buk

Borrowed from Korean 북 (buk).

buk (plural buks)

1. a traditional Korean drum

• Buk (drum) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

• 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

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

1. ram (male sheep)
2. male goat

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/

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buk

1. first/third-person singular preterite of backen

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

From Proto-Malayic *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)

• IPA^(key): [ˈbʊk]
• Hyphenation: buk

Onomatopoeic.

buk (first-person possessive bukku, second-person possessive bukmu, third-person possessive buknya)

1. a sound of a large ripe fruit (object) falling to the ground

   Synonym: debuk

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

buk

1. (colloquial) to book.

   Synonym: pesan

• “buk” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 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

buk

1. head hair

buk

1. Alternative form of bok

buk

1. Alternative form of bouk

buk

1. Alternative form of bukke

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

• 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.

būk m

1. belly

Declension of būk (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	būk	būkar, būka
genitive	būkes	būka
dative	būke	būkum, būkem
accusative	būk	būkar, būka

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bukъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuk/

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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)

buk m inan

1. beechwood (wood of the beech tree)

   Synonym: buczyna

• buk in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• buk in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• buk in PWN's encyclopedia

From bȕka.

• IPA^(key): /bûːk/

bȗk m (Cyrillic spelling бу̑к)

1. cascade, rapids, cataract
2. waterfall
3. the sound of a strong water stream

• vodopad (waterfall)

• “buk”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

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 (SO)
• buk in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• buk in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk MeSH
• buk in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• kub

From English book.

buk

1. book

• → Rotokas: vuku

From English book.

• IPA^(key): /buk/

buk (nominative 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

buk

1. hair