creek

WOTD – 18 October 2008    

See also Creek

English

Etymology

creke, from kryk, from Old Norse kriki.

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: krēk IPA: /kriːk/, X-SAMPA: /kri:k/

  Rhymes: -iːk

  Homophone: creak

• (US) IPA: /krik/, /krɪk/, X-SAMPA: /kri:k/, /krIk/

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  Homophones: creak, crick

Noun

Wikipedia creek (plural creeks)

1. (UK, India) A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.
2. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.
3. Any turn or winding.

Synonyms

• beck, brook, burn, stream

Derived terms

• up the creek

Translations

small inlet or bay

• Bulgarian: бухта (bg) (buhta) f, тясно заливче (bg) (tjasno zalivče)
• Dutch: kreek (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: kriko (eo)
• Finnish: poukama (fi)
• German: Bucht (de) f

• Hungarian: öböl (hu)
• Limburgish: krieëk (li) m
• Malay: serokan (ms)
• Spanish: caleta (es) f
• West Frisian: sleat (fy)

stream of water

• Armenian: գետակ (hy) (getak)
• Bulgarian: поток (bg) (potok)
• Czech: potok (cs) m
• Finnish: puro (fi)
• French: ruisseau (fr) m
• Galician: regato (gl) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Bach (de) m

• Hungarian: patak (hu)
• Italian: ruscello (it)
• Malay: anak sungai (ms)
• Norwegian: bekk (no), liten (no) elv (no)
• Portuguese: riacho (pt) m
• Russian: ручей (ru) (ruchei) m
• Spanish: arroyo (es) m

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• Maori: manga