buc

From Frankish *būk (“belly”), from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“belly, stomach”). Compare Spanish buque (“vessel”) and Italian buco (“hole”).

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈbuk/
• Rhymes: -uk
• Homophone: bug

buc m (plural bucs)

1. an object that has a cavity
2. belly; abdomen
3. (aeronautics) fuselage

   Synonym: fuselatge

4. (automotive) the bodywork of a car
5. (nautical) hull
6. (vehicles) the body of a carriage
7. beehive
8. (architecture) the shell or outer walls enclosing a house or a staircase
9. (furniture) the cabinetwork enclosing the drawers, either fully or partially
10. (geography) riverbed
11. (military, historical) cuirass
12. (engineering) The metal coating of a nuclear reactor vessel

• (abdomen): abdomen, panxa, ventre
• (beehive): arna, casera, rusc
• (cuirass): cuirassa
• (riverbed): llit

• (beehive): apiari

• “buc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “buc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “buc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “buc” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Possibly from a Latin root buculus (“young bull, ox, steer”). Compare French bugle, beugle.

buc m

1. small ox

Compare Catalan and Occitan buc. Probably of Germanic origin.

buc m

1. beehive

• alviar

buc

1. (Classical K'iche') bird

buc m

1. Alternative form of boc

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

From Old English būc.

buc (plural bucs)

1. Alternative form of bouk

From Old English bucca.

buc

1. Alternative form of bukke

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buc m

1. beehive (home of bees)

From Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

buc m

1. buck, male goat

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: boc, buc
  • Dutch: bok (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: bók
  • West Flemish: buk

• “buk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *būkaz.

būc m

1. belly, stomach
2. womb

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Dutch: buuc
  • Dutch: buik
    • Afrikaans: buik
    • Negerhollands: buk, big, bik
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: buk
  • Limburgish: boek
  • West Flemish: buuk
  • Zealandic: buuk

• “būk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *būkaz.

• buuc, būcc

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

būc m

1. belly, stomach
2. jug, pitcher, container

• būcful

• Middle English: bouk
  • English: bouk
  • Scots: bouk, bowk

From Proto-West Germanic *bukk (“male deer”).

• IPA^(key): /buk/

buc m

1. Alternative form of bucc (“buck”)

• IPA^(key): /but͡s/

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• Rhymes: -ut͡s
• Syllabification: buc

From Old Polish bucić się.

buc m pers

1. (colloquial, derogatory) jerk, douche, arrogant person

   Synonyms: dupek, kutas

Borrowed from German Butzemann.

buc m anim

1. (rare) bogeyman

• buc in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• buc in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unknown. Possibly a substrate word, perhaps from Dacian *bukas, akin to Albanian byk (or alternatively derived from it). May be linked to Polish buch.

• IPA^(key): [buk]

buc m (plural buci)

1. chaff

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Sutsilvan) betg
• (Sursilvan) buca
• (Sutsilvan) betga

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buc

1. (Sursilvan) not