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3-letter words (2 found)

BOK,KOB,

2-letter words (4 found)

BO,KO,OB,OK,

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bok obk bko kbo okb kob

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Definitions and meaning of bok

bok

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck.

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.

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

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

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • bok in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • bok in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • bok in Internetová jazyková příručka

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. 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

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. book (written document composed of pages)

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. a 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. a beech (tree).

Alternative forms

  • bøk

References

  • “bok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /buːk/, [bu̞ːk]

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-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

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bok m inan

  1. side, flank (neither the front nor the back)
    Synonym: strona

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • bok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • bok in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

Noun

bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏к)

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

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

  • bog

Interjection

bok (Cyrillic spelling бок)

  1. (Croatia) hi
    Synonyms: zdravo, pozdrav, ćao
  2. (Croatia) bye
    Synonyms: zbogom, zdravo, pozdrav, ćao

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 (Fagus)
Declension
Derived terms

References

  • bok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بوق (bòq, “excrement, dung, turd, shit”), 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)

Declension

Derived terms

Volapük

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bok/

Noun

bok (nominative plural boks)

  1. box

Declension

Derived terms

  • bokül

Source: wiktionary.org