ok

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ok"

Languages (41)

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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊˈkeɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊˈkeɪ/
• Hyphenation: o‧k

• Audio (US):

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Adjective

ok

1. (informal) Alternative letter-case form of OK.

Anagrams

• KO, Ko, ko

Bimin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Thomas Weber, Henry Whitney, Bimin Phonology Essentials (1999)

Crimean Tatar

Etymology

Abbreviation of okka "kilogramme"

Symbol

ok

1. (Romania) kg

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈok]

• Audio:

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Noun

ok

1. genitive plural of oko

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse haukr, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, Cognate with Swedish hök.

Noun

ok m

1. hawk

Declension

Declension of ok

masculine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ok	oken	oker	okär
accusative	ok	otjin	oka	oką
dative	otje	otjem	okum	okum(e)
genitive	—	otjemes	—	okumes

Esperanto

Esperanto numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: ok     Ordinal: oka     Adverbial: oke     Multiplier: okobla, okopa     Fractional: okona, okono

Etymology

From Latin octo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Audio 3:

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• Rhymes: -ok
• Syllabification: ok

Numeral

ok

1. eight (8)

Derived terms

• okangulo (“octagon”)
• oko (“a group or set of eight”)
• okuna (“octave”)

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːʰk/
• Rhymes: -oːʰk

Noun

ok n (genitive singular oks, plural ok)

1. yoke

Declension

n3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ok	okið	ok	okini
accusative	ok	okið	ok	okini
dative	oki	okinum	okum	okunum
genitive	oks	oksins	oka	okanna

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

ok

1. (anatomy) belly, stomach

German Low German

Alternative forms

• auk, ouk, ock, ohk, ook

Etymology

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon ōk, like German auch.

Adverb

ok

1. also; and also

Hungarian

Etymology

From the obsolete dialectal okik (“to learn a lesson, to be edified”), itself from a Turkic language. Compare Kyrgyz угуу (uguu, “to hear, to understand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈok]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

ok (plural okok)

1. cause

   Holonyms: okság, ok-okozati viszony

   Coordinate terms: következmény, okozat

2. reason, motive

   Synonym: indok

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	ok	okok
accusative	okot	okokat
dative	oknak	okoknak
instrumental	okkal	okokkal
causal-final	okért	okokért
translative	okká	okokká
terminative	okig	okokig
essive-formal	okként	okokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	okban	okokban
superessive	okon	okokon
adessive	oknál	okoknál
illative	okba	okokba
sublative	okra	okokra
allative	okhoz	okokhoz
elative	okból	okokból
delative	okról	okokról
ablative	októl	okoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	oké	okoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	okéi	okokéi

Possessive forms of ok

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	okom	okaim
2nd person sing.	okod	okaid
3rd person sing.	oka	okai
1st person plural	okunk	okaink
2nd person plural	okotok	okaitok
3rd person plural	okuk	okaik

Derived terms

• oki
• okmány
• okol
• okos
• okoz
• okság
• oktalan
• okvetlen

Compound words with this term at the beginning

• oka-foka
• okalap
• okfejtés
• okfejtő
• okhatározó
• okirat
• okkal-móddal
• oklevél
• oknyomozás
• oknyomozó

Compound words with this term at the end

• észok
• gyanúok
• halálok
• indítóok
• kórok
• válóok

Related terms

• okít
• oktat
• okul

Further reading

• ok in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk

Noun

ok n (genitive singular oks, nominative plural ok)

1. yoke

   Synonym: klafi

Declension

Declension of ok (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ok	okið	ok	okin
accusative	ok	okið	ok	okin
dative	oki	okinu	okum	okunum
genitive	oks	oksins	oka	okanna

Ido

Ido numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: ok     Ordinal: okesma     Adverbial: okfoye     Multiplier: okopla     Fractional: okima

Etymology

From Esperanto ok, from Latin octo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

ok

1. eight (8)

Iwam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

Noun

ok

1. water

Synonyms

• op

Further reading

• Robert Conrad, May River Iwam Organised Phonology Data (1992)

Karaim

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ok.

Noun

ok

1. arrow

References

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ok”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Lacandon

Noun

ok

1. foot

Lower Mandobo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oq/

Noun

ok

1. water

References

• Randy Lebold, Ronald Kriens, Yunita Susanto, A report on the Bamgi, Kia, and Lower Digul River language survey in Papua, Indonesia (2013, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2013-008, 1-52), page 40

Lower Tanana

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *ʔaˑqʼ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔɔkʰ/, /ʔɔqʰ/

Noun

ok

1. fog
2. mist

Derived terms

• ok tu' (“fog water”)

References

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 59

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [wokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {wȩkʷ}

Noun

ok

1. fish net.
2. netting.
3. screen; sieve.

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old English āc, from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks.

Alternative forms

• hok, oek, ooc, ook
• oc (Early Middle English); hoke, hokke, oke, wocke (Late Middle English)
• ake (Northern)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̝ːk/
• IPA^(key): /ɑːk/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA^(key): /aːk/ (Northern)

Noun

ok (plural okes)

1. oak (tree of the genus Quercus or its wood)
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale

     The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
     So hidously þat with þe leste strook
     That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook

Descendants

• English: oak
• Scots: aik, ake, yik

References

• “ōk(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse ok, variant of auk, from Proto-Germanic *auk. Doublet of ek.

Alternative forms

• ocke
• oc (Early Middle English)
• occ (Ormulum)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔk/, (rare) /oːk/

Adverb

ok (East Midland, chiefly Early Middle English)

1. Also, furthermore, as well.

References

• “ok, adv. and conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Conjunction

ok (East Midland or Ireland, chiefly Early Middle English)

1. But, nevertheless, on the contrary, rather.
2. (rare) And, yet, also.

References

• “oc, conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Mohawk

Particle

ok

1. and...

References

• Gunther Michelson (1973), A thousand words of Mohawk, University of Ottawa Press, page 83

Mokilese

Verb

ok

1. to burn

Derived terms

• koahok

References

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

Ninggerum

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

North Muyu

Noun

ok f

1. water (in a well)

Noun

ok m

1. water (drawn, e.g. out of well)
2. sap (in fruits)

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)
• Jan Honoré Maria Cornelis Boelaars, The Linguistic Position of South-Western New Guinea (III), chapter XII, Kati language

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ók.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːk/

Verb

ok

1. past tense of ake

Etymology 2

Noun

ok n (plural oket)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of åk

Anagrams

• k.o., KO

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• auk — ᛅᚢᚴ (auk)

Etymology 1

From earlier auk, from Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Old English ēac, Old Frisian āk, Old Saxon ōk, Old High German ouh, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk).

Conjunction

ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

1. and
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:ok.

Descendants

• Icelandic: auk, og
• Faroese: og
• Norwegian Nynorsk: og, au, aug; (dialectal) ok, auk, ug
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: au
• Jamtish: og
• Elfdalian: og
• Old Swedish: ok, oc, och, ogh
  • Swedish: och, ock
• Old Danish: oc
  • Danish: og
    • Norwegian Bokmål: og
• → Middle English: ok, oc

Adverb

ok

1. also, too

Descendants

• Icelandic: og
• Norwegian Nynorsk: òg
• Norwegian Bokmål: òg
• Swedish: ock
• Middle English: ok, oc

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Noun

ok n (genitive oks, plural ok)

2. yoke

Declension

Declension of ok (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ok	okit	ok	okin
accusative	ok	okit	ok	okin
dative	oki	okinu	okum	okunum
genitive	oks	oksins	oka	okanna

Related terms

• eykr m (“draft animal”)
• eyki n (“vehicle, cart”)
• oka (“to yoke”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: ok
• Faroese: ok
• Norwegian: åk
• Old Swedish: uk, ok
  • Swedish: ok
• Danish: åg
• Elfdalian: uok
• Gutnish: uk

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “ok2”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Further reading

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “ok”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *auk.

Adverb

ōk

1. also, too

Descendants

• Middle Low German: ôk
  • Low German: ook
    • Dutch Low Saxon: ok, ook
    • German Low German: ok, auk, ouk, ock, ohk, ook
  • Plautdietsch: uk

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• oc, ock, och

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ok.

Conjunction

ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

1. and

Adverb

ok

1. also, too

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ok.

Alternative forms

• uk

Noun

ok n

2. yoke

Declension

Declension of ok (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ok	okit	ok	okin
accusative	ok	okit	ok	okin
dative	oki, oke	okinu, okeno	okum, okom	okumin, okomen
genitive	oks	oksins	oka	okanna

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: ok

Noun

ok n

1. genitive plural of oko (some meanings)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /oˈkej/ [oˈkeɪ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈkɐj/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈkɐj/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈkej/
  • (Central Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈkej/
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ɔˈke/

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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Interjection

ok

1. alternative letter-case form of OK

Noun

ok m (plural oks)

1. alternative letter-case form of OK

South Muyu

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Doublet of zygot.

Noun

ok n

1. a yoke
   1. a wooden bar used to connect two oxen by their shoulders
   2. a wooden bar placed over the shoulders of a person (used to carry for example buckets)
   3. (clothing) a part of a shirt draped over the shoulders
   4. (figuratively) a burden
      • 2000, 1973 års bibelkommission, “Matteusevangeliet [Matthew] 11:30”, in Bibel 2000‎^[2], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 4 October 2025:

        Mitt ok är skonsamt och min börda är lätt.

        My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

      • 2004 June 13, Ingalill Mosander, “Orden har befriat mig [The words have liberated me]”, in Aftonbladet‎^[3], archived from the original on 4 October 2025:

        Det är som om ett ok har lyfts från mina axlar.

        It's as if a yoke has been lifted from my shoulders.

      • 2018, Johannes Magnus, translated by Kurt Johannesson, edited by Hans Helander, Goternas och svearnas historia‎^[4], Michaelisgillet & Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, archived from the original on 4 October 2025:

        Därefter lades danskarna under oket av svenskarna för andra gången.

        Then the Danes were put under the yoke by the Swedes for the second time.

Declension

Declension of ok

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ok	oks
	definite	oket	okets
plural	indefinite	ok	oks
	definite	oken	okens

Derived terms

• oka
• okben
• okbåge
• bromsok

See also

• OK

References

• ok in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ok in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• ko

Tocharian B

Numeral

ok

1. alternative form of okt (“eight”)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوق, from Proto-Turkic *ok (“arrow”). Compare Old Turkic 𐰸 (ok, “arrow”).

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

ok (definite accusative oku, plural oklar)

1. arrow

   Dörtnala koşan bir yük arabasının oku böğrüme çarptı.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Declension

Declension of ok

singular plural nominative ok oklar definite accusative oku okları dative oka oklara locative okta oklarda ablative oktan oklardan genitive okun okların Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular okum oklarım 2nd singular okun okların 3rd singular oku okları 1st plural okumuz oklarımız 2nd plural okunuz oklarınız 3rd plural okları okları definite accusative singular plural 1st singular okumu oklarımı 2nd singular okunu oklarını 3rd singular okunu oklarını 1st plural okumuzu oklarımızı 2nd plural okunuzu oklarınızı 3rd plural oklarını oklarını dative singular plural 1st singular okuma oklarıma 2nd singular okuna oklarına 3rd singular okuna oklarına 1st plural okumuza oklarımıza 2nd plural okunuza oklarınıza 3rd plural oklarına oklarına locative singular plural 1st singular okumda oklarımda 2nd singular okunda oklarında 3rd singular okunda oklarında 1st plural okumuzda oklarımızda 2nd plural okunuzda oklarınızda 3rd plural oklarında oklarında ablative singular plural 1st singular okumdan oklarımdan 2nd singular okundan oklarından 3rd singular okundan oklarından 1st plural okumuzdan oklarımızdan 2nd plural okunuzdan oklarınızdan 3rd plural oklarından oklarından genitive singular plural 1st singular okumun oklarımın 2nd singular okunun oklarının 3rd singular okunun oklarının 1st plural okumuzun oklarımızın 2nd plural okunuzun oklarınızın 3rd plural oklarının oklarının

Derived terms

• ok yılanı
• okçu
• okçuluk
• okluk

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 194

Upper Mandobo

Noun

ok

1. water

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• ô kê, OK

Etymology

From French OK.

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔo˧˧ ke˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔow˧˧ kej˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔow˧˧ kej˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ô kê

• Audio (Hà Nội):

  (file)

Interjection

ok

1. (informal) OK, okay (acknowledgement or acceptance)
2. (computing) OK, okay (dismissal of a dialog box or confirmation of a prompt)

Adjective

ok

1. (informal) OK; good; fine

Synonyms

• (acknowledgement or acceptance): ờ, ừ, ừm
• (dismissal of a dialog box or confirmation of a prompt): được

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “dismissal of a dialog box or confirmation of a prompt”): hủy bỏ, hủy, thôi

Anagrams

• ko

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Conjunction

ok

1. only, to

Volapük

Pronoun

ok

1. oneself

Declension

Declension of ok

	singular	plural
nominative	ok	oks
genitive	oka	okas
dative	oke	okes
accusative	oki	okis

Wambon

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

Wastek

Noun

ok

1. heat

References

• wordlist

Yessan-Mayo

Alternative forms

• okw

Noun

ok m

1. water

References

• Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method (2004, →ISBN
• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66 (as okw)

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʔoːkᴰ (“to exit”).

Cognate with Thai ออก (ɔ̀ɔk), Northern Thai ᩋᩬᨠ, Lao ອອກ (ʼǭk), Lü ᦀᦸᧅᧈ (˙ʼoak¹), Shan ဢွၵ်ႇ (ʼàuk), Ahom 𑜒𑜨𑜀𑜫 (ʼok).

Perhaps related to Chinese 屙 (ē).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔoːk˧˥/
• Tone numbers: og⁷
• Hyphenation: ok

Verb

ok (Sawndip forms 𭃀[2] or ⿰出悪[2] or 𫫇[2] or 恶[2] or 𫥫[2] or 屋[2] or 跒[2] or ⿰出屋[2] or 喔[2] or 𡁮[2] or 沃[2], 1957–1982 spelling ok)

1. to exit

   ok ranz

   to leave the house

2. to provide; to give
3. to excrete
4. to produce; to make
5. to sprout; to put forth; to bud
6. to occur; to happen; to come up
7. to exceed; to go over
8. to present; to put forth; to raise; to pose
9. to issue; to release
10. to publish