Look at the monkey on that bough.
Source: tatoeba (68000)
Bough
//baʊ//
Synonyms for "bough" (44 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (22)
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Translations
97 translations across 61 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- degë noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- κλάδος noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- ἀκρεμών noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- ὀρόδαμνος noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Arabic
1 entries- غُصْن noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Armenian
2 entries- ճյուղ noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- ոստ noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Belarusian
3 entries- галі́нка noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- галіна́ noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- сук noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Bulgarian
1 entries- клон noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Catalan
1 entries- branca noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 枝 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- 樹枝 /树枝 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Czech
2 entries- větev noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- větévka noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Danish
1 entries- gren noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Dutch
1 entries- tak noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Esperanto
1 entries- branĉo noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Estonian
1 entries- tüvik noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Faroese
1 entries- grein noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Finnish
2 entries- haara noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- oksa noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
French
1 entries- branche noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Galician
3 entries- galla noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- póla noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- rama noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Georgian
1 entries- შტო noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
German
1 entries- Ast noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Greek
1 entries- κλάδος noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Hebrew
1 entries- בַּד noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Hungarian
1 entries- ág noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Icelandic
2 entries- grein noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- trjágrein noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Ido
1 entries- brancho noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Irish
1 entries- géag noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Italian
1 entries- ramo noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Japanese
2 entries- 大枝 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- 枝 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Kazakh
1 entries- сук noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Korean
1 entries- 가지 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Kunigami
1 entries- 枝 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Latin
2 entries- rāmus noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- termes noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Macedonian
1 entries- гранка noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Miyako
1 entries- 枝 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Māori
3 entries- kūhā noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- kūwhā noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- rūhā noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Navajo
1 entries- atsʼáozʼaʼ noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- grein noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- gren noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- grein noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Occitan
1 entries- branca noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Ojibwe
1 entries- wadikwan noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Okinawan
1 entries- 枝 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Old Armenian
3 entries- կողր noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- ճիւղ noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- ոստ noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Persian
1 entries- شاخه noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Polish
2 entries- gałąź noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- konar noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Portuguese
3 entries- galhada noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- galho noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- ramo noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Romanian
2 entries- cracă noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- creangă noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Russian
3 entries- ве́тка noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- ветвь noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- сук noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- faillean noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- fiùran noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- geug noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- meanglan noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- grána noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- гра́на noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Slovak
2 entries- konár noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- vetva noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Slovene
1 entries- veja noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Spanish
1 entries- rama noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Swedish
2 entries- gren noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- trädgren noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Turkish
1 entries- dal noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Udi
1 entries- чӏугъ noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Ukrainian
2 entries- гі́лка noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- сук noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Vietnamese
3 entries- cành noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- ngành noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- nhánh noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Vilamovian
1 entries- ost noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Welsh
2 entries- cangen noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
- gwialen noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Yaeyama
1 entries- 枝 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Yiddish
1 entries- צווײַג noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Yonaguni
1 entries- 枝 noun (firm (and often larger) branch of a tree)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
The bough bent under the weight of the snow.
Source: tatoeba (246309)
Would God, I were the tender apple blossom, That floats and falls from off the twisted bough, To lie and faint within your silken bosom, Within your silken bosom as that does now.
Source: tatoeba (915858)
Indeed, they had never passed the grotto without leaving some token of respect. In the morning when they led their flocks to pasture, and again in the evening ere they started home, they paid worship to the Deities, and presented either a flower, a green bough, some fruit, or a libation of milk, as an offering; and this piety, as we shall see presently, had its reward.
Source: tatoeba (6212617)
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