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bok

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɒk/
• (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): /bɒk/
• Rhymes: -ɒk

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck. Compare German Bock (“willingness, desire”).

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.

   Alternative form: bawk

Verb

bok (third-person singular simple present boks, present participle bokking, simple past and past participle bokked)

1. To make the clucking sound of a chicken.

See also

Anagrams

• KBO, OKB, kob

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch bok (“buck, male goat”), from Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

Noun

bok (plural bokke, diminutive bokkie)

1. goat
2. antelope, buck

   Synonym: wildsbok

3. (slang) lover (term of affection)

   Synonym: bokkie

4. (gymnastics) vaulting horse
5. blunder

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Xhosa: ibhokhwe

Adjective

bok (attributive bokke, comparative bokker, superlative bokste)

1. keen, willing

Cebuano

Etymology

From Philippine English bok, from bunk, shortened from bunkmate.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: bok

Noun

bok

1. one's batchmate or classmate in the Philippine Military Academy

Choctaw

Etymology

Attested as bayuk in the 17th century.

Noun

bōk (alienable)

1. creek, stream
2. river

Declension

Derived terms

• bokushi

Descendants

• → Cajun French: bogue
  • → English: bogue

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech bok, from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbok]

Noun

bok m inan (diminutive boček or bůček)

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

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• “bok”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bok”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “bok”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/
• Hyphenation: bok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

Noun

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)

1. male goat, billy

   Synonym: geitenbok

2. buck, horse or pony; strong contraption on legs, resembling a mount
   1. (gymnastics) vaulting horse
   2. sawbuck

      Synonym: zaagbok

   3. a crane on legs
3. box, perch (driver's seat on a carriage)
4. (printing) job case, type case
5. (derogatory) churl, grouch
6. (derogatory) oaf, bumpkin

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: bok
  • → Xhosa: ibhokhwe
• Negerhollands: bok
• Sranan Tongo: boko, bokoboko
  • Aukan: boko boko

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

bok

1. inflection of bokken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Etymology 3

Proposed etymologies include Lokono bo-kia (“emphatic 'you'”), Lokono Lokono (“people, Arawak”), Portuguese botoque (“lip plate”), Portuguese bugre (“derogatory term for an Amerindian”). Compare English buck (“a black or Native American man”).

Noun

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n, feminine bokkin)

1. (Suriname, obsolete) Amerindian person

Derived terms

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: boko
• → Guyanese Creole English: buck
• → Trinidadian Creole English: buck

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Caribbean Javanese mbok.

Noun

bok f (uncountable)

1. (Suriname, dated) Form of address for a Javanese woman

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Bock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: bok

Noun

bok m animal

1. buck, he-goat

   Synonym: kòzeł

Further reading

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “kozioł”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[2]

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 inan

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)

   Synonym: prědk

Declension

• Alternative locative singular: boce

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “bok”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “bok”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Maranao

Etymology

From buhok, compare Tagalog buhok.

Noun

bok

1. head hair

Marshallese

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩkʷ}

Noun

bok

1. blister
2. chicken pox

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩkʷ}

Noun

bok

1. bladder

Etymology 3

From English book.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩkʷ}

Noun

bok (construct form bokin)

1. book

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠɔkʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠɛkʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {bekʷ}

Noun

bok

1. sand
2. sandspit
3. sandbar

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Middle English

Alternative forms

• boc, boke, book, booke, buk, buke

Etymology

From Old English bōc, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boːk/

Noun

bok (plural bokes)

1. A document, especially if extensive and composed of bound pages:
   1. A notebook; a document kept empty for spontaneous use.
   2. A legal or governmental record or register.
   3. An account book or ledger; a financial record.
2. A book; an extended written work:
   1. A volume or fascicle of a larger work.
   2. A particular book (especially the Bible)
3. (figuratively) Knowledge, ethics or a source of them.

Related terms

• bochous
• bocstaff
• landbok

Descendants

• English: book (see there for further descendants)
• Geordie English: buik, beuk
• Scots: buik, beuk, buke, beuck
• Yola: buke

References

• “bọ̄k, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

• buk

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bôk n

1. book
2. beechnut

Descendants

• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: book

  German Low German: Book

• Plautdietsch: Buak

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• bog (non-standard since 1907)

Etymology

From Old Norse bók (“beech, book”), from Proto-Germanic *bōks (“letter”), either from *bōkō (“beech”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

Noun

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

1. book

Usage notes

• One of the nouns whose feminine form is predominant in formal writing.

Derived terms

Noun

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

1. beech (tree)

Alternative forms

• bøk

References

• “bok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• bók (Setesdalsk, dialects)

Etymology

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Akin to English book, German Low German Book.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːk/, [bu̞ːk]

Noun

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

1. book

Derived terms

References

• “bok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ. First attested in the 13th century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /bɔk/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bɔk/

Noun

bok m inan (related adjective bokowy)

1. (anatomy, attested in Masovia, Lesser Poland, Silesia, Greater Poland) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person or animal)
2. side, flank (neither the front nor the back of an object)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Polish: bok
• Silesian: bok

References

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “bok”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “bok”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “bok”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “bok”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “bok”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “bok”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• buok

Etymology

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

Noun

bōk f or n

1. book

Declension

Descendants

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

    Dutch Low Saxon: book

    German Low German: Book

  • Plautdietsch: Buak

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᛒᚮᚴ (Runic)

Etymology

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

Noun

bōk f

1. book

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: bok
• → Finnish: pyökki

Polish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: bok
• Homophones: Bock, Bok

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish bok.

Noun

bok m inan (related adjective boczny)

1. (anatomy) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person, animal)
   1. (Middle Polish) physical or emotional closeness to someone
2. side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of an object)

   Synonym: strona

3. side (place in space located to the right or left of some central reference point)
4. (geometry) side (segment connecting two vertices of a polygon)
5. side (place out of the way)

   Synonyms: strona, ustronie

6. (obsolete, mining) shaft wall
7. (Middle Polish, collective, metonomically) man; human community; group
8. (Middle Polish) side; Further details are uncertain.

Declension

Derived terms

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See bąk.

Noun

bok m animal

1. (Kielce) alternative form of bąk (“child”)

Further reading

• bok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bok”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Wiesław Morawski (23.10.2012) “BOK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 186
• bok in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bôːk/

Noun

bȏk or bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̑к or бо̏к)

1. side (especially body part)

   bok uz bok ― side by side

2. flank

Declension

The accent shift is non-weakened: nȁ bōk.

Usage notes

• Also can occur as a.p. B in western dialects: bȍk, bòka... (Milas 1903:95 (49), ŠRHJ, Kapović 2010).
• Daničić (ARj) provides short falling in plural: bȍkovi, bȍkōvā...
• Older attestations:
  • Vrančić 1595: Book (Lumbus)
  • Micalia 1649: bók
  • Della Bella 1728: Book, ód bokka (Lato)
  • Belostenec 1740: Bòki / (D[ubrovnik]) boczi
  • Stulli 1806: Bōk, okka
• Dialectal attestations:
  • Lužnica (Ćirić): bo̍k, bo̍kovi
  • Mostar (Milas, p.95 (49)): bȍk, bòka
  • Novi Vinodolski (Беличъ, p.209): bȏk, bȍka
  • Susak (Hamm/Hraste/Guberina, p.106): b^uȏk, bŏkȁ [a.p. D?]
  • Varaždin (Lipljin): b'ok, bȏka, [Gpl] bokȏf
  • Vrgada (Jurišić): bȏk, bȍka

Etymology 2

From Bog (shortened from a greeting such as Bog s tobom, zdravobog, etc.) by devoicing of the final consonant typical in Kajkavian dialects. Attested in Zagreb colloqual usage since mid-20th century. A widespread alternative etymology proposes a fictional Austrian German greeting mein Bücken (supposedly "my bow"); the etymology is not acceptable, as the greeting is not attested in German, and the usual loanword adaptation into Croatian would yield a different phonetic form.

Alternative forms

• bog

Pronunciation

• (Zagreb) IPA^(key): /bok/

Interjection

bok (Cyrillic spelling бок)

1. (Croatia, Kajkavian) hi

   Synonyms: zdravo, pozdrav, ćao

2. (Croatia, Kajkavian) bye

   Synonyms: zbogom, zdravo, pozdrav, ćao

Footnotes

Bibliography

• ARj = Đuro Daničić, editor (1880–1882), “bȏk”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎^[7] (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Zagreb: JAZU, page 518
• Babić, Ivana (2019). Leksikografske dvojbe na jednome školskom primjeru. Hrvatski jezik 6/1.
• ERHJ = Matasović, Ranko (2016) “bok”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 73
• Kapović, Mate (2010). Naglasak o-osnova muškoga roda u hrvatskom — povijesni razvoj. Filologija 54.
• Magner, Thomas (1966). A Zagreb Kajkavian Dialect. Penn.: Pennsylvania State University.
• Milas, Matej (1903). Današńi mostarski dijalekat. Rad JAZU 153 (60).

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish bok.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: bok

Noun

bok m inan (related adjective boczny)

1. side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person, animal, or object)
   1. side curtain by a window
   2. wayside, roadside

Declension

Further reading

• bok in dykcjonorz.eu
• bok in silling.org
• Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “bok”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 65
• Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “bok”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 70

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bōk, from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, of uncertain origin but usually connected to Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵ- (“beech”) or Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to allot”).

Noun

bok c

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

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bok c

1. beech (tree of the genus Fagus)

Declension

Derived terms

References

• bok in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• bok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• bok in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بوق (bok, “excrement, dung, turd, shit”), from Old Anatolian Turkish پوخ (poḫ), from Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”).
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰸 (bok), Kazakh боқ (boq), Azerbaijani pox, Kyrgyz бок (bok), etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bok/

Noun

bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)

1. (vulgar) shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)

   Synonyms: dışkı, (childish) kaka

2. (vulgar) a hard situation

Declension

Adjective

bok

1. (vulgar) shitty, fucking

Derived terms

Further reading

• “bok”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010) “bok”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “bok”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English box (boks).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bok/

Noun

bok (nominative plural boks)

1. box

Declension

Derived terms

• bokil (“little box / small box”) (diminutive)
• bokül

See also

• bog
• bök

Source: wiktionary.org