Danish–English dictionary

brøl

The deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise.

brøle

To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.

brønd

A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.

brud

An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.

brude-

Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial.

brudedreng

A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age. [from 20th c.]

brudekiste

The clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects or that is given to her for her wedding and married life, especially a traditional or formal set of these.

brudepige

A woman who attends a bride during her wedding ceremony, as part of the main wedding party.

brudesvend

A young male attendant at a wedding, generally between five and ten years of age. [from 20th c.]

brudeudstyr

The clothes and linen, etc., that a bride collects or that is given to her for her wedding and married life, especially a traditional or formal set of these.

brudgom

A man in the context of his own wedding; one who is going to marry or has just been married.

brugbar

Fair; acceptable; okay.

bruge

To consume, to use up (time).

bruger

(computing) A person who uses a computer or a computing network, especially a person who has received a user account.

brugergrænseflade

(computing) The connection between a user and a machine.

brugernavn

(computing) A name or string of characters used as a person's identification on an individual computer system.

brugervejledning

A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.

brugs

A shop or store that sells groceries; a grocery store.

brugsanvisning

A booklet that instructs on the usage of a particular machine or product.

brummen

A humming noise from something moving very fast.

brun

Having a brown colour.

brunch

A meal eaten later in the day than breakfast and earlier than lunch, and often consisting of typical foods from both of those meals.

brune

(transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.

Brunei

A country in Southeast Asia. Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan.

brunette

A person, especially female, with brown hair.

Bruno

(countable) A en given name.

brunst

(uncountable) A condition in which a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.

Brunsvig

Synonym of Braunschweig: a city in Lower Saxony, Germany.

bruse

To sputter or hiss.

brusebad

An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

brusen

A spluttering or hissing sound.

brusende

(of a liquid) Giving off bubbles; fizzy.

bruser

An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.

brushane

Philomachus pugnax (syn. Calidris pugnax), a gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; specifically, a male of the species which develops a distinctive ruff of feathers and ear tufts during mating season (the female is called a reeve).

brushoved

(pejorative) One who angers easily or goes in search of arguments or fights.

brusk

(skeleton, uncountable) A usually translucent and somewhat elastic, dense, nonvascular connective tissue found in various forms in the larynx and respiratory tract, in structures such as the external ear, and in the articulating surfaces of joints. It composes most of the skeleton of vertebrate embryos, being replaced by bone during ossification in the higher vertebrates.

brutal

Bestial; lacking human sensibility

brutto

(of an amount) Excluding any deductions; including all associated amounts.

bruttopris

The total amount (of goods, money, etc) before taxes, expenses, exceptions, tares, or similar deductions are subtracted.

bryde

(intransitive, of a voice) To alter in type due to emotion or strain: in men, generally to go up, in women, sometimes to go down; to crack.

bryde op

(transitive) To break open or crush to small pieces by impact or stress.

bryde sammen

(transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.

bryder

(wrestling) A person who wrestles.

brydes ned

(intransitive) To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality.

brydning

(physics) The turning or bending of any wave, such as a light or sound wave, when it passes from one medium into another of different optical density.

brygge

(intransitive) To attend to the business, or go through the processes, of brewing or making beer.

brygger

Someone who brews, or whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors.

bryggeri

A building where beer is produced.

bryggers

(archaic) A small room, next to a kitchen, where washing up and other domestic chores are done.

bryllup

A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage.

bryllupsdag

(especially) Such a day that commemorates a wedding.

bryllupsrejse

A trip taken by a newly married couple during this period.

brynje

(uncountable, history) Armour consisting of metal rings linked together.

brysk

Rudely abrupt; curt, unfriendly.

bryst

A box, now usually a large strong box with a secure convex lid.

brystholder

An item of clothing, usually underwear worn to support the breasts. [from 1920s]

brystværn

In fortification: an indented parapet, formed by a series of rising members called cops or merlons, separated by openings called crenelles or embrasures, the soldier sheltering himself behind the merlon while he fires through the embrasure or through a loophole in the battlement.

brystvorte

(anatomy) The projection of a mammary gland from which, on female therian mammals, milk is secreted. [from 16th c.]

bud

An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work.

Budapest

The capital and the most populous city of Hungary.

Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama, the Nepali prince and Indian philosopher and teacher who founded Buddhism.

buddhisme

The religion or philosophy derived from the teachings of Gautama Buddha.

buddhist

A practitioner of the religion and philosophy of Buddhism.

buddhistisk

Of, relating to, or practicing Buddhism.

budskab

A communication, or what is communicated; any concept or information conveyed.

bue

(transitive, figurative) To exercise powerful or controlling influence over; to bend, figuratively; to turn; to incline.

bueskydning

(uncountable) The practice or sport of shooting arrows with a bow.

bueskytte

One who shoots an arrow from a bow or a bolt from a crossbow.

buffer

(chemistry) A solution used to stabilize the pH (acidity) of a liquid, such as by resisting a change in pH when an acid or alkali is added.

bug

(obsolete) The fat surrounding the belly. [mid 16th c. – late 17th c.]

bughule

(anatomy) The cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the viscera; often restricted in humans to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvic cavity. [from early 17th c.]

bugsere

(transitive) To tow by tugboat.

bugspytkirtel

(anatomy) A gland near the stomach which secretes a fluid into the duodenum to assist with food digestion.

bugt

(geography) A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.

bugtaleri

The art of projecting one's voice without moving the lips so that it appears to come from another source, such as a dummy.

bugtalerkunst

The art of projecting one's voice without moving the lips so that it appears to come from another source, such as a dummy.

buk

(childish) A male goat.

Bukarest

The capital city of Romania.

buket

A bunch of cut flowers.

bukke

To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

buks

(chiefly, North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Philippines) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. [from 19th c.]

buksbom

(countable, uncountable) The box tree, Buxus sempervirens.

bukser

(chiefly, North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Philippines) An outer garment that covers the body from the waist downwards, covering each leg separately, usually as far as the ankles; trousers. [from 19th c.]

buktaler

A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.

bule

Local swelling in a tissue area, especially skin, often due to injury.

Bulgarer

(countable) A native of Bulgaria.

Bulgarere

(countable) A native of Bulgaria.

Bulgarien

A country in Southeast Europe. Official name: Republic of Bulgaria. Capital and largest city: Sofia.

bulgarsk

Relating to Bulgaria, its people, or the Bulgarian language.

bulldozer

A tractor with caterpillar tracks and an attached blade for pushing earth and building debris for coarse preliminary surface grading, demolishing building structures, etc.

bullet

(typography) A printed symbol in the form of a solid circle, “•”, often used to mark items in a list.

bump

The sound of a dull impact.

bums

(dermatology) An inflamed (raised and colored) spot on the surface of the skin that is usually painful and fills with pus.

bund

The lowest part of anything.

bundesligagarn

A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.

bundesligahår

A hairstyle where the hair is kept short on the top and sides and long at the back.

bundfald

The sediment settled at the bottom of a liquid; the lees in a container of unfiltered wine.

bundkort

(computer hardware) The primary circuit board of a personal computer, containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouse and monitor, together with slots for other devices.

bundstreg

A line drawn or printed beneath text; the character _.

bundstykke

(military, mechanical engineering) A sliding mechanism to chamber and unchamber a cartridge in a firearm.

bundt

A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

bundvand

(uncountable) The water accumulated in the bilge; bilge water.

bungalow

A thatched or tiled one-story house in India surrounded by a wide veranda; a similar house in this style.

bunke

A group of similar things, either growing together, or in a cluster or clump, usually fastened together.

bunker

(military) A hardened shelter, often partly buried or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.

bur

An enclosure made of bars, normally to hold animals.

burde

Ought to; expressing expectation.

bureau

An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.

bureaukrat

An official who is part of a bureaucracy.

bureaukratisk

Of or pertaining to bureaucracy or the actions of bureaucrats.

burger

Used to make the names of hamburgers served in buns with the addition of the specified foodstuff, or with that foodstuff used in place of the usual meat.

burgøjser

(Marxism) A capitalist, (usually, _, pejorative) an exploiter of the proletariat.

Burgund

A historical region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

burka

(strictly) An enveloping Central Asian garment which covers the whole body, incorporating a netted screen to cover the eyes, chiefly worn by women in fundamentalist denominations of Islam to observe sartorial hijab (the practice of wearing concealing clothing in front of adult men after the age of puberty).

Burma

A country in Southeast Asia. Official name: Republic of the Union of Myanmar. Capital: Naypyidaw. Officially known as Myanmar.

burmeser

(chiefly, in the plural) A person from Myanmar or of Burmese descent.

burmeserkat

(zoology) A medium-sized, short-haired domestic cat of a breed originating in Thailand.

burmesisk

Of or relating to Burma (Myanmar) or its people or language.

burre

Any of the species of biennial thistles in the genus Arctium.

busk

(horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually less than six metres tall; a horticultural rather than strictly botanical category.

buskads

A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

bussemand

(US, Canada, Philippines, slang) A piece of solid or semisolid mucus in or removed from a nostril.

buste

A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.

butik

An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.

butikstyveri

(uncountable) The action of stealing goods from a shop, store or other place of business.

butler

The chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving of meals, and performs various personal services.

butte

(US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.

buttet

(of a person) Having considerable flesh; plump.

by

(UK, historical) A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.

byde

(intransitive) To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price.

byde sig

(reflexive) To offer oneself for mental consideration; to occur to the mind. [from 16th c.]

byde velkommen

To affirm or greet the arrival of someone, especially by saying "Welcome!".

bydel

The residential area near one's home.

byg

A cereal of the species Hordeum vulgare, or its grains, often used as food or to make beer and other malted drinks.

bygd

A small village or a group of houses.

bygge

(transitive) To form (something) by combining materials or parts.

bygge rede

(intransitive, of animals) To build or settle into a nest.

byggearbejder

One who builds or constructs things.

byggeri

(uncountable) The act or process by which something is built; construction.

bygkorn

(disease) A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.

bygning

(countable) A closed structure with walls and a roof.

bygningskunst

The art and science of designing and managing the construction of buildings and other structures, particularly if they are well proportioned and decorated.

byld

(pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.

bymand

A man who is a resident of a town, especially of one's own town.

bymæssig

Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or happening or located in, a city or town; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of life in such a place, especially when contrasted with the countryside.

byrådsmedlem

A male member of a council, especially a city council.

byrde

A heavy load.

bysammenvoksning

A continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl.

bytte

An act of exchanging or trading.

byttehandel

(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.