Bug

See also: bug, buug, búg, büg, and bůg

English

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Proper noun

Bug

1. A river flowing northwest 450 miles between Belarus and Poland.
2. A river in Ukraine, flowing 530 miles to the Dnieper estuary.

Alternative forms

• Buh

Translations

river between Belarus and Poland

• Armenian: Բուգ (hy) (Bug)
• Polish: Bug m inan

• Russian: Буг (ru) m (Bug)

Etymology 2

Noun

Bug (plural Bugs)

1. (slang) A Volkswagen Beetle car.

Etymology 3

Noun

Bug (plural Bugs)

1. (slang) A Bugatti car.

Anagrams

• gub

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German buoc (“animal shoulder”), from Old High German buog (“animal shoulder”), from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“arm; shoulder”). The common contemporary meaning bow stems via German Low German from Middle Low German bôch, from Old Saxon bōg. More at bough.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːk/ (standard)
• IPA^(key): /buːx/ (northern and central Germany; becoming rare for this particular word)

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• Rhymes: -uːk, -uːx
• Homophone: Buch (nonstandard)

Noun

Bug m (genitive Buges or Bugs, plural Buge or Büge)

1. (nautical) bow, prow (of a ship)
2. nose (of an aircraft)
3. shoulder joint (of an animal)
4. joist, joint (in woodwork)

Declension

Declension of Bug

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bug	die	Buge
genitive	eines	des	Buges, Bugs	der	Buge
dative	einem	dem	Bug, Buge1	den	Bugen
accusative	einen	den	Bug	die	Buge

¹Now uncommon, see notes

Declension of Bug

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Bug	die	Büge
genitive	eines	des	Buges, Bugs	der	Büge
dative	einem	dem	Bug, Buge1	den	Bügen
accusative	einen	den	Bug	die	Büge

¹Now uncommon, see notes

Antonyms

• Heck (end of a ship)

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Plautdietsch

Noun

Bug f

1. (nautical) bow, prow (of a ship)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buk/

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• Homophones: Bóg, bóg, buk

Proper noun

Bug m inan

1. the Bug river

Declension

declension of Bug

	singular
nominative	Bug
genitive	Bugu
dative	Bugowi
accusative	Bug
instrumental	Bugiem
locative	Bugu
vocative	Bugu

Further reading

• Bug in Polish dictionaries at PWN