bunker

See also: Bunker and búnker

English

Etymology

The military sense of the word was imported from German into English during World War II. Other senses came from Scots, possibly related to bunk.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌŋkɚ/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -ʌŋkə(r)

Noun

bunker (plural bunkers)

A tank locomotive running bunker first at the head of a train at Llandudno Junction, Wales (sense 4)

A bunker on a golf course (sense 5)

1. (military) A hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
2. (Britain) A large container or bin for storing coal, often built outside in the yard of a house. Now rare, as different types of fuels and energy sources are being used.
3. (nautical) A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine. [Also, by extension] the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container.
4. (rail transport) the coal compartment on a tank engine.
5. (golf) A sand-filled hollow on a golf course.
6. (paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
7. (Scotland) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

8. (Scotland, slang) A kitchen worktop.
9. (Britain, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.
10. Certain fish, menhaden.

Derived terms

• bunkering
• bunker fuel
• bunker oil

Translations

hardened shelter

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: مَخْبَأ‎ m (maḵbaʾ), قَبْو‎ m (qabw)
• Armenian: բունկեր (hy) (bunker)
• Bulgarian: бу́нкер (bg) m (búnker)
• Catalan: búnquer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 掩體 (zh), 掩体 (zh) (yǎntǐ), 地堡 (zh) (dìbǎo)

• Czech: bunkr m
• Dutch: bunker (nl) m
• Esperanto: bunkro
• Finnish: bunkkeri (fi), pommisuoja (fi)
• French: bunker (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bunker (de) m, Schutzkeller m
• Greek: οχυρό (el) n (ochyró), καταφύγιο (el) n (katafýgio)
• Hungarian: bunker (hu)
• Italian: bunker (it) m

• Japanese: バンカー (ja) (bankā), トーチカ (tōchika)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 엄폐호 (ko) (eompyeho), 벙커 (beongkeo), 토치카 (tochika)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: хоргодох байр (horgodoh bajr)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bunker m

  Nynorsk: bunker m

• Portuguese: casamata (pt)
• Russian: бу́нкер (ru) m (búnker)
• Serbo-Croatian: bùnker (sh) m, бу̀нкер m
• Spanish: búnker (es) m
• Swedish: bunker (sv) c
• Thai: หลุมหลบภัย (th)
• Tibetan: འཇིང་རག ('jing rag)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: бу́нкер (uk) m (búnker)
• Vietnamese: hầm (vi)

large container for storing coal

• Bulgarian: бу́нкер (bg) m (búnker)
• Catalan: carbonera f

• Greek: καυσιμαποθήκη f (kafsimapothíki)
• Italian: bunker (it) m
• Swedish: bunker (sv) c

container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine

• Finnish: bunkkeri (fi)
• Greek: καυσιμαποθήκη f (kafsimapothíki)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bunker m

  Nynorsk: bunker m

• Serbo-Croatian: bùnker (sh) m
• Swedish: bunker (sv) c

sand-filled hollow

• Bulgarian: пясъчник m (pjasǎčnik)
• Finnish: hiekkaeste (fi), bunkkeri (fi)
• German: Bunker (de) m
• Italian: bunker (it) m
• Korean: 벙커 (beongkeo)

• Maori: rua kirikiri
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: bunker m

  Nynorsk: bunker m

paintball term

truant — see truant

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} búnker (es) m

Verb

bunker (third-person singular simple present bunkers, present participle bunkering, simple past and past participle bunkered)

1. (nautical) To load a vessel with oil or coal for the engine.
2. (golf) To hit a golf ball into a bunker.
3. (paintball) To fire constantly at a hiding opponent, preventing them from firing at other players and trapping them behind the barrier. This can also refer to eliminating an opponent behind cover by rushing the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.

Derived terms

• bunkerage
• bunkerer
• bunkering

Translations

to load a vessel with oil or coal

• Bulgarian: товаря въглища (tovarja vǎglišta)

• Finnish: bunkrata
• Swedish: bunkra (sv)

to hit a golfball into a bunker

• Bulgarian: попадам в пясъчника (popadam v pjasǎčnika)

References

• “bunker” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “bunker” in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• Brunke

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bunker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbʏŋ.kər/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bun‧ker
• Rhymes: -ʏŋkər

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers, diminutive bunkertje n)

1. bunker (low-lying fortification built into the landscape)

   Synonym: kazemat

2. (golf) bunker (hole with a surface of sand or dirt, placed on a golf course as a barrier)
3. bunker, cargo hold, storage room

Derived terms

• atoombunker
• bunkeren
• rukbunker

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Bunker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buŋ.kɛʁ/, /buŋ.kœʁ/

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers)

1. (military) bunker

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bunker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœŋ.kœʁ/

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers)

1. (golf) bunker

Further reading

• “bunker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

bunker m

1. indefinite plural of bunke

Etymology 2

From English bunker

Noun

bunker m (definite singular bunkeren, indefinite plural bunkere, definite plural bunkerne)

1. bunker (storage for fuel on a ship)
2. bunker (reinforced shelter)
3. bunker (on a golf course)

Derived terms

• bunkerolje
• bunkre

Related terms

• bunkers (fuel oil, military bunker)

References

• “bunker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English bunker

Noun

bunker m (definite singular bunkeren, indefinite plural bunkerar, definite plural bunkerane)

1. bunker (storage for fuel on a ship)
2. bunker (reinforced shelter)
3. bunker (on a golf course)

Derived terms

• bunkre

Related terms

• bunkers (fuel oil, militsry bunker)

References

• “bunker” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Portuguese

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkeres)

1. bunker

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bǔnker/
• Hyphenation: bun‧ker

Noun

bùnker m (Cyrillic spelling бу̀нкер)

1. bunker (hardened shelter)
2. bunker (container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine)

Declension

Declension of bunker

	singular	plural
nominative	bunker	bunkeri
genitive	bunkera	bunkera
dative	bunkeru	bunkerima
accusative	bunker	bunkere
vocative	bunkeru	bunkeri
locative	bunkeru	bunkerima
instrumental	bunkerom	bunkerima

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Spanish

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers)

1. bunker