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bok

bok

See also: bök, bók, and bøk

English

Adjective

bok

  1. (South Africa, slang) keen or willing.
    "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."

Etymology 2

Imitative.

Interjection

bok

  1. The clucking sound of a chicken.
    • 2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices
      And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.
    • 2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory
      So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'

Anagrams


Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bok (goat).

Noun

bok (plural bokke, diminutive bokkie)

  1. goat
  2. antelope, buck
  3. (slang) also bokkie My lover.
  4. vaulting-horse
  5. blunder
Synonyms

Adjective

bok (attributive bokke, comparative bokker, superlative bokste)

  1. keen, willing

Choctaw

Noun

bok

  1. creek, stream
  2. river

Derived terms

Descendants


Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Noun

bok m

  1. side
  2. flank
  3. (anatomy) hip

Declension

Related terms


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)

  1. male goat
  2. (gymnastics) vaulting horse
  3. a crane on legs

Derived terms

Verb

bok

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

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian bok, Polish bok, Czech bok, Russian бок (bok), and Serbo-Croatian bȍk.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk/
  • Homophones: bog, Bog

Noun

bok m

  1. side (bounding straight edge of an object; flat surface of an object; left or right half; surface of a sheet of paper)
  2. page (one side of a leaf of a book)
  3. (chiefly in the dual) breast (organs on the front of a woman’s chest, which contain the mammary glands)

Declension

  • Alternative locative singular: boce

Synonyms


Marshallese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • MED phonemes: {bẹkʷ}
  • IPA phonemes: /pˠɘkʷ/
  • IPA articulation: [pˠɤ͡okʷ]

Noun

bok

  1. blister
  2. chicken pox

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • MED phonemes: {bẹkʷ}
  • IPA phonemes: /pˠɘkʷ/
  • IPA articulation: [pˠɤ͡okʷ]

Noun

bok

  1. bladder

Etymology 3

From English book.

Pronunciation

  • MED phonemes: {bẹkʷ}
  • IPA phonemes: /pˠɘkʷ/
  • IPA articulation: [pˠɤ͡okʷ]

Noun

bok

  1. book

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • MED phonemes: {bekʷ}
  • IPA phonemes: /pˠɜkʷ/
  • IPA articulation: [pˠʌ͡ɔkʷ]

Noun

bok

  1. sand
  2. sandspit
  3. sandbar

References


Middle Low German

Pronunciation

  • Stem vowel: ô¹
    • (originally) IPA(key): /boːk/

Etymology

From Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Noun

bôk n

  1. book
  2. beechnut

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Pronunciation

Noun

bok f, m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)

  1. a book

Derived terms

Noun

bok f, m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural boker, definite plural bokene)

  1. a beech (tree). Alternative form of bøk.

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Noun

bok f (definite singular boka, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)

  1. a book

Derived terms

References


Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bōks, whence also Old English bōc, Old Frisian bōk, Old High German buoh, Old Norse bók.

Noun

bōk f

  1. book

Declension

Descendants


Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Noun

bōk f

  1. book

Declension

Descendants


Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔk/

Noun

bok m inan

  1. side

Synonyms

Declension

Derived terms

  • na bok
  • z boku

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Noun

bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏к)

  1. side
    bok uz bok ― side by side
  2. flank
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ. Other fringe theories exist but are largely unsupported.

Alternative forms

Interjection

bok (Cyrillic spelling бок)

  1. (Croatia) hi
  2. (Croatia) bye
Synonyms

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish bōk, from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buːk/

Noun

bok c

  1. book:
    1. collection of sheets of paper
    2. a work of literature
    3. a major division of a published work
  2. beech

Declension

Inflection of bok 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bok boken bokar bokarna
Genitive boks bokens bokars bokarnas

Derived terms

book
  • anteckningsbok
  • boka
  • bokanmälan
  • bokantikvariat
  • bokare
  • bokauktion
  • bokband
  • bokbar
  • bokbestånd
  • bokbindare
  • bokbinderi
  • bokbindning
  • bokbord
  • bokbuss
  • bokbål
  • bokcafé
  • bokcirkel
  • bokfilm
  • bokflod
  • bokform
  • bokformat
  • bokföra
  • bokförare
  • bokföring
  • bokförlag
  • bokförläggare
  • bokförsäljare
  • bokhandel
  • bokhylla
  • bokhållare
  • bokillustration
  • bokkafé
  • bokklubb
  • boklig
  • boklåda
  • boklån
  • boklärd
  • bokläsare
  • bokmal
  • bokmarknad
  • bokmoms
  • bokmål
  • bokmärke
  • bokmässa
  • bokning
  • bokomslag
  • bokpris
  • bokpärm
  • bokrea
  • bokrecenssion
  • bokrulle
  • bokrygg
  • boksamlare
  • boksamling
  • bokserie
  • boksida
  • bokskåp
  • bokslukare
  • bokslut
  • bokstav
  • bokstavera
  • bokstavering
  • bokstavlig
  • bokstavligen
  • bokstöd
  • boksynt
  • boktitel
  • boktryck
  • boktryckare
  • boktryckeri
  • bokutgivning
  • bokutlåning
  • bokvagn
  • bokverk
  • bokälskare
beech
  • bokfanér
  • bokollon
  • bokskog
  • bokträd

References


Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic bok, from Proto-Turkic *bok (dirt, dung).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bok/

Noun

bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)

  1. **** (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)

Derived terms

  • boklama
  • boklamak
  • boklu
  • bokluk

Declension


Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bok/

Noun

bok (plural boks)

  1. box

Declension

Derived terms

  • bokül