bog

See also Appendix:Variations of "bog"

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• (GenAM): enPR: bäg, IPA: /bɑɡ/, X-SAMPA: /bAg/

• Audio (US)

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• (RP) enPR: bŏg, IPA: /bɒɡ/, X-SAMPA: /bQg/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -ɒɡ

Etymology 1

Irish and Scottish Gaelic bogach (“soft, boggy ground”), from bog (“soft”)

Noun

bog (plural bogs)

1. An expanse of marshland.
2. (Ireland, UK, New Zealand, vulgar, slang) A toilet.
3. (US, dialect) A little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and grass, in a marsh or swamp.

Synonyms

• (expanse of marshland): marsh, moor, swamp
• (coarse slang: a toilet): shithouse (taboo slang), dunny (Australia)

Derived terms

• bog bilberry
• bog iron
• bog orchid
• bog roll
• bog standard
• bog brush

Translations

expanse of marshland

• Afrikaans: vlei
• Belarusian: балота (be) (balóta) n
• Bulgarian: блато (bg) (bláto) n
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 沼澤 (cmn), 沼泽 (cmn) (zhǎozé)

• Czech: rašeliniště (cs) n
• Danish: mose (da), sump (da)
• Estonian: raba (et), soo (et)
• Finnish: suo (fi), neva (fi)
• French: tourbière (fr) f
• German: Hochmoor (de) m
• Hungarian: mocsár (hu)
• Irish: bogach (ga) m

• Italian: palude (it) f
• Japanese: 沼沢 (ja) (しょうたく, shōtaku), 沼地 (ja) (ぬまち, numachi)
• Latin: palūs (la) f
• Manx: curragh (gv) m
• Norwegian: myr (no), sump (no)
• Persian: خلاش (fa) (xalâš)
• Russian: болото (ru) (bolóto) n, топь (ru) (top') f
• Scottish Gaelic: boglach (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: tresetište (sh) n
• Spanish: ciénaga (es) f
• Turkish: bataklık (tr)
• Ukrainian: болото (uk) (bolóto) n

coarse slang: a toilet

• Afrikaans: kakhuis
• Bulgarian: кенеф (bg) (kenef) m
• Danish: lokum (da) (2)
• Finnish: paskahuusi

• French: chiottes f pl
• German: Klo (de) n
• Italian: cesso (it) m

Verb

bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)

1. (intransitive, informal) To become (figuratively or literally) mired or stuck.
2. (transitive, UK, informal) To make a mess of something.

Derived terms

• bog down
• bog up

Translations

to become mired or stuck

• German: (intransitive) stecken bleiben, versinken, versumpfen; (transitive) blockieren, versenken

to make a mess of something

• German abhauen

Etymology 2

by shortening and euphemistic alteration from bugger

Verb

bog (third-person singular simple present bogs, present participle bogging, simple past and past participle bogged)

1. (euphemistic, slang, UK, with "off") To go away.

Derived terms

• bog off

Anagrams

• gob

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Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɔg/, [ˈb̥ɔʊ̯ˀ]
• Rhymes: -ɔʊ̯

Etymology 1

From Old Norse bók (“beech, book”), from Proto-Germanic *bōks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”).

Noun

bog c (singular definite bogen, plural indefinite bøger)

1. book

Derived terms

• ordbog c

Inflection

    Inflection of bog

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	bog	bogen	bøger	bøgerne
genitive	bogs	bogens	bøgers	bøgernes

Etymology 2

Maybe from Middle Low German bōk.

Noun

bog c (singular definite bogen, plural indefinite bog)

1. beech mast

Inflection

    Inflection of bog

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	bog	bogen	bog	bogene
genitive	bogs	bogens	bogs	bogenes

Related terms

• bogfinke c
• boghvede c

External links

• Bog on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia
• Bog (flertydig) on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia:Bog (flertydig)
• Bog (bøgens nødder) on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia:Bog (bøgens nødder)

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French

Noun

bog m (plural bogs)

1. (ecology) An ombrotrophic peatland.

Antonyms

• fen

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA: [boːk]

• Audio (Austria)

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Verb

bog

1. past tense of biegen.

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Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pengke along with Estonian pung.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈboɡ/

Noun

bog (plural bogok)

1. knot

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA: [bˠɔɡ]

Adjective

bog

1. soft
2. loose
3. lukewarm

Declension

Declension of bog

First Declension

	Singular		Plural (m/f)
Positive	masc.	fem.	(strong noun)	(weak noun)
Nominative	bog		boga
Vocative	boig	bog	boga
Genitive	boig	boige	boga	bog
Dative	bog		boga
Comparative	boige

Usage notes

• (archaic) Dative feminine singular: boig

Verb

bog (present analytic bogann, future analytic bogfaidh, verbal noun bogadh, past participle bogtha)

1. to move

First Conjugation (A)

		singular			plural			autonomous
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	present	bogaim	bogann tú; bogair†	bogann sé, sí	bogaimid	bogann sibh	bogann siad; bogaid†	bogtar
	past	bhog mé; bhogas†	bhog tú; bhogais†	bhog sé, sí	bhogamar	bhog sibh; bhogabhair†	bhog siad; bhogadar†	bogadh
	future	bogfaidh mé; bogfad†	bogfaidh tú; bogfair†	bogfaidh sé, sí	bogfaimid; bogfam†	bogfaidh sibh	bogfaidh siad; bogfaid†	bogfar
	past habitual	bhogainn	bhogtá	bhogadh sé, sí	bhogaimis	bhogadh sibh	bhogaidís	bhogtaí
imperative		bogaim	bog	bogadh sé, sí	bogaimis	bogaigí	bogaidís	bogtar
conditional		bhogfainn	bhogfá	bhogfadh sé, sí	bhogfaimis	bhogfadh sibh	bhogfaidís	bhogfaí
subjunctive	present	boga mé; bogad†	boga tú; bogair†	boga sé, sí	bogaimid	boga sibh	boga siad; bogaid†	bogtar
	past	bogainn	bogtá	bogadh sé, sí	bogaimis	bogadh sibh	bogaidís	bogtaí
verbal noun		bogadh
past participle		bogtha

† Dialect form

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
bog	bhog	mbog
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Lojban

Rafsi

bog

1. rafsi of bongu.

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [bɔk]

Noun

bog m (feminine equivalent bogowka)

1. god

Declension

declension of bog

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	bog	boga	bogi
Genitive	boga	bogowu	bogow
Dative	bogoju	bogoma	bogam
Accusative	boga	bogowu	bogi, bogow
Instrumental	bogom	bogoma	bogami
Locative	bogu	bogoma	bogach

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Norwegian

Noun

bog m

1. shoulder (of an animal)

Inflection

    Inflection of bog

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	bog	bogen	boger	bogene
Nynorsk m	bog	bogen	bogar	bogane

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bōguz. Cognate with Old Saxon bōg, Dutch boeg (“shoulders, chest of a horse”), Old High German buog (German Bug (“horse’s hock, ship’s prow”)), Old Norse bógr (Icelandic bógur, Swedish bog (“shoulder”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /boːɡ/

Noun

bōg n (nominative plural bōg)

1. the arm or shoulder
2. a branch or bough of a tree

Descendants

• English: bough
• Scots: beuch

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Scottish Gaelic

Pronunciation

• IPA: [b̊oɡ̊]

Adjective

bog (comparative buige)

1. soft
2. wet, damp, moist

Declension

Case	Masculine singular	Feminine singular	Plural
Nominative	bog	bhog	boga
Vocative	bhuig	bhog	boga
Genitive	bhuig	bhuig/buige	boga
Dative	bhog	bhuig	boga

Derived terms

• bathar-bog
• còmhdach bog
• luachair-bhog

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /bôːɡ/

Noun

bȏg m (Cyrillic spelling бо̑г)

1. god
2. (colloquial) idol, god

Declension

    declension of bog

	singular	plural
nominative	bȏg	bògovi
genitive	bȍga	bògōvā
dative	bȍgu	bògovima
accusative	bȍga	bògove
vocative	bȍže	bògovima
locative	bȍgu	bògovima
instrumental	bȍgom	bògovima

Derived terms

• bogòvskī
• božànstvo
• bȍžjī

Related terms

• Bȏg
• bògat

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈbóːk/
• Tonal: bọ̑g

Noun

bóg m anim. (dual bogova, plural bogovi)

1. god

Declension

Declension of bog (masculine animate, plural in -ov-)

	singular	dual	plural
nominative	bog	bogova	bogovi
accusative	boga	bogova	bogove
genitive	boga	bogov	bogov
dative	bogu	bogovoma	bogovom
locative	bogu	bogovih	bogovih
instrumental	bogom	bogovoma	bogovi