choc

See also: choć, chốc, chọc, and Choc

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɒk/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒk
• Homophone: chock

Noun

choc (countable and uncountable, plural chocs)

1. (informal) Clipping of chocolate.

   mint choc chip ice cream; a box of chocs

Derived terms

• choc chip
• choccy
• choc ice
• chocophile

See also

• choc-a-bloc

French

Etymology 1

16th century, from choquer (“to hit, to shock”); influenced by Italian ciocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

choc m (plural chocs)

1. hit, strike
2. shock (surprise, startling)
3. electrical shock
4. clash
5. episode

Derived terms

• choc anaphylactique
• choc culturel
• choc terminal
• choquer
• de choc
• onde de choc
• pare-choc

Descendants

Descendants

• → Danish: chok
• → Georgian: შოკი (šoḳi)
• → Greek: σοκ (sok)
• → Italian: choc
• → Portuguese: choque
• → Russian: шок (šok)
• → Swedish: chock
• → Persian: شوک (šok)
• → Turkish: şok

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃɔk/

Noun

choc m (plural chocs)

1. (Louisiana) alternative form of tchoque (“blackbird”)

Further reading

• “choc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Huave

Noun

choc

1. insect

Derived terms

• arrier choc

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert; Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence; Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso; Ponce Villanueva, Tereso; Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981), Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 93

Interlingua

Noun

choc (plural chocs or choches)

1. shock

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French choc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

choc m (invariable)

1. alternative spelling of shock

Polish

Pronunciation

• (Masovia):
  • (Far Masovian) IPA^(key): [ˈxɔt͡s]
  • (Podlachia) IPA^(key): [ˈxɔt͡s]
• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Western Lublin) IPA^(key): [ˈxɔt͡s]
  • (Eastern Lublin) IPA^(key): [ˈxɔt͡s]

Particle

choc

1. (Far Masovian, Przasznysz, Podlachia, Tykocin, Western Lublin, Pożóg, Eastern Lublin, Tomaszów Lubelski County) alternative form of choć
   1. (Far Masovian, Przasznysz) alternative form of choć (“any-”)

Further reading

• Jan Karłowicz (1900), “choć”, in Słownik gwar polskich [Dictionary of Polish dialects] (in Polish), volume 1: A do E, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 190