bugle

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːɡəl

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman, from Old French, from Latin buculus ("young bull; ox; steer").

Noun

Wikipedia bugle (plural bugles)

1. A horn used by hunters.
2. (music) a simple brass instrument consisting of a horn with no valves, playing only pitches in its harmonic series
3. An often-cultivated plant in the family Lamiaceae.
4. anything shaped like a bugle, round or conical and having a bell on one end

Synonyms

• (shaped like a bugle): cone, funnel

Hypernyms

• musical instrument

Derived terms

• bugler

Coordinate terms

• trumpet

Translations

music: simple brass instrument

• Bulgarian: тръба (bg) (trǎba) f, ловджийски рог (bg) (lovdžijski rog)
• Catalan: corneta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍號 (cmn), 军号 (cmn) (jūnhào), 號角 (cmn), 号角 (cmn) (hàojiǎo)

• Czech: trubka (cs) f
• Dutch: bugel (nl) m, flügelhorn (nl)
• Finnish: merkkitorvi (fi)
• French: clairon (fr) m, clairons (fr) m pl
• German: Bügelhorn (de) n
• Greek: σάλπιγγα (el) (sálpinga) f
• Hungarian: kürt (hu), harsona (hu)
• Irish: stoc (ga) m, buabhall (ga) m

• Japanese: ラッパ (ja) (rappa), 喇叭 (ja) (らっぱ, rappa), ビューグル (ja) (byūguru)
• Latgalian: strumpe
• Latvian: taure (lv)
• Polish: róg (pl)
• Portuguese: clarim (pt)
• Russian: рог (ru) (rog) m, рожок (ru) (rožók) m, горн (ru) (gorn) m
• Scottish Gaelic: dùdach (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: truba (sh) f, труба (sh) f
• Spanish: clarín (es) m
• Swahili: buruji (sw)
• Swedish: horn (sv) n
• Thai: แตรเดี่ยว (th) (dtraedìeow)

plant of the genus Lamiaceae

• Bulgarian: срещниче (bg) (sreštniče) n
• Finnish: akankaali (fi)

• Japanese: シソ (ja) (shiso)
• Russian: дубровка (ru) (dubróvka) f

anything shaped like a bugle

• Finnish: torvi (fi)
• Japanese: ラッパ (ja) (rappa)

• Russian: раструб (ru) (rástrub) m

Verb

bugle (third-person singular simple present bugles, present participle bugling, simple past and past participle bugled)

1. To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle

Synonyms

• trumpet

Translations

to emulate bugle

• Finnish: toitottaa (fi)

Etymology 2

Late Latin bugulus (“a woman's ornament”).

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

1. a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothes as a decorative trim
   • 1925, P. G. Wodehouse , Sam the Sudden, Random House, London:2007, p. 207.

     With the exception of a woman in a black silk dress with bugles who, incredible as it may seem, had ordered cocoa and sparkling limado simultaneously and was washing down a meal of Cambridge sausages and pastry with alternate draughts of both liquids, the place was empty.

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