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English
Trunk of a Yellow birch tree
Tapir extending its short trunk to sniff
Etymology
From Middle English tronke, trunke, from Old French tronc (“alms box, tree trunk, headless body”), from Latin truncus (“a stock, lopped tree trunk”), from truncus (“cut off, maimed, mutilated”). For the verb, compare French tronquer, and see truncate. Doublet of truncus and tronk.
Pronunciation
Noun
trunk (plural trunks)
- (heading, biological) Part of a body.
- The usually single, more or less upright part of a tree, between the roots and the branches.
- Synonyms: bole, tree trunk
- The torso.
- The conspicuously extended, mobile, nose-like organ of an animal such as a sengi, a tapir or especially an elephant. The trunks of various kinds of animals might be adapted to probing and sniffing, as in the sengis, or be partly prehensile, as in the tapir, or be a versatile prehensile organ for manipulation, feeding, drinking and fighting as in the elephant.
- Synonym: proboscis
- (heading) A container.
- A large suitcase, chest, or similar receptacle for carrying or storing personal possessions, usually with a hinged, often domed lid, and handles at each end, so that generally it takes two persons to carry a full trunk.
- Hyponym: footlocker
1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC, page 01:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy. Mail bags, so I understand, are being put on board. Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors.
- A box or chest usually covered with leather, metal, or cloth, or sometimes made of leather, hide, or metal, for holding or transporting clothes or other goods.
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :To lie, like pawns, lock'd up in chests and trunks
- (Canada, US, automotive) The luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon-style car.
- Synonyms: (UK, Australia) boot, (India) dicky
- Hyponyms: frunk, froot
2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.
- (automotive) A storage compartment fitted behind the seat of a motorcycle.
- Synonyms: topbox, topcase
- (heading) A channel for flow of some kind.
- (US, telecommunications) A circuit between telephone switchboards or other switching equipment.
- A chute or conduit, or a watertight shaft connecting two or more decks.
- A long, large box, pipe, or conductor, made of plank or metal plates, for various uses, as for conveying air to a mine or to a furnace, water to a mill, grain to an elevator, etc.
- (archaic) A long tube through which pellets of clay, peas, etc., are driven by the force of the breath. A peashooter
- (mining) A flume or sluice in which ores are separated from the slimes in which they are contained.
- (software engineering) In software projects under source control: the most current source tree, from which the latest unstable builds (so-called "trunk builds") are compiled.
- The main line or body of anything.
the trunk of a vein or of an artery, as distinct from the branches
- (transport) A main line in a river, canal, railroad, or highway system.
- (architecture) The part of a pilaster between the base and capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.
- A large pipe forming the piston rod of a steam engine, of sufficient diameter to allow one end of the connecting rod to be attached to the crank, and the other end to pass within the pipe directly to the piston, thus making the engine more compact.
- (in the plural) Short for swimming trunks.
Derived terms
Translations
tree trunk
- Aklanon: puno'
- Albanian: trung (sq) m
- Arabic: جِذْع m (jiḏʕ)
- Armenian: բուն (hy) (bun)
- Azerbaijani: gövdə (az)
- Bashkir: олон (olon)
- Belarusian: ствол m (stvol)
- Buginese: watang
- Bulgarian: стъбло (bg) n (stǎblo), ствол (bg) m (stvol)
- Burmese: ပင်စည် (my) (pangcany)
- Catalan: tronc (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 樹幹/树干 (zh) (shùgàn), 幹/干 (zh) (gàn)
- Coptic: ⲭⲁϥ m (khaf) (Bohairic), ⲕⲁϥ m (kaf) (Sahidic)
- Czech: kmen (cs) m
- Danish: træstamme c, stamme (da) c
- Dutch: stam (nl) m
- Egyptian: (jrkt f)
- Farefare: tille
- Finnish: runko (fi), puunrunko
- French: tronc (fr) m
- Friulian: tronc m
- Galician: tronco (gl) m
- Georgian: ტანი (ṭani)
- German: Stamm (de) m, Baumstamm (de) m
- Greek: κορμός (el) m (kormós)
- Ancient Greek: κορμός m (kormós), στέλεχος n (stélekhos) (crown, base of trunk)
- Gujarati: થડ (gu) (thaḍ)
- Hebrew: גֶּזַע (he) m (géza)
- Hindi: तना (hi) m (tanā)
- Hungarian: törzs (hu), fatörzs (hu), tuskó (hu), fatuskó (hu)
- Hunsrik: Stamm m
- Icelandic: stofn (is) m, bolur (is) m
- Ido: trunko (io)
- Indonesian: batang (id)
- Irish: stoc m
- Italian: tronco (it) m
- Japanese: 幹 (ja) (みき, miki)
- Kazakh: дің (dıñ)
- Khmer: ដើម (km) (daəm), ទង (km) (tɔɔng), ធាង (km) (thiəng)
- Korean: 그루 (ko) (geuru)
- Kurdish:
- Northern Kurdish: qurm (ku)
- Lao: ຕົ້ນ (ton), ກົກ (lo) (kok)
- Latgalian: stūbris m, stymbyns m (refers to cut tree trunk)
- Latin: truncus m, caudex m
- Latvian: stumbrs (lv) m
- Macedonian: стебло n (steblo), дебло n (deblo)
- Makasar: batang
- Maori: kahiwi, tahiwi, kōhiwi, pūwai (refers to a fallen tree trunk), ariaringa, ariaringa, ariaringa
- Middle English: tronke
- Norman: tron m (Jersey)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: stamme (no) m, trestamme m
- Nynorsk: stamme m, trestamme m
- Occitan: tronc (oc) m
- Old Javanese: watang
- Ottoman Turkish: گوگده (göğde, gövde)
- Paicî: mäjoro
- Persian:
- Dari: تَنَه (fa) (tana)
- Iranian Persian: تَنِه (fa) (tane)
- Plautdietsch: Kjist f
- Polish: pień (pl) m
- Portuguese: tronco (pt) m
- Quechua: kurku
- Romanian: trunchi (ro) n
- Russian: ствол (ru) m (stvol)
- Sanskrit: स्कन्ध (sa) m (skandha)
- Scottish Gaelic: stoc m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: дебло n, стабло n, стром m
- Roman: deblo (sh) n, stablo (sh) n, strom (sh) m
- Sicilian: truncu m
- Slovak: kmeň (sk) m
- Slovene: deblo (sl) n
- Spanish: tronco (es) m
- Swedish: stam (sv) c
- Tagalog: puno (tl)
- Tarifit: tiyyart f
- Telugu: కాండము (te) (kāṇḍamu)
- Thai: ต้น (th) (dtôn), ลำ (th) (lam), ลำต้น (th) (lam-dtôn)
- Turkish: gövde (tr)
- Turkish: ağaç gövdesi (tr) sg
- Ukrainian: сто́вбур m (stóvbur)
- Urdu: تَنَہ m (tana)
- Uzbek: tana (uz), poya (uz)
- Vietnamese: thân cây
- Walloon: buk (wa) m, beur (wa) m, bodje (wa) m
- Welsh: boncyff (cy) m, cyff m
- Zazaki: heb c, vêre f
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large suitcase or chest
- Albanian: sënduk (sq) m, sepete (sq) f
- Amharic: ሳንዱቅ (sanduḳ)
- Arabic: صَنْدُوق (ar) m (ṣandūq), صُنْدُوق (ar) m (ṣundūq)
- Armenian: ճամպրուկ (hy) (čampruk), ճամփորդական սնդուկ (čampʻordakan snduk), սնդուկ (hy) (snduk)
- Azerbaijani: sandıq (az)
- Bashkir: һандыҡ (handıq)
- Belarusian: ку́фар m (kúfar), скры́ня f (skrýnja)
- Bengali: সিন্দুক (bn) (śinduk)
- Bulgarian: сандъ́к (bg) m (sandǎ́k), кути́я (bg) f (kutíja)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 行李箱 (zh) (xínglǐxiāng)
- Crimean Tatar: sandık
- Czech: kufr (cs) m, bedna (cs) f, skříň (cs) f
- Danish: kuffert (da) c (suitcase), kiste c (chest)
- Dutch: koffer (nl) m
- Finnish: matkalaukku (fi), matka-arkku, kirstu (fi)
- French: malle (fr) f, coffre (fr) m
- Georgian: ზანდუკი (ka) (zanduḳi)
- German: Koffer (de) m, Truhe (de) f, Schrankkoffer (de) m, Schiffskoffer (de) m, Kleiderkoffer m, Überseekoffer m
- Greek: μπαούλο (el) n (baoúlo), σεντούκι (el) n (sentoúki), κασέλα (el) f (kaséla)
- Gujarati: પટારો (paṭāro)
- Hindi: सन्दूक़ m (sandūq)
- Hungarian: bőrönd (hu), útibőrönd (hu), utazóbőrönd (hu), utazóláda (hu)
- Icelandic: koffort (is) n
- Italian: baule (it) m, cofano (it) m
- Japanese: 行李 (ja) (こうり, kōri), 長持 (ながもち, nagamochi), トランク (ja) (toranku)
- Kazakh: сандық (sandyq)
- Khmer: បេឡា (km) (peelaa)
- Korean: 트렁크 (ko) (teureongkeu)
- Kyrgyz: сандык (ky) (sandık)
- Latin: riscus m, cista f, vidulus m
- Latvian: skreine f, čemodans m, čumadans m, kopers m
- Latvian: lāde (lv) f, koferis m
- Macedonian: сандак m (sandak), ковчег m (kovčeg)
- Maltese: senduq m
- Maori: pāka, waka (mi)
- Middle English: tronke
- Ottoman Turkish: صندوق (sanduk, sandık)
- Pashto: صندوق (ps) m (sanduq)
- Persian:
- Dari: صَنْدُوق (fa) (sandūq)
- Iranian Persian: صَنْدوق (fa) (sanduğ)
- Polish: skrzynia (pl) f, kufer (pl) m
- Portuguese: baú (pt) m (chest)
- Punjabi: ਸੰਦੂਕ (pa) (sandūk)
- Romanian: cufăr (ro) n
- Russian: сунду́к (ru) m (sundúk), кофр (ru) m (kofr), бау́л (ru) m (baúl)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сандук m, ковчег m, шкриња f
- Roman: sanduk (sh) m, kovčeg (sh) m, škrinja (sh) f
- Slovak: kufor (sk) f, debna f, skriňa (sk) f, dialectal: bedňa f, dialectal: bedna (sk) f
- Slovene: zaboj m, kovček (sl) m
- Spanish: baúl (es) m
- Swedish: koffert (sv) c
- Tagalog: baul
- Tajik: сандуқ (sanduq)
- Tatar: сандык (tt) (sandıq)
- Tigrinya: ሳንዱቕ (sanduḳʰ)
- Turkish: sandık (tr), bavul (tr)
- Turkmen: sandyk
- Ukrainian: скри́ня f (skrýnja), ку́фер (uk) m (kúfer), кофр (uk) m (kofr)
- Urdu: صَنْدُوق m or f (sandūq)
- Uyghur: ساندۇق (sanduq)
- Uzbek: sandiq (uz)
- Vietnamese: hành lý (vi)
- Welsh: cist f
- Zazaki: sandıq f
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extended nasal organ of an elephant
- Albanian: feçkë (sq) f
- Arabic: خُرْطُوم m (ḵurṭūm)
- Armenian: կնճիթ (hy) (knčitʻ)
- Assamese: শুঁৰ (xũr)
- Azerbaijani: xortum
- Bashkir: морон (moron)
- Belarusian: хо́бат m (xóbat)
- Bulgarian: хо́бот (bg) m (hóbot)
- Burmese: နှာမောင်း (my) (hnamaung:)
- Catalan: trompa (ca) f
- Chichewa: chitamba
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 象鼻子 (xiàng bízi), 鼻子 (zh) (bízi), 象鼻 (zh) (xiàngbí), 長鼻/长鼻 (zh) (chángbí)
- Czech: chobot (cs) m
- Danish: snabel (da) c
- Dutch: slurf (nl) m
- Early Assamese: শুণ্ড (śuṇḍo)
- Erzya: судокс (sudoks)
- Esperanto: rostro (eo)
- Finnish: kärsä (fi)
- French: trompe (fr) f
- Galician: trompa (gl) f
- German: Rüssel (de) m
- Greek: προβοσκίδα (el) f (provoskída)
- Ancient: προβοσκίς f (proboskís)
- Gujarati: સુંઢ (suṇḍh)
- Hebrew: חֵדֶק (he) m (khédek)
- Hindi: सूंड f (sūṇḍ)
- Hungarian: ormány (hu)
- Ido: rostro (io)
- Indonesian: belalai (id)
- Italian: proboscide (it) f
- Japanese: 鼻 (ja) (はな, hana)
- Kazakh: тұмсық (tūmsyq), пілтұмсық (pıltūmsyq)
- Khmer: ប្រមោយ (km) (prɑmaoy), ហត្ថ (km) (hat) (formal), ដៃ (km) (day), ម៉ោងជាង (km) (maong ciəng)
- Korean: 코 (ko) (ko)
- Kumyk: хонта (xonta)
- Kyrgyz: тумшук (ky) (tumşuk)
- Lao: ງວງ (ngūang), ກອນ (kǭn)
- Latgalian: šņucs m
- Latin: proboscis f
- Latvian: snuķis (lv) m
- Lü: please add this translation if you can
- Macedonian: су́рла f (súrla)
- Malay: belalai (ms)
- Maori: ihuroa, ihutotoro
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хамар (mn) (xamar), хошуу (mn) (xošuu)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠠᠪᠠᠷ (qabar), ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ (qosiɣu)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: snabel m
- Nynorsk: snabel m
- Old English: nypel m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: شَنْگ (fa) (šang), خُرْطوم (fa) (xortum)
- Polish: trąba (pl) f
- Portuguese: tromba (pt) f
- Romanian: trompă (ro) f
- Russian: хо́бот (ru) m (xóbot)
- Scottish Gaelic: sròn f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: сурла f
- Roman: surla (sh) f
- Slovak: chobot (sk) m
- Slovene: rilec (sl) m
- Spanish: trompa (es)
- Swahili: mkonga class 3/4
- Swedish: snabel (sv) c
- Tagalog: bulalay
- Tajik: хартум (xartum)
- Tatar: томшык (tt) (tomşıq)
- Telugu: తొండము (te) (toṇḍamu)
- Thai: งวง (th) (nguuang)
- Turkish: hortum (tr)
- Turkmen: hortum
- Ukrainian: хо́бот m (xóbot)
- Urdu: سُونْڈ f (sūnḍ), خُرْطُوم f (xurtūm)
- Uzbek: xartum (uz)
- Vietnamese: vòi voi (vi), vòi (vi)
- Welsh: trwnc (cy) m
- Zazaki: xortım m
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luggage storage compartment of a sedan/saloon style car
- Afrikaans: bak, kattebak (af)
- Albanian: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: حَقِيبَة أَمْتِعَة f (ḥaqībat ʔamtiʕa), صُنْدُوقُ السَّيَّارَةِ m (ṣundūqu s-sayyārati)
- Gulf Arabic: دبة f (dabba)
- Armenian: բեռնախցիկ (beṙnaxcʻik)
- Belarusian: бага́жнік (be) m (bahážnik)
- Bulgarian: бага́жник (bg) m (bagážnik)
- Catalan: portaequipatge m, maleter m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 後備箱/后备箱 (zh) (hòubèixiāng), 後車廂/后车厢 (hòuchēxiāng)
- Czech: kufr (cs) m, zavazadlový prostor m
- Dutch: koffer (nl) m, laadruimte (nl) m, kofferbak (nl) m
- Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: tavaratila (fi), takakontti (fi), matkatavaratila
- French: coffre (de voiture) m, valise (fr) f, malle (fr) f
- Galician: maleteiro (gl) m, portaequipaxes m
- Georgian: საბარგული (sabarguli)
- German: Kofferraum (de) m, Gepäckraum (de) m
- Greek: πορτμπαγκάζ (el) n (portmpagkáz), αποσκευές (el) f pl (aposkevés)
- Gujarati: ડેકી (ḍekī)
- Hebrew: תָּא מִטְעָן (he) m (ta mit'án)
- Hindi: ट्रंक (hi) f (ṭraṅk)
- Hungarian: csomagtartó (hu)
- Icelandic: skott (is) n
- Ido: bagajuyo (io), kofro (io)
- Indonesian: bagasi (id)
- Irish: búit m
- Italian: baule (it) m, bagagliaio (it) m
- Japanese: トランク (ja) (toranku)
- Kazakh: жүксалғыш (jüksalğyş)
- Khmer: ឃ្លុប (km) (khlup), ក្ដិតឡាន (km) (kdət laan)
- Korean: 트렁크 (ko) (teureongkeu)
- Kyrgyz: багажник (ky) (bagajnik)
- Latgalian: bagažnīks m
- Latvian: bagāžnieks m
- Lithuanian: bagažinė f
- Luxembourgish: Mall f
- Macedonian: бага́жник m (bagážnik)
- Malay: but (ms)
- Maltese: bagol m
- Maori: tou o te waka, tou
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bagasjerom m
- Nynorsk: bagasjerom n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: صَنْدوقِ خودْرُو (sanduğ-e xodrow)
- Polish: bagażnik (pl) m, kufer (pl) m
- Portuguese: porta-malas (pt) m, porta-bagagem m, mala (pt) f, bagageiro (pt) m
- Romanian: portbagaj (ro) n
- Russian: бага́жник (ru) m (bagážnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: ciste-càir f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пртљажник m, гепек m
- Roman: prtljažnik (sh) m, gepek (sh) m
- Slovak: kufor (sk) m, batožinový priestor m
- Slovene: prtljažnik (sl) m
- Spanish: baúl (es) m (Argentina, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Eastern Venezuela, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Puerto Rico), cajuela (es) f (Costa Rica, Ecuador, México), joroba (es) f (Costa Rica), maleta (es) f (Chile, Venezuelan standard usage), maletera f (Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela), maletero (es) m (especially Cuba, Eastern Bolivia and Spain), valija (es) f (Uruguay), valijera f (Nicaragua, Paraguay), portaequipajes (es) m
- Swahili: buti (sw)
- Swedish: baklucka (sv) c, bagagelucka (sv) c, bagageutrymme (sv) n, skuff (sv) c
- Tajik: бағоҷмонак (baġojmonak), бормонак (bormonak)
- Tatar: багажник (bağajnik)
- Thai: กระโปรง (th) (grà-bproong)
- Turkish: bagaj (tr)
- Ukrainian: бага́жник (uk) m (bahážnyk)
- Urdu: ٹْرَن٘ک f (ṭraṅk)
- Uzbek: bagajnik (uz), bagajxona (uz)
- Vietnamese: cốp (vi)
- Welsh: cist f, bŵt m
- Zazaki: bağac m
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Translations to be checked
Further reading
- “trunk”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “trunk”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- trunk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
trunk (third-person singular simple present trunks, present participle trunking, simple past and past participle trunked)
- (transitive, obsolete) To lop off; to curtail; to truncate.
- (transitive, mining) To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk.
- (telecommunications) To provide simultaneous network access to multiple clients by sharing a set of circuits, carriers, channels, or frequencies.
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