buckla

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German bokele, from Old French bocle, from Latin buccula. Cognate with English buckle.

"Trophy" sense possibly influenced by pokal.

Noun

buckla c

1. a dent (especially in sheet metal, e.g. on a car)
2. (colloquial) a cup (trophy)

   Laget kammade hem bucklan.

   The team won the cup.

Declension

Declension of buckla

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	buckla	bucklas
	definite	bucklan	bucklans
plural	indefinite	bucklor	bucklors
	definite	bucklorna	bucklornas

Verb

buckla (present bucklar, preterite bucklade, supine bucklat, imperative buckla)

1. to dent (especially sheet metal, e.g. a car)

Conjugation

Conjugation of buckla (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	buckla		bucklas
supine	bucklat		bucklats
imperative	buckla		—
imper. plural1	bucklen		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	bucklar	bucklade	bucklas	bucklades
ind. plural1	buckla	bucklade	bucklas	bucklades
subjunctive2	buckle	bucklade	buckles	bucklades
present participle		bucklande
past participle		bucklad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms

• bucklig

See also

• inbuktning

References

• “buckla”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• buckla in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)