boek

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See also: bök

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch boek, from Middle Dutch boec, from Old Dutch buok, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buk/, [bʊk][1]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

boek (plural boeke, diminutive boekie)

  1. book

References

  1. ^ 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch boec, from Old Dutch buok, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Compare West Frisian boek, Low German Book, German Buch, English book, Danish bog.

Noun

boek n (plural boeken, diminutive boekje n or boekske n)

  1. book
  2. (obsolete, Holland) omasum
    Synonyms: boekmaag, boekpens
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: boek
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: buku
  • Negerhollands: boek, bok, buki
  • Petjo: boek
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: buk
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: buk
  • → Caribbean Javanese: buku
  • → Javanese: ꦧꦸꦏꦸ (buku)
  • → Malay: buku
  • → Papiamentu: buki, boeki (from the diminutive)
  • → Sranan Tongo: buku

Etymology 2

Verb

boek

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of boeken
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of boeken

Anagrams

Javanese

Noun

boek

  1. Dated spelling of buk.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Pronunciation

Noun

boek n (plural boeken, diminutive boekje)

  1. book

Derived terms

Further reading

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