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Definitions and meaning of rok

rok

English

Noun

rok (plural roks)

  1. Alternative form of roc

Anagrams

  • KOR, OKR, kor, ork

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch rok, from Middle Dutch roc, from Old Dutch rok, from Proto-Germanic *rukkaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɔk/

Noun

rok (plural rokke, diminutive rokkie)

  1. A dress.

Descendants

  • → Sotho: roko
  • → Xhosa: ilokhwe

Breton

Etymology

Related to Irish rucas (“pride, arrogance”). Possibly borrowed into English as rogue.

Adjective

rok

  1. arrogant
  2. hard

References

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech rok, from Proto-Slavic *rokъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrok]
  • Rhymes: -ok

Noun

rok m inan (diminutive roček)

  1. year, the time it takes a planetary body to complete one revolution around a star
  2. (sciences) year, exactly 365.25 days
    Synonym: léto
  3. year, a period between set dates that denotes a year
    Synonym: kalendářní rok
    v tomto roce ― this year
  4. year, a scheduled part of a year spent in a given activity

Declension

Derived terms

See also

  • letos

Further reading

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

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse rokkr

Noun

rok

  1. a spinning wheel
  2. a distaff

Derived terms

  • håndrok, spinderok

Dinka

Noun

rok (plural rook)

  1. kidney

References

  • Dinka-English Dictionary‎[1], 2005

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɔk/
  • Hyphenation: rok
  • Rhymes: -ɔk
  • Homophone: rock

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch roc, from Old Dutch rok, from Proto-West Germanic *(h)rokk, from Proto-Germanic *rukkaz.

Noun

rok m (plural rokken, diminutive rokje n)

  1. skirt (clothing)
  2. full dress, white tie (formal clothing)
  3. layer on a bulb such as an onion
  4. (chiefly historical, otherwise archaic) garment covering the torso
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: rok
    • → Sotho: roko
    • → Xhosa: ilokhwe
  • Jersey Dutch: rok
  • Negerhollands: rok
  • → Indonesian: rok
  • → Papiamentu: rok (dated)

Etymology 2

Noun

rok m (plural rokken, diminutive rokje n)

  1. Alternative form of rokken

Finnish

Etymology

From English roc.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrok/, [ˈro̞k]
  • Rhymes: -ok
  • Syllabification(key): rok
  • Hyphenation(key): rok

Noun

rok

  1. roc (mythical bird)

Usage notes

  • Often used in the form rok-lintu (“roc-bird”).

Declension

Derived terms

Icelandic

Etymology

Related to rjúka (“to emit smoke, rush”); see there for more.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rɔːk/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːk

Noun

rok n (genitive singular roks, nominative plural rok)

  1. storm, whole gale

Declension

References

Further reading

  • “rok” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Dutch rok, from Middle Dutch roc, from Old Dutch rok, from Proto-Germanic *rukkaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrɔk]
  • Hyphenation: rok

Noun

rok

  1. skirt (clothing)
  2. full dress, white tie (formal clothing)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English rock.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈrɔk]
  • Hyphenation: rok

Noun

rok

  1. (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 of Indonesia, 2016.

Kashubian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rokъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔk/
  • Rhymes: -ɔk
  • Syllabification: rok

Noun

rok m inan

  1. year (calendar year)
  2. 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 (in Kashubian), page 182
  • Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “rok”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎[2], volume 2, page 815
  • “rok”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

Latvian

Verb

rok

  1. third-person singular/plural present indicative of rakt
  2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of rakt
  3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of rakt

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *rokka, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *rokka. Cognates include Finnish rokka.

Noun

rok

  1. soup

Maranao

Noun

rok

  1. soul

Related terms

  • roh (“spirit”)

References

  • A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

rok n (definite singular roket, indefinite plural rok, definite plural roka or rokene)

  1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by rokk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

rok n (definite singular roket, indefinite plural rok, definite plural roka)

  1. alternative spelling of rokk

Old Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rokъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈrok/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈrok/

Noun

rok m inan

  1. year

Declension

Descendants

  • Czech: rok

References

  • 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

rok m inan

  1. year
  2. deadline
  3. (law) date of a court case; or the court case itself
  4. court summons

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Polish: rok
  • Silesian: rok

References

  • 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), “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

rōk m

  1. smoke

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: rōk
    • Low German: Röök

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish rok.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔk
  • Syllabification: rok
  • Homophones: rock, Rok

Noun

rok m inan (diminutive roczek)

  1. year (solar year)
  2. (by extension, astronomy) year (time it takes for any planet to orbit its star)
  3. year (calendar year)
  4. year (scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity)
  5. year (group of people belonging to the same calendar year of typically educational events)
  6. (obsolete, law) court case
  7. (obsolete) engagement, betrothal
  8. (Middle Polish) indiscriminate length of time
  9. (Middle Polish) age of a being
    Synonym: wiek
  10. (Middle Polish) agreed upon length of time for work or employment
  11. (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
  • Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “rok”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
  • J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1912), “rok”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 5, Warsaw, page 555
  • rok in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /rôk/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rokъ.

Noun

rȍk m (Cyrillic spelling ро̏к)

  1. deadline
  2. term, date (period during which something ought to be performed or completed)
Declension

Further reading

  • “rok”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English rock.

Noun

rȍk m (Cyrillic spelling ро̏к)

  1. (uninflected) rock and roll

Further reading

  • “rok”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Silesian

Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish rok.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈrɔk/
  • Rhymes: -ɔk
  • Syllabification: rok

Noun

rok m inan

  1. year (calendar year)

Further reading

  • rok in dykcjonorz.eu
  • rok in silling.org

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rokъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [rɔk]

Noun

rok m inan (relational adjective ročný, diminutive rôčik)

  1. year
    Nový rok ― New Year's Day
    roku Pána ― anno Domini

Declension

Derived terms

  • rôčik
  • ročne
  • storočie

Further reading

  • “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, 2003–2025

Slovene

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

rok (rôk)

  1. genitive dual/plural of roka

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rokъ.

Noun

rok (rók)

  1. deadline
  2. term, date (period during which something ought to be performed or completed)

Further reading

  • “rok”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
  • “rok”, in Termania, Amebis
  • See also the general references

Ternate

Etymology

From Dutch rok, possibly through Indonesian rok, from Middle Dutch roc, from Old Dutch rok, from Proto-Germanic *rukkaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɾok]

Noun

rok

  1. 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 Finnish rokko.

Noun

rok

  1. pox (disease)
Declension

Etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *rokka.

Noun

rok

  1. pea soup, split pea soup
Declension

Source: wiktionary.org