sock

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• Rhymes: -ɒk

Etymology 1

Socks

• From Old English socc, a West Germanic borrowing from Latin soccus, from Ancient Greek σύκχος (sunkhos, “a kind of shoe”), probably from Phrygian or another language from Asia Minor.

Noun

sock (plural socks or sox)

1. A knitted or woven covering for the foot
2. A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors
3. A violent blow, punch
4. A shortened version of (Internet) sock puppet

   "For enemies near are enemies known though socks are a bother he feels at last not alone"

5. (firearms, informal) a gun sock

Derived terms

Terms derived from sock (noun)

bobby socks knock somebody's socks off

sock hop sock puppet

Translations

covering for the foot

• Ainu: ケロㇷ゚ (kerop)
• Albanian: çorape (sq) m
• Arabic: جورب (ar) (jáwrab) m (pl: جوارب (ar) (jawārib) m pl)

  Egyptian Arabic: شراب (ar) (šarāb/šurāb) m (pl: شرابات (ar) (šarabāt/šurabāt) m pl)

  Moroccan Arabic: تقشيرة (teqshira) f, تقاشر (teqasher) pl

• Armenian: կիսագուլպա (hy) (kisagulpa) , գուլպա (hy) (gulpa)
• Asturian: calcetu m
• Azeri: corab (az)
• Belarusian: шкарпэтка (be) (škarpétka) f 
• Bulgarian: чорап (bg) (čoráp) m 
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 襪子 (cmn), 袜子 (cmn) (wàzi)

  Min Nan: trad. 襪仔, simpl. 袜仔 (bo̍eh-á or be̍h-á)

• Crimean Tatar: şorap
• Czech: ponožka (cs) f pl
• Danish: sok (da) c
• Dutch: sok (nl) f
• Esperanto: ŝtrumpeto (eo)
• Estonian: sokk (et)
• Finnish: sukka (fi)
• French: chaussette f, bas f (Canadian French)
• Georgian: წინდა (ka) (cinda) 
• German: Socke (de) f
• Greek: κάλτσα (el) (káltsa) f , (obsolete) περιπόδιο (el) (peripódio) n 
• Haitian Creole: chosèt
• Hebrew: גרב (he) (gerev) m
• Hindi: मोज़ा (hi) (mozā) m
• Hungarian: zokni (hu)
• Icelandic: sokkur (is) m
• Ido: kalzeto
• Indonesian: kaus kaki (id)
• Interlingua: calcea (ia)
• Italian: calza (it) f, calzino (it) m
• Japanese: 靴下 (ja) (くつした, kutsushita), ソックス (ja) (sokkusu)
• Jèrriais: chaussette f
• Korean: 양말 (ko) (yangmal)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: gore (ku)

  Sorani: گۆره‌وی

• Latin:

  New Latin: impilium (la) n

• Latvian: zeķe (lv) f
• Lithuanian: įklotė (lt), kojinė (lt) f
• Luxembourgish: Séckchen (lb) f
• Macedonian: чорап (mk) (čórap) m
• Malay: sarung kaki (ms)
• Maltese: kalzetta f, peduna f
• Norwegian: sokk (no) m
• Persian: جوراب (fa) (jurâb)
• Polish: skarpeta (pl) f, skarpetka (pl) f
• Portuguese: meia (pt) f
• Romanian: ciorap (ro) m
• Russian: носок (ru) (nosók) m 
• Scottish Gaelic: socais (gd) f, stocainn (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чарапа (sh) f

  Roman: čarapa (sh) f

• Sicilian: quasetta f
• Slovak: ponožka (sk) f
• Slovene: nogavica (sl) f
• Spanish: calcetín m (Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain), media f (Costa Rica, Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, South America except Chile)
• Swedish: socka (sv)
• Tagalog: medyas
• Thai: ถุงเท้า (th) (thǔng tháo)
• Turkish: çorap (tr)
• Turkmen: jorap (tk)
• Ukrainian: носок (uk) (nosók) m , шкарпетка (uk) (škarpétka) f 
• Urdu: موزا (ur) (mozā) m
• Uzbek: noski (uz)
• Vietnamese: vớ (vi), tất (vi), bít tất (vi)
• Volapük: lustog (vo)
• Walloon: tchåsse (wa) f, tchåssete (wa) f, sokete (wa) f

Greco-Roman shoe

• French: socque (fr) m

blow, punch

• Greek: γροθιά (el) (groθiá) f 
• Portuguese: soco (pt) m

• Russian: удар m (udár) нокаут m, (nokáut)
• Slovak: úder m; náraz m

Etymology 2

• Unknown, but compare Portuguese soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch").

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Verb

sock (third-person singular simple present socks, present participle socking, simple past and past participle socked)

1. (transitive) To hit or strike violently
2. (intransitive) To deliver a blow

   They may let you off the first time, but the second time they'll sock it to you—James Jones

Derived terms

• sock away
• sock in

Translations

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• Bulgarian: нокаутирам v (nokautiram)
• Finnish: iskeä (1)
• Russian: врезать v perf (vrezat'); ударить v perf (udarit')

• Slovak: udrieť, naraziť, raziť

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Swedish

Socks

Noun

sock c

1. sock

Declension

Declension of sock

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sock	socken	sockar	sockarna
genitive	socks	sockens	sockars	sockarnas

See also

• socka
• strumpa

References

• sock in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)