koek

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See also: kök and Kök

Afrikaans[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Dutch koek.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kuk/
  • Audio(file)

Noun[edit]

koek (plural koeke)

  1. cake
  2. tangle of hair
  3. vulva (slang)

Descendants[edit]

  • → Sotho: kuku

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch coeke, from Old Dutch *kuoko, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô. Doublet of quiche.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

koek m (plural koeken, diminutive koekje n)

  1. cookie, cake, biscuit, wafer
  2. (uncountable) Any type of cake or biscuit.
  3. (by extension) something doughy or sticky
  4. (heraldry) roundel

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

  • Afrikaans: koek
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: kuku
  • Jersey Dutch: kuk
  • → Sranan Tongo: kuku
    • → Lokono: kuku
    • → Aukan: kuku
    • → Caribbean Hindustani: kuku
    • → Caribbean Javanese: kuku
    • → Kwinti: kúku
    • → Saramaccan: kúku

Anagrams[edit]

West Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Frisian kōke, from Proto-Germanic *kōkô.

Noun[edit]

koek c (plural koeken, diminutive koekje)

  1. (countable) cake
    Synonym: koeke
  2. (in the diminutive) cookie

Further reading[edit]

  • “koeke (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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