# bunt
## English
### Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a nasalised variant of butt.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ʌnt
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Noun

bunt (countable and uncountable, plural bunts)
* (nautical) The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
    The bunt of the sail was green.
* A push or shove; a butt.
* (baseball, softball) A ball that has been intentionally hit softly so as to be difficult to field, sometimes with a hands-spread batting stance or with a close-hand, choked-up hand position. No swinging action is involved.
    The bunt was fielded cleanly.
* (baseball, softball) The act of bunting.
    The manager will likely call for a bunt here.
* (aviation) The second half of an outside loop, from level flight to inverted flight.
** (by extension) Any large pilot-commanded pitch-down motion of an aircraft, often producing negative G-forces and resulting in a large negative change in flightpath angle.
* (countable, uncountable) A fungus (Ustilago foetida) affecting the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a foetid dust.
    Synonym: (obsolete) pepperbrand

#### Coordinate terms

* (specific part of a sail): clew
* (baseball, softball): sacrifice bunt, slash bunt, swinging bunt, squeeze, safety squeeze, suicide squeeze

#### Derived terms

* buntline
* drag bunt
* English bunt
* push bunt
* sac bunt

#### Translations

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### Verb

bunt (third-person singular simple present bunts, present participle bunting, simple past and past participle bunted)
* To push with the horns; to butt.
* To spring or rear up.
* (transitive, baseball) To intentionally hit softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
    Jones bunted the ball.
* (intransitive, baseball) To intentionally hit a ball softly with a hands-spread batting stance.
    Jones bunted.
* (intransitive, aviation) To perform (the second half of) an outside loop.
    We had heard that there was an elite group of three or four pilots in Jodhpur called the “Bunt Club”, who had successfully bunted their aircraft—that is, carried out the second half of an outside loop. In the Bunt, you pushed the nose down, past the vertical and still further, until you were in horizontal inverted flight, and came out on the other side and rolled it out.
* (intransitive, nautical) To swell out.
    The sail bunts.
* (rare, of a cat) To headbutt affectionately.
** For quotations using this term, see Citations:bunt.

#### Translations
### Related terms

* bunting

### See also

* bunt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

## German
### Etymology

From Middle High German bunt, probably from Latin punctus, whence English point. Dutch bont seems to have somewhat earlier attestations in the relevant sense, but the phonetic form (b- for p- and Dutch -o- for -u-) could hint at Middle High German origin. It is therefore unsettled which of the two borrowed from which.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʊnt/
* Rhymes: -ʊnt
* Homophone: Bund

### Adjective

bunt (strong nominative masculine singular bunter, comparative bunter, superlative am buntesten)
* (obsolete) spotted, speckled
* multi-colored; colorful; variegated
    Synonym: vielfarbig
* (by extension) mixed, varied, heterogeneous
    ein bunter Haufen ― a motley crew

#### Derived terms

* kunterbunt
* quietschbunt
* zu bunt

### Further reading

* “bunt” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
* “bunt” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
* “bunt” in Duden online

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Middle Low German bunt.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʉnt/

### Noun

bunt m (definite singular bunten, indefinite plural bunter, definite plural buntene)
* bundle, bunch
** 2016, Arnfinn Forness, Død i kort kjole: Braze Blade 2‎, Chayka Förlag, →ISBN:Mellom rammen og madrassen var det et hulrom hvor en skoeske kom til syne. Da Lex forsøkte å dra den ut, gikk den i stykker, og bunter med pengesedler ramlet på gulvet - sammen med en forniklet revolver kaliber .38 og en lyddemper.Between the frame and the mattress there was a cavity where a shoebox came into view. When Lex tried to pull it out it fell to pieces, and bundles of banknotes fell on the floor - together with a nickel-plated .38 calibre revolver and a silencer.

### References

* “bunt” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “bunt” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Middle Low German bunt.

### Noun

bunt m (definite singular bunten, indefinite plural buntar, definite plural buntane)
* bundle, bunch

### References

* “bunt” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Plautdietsch
### Etymology

From Latin punctus (“dotted, speckled”), similar to German Punkt (“dot”).

### Adjective

bunt
* motley, variegated, multicolored
* colorful
* gaudy

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German bund (originally any union, the "mutiny" sense since the 17th century). Compare German Bund.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbunt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -unt
* Syllabification: bunt
* Homophone: Bunt

### Noun

bunt m inan (diminutive buncik)
* (government, politics) mutiny, revolt
* rebellion (attitude of rejecting authority)
    Synonyms: opór, protest, sprzeciw, rewolta, rebelia, powstanie, rozruchy, insurekcja

#### Derived terms

* buntowniczka
* buntownik
* buntować
* zbuntować

#### Related terms

* buntowniczy
* buntowniczo
* buntowniczość

#### Descendants

* → Russian: бунт (bunt)

### References

* ↑ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “bunt”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna

### Further reading

* bunt in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* bunt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Bund (“federation; conspiracy”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bǔnt/

#### Noun

bùnt m (Cyrillic spelling бу̀нт)
* (colloquial) revolt, rebellion

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Bund (“alliance; waistband”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bûnt/

#### Noun

bȕnt m (Cyrillic spelling бу̏нт)
* (regional) bundle
    Synonym: bȕnd

##### Declension
### References

* “bunt”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
* “bunt”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Middle Low German bunt, from Old Saxon *bund, from Proto-Germanic *bundą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɵnt/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bunt c
* a bundle, a bunch (often of broad and flat or long and narrow objects, for example a stack of paper)

#### Related terms

* bunta

### References

* bunt in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bunt in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* (North Wales) IPA: /bɨ̞nt/
* (South Wales) IPA: /bɪnt/

### Noun

bunt
* Soft mutation of punt.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

## Wolof
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bunt
* door