Amagnolia flowerbud FromMiddle English budde ( “ bud, seed pod ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *buddǭ (compareDutch bot ( “ bud ” ) ,German Hagebutte ( “ hip, rosehip ” ) , regionalGerman Butzen ( “ seed pod ” ) , Swedish dialectbodd ( “ head ” ) ), perhaps fromProto-Indo-European *bʰew- ,*bu- ( “ to swell ” ) .
bud (countable anduncountable ,plural buds )
Anewly sprouted leaf orblossom that has not yetunfolded .Synonym: budset After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to producebuds .
( figuratively ) Something that has begun todevelop .breastbuds
A smallrounded body in the process ofsplitting from anorganism , which maygrow into agenetically identical new organism.In this slide, you can see a yeast cell formingbuds .
( usually uncountable, slang ) Potentcannabis taken from theflowering part of the plant (the "bud"), ormarijuana generally.Synonyms: nug ,marijuana ;see also Thesaurus:marijuana ( US , Canada , Australia , slang , usually in theplural ) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.You got anybuds ?
( US , Canada , Australia , slang , uncountable ) Marijuana.Hey bro, want to smoke somebud ?
Aweaned calf in itsfirst year , so called because thehorns are then beginning tobud . ( dated , term of endearment) Apretty young girl .1874 ,Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature :My prettybud was unfolding and I was not there to see it. She was developing so rapidly, I felt I could not be from her a day without missing some sweetness that could never come again.
newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded
Albanian:syth (sq) ,mugull (sq) Arabic:بُرْعُم ( burʕum ) Armenian:բողբոջ (hy) ( boġboǰ ) Assamese:কলি ( koli ) Azerbaijani:tumurcuq (az) ,qönçə (az) Bashkir:бөрө ( börö ) Belarusian:пупы́шка f ( pupýška ) Bengali:কলি (bn) ( koli ) Bulgarian:пъпка (bg) f ( pǎpka ) Catalan:gemma (ca) f ,borró m Cebuano:bayuos (of a flower ),udlot (of a leaf ) Chechen:патар classdd ( patar ) Chinese:Mandarin:芽 (zh) ( yá ) Czech:pupen (cs) m Danish:knop c Dutch:knop (nl) m Esperanto:burĝono Estonian:pung (et) Finnish:silmu (fi) ( of a leaf ) ,nuppu (fi) ,kukannuppu ( of a flower ) French:bourgeon (fr) m ,bouton (fr) m Galician:brocho m ,casulo m ,vanga f ,rebento (gl) m ,gromo (gl) m Georgian:კვირტი ( ḳvirṭi ) German:Knospe (de) f Greek:οφθαλμός (el) m ( ofthalmós ) Guaraní:toky Gujarati:કળી f ( kaḷī ) ( of a flower ) Hawaiian:ʻao liko ( of leaves ) ,muʻo ( of flowers ) Hebrew:נִצָּן (he) m ( nitzan ) Hindi:कली (hi) f ( kalī ) ( of a flower ) Hungarian:bimbó (hu) ,rügy (hu) Ido:burjono (io) Ingrian:pumppu ,pupuška ,pocka Irish:bachlóg (ga) f Italian:germoglio (it) m ,boccio (it) m ,virgulto (it) m ,pollone (it) m ,getto (it) m ,bocciolo (it) m Japanese:芽 (ja) ( め, me ) ,蕾 (ja) ( つぼみ , tsubomi) Khmer:ពន្លក ផ្កា ( pɔɔnlɔɔkphkaa ) Korean:움 (ko) ( um ) ,눈 (ko) ( nun ) ,싹 (ko) ( ssak ) ,봉오리 (ko) ( bong'ori ) Kurdish:Northern Kurdish:gopik (ku) Ladino:kondja Lao:please add this translation if you can Latgalian:pupurs Latin:germen n ,gemma f Latvian:pumpurs (lv) m Lithuanian:pumpuras m Macedonian:пупка f ( pupka ) Malay:tunas ( of leaves ) ,putik ( of flowers ) , Maltese:blanzun m Manchu:ᠠᡵᠰᡠᠨ ( arsun ) Maori:ao ,kao ,toroihi ,nihoniho ( of leaves ) ,please add this translation if you can ( of flowers ) , Marathi:कळी f ( kaḷī ) ( of a flower ) Mongolian:please add this translation if you can Nepali:कोपिला ( kopilā ) Norman:bourgeon m Northern Sami:urbi Norwegian:Bokmål:knopp (no) m Nynorsk:knopp m Ottoman Turkish:طومروجاق ( tomrucak ) ,طومروق ( tomruk ) ,زر ( zırr ) Persian:غنچه (fa) ( ğonče ) ,نوگل ( nowgol ) ,بوژنه (fa) ( bužne ) ( archaic, of a tree ) Polish:pączek (pl) m Portuguese:botão (pt) ,rebento (pt) m Punjabi:ਡੋਡੀ f ( ḍoḍī ) ,ਕਲੀ f ( kalī ) Rarotongan:kao ( of leaves, flowers ) Romanian:boboc (ro) m ,mugure (ro) m Russian:по́чка (ru) f ( póčka ) ,буто́н (ru) m ( butón ) ( of a flower ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:пупољак m ,пуп m Roman:pupoljak (sh) m ,pup (sh) m Slovak:púčik m Slovene:brst m Spanish:botón (es) m ,brote (es) m ,retoño (es) m ,yema (es) f Swedish:knopp (sv) c Tagalog:buko Tahitian:please add this translation if you can ( of leaves ) ,please add this translation if you can ( of flowers ) Telugu:మొగ్గ (te) ( mogga ) ,కలిక (te) ( kalika ) Thai:ตา (th) ( dtaa ) Tibetan:ཁ་འབུས ( kha 'bus ) ,ཐེའུ ( the'u ) Tongan:please add this translation if you can ( of leaves ) ,please add this translation if you can ( of flowers ) Turkish:filiz (tr) ,sürgün (tr) ,tomurcuk (tr) Ukrainian:бру́нька (uk) f ( brúnʹka ) Venetan:buto m ,but (vec) m Vietnamese:búp (vi) ,chồi (vi) Volapük:gnob (vo) ,bledagnob ,floragnob (vo) ,flukagnob Welsh:blaguryn m ,eginyn m White Hmong:please add this translation if you can Zhuang:please add this translation if you can
small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism
bud (third-person singular simple present buds ,present participle budding ,simple past and past participle budded )
( intransitive ) Toform buds .The trees are finally starting tobud .
1611 ,The Holy Bible, [ … ] (King James Version ), London: [ … ] Robert Barker , [ … ] ,→OCLC ,Numbers 17:8 :And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi wasbudded , and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
( intransitive ) Toreproduce bysplitting off buds .Yeast reproduces bybudding .
( intransitive ) Tobegin togrow , or toissue from astock in themanner of abud , as ahorn .( intransitive ) To be like abud in respect toyouth andfreshness , orgrowth andpromise .c. 1590–1592 (date written) ,William Shakespeare , “The Taming of the Shrew ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,(please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals) :Youngbudding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, / Whither away, or where is thy abode?
( transitive ) Toput forth as abud .2013 , Julie Brown,The Brownstone , page263 :What appeared the same to us really wasn't. Every day was different, if we looked closely enough. Like the topiary tree that finallybudded a rose after Terrence died:[ …]
2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, inThe Guardian [1] :Once, he was put on a course of potent hormone pills, coming off them when he woke up one morning to discover he wasbudding breasts
( transitive ) Tograft byinserting abud under thebark of anothertree .to form buds
Armenian:բողբոջել (hy) ( boġboǰel ) Bulgarian:напъпвам (bg) ( napǎpvam ) Catalan:borronar (ca) Cebuano:pamayuos (of a flower ),pangudlot (of a leaf ) Czech:pučet (cs) Dutch:ontluiken (nl) French:bourgeonner (fr) Galician:grilar (gl) ,agromar (gl) ,esbochar ,xermolar (gl) ,brochar ,xenar ,gomar German:knospen (de) Gothic:𐌺𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌽 ( keinan ) Greek:βλασταίνω (el) ( vlastaíno ) Ancient:βλαστάνω ( blastánō ) Hungarian:bimbózik (hu) ,rügyezik (hu) Irish:bachlaigh ( formal ) Italian:germogliare (it) Korean:움트다 ( umteuda ) ,싹트다 ( ssakteuda ) Latin:germinō Maori:rāpupuku ,whakanihoniho ,toroihi Norman:èrbouter Ottoman Turkish:طومروقلانمق ( tomruklanmak ) Persian:غنچه دادن ( ğonče dâdan ) Portuguese:brotar (pt) ,rebentar (pt) Russian:дава́ть почки ( davátʹ počki ) Spanish:florecer (es) ,brotar (es) ,retoñar (es) Swedish:knoppa (sv) Tagalog:mamuko Thai:ผลิ (th) ( plì ) Tày:buốt Welsh:blaguro (cy)
to reproduce by splitting off buds
Back-formation frombuddy .
bud (plural buds )
( informal , Canada ,US ) Buddy , friend.Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend I like to hang out with mybuds on Saturday night.
2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, inThe A.V. Club [2] , archived fromthe original on4 November 2019 :Anna's bestbud , John (Malcolm Cumming), harbors a secret crush on her, which is indicative of the lazier, more derivative portions of the story that simply repeat tropes rather than comment on them.
( informal , chiefly Canada ) Synonym ofguy ,term of address for a man or person. 1946 ,George Johnston ,Skyscrapers in the Mist , page87 :[T]hen he shrugged his shoulders and said, with admirable philosophy: "Well, that's life, ain't it,bud ?"
FromProto-Turkic *būt .
bud (definite accusative budu ,plural budlar )
( now dated ) thigh Synonym: omba gammon rump ( a cut of meat from the rump of an animal ) chicken drumstick From clipping ofEnglish bud get .
bud
( Hong Kong Cantonese ) budget bud
genitive plural ofbouda FromOld Danish buth n , fromOld East Norse buð n , fromProto-Germanic *budą ( “ offer, message ” ) , cognate withSwedish bud ,Dutch bod ,German Gebot .
bud n (singular definite buddet ,plural indefinite bud )
command message offer bid guess bud n (singular definite buddet ,plural indefinite bude )
messenger delivery man ,courier FromDanish boð , fromOld Danish buth , fromOld East Norse buð , fromProto-Germanic *budą .
bud n (definite singular budet ,indefinite plural bud ,definite plural buda or budene )
abid oroffer ( to buy ) acommand ,order acommandment ( e.g. Ten Commandments ) amessage amessenger ,courier “bud” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .bud f (definite singular budi ,indefinite plural buder ,definite plural buderne )
( pre-1917 or dialectal , Southern Møre dialect ) alternative form ofbu Landsmål declension ofbud (strongō -stem) feminine singular plural indefinite definite indefinite definite nominative-accusative bud budi buder buderna dative ― budenne ― budom compound-genitive budar- ― ― ―
Sunnmøre declension ofbud (strongō -stem) feminine singular plural indefinite definite indefinite definite nominative-accusative bud buda bude budinnje dative ― budinnje ― budå compound-genitive buda- ― ― ―
bud f
genitive plural ofbuda bud (plural buds )
( 16th-century, archaic , poetic ) Abribe or reward.bud (third-person singular simple present buds ,present participle budin ,simple past budt ,past participle budt )
( archaic ) Must, had to.FromOld Swedish buþ , fromOld East Norse buð , fromProto-Germanic *budą ( “ offer, message ” ) , cognate withDanish bud ,Dutch bod ,German Gebot .
bud n
amessage (alsobudskap ) acommandment (as in theTen Commandments ; alsobudord ), arule that must be obeyed (alsopåbud ) abid , anoffer (alsoanbud ) amessenger (alsobudbärare ,sändebud ) someone who delivers packages orparcels (alsobudbil ,cykelbud ,paketbud ) bud
Buddhism 1 status as a case is disputed2 in later, non-classical Volapük only