# bud
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: bŭd, IPA: /bʌd/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌd

### Etymology 1

From Middle English budde (“bud, seed pod”), from Proto-Germanic *buddǭ (compare Dutch bot (“bud”), German Hagebutte (“hip, rosehip”), regional German Butzen (“seed pod”), Swedish dialect bodd (“head”)), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”).

#### Noun

bud (countable and uncountable, plural buds)
* A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
    Synonym: budset
    After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds.
* (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
    breast buds
* A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
    In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds.
* (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
    Synonyms: nug, marijuana; see also Thesaurus:marijuana
** (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
    You got any buds?
** (US, Canada, Australia, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
    Hey bro, want to smoke some bud?
* A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
* (dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl.
** 1874, Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, a Popular Journal of General Literature:My pretty bud 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.

##### Derived terms

* abud
* bud borer
* budburst
* buddy
* bud grafting
* budless
* budlet
* budlike
* budling
* bud moth
* budmoth
* bud of promise
* budtender
* budwood
* budworm
* cotton bud
* cotton wool bud
* cuckoobud
* debud
* disbud
* ear bud
* ear-bud
* endbud
* farcy bud
* interbud
* killer green bud
* kind bud
* kine bud
* leaf bud
* leafbud
* lovebud
* Mary-bud
* microbud
* nanobud
* nip in the bud
* odds bud
* ods bud
* redbud
* rosebud
* rum bud
* rumbud
* seed-bud
* tailbud
* taste bud
* tastebud

##### Translations
#### Verb

bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budding, simple past and past participle budded)
* (intransitive) To form buds.
    The trees are finally starting to bud.
** 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 was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.
* (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
    Yeast reproduces by budding.
* (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
* (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
** c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):Young budding virgin, fair and fresh and sweet, / Whither away, or where is thy abode?
* (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
** 2013, Julie Brown, The Brownstone, page 263:What appeared the same to us really wasn't. Every day was different, if we looked closely enough. Like the topiary tree that finally budded a rose after Terrence died: […]
** 2020 September 1, Tom Lamont, “The butcher's shop that lasted 300 years (give or take)”, in The Guardian‎:Once, he was put on a course of potent hormone pills, coming off them when he woke up one morning to discover he was budding breasts
* (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.

##### Derived terms

* budder
* bud off
* bud out
* bud up
* outbud
* rebud

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Back-formation of buddy.

#### Noun

bud (plural buds)
* (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
    I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night.
** 2018 November 27, April Wolfe, “Anna And The Apocalypse is a Holiday-horror Cocktail of Singing, Maiming, and Clichés”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 4 November 2019:Anna's best bud, 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 of guy, term of address for a man or person.
** 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 87:[T]hen he shrugged his shoulders and said, with admirable philosophy: "Well, that's life, ain't it, bud?"

##### Derived terms

* brud
* buddo

##### Translations
### Further reading

* bud on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### See also

* bud-bud-ding-ding

### Anagrams

* BDU, DBU, DUB, Dub, Dub., dub

## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *būt.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

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

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “bud” in Obastan.com.

## Chinese
### Alternative forms

* 筆 / 笔 (bat$^1$)

### Etymology

From clipping of English budget.

### Pronunciation

* Cantonese (Jyutping): bat$^1$
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: bat$^1$
*** Yale: bāt
*** Cantonese Pinyin: bat$^7$
*** Guangdong Romanization: bed$^1$
*** Sinological IPA : /pɐt̚⁵/

### Noun

bud
* (Hong Kong Cantonese) budget

### See also

* budget

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbut]
* Rhymes: -ut

### Noun

bud
* genitive plural of bouda

### Anagrams

* dub

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Danish buth n, from Old East Norse buð n, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“offer, message”), cognate with Swedish bud, Dutch bod, German Gebot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈb̥uð]
* Rhymes: -uð

### Noun

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bud)
* command
* message
* offer
* bid
* guess

#### Related terms

* budskab n
* de ti bud c pl

### Noun

bud n (singular definite buddet, plural indefinite bude)
* messenger
* delivery man, courier

#### Related terms

* budbringer c

### References

* “bud” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Danish boð, from Old Danish buth, from Old East Norse buð, from Proto-Germanic *budą.

### Noun

bud n (definite singular budet, indefinite plural bud, definite plural buda or budene)
* a bid or offer (to buy)
* a command, order
* a commandment (e.g. Ten Commandments)
* a message
* a messenger, courier

#### Derived terms

* budbringer
* budbærer
* postbud
* sendebud

### See also

* bod (Nynorsk)

### References

* “bud” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

bud f (definite singular budi, indefinite plural buder, definite plural buderne)
* (pre-1917 or dialectal, Southern Møre dialect) alternative form of bu

#### Declension
## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbut/
* Rhymes: -ut
* Syllabification: bud
* Homophone: but

### Noun

bud f
* genitive plural of buda

## Scots
### Alternative forms

* budd, bude

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbʌd/

### Noun

bud (plural buds)
* (16th-century, archaic, poetic) A bribe or reward.

### Verb

bud (third-person singular simple present buds, present participle budin, simple past budt, past participle budt)
* (archaic) Must, had to.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish buþ, from Old East Norse buð, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“offer, message”), cognate with Danish bud, Dutch bod, German Gebot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʉːd/
* Audio (Gotland):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʉːd

### Noun

bud n
* a message (also budskap)
* a commandment (as in the Ten Commandments; also budord), a rule that must be obeyed (also påbud)
* a bid, an offer (also anbud)
* a messenger (also budbärare, sändebud)
* someone who delivers packages or parcels (also budbil, cykelbud, paketbud)

#### Derived terms

* hårda bud
* till buds

### References

* bud in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bud in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bud in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Volapük
### Proper noun

bud
* Buddhism

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* budan
* budik