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Proper noun

Roc m

1. A male given name, cognate of English Rocco

English

Alternative forms

• roche
• rok
• rukh

Noun

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;

Translations

Anagrams

• cor , Cor., CRO, OCR, orc, ORC

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔk/

Noun

roc m ‎(plural rocs)

1. rock
2. (dated, chess) rook

Synonyms

• (chess: a rook): tour

Anagrams

• cor

Interlingua

Noun

roc ‎(plural roches)

1. rook (chess piece)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾˠɔk/

Etymology 1

Noun

roc m ‎(genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. ray (fish)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Old Irish roc ‎(“wrinkle”).

Noun

roc m ‎(genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. wrinkle, crease, pucker

   Bhí roic sa léine.‎

   There were wrinkles in the shirt.

Declension

Verb

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

1. to wrinkle, crease, pucker
2. to corrugate
3. to kink
4. to crimp

Conjugation

Derived terms

• rocach

Latvian

Verb

roc

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of rakt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of rakt

Middle French

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (chess) rook

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old French

Noun

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

1. (chess) rook

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old Saxon

Noun

roc m

1. Alternative spelling of rok