The roses are in bud.
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Bud
//bʌd//
Synonyms for "bud" (249 found)
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Closest matches (50)
Strong matches (75)
Related words (124)
Noun(50 words)
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7 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
56 entriesShowing 16 of 56 words.
derived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
3 entriesis a
3 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
44 entriesShowing 16 of 44 words.
Translations
217 translations across 79 languages.
Albanian
2 entries- mugull noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- syth noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Ancient Greek
1 entries- βλαστάνω verb (to form buds)
Arabic
1 entries- بُرْعُم noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Armenian
2 entries- բողբոջ noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- բողբոջել verb (to form buds)
Assamese
1 entries- কলি noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Azerbaijani
2 entries- qönçə noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- tumurcuq noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Bashkir
1 entries- бөрө noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Belarusian
1 entries- пупы́шка noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Bengali
1 entries- কলি noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Bulgarian
4 entries- пъпка noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- пъпка noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
- напъпвам verb (to form buds)
- пъпкувам verb (to reproduce by splitting off buds)
Catalan
4 entries- borró noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- col·lega noun (slang: buddy)
- gemma noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- gemma noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
Cebuano
4 entries- bayuos noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- udlot noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- pamayuos verb (to form buds)
- pangudlot verb (to form buds)
Chechen
1 entries- патар class dd noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 芽 noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Czech
2 entries- pupen noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- pučet verb (to form buds)
Danish
1 entries- knop noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Dutch
2 entries- knop noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- ontluiken verb (to form buds)
Esperanto
1 entries- burĝono noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Estonian
1 entries- pung noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Finnish
4 entries- budi noun (slang: potent cannabis)
- kukannuppu noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- kukka noun (slang: potent cannabis)
- kuroutuma noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
French
4 entries- beu noun (slang: potent cannabis)
- bourgeon noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- bourgeon noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
- bouton noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Galician
4 entries- betón noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
- bortón noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
- brocho noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- casulo noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Georgian
1 entries- კვირტი noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
German
4 entries- Knospe noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- Kumpel noun (slang: buddy)
- Spross noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
- knospen verb (to form buds)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐌺𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌽 verb (to form buds)
Greek
2 entries- οφθαλμός noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- βλασταίνω verb (to form buds)
Gujarati
1 entries- કળી noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Hawaiian
3 entries- muʻo noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- ʻao liko noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- ʻōpuʻu noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Hebrew
1 entries- נִצָּן noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Hindi
3 entries- कली noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- कोपल noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- मुकुल noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Hungarian
4 entries- bimbó noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- haver noun (slang: buddy)
- rügy noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- bimbózik verb (to form buds)
Ido
1 entries- burjono noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Ingrian
3 entries- pocka noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- pumppu noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- pupuška noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Irish
2 entries- bachlóg noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- bachlaigh verb (to form buds)
Italian
4 entries- amico noun (slang: buddy)
- boccio noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- bocciolo noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- gemma noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
Japanese
2 entries- 芽 noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- 蕾 noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Khmer
1 entries- ពន្លកផ្កា noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Korean
4 entries- 눈 noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- 봉오리 noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- 싹 noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- 움 noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Ladino
1 entries- kondja noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Latgalian
1 entries- pupurs noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Latin
3 entries- gemma noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- germen noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- germinō verb (to form buds)
Latvian
1 entries- pumpurs noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Lithuanian
1 entries- pumpuras noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Macedonian
1 entries- пупка noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Malay
2 entries- putik noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- tunas noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Maltese
1 entries- blanzun noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Manchu
1 entries- ᠠᡵᠰᡠᠨ noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Marathi
1 entries- कळी noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Māori
4 entries- ao noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- kao noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- nihoniho noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- toroihi noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Nepali
1 entries- कोपिला noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Norman
2 entries- bourgeon noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- èrbouter verb (to form buds)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- gopik noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Northern Sami
1 entries- urbi noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- knopp noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- knopp noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Ottoman Turkish
4 entries- حریف noun (slang: buddy)
- زر noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- طومروجاق noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- طومروق noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Persian
4 entries- بوژنه noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- حشیش noun (slang: potent cannabis)
- غنچه noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- نوگل noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Polish
1 entries- pączek noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Portuguese
4 entries- botão noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- parceiro noun (slang: buddy)
- rebento noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- brotar verb (to form buds)
Punjabi
2 entries- ਕਲੀ noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- ਡੋਡੀ noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Rarotongan
1 entries- kao noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Romanian
4 entries- boboc noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- boboc noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
- mugur noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
- mugure noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Russian
4 entries- буто́н noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- по́чка noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- по́чка noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
- приятель noun (slang: buddy)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- pup noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- pupoljak noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- пуп noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- пупољак noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Slovak
1 entries- púčik noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Slovene
1 entries- brst noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Spanish
4 entries- amigote noun (slang: buddy)
- botón noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- brote noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- cogollo noun (slang: potent cannabis)
Swedish
3 entries- knopp noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- delning verb (to reproduce by splitting off buds)
- knoppa verb (to form buds)
Tagalog
2 entries- buko noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- mamuko verb (to form buds)
Telugu
2 entries- కలిక noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- మొగ్గ noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Thai
4 entries- ตา noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- หน่อ noun (small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism)
- ผลิ verb (to form buds)
- แตกหน่อ verb (to reproduce by splitting off buds)
Tibetan
2 entries- ཁ་འབུས noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- ཐེའུ noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Turkish
3 entries- filiz noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- sürgün noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- tomurcuk noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Tày
1 entries- buốt verb (to form buds)
Ukrainian
1 entries- бру́нька noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Venetan
2 entries- but noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- buto noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Vietnamese
2 entries- búp noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- chồi noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Volapük
4 entries- bledagnob noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- floragnob noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- flukagnob noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- gnob noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
Welsh
3 entries- blagur noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- egin noun (newly formed leaf or flower that has not yet unfolded)
- blaguro verb (to form buds)
Sample sentences
32 total sentences available.
A rose is sweeter in the bud than full blown.
Source: tatoeba (35079)
Go and help them, Bud.
Source: tatoeba (35145)
The tree is in bud.
Source: tatoeba (43792)
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