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Translingual

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Etymology

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Abbreviation of English Roglai, Cacgia.

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roc

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cacgia Roglai.

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Classical Persian رُخ (rux).

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Noun

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roc (plural rocs)

  1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
    • The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.
      "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;
Synonyms
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  • peng (Chinese contexts)
Translations
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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roc

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Rocuronium.

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Catalan

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From roca.

Noun

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. rock, stone

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Etymology 2

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From Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”).

Noun

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. (obsolete) rook (chess piece)
    Synonym: torre
  2. (heraldry) rook (heraldic charge)
  3. (mythology) roc (mythological bird)

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French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle French roc (15th c.), ultimately from Latin rocca, whence also roche. The Trésor informatisé considers it a “masculine form” of the latter, but the derivation is dubious, unless it were from a dialect with preserved /k/ (such as Picard or Occitan).

Noun

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. rock
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Etymology 2

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From Old French roc, ultimately from Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”), possibly from Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot”).

Noun

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. (dated, chess) rook
    Synonym: tour
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Anagrams

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Interlingua

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Noun

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roc (plural roches)

  1. rook (chess piece)

Irish

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Irish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ga

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle”)

Noun

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roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

  1. ray (fish)
Declension
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Declension of roc (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative roc roic
vocative a roic a roca
genitive roic roc
dative roc roic
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an roc na roic
genitive an roic na roc
dative leis an roc
don roc 		leis na roic
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish roc (“wrinkle”).

Noun

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roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

  1. wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker
    Bhí roic sa léine.
    There were wrinkles in the shirt.
Declension
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Declension of roc (first declension)
bare forms
singular plural
nominative roc roic
vocative a roic a roca
genitive roic roc
dative roc roic
forms with the definite article
singular plural
nominative an roc na roic
genitive an roic na roc
dative leis an roc
don roc 		leis na roic

Verb

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roc (present analytic rocann, future analytic rocfaidh, verbal noun rocadh, past participle roctha) (ambitransitive)

  1. wrinkle, crease, pucker
  2. corrugate
  3. kink
  4. crimp
Conjugation
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Conjugation of roc (first conjugation – A)
indicative singular plural direct relative autonomous
first second third first second third
present rocaim rocann tú;
rocair† 		rocann sé, sí rocaimid; rocann muid rocann sibh rocann siad;
rocaid† 		a rocann; a rocas roctar
past roc mé; rocas roc tú; rocais roc sé, sí rocamar; roc muid roc sibh; rocabhair roc siad; rocadar a roc rocadh
past habitual rocainn roctá rocadh sé, sí rocaimis; rocadh muid rocadh sibh rocaidís; rocadh siad a rocadh roctaí
singular plural direct relative autonomous
first second third first second third
future rocfaidh mé;
rocfad 		rocfaidh tú;
rocfair† 		rocfaidh sé, sí rocfaimid;
rocfaidh muid 		rocfaidh sibh rocfaidh siad;
rocfaid† 		a rocfaidh; a rocfas rocfar
conditional rocfainn rocfá rocfadh sé, sí rocfaimis; rocfadh muid rocfadh sibh rocfaidís; rocfadh siad a rocfadh rocfaí
subjunctive singular plural direct relative autonomous
first second third first second third
present go roca mé;
go rocad† 		go roca tú;
go rocair† 		go roca sé, sí go rocaimid;
go roca muid 		go roca sibh go roca siad;
go rocaid† 		— go roctar
past dá rocainn dá roctá dá rocadh sé, sí dá rocaimis;
dá rocadh muid 		dá rocadh sibh dá rocaidís;
dá rocadh siad 		— dá roctaí
imperative singular plural direct relative autonomous
first second third first second third
— rocaim roc rocadh sé, sí rocaimis rocaigí;
rocaidh† 		rocaidís — roctar
past participle roctha
verbal noun rocadh

† archaic or dialect form
‡ dependent form

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Latvian

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Verb

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roc

  1. inflection of rakt:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French roc.

Noun

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. (chess) rook

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  • French: roc

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Old Dutch

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Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.

Noun

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rōc m

  1. smoke

Inflection

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Declension of rōc (masculine i-stem noun)
case singular plural
nominative rōc rōki
accusative rōc rōki
genitive rōkis rōco
dative rōki rōkin, rōcon

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Descendants

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References

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  • “rōk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Persian رخ (rox).

Noun

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roc oblique singular, m (oblique plural ros, nominative singular ros, nominative plural roc)

  1. (chess) rook

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Old Khmer

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Verb

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roc

  1. Latin script form of រោច៑ (“to withdraw”)

Noun

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roc

  1. Latin script form of រោច៑ (“fortnight following full moon”)

Old Saxon

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Noun

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roc m

  1. alternative spelling of rok

Welsh

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Etymology

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From English rock.

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Noun

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roc m (not mutable)

  1. rock (style of music)
    Synonym: cerddoriaeth roc

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Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “roc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Zazaki

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Etymology

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Related to Persian روز (ruz).

Noun

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roc n

  1. Sun
  2. day
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