late 13c., also as a surname, Brenner, "person who makes bricks," agent noun from burn (v.)). As a name for a part of a lamp where the flame issues, from 1790. Of the heating elements on gas cooking-stoves, by 1885.
a diesel engine is an oil burner
the electric range had one large burner and three smaller one
Burma
Burmese
burn
burnable
Burne-Jones
burner
burning
burnish
burn-out
burnsides
burnt