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You can make 13 words from doek according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of doek

doek odek deok edok oedk eodk doke odke dkoe kdoe okde kode deko edko dkeo kdeo ekdo kedo oekd eokd oked koed ekod keod

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word doek. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in doek.

Definitions and meaning of doek

doek

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans doek (“cloth”), from Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *duok, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz. Doublet of duck.

Noun

doek (plural doeke or doeks)

1. (South Africa) A cloth. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (South Africa) A kopdoek: a kerchief or bandanna worn as a head covering.

   Hypernym: headwrap

   • 1982, Can Themba, The Will to Die,

     "Mama, how about a doek for Janet?"
     The doek! God save our gracious doek! A doek is a colourful piece of cloth that the African woman wears as headgear. It is tied stylistically into various shapes from Accra to Cape Town. I do not know the history of this innocuous piece of cloth. In Afrikans, the language of those of our white masters who are of Dutch and Huguenot descent, doek meant, variously, a tablecloth, a dirty rag, or a symbol of the slave. Perhaps it was later used by African women in contact with European ideas of beauty who realised that 'they had no hair' and subconsciously hid their heads under the doek. Whatever else, the doek had come to designate the African woman. So that evening when I said, 'Mama, how about a doek for Janet', I was proposing to transform her, despite her colour and her deep blue eyes, into an African woman for the while.

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Anagrams

• Doke, OKed, doke

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *duok, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duk/

Noun

doek (plural doeke)

1. cloth, fabric
2. canvas

Derived terms

• kopdoek

Descendants

• → English: doek
• → Shona: dhuku

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *duok, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duk/
• Hyphenation: doek
• Rhymes: -uk

Noun

doek m or n (plural doeken, diminutive doekje n)

1. cloth, linen, fabric

Noun

doek m (plural doeken, diminutive doekje n)

1. a piece of cloth

Noun

doek n (plural doeken, diminutive doekje n)

1. screen, curtain (at the theater)
2. canvas
3. painting on canvas

Synonyms

• (piece of cloth): lap

Derived terms

Related terms

• doekoe

Descendants

• Afrikaans: doek
  • → English: doek
  • → Shona: dhuku
• Berbice Creole Dutch: duku
• Jersey Dutch: duk
• Negerhollands: doek, doekoe
• → Akan: duku
  • → Nkonya: duku
  • → Wali (Ghana): ’duuku
• → Akebu: ɖuku-yǝ (via an intermediary language)
• → Lokono: doko
• → Aukan: duku
• → English: duck, dook
• → Fon: dukwí
• → Indonesian: duk
• → Japanese: ズック
• → Mbelime: dukìhṵ̀ (via an intermediary language)
• → Nawdm: dukŋa (via an intermediary language)
• → Scots: dook
• → Sranan Tongo: duku
  • → Caribbean Javanese: duku
  • → Dutch: doekoe

Anagrams

• doke

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *tokᴰ (“to drop”). Cognate with Thai ตก (dtòk), Lao ຕົກ (tok), Lü ᦷᦎᧅ (ṫok), Shan တူၵ်း (túuk), Ahom 𑜄𑜤𑜀𑜫 (tuk), Bouyei dogt.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /tok˥/
• Tone numbers: doek⁷
• Hyphenation: doek

Verb

doek (Sawndip forms 𬻨 or 笠 or 托 or 得 or 獨 or 堕 or 𰜺 or 𭰚 or 𮒏 or 岳 or 𢟎 or 𭢥 or 独 or ⿺失独 or ⿱入独 or ⿱不独 or ⿱穴独 or 𥫫 or ⿰亻独, 1957–1982 spelling dɵk)

1. to fall; to drop