Bug

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bug"

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Etymology 1

From the Slavic hydronym *bugъ / *buga.

Proper noun

the Bug

1. An East European river which flows northwest 450 miles through Belarus, Poland and Ukraine into the Baltic Sea. (Western Bug).
2. A river in Ukraine (Southern Bug), flowing 530 miles to the Dnieper estuary.

Alternative forms

• Buh

Derived terms

• Southern Bug

Translations

river between Belarus and Poland

• Armenian: Բուգ (hy) (Bug)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 布格河

• Marathi: बुग f (bug)
• Polish: Bug (pl) m inan
• Russian: Буг (ru) m (Bug)
• Ukrainian: Буг m (Buh)

Etymology 2

Noun

Bug (plural Bugs)

1. (US, slang) A Volkswagen Beetle car.

   Synonym: Beetle

Etymology 3

Noun

Bug (plural Bugs)

1. (slang) A Bugatti car.

Anagrams

• GBU, gub

German

Etymology 1

From Middle High German buoc (“animal shoulder”), from Old High German buog (“animal shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōgu, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“arm; shoulder”). More at bough.

The common contemporary meaning “bow” (early 17th c.) is a semantic loan from Middle Low German bôch, from Old Saxon bōg, from the same Germanic noun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːk/ (standard)

  • Audio:

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• IPA^(key): /buːx/ (northern and central Germany, becoming rare for this word)
• Rhymes: -uːk, -uːx
• Homophones: buk (standard), Buch (regional)

Noun

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

1. (nautical, aviation) bow, prow (of a ship), nose (of an aircraft)

   Antonym: Heck

2. (hunting, veterinary medicine) shoulder joint (of an animal)
3. (carpentry) joist, joint

Declension

Declension of Bug [masculine, strong]

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

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• Gebüge n
• Schuss vor den Bug

Etymology 2

From Middle High German buoc, deverbal from biegen.

Pronunciation

• Like etymology 1 above.

Noun

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

1. (dated, rare) synonym of Biegung (“curve, place or way of bending”)
   • 1930, Otto Zarek, Begierde – Roman einer Weltstadtjugend, Paul Zsolnay, page 107:

     Das Mädchen blickte sich im Bug der dunklen Straße noch einmal um; [...].

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (obsolete or dialectal) crease

Declension

Declension of Bug [masculine, strong]

	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 rare, see notes.

Descendants

• → Czech: puk
• → Slovak: puk

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English bug.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bak/

• Audio:

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• Homophones: back, Back

Noun

Bug m (strong, genitive Bugs, plural Bugs)

1. (computing) bug

   Synonyms: Fehler, Programmierfehler

Declension

Declension of Bug [masculine, strong]

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

Etymology 4

From Polish Bug and Russian Буг (Bug).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːk/, /bʊk/

Proper noun

der Bug m (proper noun, strong, usually definite, definite genitive des Bugs or des Bug)

1. Bug (rivers in Eastern Europe)

Further reading

• “Bug, Schiffsvorderteil” in Duden online
• “Bug, Programmierfehler” in Duden online
• “Bug, Fluss in Osteuropa” in Duden online
• “Bug” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Bug” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.

Plautdietsch

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bug.

Noun

Bug f

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

Polish

Bug

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuk/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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

Etymology 1

Derived from Gothic 𐌱𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (biugan). Compare Russian Буг (Bug). Doublet of biga and Boh.

Proper noun

Bug m inan (related adjective bużański)

1. Bug, Western Bug (a river in Belarus, Poland and Ukraine)

Declension

Declension of Bug

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Proper noun

Bug f

1. genitive plural of Buga

References

• Spring, P. (2015). Great Walls & Linear Barriers. United Kingdom: Pen & Sword Books

Further reading

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