bok

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English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Afrikaans bok

Adjective [edit]

bok

  1. (South Africa, slang) keen or willing.
    "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."

Etymology 2 [edit]

Imitative.

Interjection [edit]

bok

  1. The clucking sound of a chicken.
    • 2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices
      And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.
    • 2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory
      So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'

Anagrams [edit]


Afrikaans [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Dutch bok.

Noun [edit]

bok (plural bokkediminutive bokkie)

  1. goat
  2. antelope, buck
  3. (slang) also bokkie My lover.
  4. vaulting-horse
  5. blunder

Adjective [edit]

bok

  1. keen or willing

Choctaw [edit]

Noun [edit]

bok

  1. creek
  2. river

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Czech [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Noun [edit]

bok m

  1. side
  2. flank
  3. (anatomy) hip

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Dutch [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje)

  1. male goat
  2. (gymnastics) horse

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Verb [edit]

bok

  1. first-person singular present indicative of bokken
  2. imperative of bokken

Lower Sorbian [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

bok m

  1. page (one side of a leaf of a book)

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Marshallese [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • MED Phonemes: {bẹkʷ}
  • IPA Phonemes: /pˠɘkʷ/
  • IPA Articulation: [pˠɤ͡okʷ]

Noun [edit]

bok

  1. blister
  2. chicken pox

Etymology 2 [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • MED Phonemes: {bẹkʷ}
  • IPA Phonemes: /pˠɘkʷ/
  • IPA Articulation: [pˠɤ͡okʷ]

Noun [edit]

bok

  1. bladder

Etymology 3 [edit]

From English book.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • MED Phonemes: {bẹkʷ}
  • IPA Phonemes: /pˠɘkʷ/
  • IPA Articulation: [pˠɤ͡okʷ]

Noun [edit]

bok

  1. book

Etymology 4 [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • MED Phonemes: {bekʷ}
  • IPA Phonemes: /pˠɜkʷ/
  • IPA Articulation: [pˠʌ͡ɔkʷ]

Noun [edit]

bok

  1. sand
  2. sandspit
  3. sandbar

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Norwegian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

bok m and f (Bokmål), f (Nynorsk)

  1. book

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Old Saxon [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Germanic *bōks, whence also Old English bōc, Old Frisian bōk, Old High German buoh, Old Norse bók.

Noun [edit]

bōk f

  1. book

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Descendants [edit]


Polish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

bok m

  1. side

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Serbo-Croatian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Noun [edit]

bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏к)

  1. side
  2. flank

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Interjection [edit]

bok (Cyrillic spelling бок)

  1. (Croatia) hi

Swedish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

bok c

  1. book:
    1. collection of sheets of paper
    2. a work of literature
    3. a major division of a published work
  2. beech

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Derived terms [edit]

book
beech

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Turkish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Turkic bok, from Proto-Turkic *bok (dirt, dung).

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Noun [edit]

bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)

  1. shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)

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Volapük [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

bok (plural boks)

  1. box

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