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

• KBO, kob

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

• (antelope): wildsbok

Adjective

bok ‎(attributive bokke, comparative bokker, superlative bokste)

1. keen, willing

Choctaw

Noun

bok

1. creek, stream
2. river

Derived terms

• bokushi

Descendants

• Cajun French: bogue
  • English: bogue

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Noun

bok m

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

Declension

Related terms

• boční
• bokovka
• odbočit
• vybočit
• zabočit
• vbok

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

• schachtbok
• zondebok

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

• (breast): prědk

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

• Marshallese-English Online Dictionary

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

• “bok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

• “bok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

• Middle Low German: bôk, buk
  • German Low German: Book

Old Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

bōk f

1. book

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: bok

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

Noun

bok m inan

1. side

Synonyms

• strona

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

• bog

Interjection

bok ‎(Cyrillic spelling бок)

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

Synonyms

• (hi): zdravo, ćao
• (bye): zbogom, ćao

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

Derived terms

book

beech

• bokfanér
• bokollon
• bokskog
• bokträd

References

• bok in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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