buche

See also: Buche, BuChE, buché, bûche, and bûché

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /byʃ/

• Audio (Paris):

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Noun

buche f (plural buches)

1. post-1990 spelling of bûche

Further reading

• “buche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

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Verb

buche

1. inflection of buchen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Italian

Noun

buche f

1. plural of buca

Middle English

Noun

buche

1. Alternative form of bicche

Old French

Noun

buche oblique singular, f (oblique plural buches, nominative singular buche, nominative plural buches)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of boche
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     Li quens Rollant ad la buche sanglente.

     Count Roland had a bloody mouth

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic боукꙑ (buky).

Noun

buche f (plural buchi)

1. letter

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	buche	buchea		buchi	buchile
genitive-dative	buchi	buchii		buchi	buchilor
vocative	buche, bucheo			buchilor

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin bucula, from Vulgar Latin *buccula, from Latin bucca. The form was influenced by Old French bouge (“small bag”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbut͡ʃe/ [ˈbu.t͡ʃe]
• Rhymes: -utʃe
• Syllabification: bu‧che

Noun

buche m (plural buches)

1. (ornithology, anatomy) crop (pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds)
   • 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 1:

     La causa por que el Alicanto no puede volar, no reside en sus alas, que son perfectamente normales, sino en su buche, por la pesadez de los alimentos que ingiere.

     The reason that the Alicanto cannot fly is not to be found in its wings, which are perfectly normal, but in its crop, due to the weight of the foods it eats.

2. (colloquial) belly

   llenar el buche ― to fill one's belly or one's mouth

3. mouthful

   Synonym: trago

Derived terms

• buchón

 

Further reading

• “buche”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10