different between bunker vs junker

English

Etymology

The military sense of the word was imported from German into English during World War II. Other senses came from Scots, possibly related to bunk.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?b??k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

bunker (plural bunkers)

1. (military) A hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
2. (Britain) A large container or bin for storing coal, often built outside in the yard of a house. Now rare, as different types of fuels and energy sources are being used.
3. (nautical) A container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine. [Also, by extension] the quantity of fuel needed to replenish that container.
4. (rail transport) the coal compartment on a tank engine.
5. (golf) A sand-filled hollow on a golf course.
6. (paintball) An obstacle used to block an opposing player's view and field of fire.
7. (Scotland) A sort of chest or box, as in a window, the lid of which serves for a seat.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

8. (Scotland, slang) A kitchen worktop.
9. (Britain, slang) One who bunks off; a truant from school.
10. Certain fish, menhaden.

Derived terms

• bunkering
• bunker fuel
• bunker oil

Translations

Verb

bunker (third-person singular simple present bunkers, present participle bunkering, simple past and past participle bunkered)

1. (nautical) To load a vessel with oil or coal for the engine.
2. (golf) To hit a golf ball into a bunker.
3. (paintball) To fire constantly at a hiding opponent, preventing them from firing at other players and trapping them behind the barrier. This can also refer to eliminating an opponent behind cover by rushing the position and firing at extremely close range as the player becomes exposed.

Derived terms

• bunkerage
• bunkerer
• bunkering

Translations

References

• “bunker” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
• “bunker”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Brunke

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English bunker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??.k?r/
• Hyphenation: bun?ker
• Rhymes: -??k?r

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers, diminutive bunkertje n)

1. bunker (low-lying fortification built into the landscape)

   Synonym: kazemat

2. (golf) bunker (hole with a surface of sand or dirt, placed on a golf course as a barrier)
3. bunker, cargo hold, storage room

Derived terms

• atoombunker
• bunkeren
• rukbunker

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: bunker

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Bunker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu?.k??/, /bu?.kœ?/

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers)

1. (military) bunker

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English bunker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bœ?.kœ?/

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers)

1. (golf) bunker

Further reading

• “bunker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch bunker, from English bunker, from German Bunker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b??k?r]
• Hyphenation: bung?kêr

Noun

bunker (plural bunker-bunker, first-person possessive bunkerku, second-person possessive bunkermu, third-person possessive bunkernya)

1. bunker
   1. (military) a hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks.
   2. (nautical) a container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine.

Alternative forms

• bunker, bangker, banker

Further reading

• “bunker” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Noun

bunker m

1. indefinite plural of bunke

Etymology 2

From English bunker

Noun

bunker m (definite singular bunkeren, indefinite plural bunkere, definite plural bunkerne)

1. bunker (storage for fuel on a ship)
2. bunker (reinforced shelter)
3. bunker (on a golf course)

Derived terms

• bunkerolje
• bunkre

Related terms

• bunkers (fuel oil, military bunker)

References

• “bunker” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English bunker

Noun

bunker m (definite singular bunkeren, indefinite plural bunkerar, definite plural bunkerane)

1. bunker (storage for fuel on a ship)
2. bunker (reinforced shelter)
3. bunker (on a golf course)

Derived terms

• bunkre

Related terms

• bunkers (fuel oil, militsry bunker)

References

• “bunker” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Portuguese

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkeres)

1. bunker

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?nker/
• Hyphenation: bun?ker

Noun

bùnker m (Cyrillic spelling ???????)

1. bunker (hardened shelter)
2. bunker (container for storing coal or fuel oil for a ship's engine)

Declension

Spanish

Noun

bunker m (plural bunkers)

1. bunker

English

Etymology 1

From German, a contraction of jung herr (“young noble”); compare English young and herre; also younker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j??k?(r)/

Noun

junker (plural junkers)

1. A young German noble or squire, especially a member of the aristocratic party in Prussia, stereotyped with narrow-minded militaristic and authoritarian attitudes.
   • 1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress:

     Professors of philosophy and science carrying high the patriotic banner of Kultur and culture gloried in the system of compulsory, universal, military service, first made in Germany exulted in the degrading, vicious process of training by which the individual is hypnotized into submission to a brutal organization of military junkers, hallowed by the name of state and Fatherland, it was the darkest period in the history of mankind.

Alternative forms

• Junker

Derived terms

• junkerdom
• junkerish
• junkerism

References

• junker in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• “junker”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Etymology 2

From junk +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???k?(r)/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

junker (plural junkers)

1. (informal, US, Canada) A beat-up automobile.
2. A person with an interest in disused or discarded objects.
   • 1968, Ruth Stearns Egge, How to Make Something from Nothing

     An ardent junker herself, Mrs. Egge tells how to conduct a fascinating junk safari into the attic or antique and secondhand shops and what to do with the trophies you bring home.