buk

buk

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Bukawa.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Bukawa terms

Borrowed from Korean 북 (buk).

buk (plural buks)

1. a traditional Korean drum

• Buk (drum) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Seemingly borrowed from English book.

• (Myanmar) /buk˧/

buk

1. book

   Synonym: maussauh

Probably only used in Myanmar.

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[1], Payap University, page 14

From Dutch bukken, from Middle Dutch bucken, from Old Dutch *bukken, from Proto-Germanic *bukkijaną.

• IPA^(key): /bœk/

buk (present buk, present participle bukkende, past participle gebuk)

1. (intransitive) to crouch, to duck

From English book.

buk (plural buk dem, quantified buk)

1. book

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /buk/

buk

1. book

• H. Steinhauer, "Going" and "Coming" in the Blagar of Dolap (Pura--Alor--Indonesia) (1977)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bukъ, apparently from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech tree”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbuk]

buk m inan (diminutive bouček)

1. beech (beech tree)

• “buk”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “buk”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “buk”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2026

From Old Danish buk, from Old Norse bukkr, Proto-Germanic *bukkaz (“buck”).

buk c (singular definite bukken, plural indefinite bukke)

1. the male of certain ruminants (deer, goat, sheep)

   Synonyms: råbuk, gedebuk, vædder

2. a trestle
3. (by extension, gymnastics) a buck

   Coordinate term: hest

4. (informal, derogatory) (older) horny, lecherous man

   Coordinate term: liderbasse

5. the seat of the coachman on a horse carriage

• bukkejagt
• julebuk
• savbuk
• horebuk
• træbuk

From bukke

buk n (singular definite bukket, plural indefinite buk)

1. a bow

• “buk” in Den Danske Ordbog

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

buk

1. head hair

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• Rhymes: -ʏk

buk

1. inflection of bukken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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buk

1. first/third-person singular preterite of backen

Sometimes treated as weak verb (backte). See backen.

From Proto-Malayic *buk, *buək, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhək, from Proto-Austronesian *bukəS.

buk

1. (anatomy) hair

From English book.

buk

1. book

• Nelleke Elisabeth Goudswaard, The Begak (Ida'an) language of Sabah (2005)

Onomatopoeic.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk/ [ˈbʊk̚]
• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: buk

buk (plural buk-buk)

1. thud, bam; a sound of a large ripe fruit or heavy object falling to the ground

   Synonyms: debuk, gedebuk

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbuʔ/ [ˈbʊʔ]
• Rhymes: -uʔ
• Syllabification: buk

buk

1. (vocative, informal) alternative form of ibu (“mother; madam”)

From Dutch boek (“to book”) or English book (“to book”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk/ [ˈbʊk̚]
• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: buk

buk

1. (colloquial) to book, to reserve

   Synonyms: buking, pesan, tempah

• “buk”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Derived from English book.

• IPA^(key): /bʊk/

buk (plural buk dem, quantified buk)

1. book

• buk at majstro.com
• buk on the Jamaican Creole Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^jam

• Carakan: ꦧꦸꦏ꧀
• Roman: boek (dated)

Borrowed from Dutch boek (“book”).

buk (krama ngoko buk)

1. alternative spelling of buku

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2011), “buk”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), 2nd edition, Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *buhək, from Proto-Austronesian *bukəS.

buk

1. hair (filament which grows on the human head)

• Ahmad Samin Siregar et al. (2001). Kamus Bahasa Karo–Indonesia. Medan: Balai Pustaka, p. 30.

From Proto-Slavic *bukъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian buk, Polish buk, Czech buk, Russian бук (buk), and Serbo-Croatian bȕkva.

• IPA^(key): /buk/

buk m inan

1. beech (tree of genus Fagus)
2. (specifically) European beech, Fagus sylvatica

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “buk”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “buk”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

buk

1. head hair

buk

1. alternative form of bok (“book”)

buk

1. alternative form of bouk (“belly”)

buk

1. alternative form of bukke (“buck”)

From Old Saxon būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, body”).

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

bûk m (genitive bukes, dative buke)

1. stomach, belly, abdomen, torso
2. carcass (a slaughtered animal)

• lif (body, figurative for belly)
• mage (stomach)

buk

1. book

• Joan Hainsworth, Kathleen F. Johnson, Patricia F. Brien (2021), Narak – Yingglis Diksaneriy [Narak – English Dictionary]‎^[2], page 123

From English book.

buk

1. book

• bök (Mooring)
• Bok (Sylt)

From Old Frisian bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Compare West Frisian boek.

buk n (plural buken)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) book

From Old Norse búkr.

buk m (definite singular buken, indefinite plural buker, definite plural bukene)

1. belly, abdomen, stomach

• mage

• buktaler

• “buk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse búkr.

buk m (definite singular buken, indefinite plural bukar, definite plural bukane)

1. belly, abdomen, stomach

• mage

• buktalar

• “buk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

būk m

1. belly

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bukъ. First attested in 1398.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /buk/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /buk/

buk m animacy unattested (related adjective bukowy)

1. (attested in Lesser Poland, Greater Poland) common beech (Fagus sylvatica)
   • 1856-1870 [1398], Antoni Zygmunt Helcel, editor, Starodawne Prawa Polskiego Pomniki‎^[3], volume VIII, number 7586:

     Pro CCC arboribus buk

     [Pro CCC arboribus buk]

   • 1868 [1451], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎^[4], volume XII (quotation in Old Polish; overall work in Polish, Latin, and Old Polish), page 210:

     Ubicunąue fagus al. buk seu szyr fructum dederit in silvis regalibus

     [Ubicunąue fagus al. buk seu żyr fructum dederit in silvis regalibus]

   • 1868 [1460], Akta grodzkie i ziemskie z czasów Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej : z archiwum tak zwanego bernardyńskiego we Lwowie w skutek fundacyi śp. Alexandra hr. Stadnickiego‎^[5], volume VIII (quotation in Old Polish; overall work in Polish, Latin, and Old Polish), page 137:

     In quo scopulo stat arbor dicta fagus al. buk

     [In quo scopulo stat arbor dicta fagus al. buk]

   • 1864 [15th century], Jan Długosz, edited by Aleksander Przezdziecki, Liber beneficiorum dioecesis Cracoviensis nunc primum e codice autographo‎^[6], volume III, Krakow, page 356:

     Stant duae arbores, videlicet iawor et buk

     [Stant duae arbores, videlicet iawor et buk]

   • 1900 [1437], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2‎^[7], number 10832:

     Buk fagus

     [Buk fagus]

   • 1900 [1472], Józef Rostafiński, editor, Symbola ad historiam naturalem medii aevi = Średniowieczna historya naturalna w Polsce. Ps 2‎^[8], number 220:

     Buk faginula

     [Buk faginula]

   • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 49v:

     Fagus est quedam arbor eyn buchenbawme bvk

     [Fagus est quedam arbor eyn buchenbawme buk]

   • 1861 [1422], Józef Przyborowski, editor, Vetustissimam adiectivorum linguae Polonae declinationem monumentis ineditis illustravit, Greater Poland, page 16:

     Ty dwa kona, *czosme wsal Jaroszeuiczu oth buku tym wsal w prawem

     [Ty dwa konia, cośm wziął Jaroszewiczu ot buku, tym wziął w prawem]

   • 1874-1891 [XV p. pr.], Rozprawy i Sprawozdania z Posiedzeń Wydziału Filologicznego Akademii Umiejętności‎^{[9], [10], [11]}, volume XVI, page 346:

     S buk w de fago

     [S buk w de fago]

   • [1415], Rękopiśmienne luźne ekscerpty z ksiąg ziemskich i grodzkich kościańskich, poznańskich oraz pyzdrskich, number f. 39v, Kościan, Poznań, Pyzdry:

     Sexagena bukow, grabi, brostow

     [Sexagena bukow, grabi, brzostow]

2. (hapax legomenon) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. boxwood (Buxus sempervirens)
   • 1901 [1471], Materiały i Prace Komisji Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie, volume V, page 73:

     Buk buxus

     [Buk buxus]

• Polish: buk
• Silesian: buk

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “buk”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017), “buk”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “buk”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965), “buk”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• K. Nitsch, editor (1954), “buk”, in Słownik staropolski (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw: Polish Academy of Sciences, page 176
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “buk”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “buk”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Inherited from Old Polish buk.

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• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: buk
• Homophones: bóg, Bóg, Bug, Buk

buk m inan (diminutive buczek, related adjective bukowy)

1. beech (any tree of the genus Fagus)
2. (Przemyśl, Southern Borderlands, Kamianets-Podilskyi) thick stick; club

   Hypernym: kij

3. (Przemyśl) hit, blow

   Synonym: uderzenie

buk m inan

1. beechwood (wood of the beech tree)

   Synonym: buczyna

• “buk”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[12] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “buk”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[13] (in Polish)
• buk in PWN's encyclopedia
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “buk”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Jadwiga Chotkowska (27.09.2012), “BUK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “buk”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “buk”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “buk”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 230
• Jan Karłowicz (1900), “buk”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 135
• buk in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
• Aleksander Saloni (1908), “buk”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne‎^[14] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 332

From bȕka.

• IPA^(key): /bûːk/

bȗk m inan (Cyrillic spelling бу̑к)

1. cascade, rapids, cataract
2. waterfall

   Synonym: vodopad

3. the sound of a strong water stream

• “buk”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Inherited from Old Polish buk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuk/
• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: buk

buk m inan (diminutive buczek, related adjective bukowy)

1. beech (any tree of the genus Fagus)

• buk in silling.org
• Eugeniusz Kosmała (2023), “buk”, in Dykcjōnôrz Polsko-Ślonskiy (in Silesian), b, page 120

From Old Swedish būker, from Old Norse búkr, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰōw-. Doublet of buga, böja, and bukt.

• Rhymes: -ʉːk

buk c

1. belly
2. abdomen
3. paunch

• “buk”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “buk”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “buk”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk MeSH
• buk in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• kub

From English book.

buk

1. book

• haus buk

• → Rotokas: vuku
• → Takia: buk

• Volker, C. A. (general editor), et al. (2008), Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary, Oxford University Press in association with Wantok Niuspepa, →ISBN, page 13

From English book.

• IPA^(key): /buk/

buk (genitive buka, plural buks)

1. book
   • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 15:

     Buk, keli elegivol obe, binon jönik.

     The book you have given to me is beautiful.

• bukabled
• bukem
• bukeman
• bukemik
• buk fliodik
• bukik
• bukiselidöp
• bukitanädan
• fliodabuk
• lebuk
• vödabuk

• fliod
• gased

From Middle Dutch buc, variant of boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

• IPA^(key): /bək/

buk m (plural buks, diminutive buktje)

1. buck, male goat, male rabbit

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

buk

1. hair