bocht

• IPA^(key): /bɔxt/

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• Hyphenation: bocht
• Rhymes: -ɔxt

From Middle Dutch bocht, from Old Dutch *buht, from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz. Equivalent to buigen (“to bend, bow”) +‎ -t (“verbal noun”).

bocht f or m (plural bochten, diminutive bochtje n)

1. a bend, curve, inflection, something not straight
2. a twist, change
3. a bight, broad curvature of a coastline, bay

• Berbice Creole Dutch: boktu
• → Papiamentu: bògt
• → Sranan Tongo: boktu
  • → Aukan: bokutu
  • → Caribbean Javanese: boktu

From Middle Dutch bocht, becht, bacht (“garbage, dung, shit”), possibly from Proto-West Germanic *buggjan (“to buy”), though this is at odds with the last two forms.^[1]

bocht m or n (uncountable)

1. (now Belgium) junk, rubbish
2. junk, booze, moonshine
3. (Netherlands) disgusting drink, trash, rubbish

   Hij zei dat de bocht die hij ons gaf whiskey was, maar het smaakte er niet naar.

   He said that the foul drink he gave us was whiskey, but it didn't taste like it.

From Old Irish bocht (“poor”), from Proto-Celtic *boxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰogtós, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to break”).

• IPA^(key): /bˠɔxt̪ˠ/^[1][2][3]

bocht (genitive singular masculine boicht, genitive singular feminine boichte, plural bochta, comparative boichte)

1. poor (of circumstances, of quality, condition, expressing pity, sympathy, expressing dislike, contempt)
2. stingy
3. (nominalized, masculine) poor person

• daibhir
• dealbh

• béal bocht
• bochtaineacht

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bocht”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /boxt/

From Proto-Celtic *boxtos, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰogtós, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to break”).

bocht

1. poor
2. (Christianity) of one who has taken a vow of poverty

• Irish: bocht
• Manx: boght
• Scottish Gaelic: bochd

bocht m or f

1. poor person, pauper
2. the poor (in a collective sense)

As a masculine noun:

As a feminine noun:

• Manx: boght

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

·bocht

1. passive singular preterite of bongaid

• IPA^(key): [boxt]
• (Central Scots) IPA^(key): [bot], [boʔ]
• (South Scots) IPA^(key): [bʌu(x)t]

bocht

1. simple past tense and past participle of buy