bund

See also: Bund

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʊnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ʊnd

Noun

bund (plural bunds)

1. A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.
2. A group of foreign sympathizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.

Translations

league or confederacy

• Romanian: legatura f, uniune (ro) f

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʌnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

bund (plural bunds)

1. 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 November 14, “The Buncefield investigation - second progress report”, in Buncefield investigation‎^[1] (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.

2. (India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
4. 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)

1. 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^[2]:

     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^(key): /bʌnd/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

bund (plural bunds)

1. (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^(key): [ˈb̥ɔnˀ]

Noun

bund c (singular definite bunden, plural indefinite bunde)

1. bottom (the lowest part)

Inflection

Declension of bund

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	bund	bunden	bunde	bundene
genitive	bunds	bundens	bundes	bundenes

Derived terms

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

Verb

bund

1. imperative of bunde

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bund.

Noun

bund n (plural bunduri)

1. bund

Declension

Declension of bund

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) bund	bundul	(niște) bunduri	bundurile
genitive/dative	(unui) bund	bundului	(unor) bunduri	bundurilor
vocative	bundule		bundurilor