Frank

See also frank

English

Wikipedia

Pronunciation

• enPR: frăngk, IPA: /fræŋk/, SAMPA: /fr{Nk/
• Homophones: frank, franc

Etymology 1

From Middle English Frank, partially from Old English Franca (“a Frank”); and partially from Old French franc, and/or Latin Francus (“A Frank”), of Germanic origin, from Old Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”); both from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Cognate with Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), Old English franca (“spear, javelin”). Compare Saxon, ultimately a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsan (“knife, dagger”).

Noun

Frank (plural Franks)

1. One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.

Translations

one of the Franks

Armenian: ֆրանկ (hy) (frank) Bengali: ফ্রাংক (bn) Catalan: franc (ca) m. Finnish: frankki (fi) German: Franke (de) m. Icelandic: franki (is) m. Irish: Franc (ga) m.

Japanese: フランク人 (ja) (フランクじん, furanku-jin) Norwegian: Bokmål: franker (no) m. Nynorsk: frankar (nn) m. Russian: франк (ru) Spanish: franco (es) m.

Etymology 2

Originally derived from the medieval tribal name, revived in the 19th century and also used as a diminutive of Francis.

Proper noun

Frank

1. A male given name.
2. A surname.

Quotations

• 1599, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II: Scene 1:

  Mrs. Ford. How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?

• 1996 Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins, ISBN 0 00 649840 X, Chapter VII, page 197:

  Your name is Francis, is it?

  Frank, sir.

  Your name is Francis. There was never a St. Frank. That's a name for gangsters and politicians.

Translations

male given name

Danish: Frank (da) Dutch: Frank (nl) French: Franck (fr) m., Frank (fr) m. German: Frank (de) Hawaiian: Palani Icelandic: Frank (is) m.

Italian: Franco (it) Japanese: フランク (ja) (furanku) Norwegian: Frank (no) Portuguese: Franco (pt) Spanish: Franco (es) Swedish: Frank (sv)

surname

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Danish

Proper noun

Frank

1. A male given name borrowed from English and German.

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French

Proper noun

Frank m.

1. A male given name, cognate to English Frank.

Usage notes

• More often spelled Franck

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German

Etymology

From Old High German Franko (“a Frank”).

Proper noun

Frank

1. A surname.
2. A male given name used in the Middle Ages and revived in the nineteenth century. Popular in the 1960s and the 1970s.

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Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fraŋ̊k/
• Rhymes: -aŋ̊k

Proper noun

Frank m.

1. A male given name equivalent to English Frank.

Declension

declension of Frank

m-s1	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	Frank	-	-	-
accusative	Frank	-	-	-
dative	Frank	-	-	-
genitive	Franks	-	-	-

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Manx

Proper noun

Yn Rank f. (genitive ny Frank)

1. France
   • Haink eh noal ass yn Rank.
     • He came over from France.
   • Hooar eh baase 'sy Rank.
     • He got killed in France.
   • Ren ad troailt 'sy Rank as ayns yn Spaainey ny yei shen.
     • They travelled in France and then in Spain.
   • T'eh ceau yn geurey ayns jiass ny Frank.
     • He winters in the south of France.

Usage notes

• Always preceded by the definite article.

Related terms

• Frangagh
• Frangish

Proper noun

Frank m.

1. A male given name, Manx equivalent to Francis.

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Norwegian

Etymology

From English or, rarely, German Frank, in the 19th century.

Proper noun

Frank

1. A male given name.

References

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, ISBN 82-521-4483-7
• [1] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 10 272 males with the given name Frank living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Frank

1. A male given name borrowed from English or, rarely, from German.