poker

See also: Poker and póker

English

Miniature tongs, shovel and poker

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊkə/
• Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

poke +‎ -er.

Noun

poker (plural pokers)

1. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. [from earlier 16th c.]
2. One who pokes.
3. A kind of duck, the pochard.

Synonyms

• (fireplace utensil): firestick, stoker

Translations

metal rod for poking

• Belarusian: качарга f (kačarhá)
• Bulgarian: ръжен (bg) m (rǎ̀žen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撥火棍 (zh), 拨火棍 (zh) (bōhuǒgùn), 火鉤子 (zh), 火钩子 (zh) (huǒgōuzi)

• Czech: pohrabáč m, přikládač m
• Dutch: pook (nl) m
• Finnish: hiilihanko (fi)
• French: tisonnier (fr) m
• German: Schüreisen n, Schürhaken (de) m
• Hungarian: piszkavas (hu)
• Icelandic: skörungur m
• Japanese: 火かき棒 (ひかきぼう, hikakibō)
• Macedonian: ожег m (óžеg), жеголач m (žégolač)
• Maori: rorerore, horehore, kapekape

• Navajo: honishgish, konishgish
• Norman: poqueur m
• Polish: pogrzebacz (pl) m
• Portuguese: atiçador m, tiçoeiro m
• Romanian: vătrai (ro) n
• Russian: кочерга́ (ru) f (kočergá)
• Serbo-Croatian: žarilo (sh) n, жарило n, žarač (sh) m, жарач m
• Spanish: atizador (es)
• Swedish: spiselkrok c, spiskrok, eldgaffel c
• Ukrainian: кочерга f (kočerhá)
• Volapük: lefilahuk (vo)
• Walloon: graweye (wa) f, grawia (wa) m, forguinoe (wa) m
• Westrobothnian: branstaka m

one who pokes

• Dutch: poker (nl) m, pookster f
• Finnish: kohentaja (fi)
• Icelandic: potari m

• Macedonian: бодач m (bódač), буцкало n (búckalo)
• Portuguese: cutucador

Etymology 2

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque.

Noun

poker (plural pokers)

1. Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game. [from earlier 19th c.]
2. (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.

Derived terms

• poker chip
• poker face
• poker-faced

Related terms

• when the chips are down

See also

• three card brag

Translations

card game

• Arabic: بُوكَر‏‎ m (būkar), بُوكِر‏‎ m (būkir)
• Armenian: պոկեր (hy) (poker)
• Bulgarian: покер m (póker)
• Catalan: pòquer m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 啤牌 (pe¹ paai^4-2)

  Mandarin: 撲克 (zh), 扑克 (zh) (pūkè), 撲克牌 (zh), 扑克牌 (zh) (pūkepài)

• Czech: poker (cs) m
• Dutch: poker (nl) n
• Finnish: pokeri (fi)
• French: poker (fr) m
• Georgian: პოკერი (ṗoḳeri)
• German: Poker (de) n
• Greek: πόκερ (el) n (póker)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: पोकर (pokar)
• Hungarian: póker (hu)
• Icelandic: póker m
• Japanese: ポーカー (pōkā)

• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 포커 (pokeo)
• Macedonian: покер m (póker)
• Maltese: powker
• Maori: poka
• Occitan: pòquer m
• Ojibwe: zhooniyaa-wataageng
• Persian: پوکر‏‎ (fa) (poker)
• Polish: poker (pl) m
• Portuguese: pôquer (pt) m, póquer (pt) m
• Romanian: poker n
• Russian: по́кер (ru) m (póker)
• Spanish: póquer (es), póker m
• Swedish: poker (sv)
• Tagalog: poker
• Thai: โป๊กเกอร์
• Turkish: poker (tr)
• Urdu: پوکر‏‎ (pokar)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

External links

• Fireplace poker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Poker (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

Compare Danish pokker (“the deuce, devil”), and English puck.

Noun

poker (plural pokers)

1. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for poker in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

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Basque

Noun

poker

1. belch

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Czech

Noun

poker m

1. poker

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Hyphenation: po‧ker

Etymology 1

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque

Noun

poker n (uncountable)

1. poker (card game)

Etymology 2

From poken +‎ -er

Noun

poker m (plural pokers, diminutive pokertje n)

1. somebody who pokes a fire

Verb

poker

1. first-person singular present indicative of pokeren
2. imperative of pokeren

Anagrams

• koper, krope

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.kɛʁ/

Noun

poker m (plural pokers)

1. (card games) poker

External links

• “poker” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Noun

poker m (invariable)

1. poker (card game)

Derived terms

• pokerino
• pokerista

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔkɛr/

Noun

poker m inan

1. (card games) poker
2. straight flush

   poker królewski – royal flush

Declension

declension of poker

	singular
nominative	poker
genitive	pokera
dative	pokerowi
accusative	poker
instrumental	pokerem
locative	pokerze
vocative	pokerze

Derived terms

• pokerowy

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Portuguese

Noun

poker m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of pôquer

Quotations

For usage examples of this term, see Citations:pôquer.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒker/
• Hyphenation: po‧ker

Noun

pòker m (Cyrillic spelling по̀кер)

1. poker (card game)

Declension

Declension of poker

	singular
nominative	poker
genitive	pokera
dative	pokeru
accusative	poker
vocative	pokeru
locative	pokeru
instrumental	pokerom

References

• “poker” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovene

Noun

póker m inan (genitive pókra, nominative plural pókri)

1. poker (card game)
2. (poker) four of a kind

See also

Poker hands in Slovene · poker karte (layout · text)
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