From Dutchrok, from Middle Dutchroc, from Old Dutchrok, from Proto-Germanic*rukkaz.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈrɔk]
Hyphenation: rok
Noun
rok
skirt (clothing)
full dress, white tie (formal clothing)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Englishrock.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈrɔk]
Hyphenation: rok
Noun
rok
(music)rock, a style of music characterized by basic drum-beat, generally 4/4 riffs, based on (usually electric) guitar, bass guitar, drums and vocals.
Further reading
“rok” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Kashubian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic*rokъ.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈrɔk/
Syllabification: rok
Noun
rokm inan
year (calendar year)
year (group of people belonging to the same calendar year of typically educational events)
Declension
Further reading
Stefan Ramułt (1893) “rok”, in Słownik języka pomorskiego czyli kaszubskiego[3] (in Kashubian), page 182
Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “rok”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění
Old Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic*rokъ. First attested in the 14th century.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): (10th–15th CE)/rɔk/
IPA(key): (15th CE)/rɔk/
Noun
rokm ?
year
deadline
(law) date of a court case; or the court case itself
court summons
Declension
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
Descendants
Masurian: rok
Polish: rok
Silesian: rok
References
B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “rok”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*rauki, from Proto-Germanic*raukiz, whence also Old English rēc, Old Frisian rēk, Old Dutch rouc, Old High German rouh, Old Norse reykr.
Noun
rōkm
smoke
Descendants
Middle Low German: rōk
Low German: Röök
Polish
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polishrok.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /rɔk/
(Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈrɔk/
Rhymes: -ɔk
Syllabification: rok
Homophones: rock, Rok
Noun
rokm inan (diminutiveroczek)
year (solar year)
(by extension, astronomy) year (time it takes for any planet to orbit its star)
year (calendar year)
year (scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity)
year (group of people belonging to the same calendar year of typically educational events)
(obsolete, law) court case
(obsolete) engagement, betrothal
(Middle Polish) indiscriminate length of time
(Middle Polish) age of a being
Synonym:wiek
(Middle Polish) agreed upon length of time for work or employment
(Middle Polish) time set aside for performing a task
Declension
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
Trivia
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), rok is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 209 times in scientific texts, 413 times in news, 297 times in essays, 53 times in fiction, and 53 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 1025 times, making it the 28th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.
References
Further reading
rok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
rok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “rok”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
“ROK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 06.10.2016
Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “rok”, in Słownik języka polskiego[6]
Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “rok”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[7]
J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “rok”, in Słownik języka polskiego[8] (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 555
rok in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-Slavic*rokъ.
Noun
rȍkm (Cyrillic spellingро̏к)
deadline
term, date (period during which something ought to be performed or completed)
“rok”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024
Slovene
Etymology 1
Noun
rok (rôk)
genitive plural of roka
genitive dual of roka
Etymology 2
Inherited from Proto-Slavic*rokъ.
Noun
rok (rók)
deadline
term, date (period during which something ought to be performed or completed)
Ternate
Etymology
From Dutchrok, possibly through Indonesianrok, from Middle Dutchroc, from Old Dutchrok, from Proto-Germanic*rukkaz.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ɾok]
Noun
rok
a skirt
References
Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh
Veps
Etymology 1
From Proto-Finnic*rokko. Cognates include Finnishrokko.