bok
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒk
Etymology 1
From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck.
Adjective
bok
- (South Africa, slang) keen or willing.
- "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."
Etymology 2
Imitative.
Interjection
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
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch bok (“buck, male goat”), from Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.
Noun
bok (plural bokke, diminutive bokkie)
- goat
- antelope, buck
- Synonym: wildsbok
- (slang) lover (term of affection)
- Synonym: bokkie
- vaulting horse
- blunder
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Xhosa: ibhokhwe
Adjective
bok (attributive bokke, comparative bokker, superlative bokste)
Cebuano
Etymology
From Philippine English bok, from bunk, shortened from bunkmate.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: bok
Noun
bok
- one's batchmate or classmate in the Philippine Military Academy
Choctaw
Etymology
Attested as bayuk in the 17th century.
Noun
bōk (alienable)
Declension
possessive (alienable) | singular | paucal | plural |
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first-person ("my, our") | a̱bōk | pi̱bōk | hapi̱bōk |
second-person ("thy, your") | chi̱bōk | hachi̱bōk | |
third-person ("his, her, its, their") |
i̱bōk |
absolute | nominative | accusative | oblique | |
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neutral | bōk | bōkat | bōka̱ | bōkak |
contrastive | bōkakō | bōkakōsh | bōkako̱ | bōkakakō |
bōkato | bōkano | |||
focus | bōkō | bōkakō | ||
bōkōsh | bōko̱ |
-ma "that, there" |
-pa "this, here" |
-kia "also, too" |
-ba "only" |
-ōk "but" |
-akhī pejorative |
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bōkma | bōkpa | bōk(ak)kia | bōkba | bōkōk | bōkakhī |
Derived terms
Descendants
Czech
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.
Pronunciation
Noun
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Declension
Related terms
Further reading
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.
Noun
bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)
- male goat, buck, billy
- Synonym: geitenbok
- (gymnastics) vaulting horse
- a crane on legs
- box, perch (driver's seat on a carriage)
- (printing) job case, type case
- sawbuck, buck
- Synonym: zaagbok
- (derogatory) churl, grouch
- (derogatory) oaf, bumpkin
Derived terms
- bokkenbaard
- bokkenpruik
- bokkensprong
- bokkig
- boksbaard
- geitenbok
- hertenbok
- reebok
- schachtbok
- springbok
- zaagbok
- zondebok
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
bok
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of bokken
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of bokken
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *bokъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian bok, Polish bok, Czech bok, Russian бок (bok), and Serbo-Croatian bȍk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɔk/
- Homophones: bog, Bog
Noun
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
- Alternative locative singular: boce
Synonyms
- (breast): prědk
Further reading
- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “bok”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “bok”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Marshallese
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
bok
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
bok
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
Noun
bok
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
Noun
bok
References
Middle English
Noun
bok
- Alternative form of booke
Middle Low German
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
Pronunciation
- Stem vowel: ô¹
Noun
bôk n
Descendants
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
Pronunciation
Noun
bok f or m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)
- a book
Derived terms
Noun
bok f or m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural boker, definite plural bokene)
- a beech (tree).
Alternative forms
References
- “bok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Akin to English book.
Pronunciation
Noun
bok f (definite singular boka, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)
- a book
Derived terms
References
- “bok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *bōks, whence also Old English bōc, Old Frisian bōk, Old High German buoh, Old Norse bók.
Noun
bōk f or n
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | bōk | bōki |
accusative | bōk | bōki |
genitive | bōki | bōkiō |
dative | bōki | bōkium |
instrumental | — | — |
Declension 2
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | bōk | bōk |
accusative | bōk | bōk |
genitive | bōkes | bōkō |
dative | bōke | bōkun |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
Noun
bōk f
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: bok
Polish
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *bokъ
Pronunciation
Noun
bok m inan
Declension
Derived terms
- (nouns) boczek, boczniak, bocznica, pobocze, zboczeniec
- (adjectives) boczny, poboczny, zboczony
- (adverbs) bocznie, pobocznie, na bok, u boku, z boku
Further reading
- bok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- Template:R:PWN
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.
Noun
bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏к)
Declension
Etymology 2
From Proto-Slavic *bogъ. Other fringe theories exist but are largely unsupported.
Alternative forms
Interjection
bok (Cyrillic spelling бок)
Synonyms
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish bōk, from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.
Pronunciation
Noun
bok c
Declension
Declension of bok 1 | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bok | boken | böcker | böckerna |
Genitive | boks | bokens | böckers | böckernas |
Declension of bok 2 | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bok | boken | bokar | bokarna |
Genitive | boks | bokens | bokars | bokarnas |
Derived terms
- book
- beech
References
Turkish
Etymology
From Old Turkic bok, from Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”).
Pronunciation
Noun
bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)
- shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)
Declension
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Definite accusative | boku | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
Volapük
Pronunciation
Noun
bok (nominative plural boks)
Declension
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