# bund
## English
### Etymology 1

From German Bund (“alliance, league”). Doublet of Bund, bond, and band.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʊnd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊnd

#### Noun

bund (plural bunds)
* A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
* A group of foreign sympathizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Hindustani بند / बंद (band), from Classical Persian بند (band).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʌnd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

bund (plural bunds)
* A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.
** 2024 October 10, “The Buncefield investigation - second progress report”, in Buncefield investigation‎ (PDF), archived from the original on 2006-04-14, page 4:The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds, which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the bund wall.
* (India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
* An embankment.
** 1875, John Thomson, The Straits of Malacca, Indo-China, and China, page 408:It is pleasant to see the Chinese domestics and their families; or native ladies dressed in silks, their glossy hair held in by a broad black velvet band with a spray of pearls in front, being propelled along the bund in their hand-carts; but they are not used among Europeans, excepting after dark.
** 2021 November 17, Mark Rand, “Reconnecting rail freight to S&C quarries”, in RAIL, number 944, page 54:A massive opening in the bund (embankment), specifically there to screen the quarry from view, was needed, along with a Midland Railway-style bridge carrying a historic bridleway.
** 2022 March 23, Philip Haigh, “Network News: Rogue earthwork triggered fatal washout at Carmont”, in RAIL, number 953, page 6:RAIB said it could not find evidence to explain who built the earth bank, known as a bund, or why it was built.

#### Verb

bund (third-person singular simple present bunds, present participle bunding, simple past and past participle bunded)
* To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
** 2020 December 1 (last accessed), “Plant Room Waterproofing & Tanking”, in RIW‎:Plant room floors are generally bunded and/or waterproofed to contain any leaks or spillages of liquids and fluids from faulty tanks, plant or pipe work.

### Etymology 3

Variant of bandh, from Hindi बंध (bandh); see that entry for more. Doublet of etymology 2 above.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʌnd/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

#### Noun

bund (plural bunds)
* (India) Alternative form of bandh

##### Derived terms

* darwaza bund, durwaza bund

### References

* “bund”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* “bund”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “bund” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
* “bund”, in Collins English Dictionary.

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse botn, from Proto-Germanic *butmaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈb̥ɔnˀ]

### Noun

bund c (singular definite bunden, plural indefinite bunde)
* bottom (the lowest part)

#### Derived terms

* bunde ("to touch bottom", i.e. "not out of one's depth")

### Verb

bund
* imperative of bunde

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Bund.

### Noun

bund n (plural bunduri)
* bund