bugle

See also: bügle

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːɡəl

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman, from Old French bugle, from Latin buculus (“young bull; ox; steer”).

A soldier playing a bugle.

Noun

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. A plant in the family Lamiaceae grown as a ground cover, , and other plants in the genus Ajuga.
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) f (trǎba), ловджийски рог (lovdžijski rog)
• Catalan: clarí (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 軍號／军号 (zh) (jūnhào), 军号 (zh) (jūnhào), 號角／号角 (zh) (hàojiǎo), 号角 (zh) (hàojiǎo)

• Chuukese: rappwa
• Czech: trubka (cs) f
• Dutch: bugel (nl) m, flügelhorn
• Finnish: merkkitorvi, merkinantotorvi, signaalitorvi
• French: clairon (fr) m, clairons (fr) m pl
• German: Bügelhorn (de) n
• Greek: σάλπιγγα (el) f (sálpinga)
• Hindi: बिगुल (hi) m (bigul)
• Hungarian: kürt (hu), harsona (hu)
• Irish: stoc m, buabhall m
• Japanese: ラッパ (ja) (rappa), 喇叭 (ja) (らっぱ, rappa), ビューグル (byūguru)
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• Latgalian: strumpe
• Latin: bucina f
• Latvian: taure
• Maori: piukara, tētere
• Persian: شیپور (fa) (šeypur)
• Polish: róg (pl)
• Portuguese: clarim (pt)
• Russian: рог (ru) m (rog), рожо́к (ru) m (rožók), горн (ru) m (gorn)
• Scottish Gaelic: dùdach f
• Serbo-Croatian: truba (sh) f, труба f
• Spanish: clarín m
• Swahili: buruji
• Swedish: horn (sv) n
• Tagalog: klarin
• Thai: แตรเดี่ยว (dtraedìeow)

plant of the genus Ajuga

• Bulgarian: срещниче n (sreštniče)
• Czech: zběhovec m
• Finnish: akankaali (fi)
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• Italian: bugola f
• Latin: būgillō m
• Russian: дубро́вка (ru) f (dubróvka)

anything shaped like a bugle

• Finnish: torvi (fi)
• Japanese: ラッパ (ja) (rappa)
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• Russian: ра́струб (ru) m (rástrub)

Further reading

• Bugle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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

Synonyms

• trumpet

Translations

to emulate bugle

• Czech: troubit (cs)
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• Finnish: toitottaa (fi)

Etymology 2

(deprecated template usage) [etyl]  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.

Translations

tubular glass or plastic bead

• Bulgarian: мънисто (bg) n (mǎnisto)
• Japanese: ビューグル (byūguru)
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Adjective

bugle (comparative more bugle, superlative most bugle)

1. (obsolete) jet-black
   • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     Bugle eyeballs.

Etymology 3

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English

Noun

bugle (plural bugles)

1. A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of E. Phillips to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “bugle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• bulge

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byɡl/

Noun

bugle f (plural bugles)

1. bugle, bugleweed

References

• “bugle”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin būculus (“bullock”).

Noun

bugle oblique singular, m (oblique plural bugles, nominative singular bugles, nominative plural bugle)

1. bugle (type of horn, often used in battle)

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(Can we date this quote?) Fouke le Fitz Waryn, ed. E. J. Hathaway, P. T. Ricketts, C. A. Robson and A. D. Wilshere, ANTS 26-28 (1975).

1. • oy un chevaler soner un gros bugle

     (I) hear a knight sounding a large bugle

Descendants

• English: bugle (through Anglo-Norman)
• French: beugler