bonde

From Old Danish bondæ, from Old Norse bóndi, originally a present participle of bo (“to live”).

• IPA^(key): /bonə/, [ˈb̥ɔnə]
• Homophone: bunde

bonde c (singular definite bonden, plural indefinite bønder)

1. farmer
2. peasant
3. countryman
4. (chess) pawn
5. (card games) jack, knave

Chess pieces in Danish · skakbrikker (skak + brikker) (layout · text)
konge	dronning	tårn	løber	springer, hest	bonde

Playing cards in Danish · kort, spillekort (layout · text)
es	toer	treer	firer	femmer	sekser	syver
otter	nier	tier	knægt, bonde	dame, dronning	konge	joker

• “bonde” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “bonde” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

bonde

1. (dated or formal) singular past subjunctive of binden

• boden

From Swedish bonde.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbonde/, [ˈbo̞nde̞]
• Rhymes: -onde
• Syllabification^(key): bon‧de
• Hyphenation^(key): bon‧de

bonde (slang)

1. countryside

Ultimately from Gaulish *bunda, feminine form of *bundos (“bottom”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-, *bʰudʰmḗn.^[1] Cognate with Piedmontese bondon.

• IPA^(key): /bɔ̃d/
• Homophone: bondes

bonde f (plural bondes)

1. a plug, a bung

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

• bedon

From Old English bōnda, from Old Norse bóndi, from Proto-Germanic *būwandz.

• bande, bounde, beonde, bond

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ(ː)nd(ə)/

bonde (plural bondes or bonden)

1. tenant farmer, bond
2. husband, head of household
3. servant, retainer

• husbonde

• English: bond
• Scots: bund, bond

• “bō̆nd(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 April 2018.

bonde

1. The status of being a tenant.
2. The status of being subservient; subservience

• “bō̆nd(e, n.(2) & adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 April 2018.

bonde

1. alternative form of band

From Old Norse búandi, bóndi.

• IPA^(key): /¹bʊnːə/, /¹bʊndə/
• Rhymes: -¹ʊnːə

bonde m (definite singular bonden, indefinite plural bønder, definite plural bøndene)

1. farmer

   Synonyms: gårdbruker, gardbruker

2. (chess) pawn

• “bonde” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• bóndi (dialectal)

From Old Norse bóndi, a contraction of búandi, present participle of búa. Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic bóndi, Swedish and Danish bonde, and English bond.

• IPA^(key): /²bundə/, /²bunːə/
• Rhymes: -undə, -unːə

bonde m (definite singular bonden, indefinite plural bønder, definite plural bøndene)

1. a farmer

   Synonym: gardbrukar

   Talet på bønder har gått ned. ― The number of farmers has gone down.

2. (chess) pawn

• “bonde” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from English bond.^[1] The tramway sense is said to have originated from coupons sold as transport tickets which looked liked bonds issued at the time.^[2]

• Rhymes: -õd͡ʒi
• Hyphenation: bon‧de

bonde m (plural bondes)

1. (Brazil, archaic, economics) bond
2. (Brazil) tramway, streetcar, cable car

   Synonym: (Portugal) elétrico

3. (Brazil, slang) group of friends; gang

From Proto-Bantu [Term?].

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bonde class V (plural mabonde class VI)

1. valley (elongated depression between hills or mountains)

From Old Norse bóndi.

• IPA^(key): /²bʊnːdɛ/

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bonde c

1. a farmer

   Bonden plöjde sin åker

   The farmer plowed his field

2. (chess) a pawn

   slå bonden

   capture the pawn

3. (obsolete) a husband

• bonna-
• husbonde

• → Finnish: bonde

• dräng

Chess pieces in Swedish · schackpjäser (schack + pjäser) (layout · text)
kung	dam, drottning	torn	löpare	springare, häst	bonde

• bonde in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bonde in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bonde in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• Boden, boden