russian: {{tt+|ru|руче́й|n}}
* Scots: {{tt|sco|burn}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{tt|gd|allt|m}}, {{tt|gd|alltan|m}}
* Slovak: {{tt|sk|potok}}
* Swedish: {{tt+|sv|bäck|c}}, {{tt+|sv|ström|c}}, {{tt+|sv|å|c}}
}}
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===References===
* {{R:Online Etymology Dictionary}}
* {{R:Websters}}
* {{R:Northumberland 1880}}

{{cln|en|ergative verbs|irregular verbs|terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰrewh₁-}}
{{C|en|Combustion|Fire|Injuries|Landforms|Rocketry}}

==Nyunga==

===Noun===
{{head|nys|noun}}

# [[wood]]

===References===
* {{R:nys:Armstrong1886}}

==Scots==

===Etymology===
{{root|sco|ine-pro|*bʰrewh₁-}} {{dercat|sco|gmw-pro|gem-pro|ine-pro|inh=2}}
{{inh|sco|enm|bourne}}, from {{inh|sco|ang|burne}}, {{m|ang|burna||spring, fountain}}.

Cognate with {{cog|fy|boarne}}, {{cog|nl|bron}}, {{cog|de|Brunnen}}; also {{cog|sq|burim||spring, fountain}}, {{cog|grc|φρέαρ||well, reservoir}}, {{cog|xcl|աղբիւր||fount}}.

===Noun===
{{sco-noun}}

# A [[small]] [[river]] or large [[stream]]
#* {{quote-book|1=sco|year=1792|author=w:Robert Burns|title=The lea-rig|chapter=|url=|page=|text=Down by the '''burn''' where scented birks / Wi' dew are hangin clear, my jo,|translation=Down by the stream where scented birches / With dew are hanging clear, my dear,}}

====References====
{{R:DSL}}