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Bug.

bow, prow (of a ship), nose (of an aircraft)

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Meaning & usage

noun/buːk/standard/buːx/
  1. bow, prow (of a ship), nose (of an aircraft)

    masculine · strong
  2. shoulder joint (of an animal)

    masculine · strong
  3. joist, joint

    masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German buoc (“animal shoulder”), from Old High German buog (“animal shoulder”), from Proto-West Germanic *bōgu, from Proto-Germanic *bōguz (“arm; shoulder”). More at English bough. The common contemporary meaning “bow” (early 17th c.) is a semantic loan from Middle Low German bôch, from Old Saxon bōg, from the same Germanic noun.

name/buːk//bʊk/
  1. Bug (rivers in Eastern Europe)

    definite · proper-noun · strong · usually
Where this word comes from

From Polish Bug and Russian Буг (Bug).

noun/bak/
  1. bug

    masculine · strong
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from English bug.

noun
  1. synonym of Biegung (“curve, place or way of bending”)

    dated · masculine · rare · strong
  2. crease

    dialectal · masculine · obsolete · strong
Where this word comes from

From Middle High German buoc, deverbal from biegen.

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