bunker

See also: Bunker and búnker

English

Etymology

Unknown, but apparently related to bunk.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbʌŋkɚ/
• Rhymes: -ʌŋkə(r)

Noun

bunker (plural bunkers)

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. (golf) A sand-filled hollow on a golf course.
5. (paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
6. (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?)

7. (Britain, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.
8. A fish, the menhaden.

Derived terms

• bunkering
• bunker fuel

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
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• 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

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

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 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

• bunker down
• bunkerer

Translations

to load a vessel with oil or coal

• Bulgarian: товаря въглища (tovarja vǎglišta)

• Finnish: bunkrata

to hit a golfball into a bunker

• Bulgarian: попадам в пясъчника (popadam v pjasǎčnika)

References

• "Bunker" in: Wolfgang Pfeifer (ed.), Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (2nd ed. 1993).

Anagrams

• Brunke

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French

Etymology 1

Borrowing from German Bunker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buŋ.kɛʁ/, /buŋ.kœʁ/

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers)

1. (military) bunker

Etymology 2

Borrowing from English bunker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœŋ.kœʁ/

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers)

1. (golf) bunker

Further reading

• “bunker” in le 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)

Related terms

• bunkers (fuel oil)

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)

Related terms

• bunkers (fuel oil)

References

• “bunker” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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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