bod

Clipping of Tibetan བོད་སྐད་ (bod skad).

bod

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2/T & ISO 639-3 language code for Tibetan.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Tibetan terms

Clipping of body. The sense of “person” may alternatively derive from Scottish Gaelic bodach (“old man”) via Scots.^[1]

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /bɒd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɑd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Rhymes: -ɒd

bod (plural bods)

1. (slang) The body.

   Fred likes to keep his bod in shape.

   • 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 129:

     We are talking about a major bod here, and I don't care if half of it is plastic.

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Chora's Den, Citadel:

     Harkin: Hey there, sweetheart. You looking for some fun? 'Cause I gotta say that soldier getup looks real good on that bod of yours.

2. (slang) A person.
   • 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 113:

     He went to the upstairs lookout and peered down upon the political bod, whom he recognised as the fatso who had given a thin, starving speech one lunch-time to the new High School students[.]

   • 2005, Richard Templar, The Rules of Management, page 73:

     There were cameras covering car parks, offices, corridors and storage areas in the basement. Result. The security bods started watching as if their lives depended on it.

   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and Facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:

     People such as William James and the Stephensons (with whom he collaborated) may have been the movers and shakers of the early railways, but there was other, less exalted bods who constructed all the paraphernalia - including stations.

• bod veal

• D.O.B., ODB, dob, OBD, BDO, DOB, d.o.b., DoB

Inherited from Old Czech bod, from Proto-Slavic *bodъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbot]

• Audio:

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bod m inan

1. (geometry) point
2. (temperature) point

   bod mrazu ― freezing point

3. item (of an agenda)
4. (sports) point, mark
5. stab
   • 1866, Josef Bojislav Pichl, transl., Don Quijote de la Mancha‎^[1], Praha: I. L. Kober, translation of original by Miguel de Cervantes, page 34:

     Na moutě duchu! zvolal po těch slovích Sancho; ať nedím tři tisíce šlehů, ale ani tři si nedám, jako nedal bych si tři body dýkou.

     "By all that's good," exclaimed Sancho at this, "I'll just as soon give myself three stabs with a dagger as three, not to say three thousand, lashes.

• “bod”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bod”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “bod”, in Akademický slovník současné češtiny, 2012–2025, slovnikcestiny.cz
• “bod”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

• dob

• IPA^(key): /boːˀð/, [ˈb̥oˀð], [ˈb̥oðˀ]
• Rhymes: -oːð

From Old Danish bōð, from Old East Norse bóð, from Proto-Germanic *bōþō (“building, dwelling”), cognate with Old West Norse búð, English booth, German Bude.

bod c (singular definite boden, plural indefinite boder)

1. booth, stall
2. shop

From Old Norse bót, from Proto-Germanic *bōtō (“improvement, atonement”), cognate with Swedish bot, English boot, German Buße, Dutch boete. Doublet of bøde.

bod c (singular definite boden, not used in plural form)

1. fine
2. penance

Now especially in the phrases gøre bod, råde bod på.

• mandebod (“wergeld”)
• bodsgang

• “bod” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch bot, from Old Dutch *bot, from Proto-West Germanic *bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą.

• IPA^(key): /bɔt/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: bod
• Rhymes: -ɔt

bod n (plural boden, diminutive bodje n)

1. order
2. offer

• → Sranan Tongo: bot

From English bird.

• IPA^(key): /bʌd/, /bod/

bod

1. bird

• De Nyew Testament‎^[2], Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025

From Middle Irish bot (“tail; penis”), from Proto-Celtic *buzdos (“tail, penis”) (cf. Welsh both (“hub”), Breton bod (“bush, shrub”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosdʰos (“piece of wood”). For the archaic sense, compare English dick (“mean person, jerk, etc.”).

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠɔd̪ˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠʌd̪ˠ/

bod m (genitive singular boid, nominative plural boid)

1. penis

   Synonym: cuideog (euphemistic)

2. (archaic) churl, boor, lout

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bod”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bot”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 47

From Old West Norse boð, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“offer, message”), cognate with Icelandic boð, Dutch bod, German Gebot.

• IPA^(key): /bɔː/, /bɔːd/

bod n (definite singular bodet, indefinite plural bod, definite plural boda)

1. message

   Synonym: melding

   Eg kjem med bod.

   I come with a message.

2. offer
3. (in compounds) messenger, delivery man

   Postbod ― Mailman

• bodskap
• tilbod
• postbod

• melding

• “bod” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *bod. Cognate with Old Norse boð.

• IPA^(key): /bod/

bod n (nominative plural bodu)

1. a command, mandate, precept, order; bidding

Strong a-stem:

• forbod
• ġebod

• Middle English: bod
  • English: bode

Borrowed from French baud, named after French telegraph engineer and inventor Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔt/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔt
• Syllabification: bod
• Homophone: bot

bod m inan

1. (computing, telecommunications) baud

• bod in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Middle Irish bot (“tail; penis”), from Proto-Celtic *buzdos (“tail, penis”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *gʷosdʰos (“piece of wood”).

• IPA^(key): /pɔt/

bod m (genitive singular boid, plural boid)

1. (anatomy) penis

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “bod”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[3], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bot”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bodъ.

• IPA^(key): /bôːd/

bȏd m inan (Cyrillic spelling бо̑д)

1. sting (with a needle or a sharp object)
2. (embroidery, knitting) stitch
3. (sports) point

   Synonym: poen

• bȍsti

Borrowed from English baud.

• IPA^(key): /bôːd/

bȏd m inan (Cyrillic spelling бо̑д)

1. (computing) baud

From Old Swedish boþ, from Old Norse bóð (Compare Old West Norse búð), from Proto-Germanic *bōþō (“dwelling”).

• IPA^(key): /buːd/

bod c

1. a shed

   vedbod

   woodshed

2. a small shop
   1. a stall

      bodar på en julmarknad

      stalls at a Christmas market

• butik
• skjul

• bod in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bod in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bod in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• bod in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Borrowed from German Brot, English bread and Dutch brood.

bod (nominative plural bods)

1. bread

From Middle Welsh bot, from Proto-Brythonic *bod, from Proto-Celtic *butā (cf. Cornish bos, Breton bout), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to be, become”); all the b- initial forms are from the same root. The vowel-initial forms as well as sy(dd) are from Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be”).

The present-progressive forms with yd- (ydwyf, etc.), and hence the colloquial present-affirmative forms with d- (dw, etc.), are from the affirmative particle yd.^[1] Colloquial affirmative forms with r- (rwyt, roeddwn, etc.) are from the affirmative particle yr. Colloquial negative forms with d- (dydw, does, doeddwn, etc.) are from the negative particle nid.

The third-person singular present mae originally meant ‘here is’ and is from the same source as yma (“here”) plus Proto-Celtic *esti. The third-person plural maent (colloquial maen) is derived from the singular by adding the third-person plural verb ending -nt.

Counterfactual forms such as petaswn and taswn are from univerbation with pe (“if”) +‎ yd (affirmative particle).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /boːd/
• Rhymes: -oːd

bod (first-person singular present wyf)

1. to be
2. there be (there is, there are etc.)

   Beth sy'n bod arno fe? ― What's the matter with him? (literally, “what's there being on him?”)

3. (auxiliary)
   1. Used with yn to form various tenses with progressive or stative meaning
   2. Used with wedi to form various tenses with perfect meaning
4. that... is, that... are, etc. (personal forms: (fy) mod i, (dy) fod di, (ei) fod e/o, (ei) bod hi, (ein) bod ni, (eich) bod chi, (eu) bod nhw)

   Dw i’n meddwl (ei) bod hi’n ddoniol. ― I think that she’s funny.

   Mae hi’n meddwl (fy) mod i’n dod. ― She thinks that I’m coming.

   Roedd Eleri yn dweud (dy) fod di’n sâl. ― Eleri was saying you were ill.

• Bod is the primary auxiliary verb in Welsh, used to form a great number of periphrastic tenses; see Appendix:Welsh conjugation.
• The two conditional tense stems bydd- and bas- can be opted between freely, although bas- is more common when used alongside a counterfactual in (pe) tas-.
• The preterite is relatively rare and mostly interchangeable with the imperfect.
• In the tenses given here, all forms of bod must be linked to a noun, adjective or verb with yn, wedi, or some other similar particle.
• The existential sense ("there is") uses the distinct interrogative form oes and negative does, however the affirmative mae is the same as the main verb, as are all non-present tenses.
• Bod introduces a subordinate clause only when the corresponding main clause would begin with a form of bod (the verb "to be") in the present or imperfect tense (including perfect and pluperfect clauses with wedi).
• Nouns are preceded with bod, or fod if the preceding verb is conjugated.

• bod am (“to want”)
• bod gan, bod gyda (indicates possession)
• darbod (“take care of”, verb)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bod”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies