foc

See also: Appendix:Variations of "foc"

Aragonese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfok/
• Rhymes: -ok
• Syllabification: foc

Noun

foc m (plural focs)

1. (Benasquese) alternative form of fuego (“fire”)

References

• “fuego”, in Aragonario, diccionario castellano–aragonés (in Spanish)
• “fuego / fogo, foc, fuago”, in Diccionario ortografico de l’aragonés (seguntes la PO de l’EFA)‎^[1], Zaragoza: EDACAR, 2023, →ISSN, page 1263

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• focu

Etymology

From Latin focus. Compare Romanian foc.

Noun

foc n (plural focuri)

1. fire

Derived terms

• fucos
• fucurinã
• nfucari

See also

• pirã

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin focus. Compare Occitan fòc. Doublet of focus, a borrowing from Latin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [ˈfo̞k]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈfɔk]

• Audio (Catalonia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

foc m (plural focs)

1. fire
2. fire (act of shooting)
3. home

   Synonyms: llar, niu

Derived terms

• alto el foc
• arma de foc
• correfoc
• foc aliat
• foc amic
• foc follet
• fogó
• llar de foc
• tallafoc

Related terms

• fogar
• fogós

Further reading

• “foc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “foc”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “foc” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “foc”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Chinese

Alternative forms

• fo (fou¹)

Etymology

From clipping of English focus.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): fou¹

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: fou¹
    • Yale: fōu
    • Cantonese Pinyin: fou¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: fou¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /fou̯⁵⁵/

Noun

foc (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. (photography) focus

   out foc [Cantonese]  ―  au¹ fou¹ [Jyutping]  ―  to be out of focus (of a camera)

2. focus (concentration of attention)

Verb

foc (Hong Kong Cantonese)

1. (photography) to focus
2. to focus one's attention; to concentrate

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch focke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fɔk/

• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

  (file)

• Homophone: phoque

Noun

foc m (plural focs)

1. (nautical) jib (sail)

Further reading

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

Irish

Noun

foc

1. (offensive, vulgar) fuck

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin focus.

Noun

foc n

1. fire

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

• fuec, fuoc

Etymology

From Latin focus. Gallo-Romance cognate with Old French fu.

Noun

foc m (oblique plural focs, nominative singular focs, nominative plural foc)

1. fireplace
2. fire

Descendants

• Occitan: fuòc, fòc, fuec, hoec (Gascony), huec (Gascony)

Romanian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂-der.?

Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ-der.?

Latin focus

Romanian foc

Inherited from Latin focus. Compare Aromanian foc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fok/
• Rhymes: -ok

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

foc n (plural focuri)

1. fire, blaze

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	foc	focul	focuri	focurile
genitive-dative	foc	focului	focuri	focurilor
vocative	focule		focurilor

Derived terms

• foc de frumos
• da foc (la)
• focos
• înfoca
• înfocat

Related terms

• focar