bark

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Usage notes 1.2.1.2 Related terms 1.2.1.3 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Derived terms 1.2.2.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Translations 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Related terms 1.3.2.2 Synonyms 1.3.2.3 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Alternative spellings 1.4.2 Noun 1.4.2.1 Quotations 1.4.2.2 Translations 2 Albanian 2.1 Noun 3 Danish 3.1 Etymology 1 3.1.1 Pronunciation 3.1.2 Noun 3.2 Etymology 2 3.2.1 Pronunciation 3.2.2 Noun 3.2.2.1 Inflection 4 Dutch 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Noun 5 Polish 5.1 Noun 6 Swedish 6.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /bɑː(ɹ)k/, SAMPA: /bA:(r)k/

  Rhymes: -ɑː(r)k

• Homophones: barque

[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English bark, from Old Norse bǫrkr 'tree bark', from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to *berkjon 'birch' (cf. English birch), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergo (cf. Latin frāxinus 'ash', Lith béržas 'birch'), from *bʰereg- 'to gleam; white' (cf. English bright); akin to Danish/Norwegian/Swedish bark, Icelandic börkr, and Low German borke.

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bark (countable and uncountable; plural barks)

1. (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
2. (medicine) Peruvian Bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.

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Usually uncountable; bark may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.

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ringbark paperbark

stringybark

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to bark (third-person singular simple present barks, present participle barking, simple past and past participle barked)

1. To strip the bark from; to peel.
2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.

   to bark one’s heel

3. To girdle.
4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.

   bark the roof of a hut

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• bark up the wrong tree

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[edit] Etymology 2

From the Middle English berken (“‘to bark’”), from the Old English beorcan, from the Proto-Germanic *berkanan, of echoic/imitative origin < Proto-Indo-European *bherg-. Akin to the Icelandic berkja

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bark (plural barks)

1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog.
2. A similar sound made by some other animals.
3. (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
   • circa 1921 CE: Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement. — The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, Vol XI.

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to bark (third-person singular simple present barks, present participle barking, simple past and past participle barked)

1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.

   They bark, and say the Scripture maketh heretics. — Tyndale.

   Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. — Fuller.

3. To speak sharply.

   The sergeant barked an order.

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• barking

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• latrate (obsolete)

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[edit] Etymology 3

From Middle English barke 'boat', from Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris) 'Egyptian boat', from Coptic bari 'small boat', from Ancient Egyptian bēre.

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• barque

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bark (plural barks)

1. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
2. (poetic) a sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
3. (nautical) A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

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• circa 1880 CE: Whether my bark went down at sea, Whether she met with gales, ... — Emily Dickinson (1830–86), Poems

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bark

1. belly

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Norse bǫrkr.

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• IPA: /bark/, [b̥ɑːɡ̊]

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bark c. (singular definite barken, not used in plural form)

1. bark (covering of the trunk of a tree)

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From Old Norse barki

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• IPA: /bark/, [b̥ɑːɡ̊]

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bark c. (singular definite barken, plural indefinite barker)

1. bark (large sailing boat)

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bark (plural barken, diminutive barkje, diminutive plural barkjes) f. ?

1. barge, a large type of rowing - or sailing boat
2. the bark of certain trees, used for its tannin

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bark m. (genitive barku, plural barki)

1. shoulder
2. barque
3. unit in the Bark scale

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bark c. (uncountable, definite form barken)

1. bark (covering of the trunk of a tree)