bok
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɒk/
- (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA(key): /bɒk/
- Rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology 1[edit]
From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck.
Adjective[edit]
bok
- (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
- 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!'
- 2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices
Anagrams[edit]
Afrikaans[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Dutch bok (“buck, male goat”).
Noun[edit]
bok (plural bokke, diminutive bokkie)
Synonyms[edit]
- (antelope): wildsbok
Adjective[edit]
bok (attributive bokke, comparative bokker, superlative bokste)
Choctaw[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Czech[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.
Noun[edit]
bok m
Declension[edit]
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- bok in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
- bok in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.
Noun[edit]
bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)
- male goat, buck, billy
- (gymnastics) vaulting horse
- a crane on legs
- box, perch (driver's seat on a carriage)
- (printing) job case, type case
- sawbuck, buck
- (pejorative) churl, grouch
- (pejorative) oaf, bumpkin
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
See etymology on the main entry.
Verb[edit]
bok
Lower Sorbian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *bokъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian bok, Polish bok, Czech bok, Russian бок (bok), and Serbo-Croatian bȍk.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok m
- side (bounding straight edge of an object; flat surface of an object; left or right half; surface of a sheet of paper)
- page (one side of a leaf of a book)
- (chiefly in the dual) breast (organs on the front of a woman’s chest, which contain the mammary glands)
Declension[edit]
- Alternative locative singular: boce
Synonyms[edit]
- (breast): prědk
Further reading[edit]
- bok in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
- bok in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
Marshallese[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok
Etymology 2[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok
Etymology 3[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok
Etymology 4[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok
References[edit]
Middle Low German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
Pronunciation[edit]
- Stem vowel: ô¹
Noun[edit]
bôk n
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok f, m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)
- a book
Derived terms[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok f, m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural boker, definite plural bokene)
References[edit]
- “bok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Akin to English book.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok f (definite singular boka, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)
- a book
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “bok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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, n
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bōk | bōki |
accusative | bōk | bōki |
genitive | bōki | bōkiō |
dative | bōki | bōkium |
instrumental | — | — |
Declension 2[edit]
singular | plural | |
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nominative | bōk | bōk |
accusative | bōk | bōk |
genitive | bōkes | bōkō |
dative | bōke | bōkun |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants[edit]
Old Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
Noun[edit]
bōk f
Declension[edit]
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | bōk | bōkin | bø̄ker | bø̄krina(r), -rena(r) |
accusative | bōk | bōkina, -ena | bø̄ker | bø̄krina(r), -rena(r) |
dative | bōk | bōkinni, -inne | bōkum, -om | bōkumin, -omen |
genitive | bōka(r) | bōkinna(r) | bōka | bōkanna |
Descendants[edit]
- Swedish: bok
Polish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *bokъ
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok m inan
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- bok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Serbo-Croatian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.
Noun[edit]
bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏к)
Declension[edit]
Etymology 2[edit]
From Proto-Slavic *bogъ. Other fringe theories exist but are largely unsupported.
Alternative forms[edit]
Interjection[edit]
bok (Cyrillic spelling бок)
Synonyms[edit]
Swedish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Swedish bōk, from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok c
Declension[edit]
Declension of bok | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bok | boken | bokar | bokarna |
Genitive | boks | bokens | bokars | bokarnas |
Derived terms[edit]
- book
- beech
References[edit]
- bok in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)
Turkish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old Turkic bok, from Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)
- shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)
Declension[edit]
Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | bok | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | boku | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | bok | boklar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | boku | bokları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | boka | boklara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | bokta | boklarda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | boktan | boklardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | bokun | bokların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms[edit]
Volapük[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
bok (plural boks)
Declension[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
- English 1-syllable words
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- en:Animal sounds
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- af:Antelopes
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- Czech terms inherited from Proto-Slavic
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- cs:Anatomy
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- nl:Gymnastics
- nl:Printing
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- nl:Male animals
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- dsb:Anatomy
- dsb:Books
- dsb:Female
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- Norwegian Bokmål terms derived from Old Norse
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- nb:Trees
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- sv:Beech family plants
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