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wark

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɔː(ɹ)k/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k

Etymology 1

From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to make, work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

1. (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Pain; ache.

   Synonyms: agony, pang; see also Thesaurus:pain

Derived terms

• bellywark
• headwark

Etymology 2

From Middle English werken, warchen, from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”). Cognate with Swedish värka (“to ache, pain”), Icelandic verkja (“to pain”). See above.

Verb

wark (third-person singular simple present warks, present participle warking, simple past and past participle warked)

1. (intransitive) To be in pain; ache.

   Synonyms: hurt, suffer; see also Thesaurus:suffer

Etymology 3

See work.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

1. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) Work.

   Synonyms: labour; see also Thesaurus:work
2. (obsolete, chiefly Scotland) A building.

   Synonyms: edifice; see also Thesaurus:building

Anagrams

• rawk

Kashubian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Low German Wark. Cognate to English work.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvark/
• Rhymes: -ark
• Syllabification: wark

Noun

wark m inan

1. profession, trade, occupation

   Synonym: fach

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “zawód”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎^[1]
• “wark”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022

North Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

wark

1. (Sylt, of a body part) to hurt

Conjugation

Northeast Pashayi

Noun

wark

1. water

Further reading

• Robert Leech, Vocabularies of seven languages, spoken in the countries west of the Indus; also Epitome of the Grammars of the Brahuiky, Balochky & Panjabi Languages (1843)

Polish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ark
• Syllabification: wark
• Homophone: warg

Etymology 1

Deverbal from warknąć.

Noun

wark m inan

1. (dated, of a dog) growl, burr, whirr

   Synonym: warknięcie

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

wark (not comparable, indeclinable, no derived adverb)

1. (Kielce, Morawica) synonym of dokuczliwy

Further reading

• wark in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Władysław Siarkowski (1891) “wark”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludowej z okolic Pińczowa”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, page 339

Q'eqchi

Verb

wark

1. to sleep

Derived terms

• wara (“sleep”)
• warenaq (“sleeper”)
• warib' (“bed”)
• wartesink (“put to sleep”, verb)

Further reading

• Ch'ina tusleb' aatin q'eqchi'-kaxlan aatin ut kaxlan aatin-q'eqchi' (Guatemala, 1998) [2]

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English work, werk, from Old English worc, weorc, ġeweorc, from Proto-Germanic *werką (“work”), from Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom.

Noun

wark (plural warks)

1. work