buc

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

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈbuk]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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• Rhymes: -uk
• Homophone: bug

buc m (plural bucs)

1. an object that has a cavity
2. belly; abdomen

   Synonyms: abdomen, panxa, ventre

3. (aeronautics) fuselage

   Synonym: fuselatge

4. (automotive) the bodywork of a car
5. (nautical) hull
6. (vehicles) the body of a carriage
7. beehive

   Synonyms: arna, casera, rusc

8. (architecture) the shell or outer walls enclosing a house or a staircase

   Synonyms: caixa, caixer

9. (furniture) the cabinetwork enclosing the drawers, either fully or partially
10. (geography) riverbed

    Synonyms: llit, caixer

11. (military, history) cuirass

    Synonym: cuirassa

12. (engineering) the metal coating of a nuclear reactor vessel

• (beehive): apiari

• “buc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “buc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “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

buc

1. alternative form of bouk

buc

1. alternative form of bukke

Probably borrowed from Germanic, from Frankish *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz (“hollow body, cavity”).

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buc m

1. beehive (home of bees)

From Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

buc m

2. buck, male goat

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

• “buk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz.

būc m

2. belly, stomach
3. womb

• 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-West Germanic *būk, from Proto-Germanic *būkaz.

• buuc, būcc

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

būc m

1. belly, stomach
2. a vessel that bulges out, such as a bottle, jug, pitcher, etc.

Strong a-stem:

• 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): /ˈbut͡s/

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• Rhymes: -ut͡s
• Syllabification: buc

Derived from Old Polish bucić się.

buc m pers

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

   Synonyms: dupek, kutas

Borrowed from German Butzemann.

buc m animal

1. (rare) bogeyman (menacing, ghost-like monster in children's stories)

• 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

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

buc

1. (Sursilvan) not