bok
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /bɒk/
- (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA(key): /bɒk/
- Rhymes: -ɒk
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Etymology 1 edit
From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck.
Adjective edit
bok
- (South Africa, slang) keen or willing.
- "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."
Etymology 2 edit
Imitative
Interjection edit
bok
- The clucking sound of a chicken.
- 2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices:
- And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.
- 2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory:
- So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch bok (“buck, male goat”), from Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok (plural bokke, diminutive bokkie)
- goat
- antelope, buck
- Synonym: wildsbok
- (slang) lover (term of affection)
- Synonym: bokkie
- (gymnastics) vaulting horse
- blunder
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Xhosa: ibhokhwe
Adjective edit
bok (attributive bokke, comparative bokker, superlative bokste)
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From Philippine English bok, from bunk, shortened from bunkmate.
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: bok
Noun edit
bok
- one's batchmate or classmate in the Philippine Military Academy
Choctaw edit
Etymology edit
Attested as bayuk in the 17th century.
Noun edit
bōk (alienable)
Declension edit
possessive (alienable) | singular | paucal | plural |
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first-person ("my, our") | a̱bōk | pi̱bōk | hapi̱bōk |
second-person ("thy, your") | chi̱bōk | hachi̱bōk | |
third-person ("his, her, its, their") |
i̱bōk |
absolute | nominative | accusative | oblique | |
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neutral | bōk | bōkat | bōka̱ | bōkak |
contrastive | bōkakō | bōkakōsh | bōkako̱ | bōkakakō |
bōkato | bōkano | |||
focus | bōkō | bōkakō | ||
bōkōsh | bōko̱ |
-ma "that, there" |
-pa "this, here" |
-kia "also, too" |
-ba "only" |
-ōk "but" |
-akhī pejorative |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
bōkma | bōkpa | bōk(ak)kia | bōkba | bōkōk | bōkakhī |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Czech bok, from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok m inan
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.
Noun edit
bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)
- male goat, billy
- Synonym: geitenbok
- buck, horse or pony; strong contraption on legs, resembling a mount
- (gymnastics) vaulting horse
- sawbuck
- Synonym: zaagbok
- a crane on legs
- box, perch (driver's seat on a carriage)
- (printing) job case, type case
- (derogatory) churl, grouch
- (derogatory) oaf, bumpkin
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
bok
- inflection of bokken:
Etymology 3 edit
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 edit
bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n, feminine bokkin)
- (Suriname, obsolete) Amerindian person
- 1907, F.P. Penard, A.P. Penard, De menschetende aanbidders der zonneslang [The man-eating worshippers of the sun snake][2], Paramaribo: H.B. Heyde, pages 49-50:
- Dat echter een afgerichte negerslaaf beter te gebruiken was dan 50 Bokken klinkt wel wat ongelooflijk, in aanmerking genomen, dat thans nog algemeen onder de negers het verhaal de ronde doet, dat de weggeloopen slaven veel banger waren voor de Indianen dan voor de blanken of negersoldaten. Inderdaad in Demerara waren het de Bokken, die daar de vorming van onafhankelijk negerstaten belet hebben.
- However, that a trained Negro slave was more useful than fifty Amerindians sounds somewhat incredible, considering that even now the story is widely told among Negroes that runaway slaves were much more afraid of Indians than whites or Negro soldiers. Indeed, in Demerara, it were the Amerindians who prevented the formation of independent Negro nations.
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 4 edit
Borrowed from Caribbean Javanese mbok.
Noun edit
bok f (uncountable)
Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Slavic *bokъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian bok, Polish bok, Czech bok, Russian бок (bok), and Serbo-Croatian bȍk.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /bɔk/
- Homophones: bog, Bog
Noun edit
bok m inan
- side (bounding straight edge of an object; flat surface of an object; left or right half; surface of a sheet of paper)
- page (one side of a leaf of a book)
- (chiefly in the dual) breast (organs on the front of a woman’s chest, which contain the mammary glands)
- Synonym: prědk
Declension edit
- Alternative locative singular: boce
Further reading edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
From buhok, compare Tagalog buhok.
Noun edit
bok
- head hair
Marshallese edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok (construct form bokin)
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok
References edit
Masurian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Polish bok.
Noun edit
bok m inan
- (anatomy) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person or animal)
- side, flank (neither the front nor the back of an object)
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
bok m animal
Further reading edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old English bōc, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok (plural bokes)
- book (written document composed of pages)
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- English: book (see there for further descendants)
- Geordie English: buik, beuk
- Scots: buik, beuk, buke, beuck
- Yola: buke
References edit
- “bọ̄k, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Middle Low German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
Pronunciation edit
- Stem vowel: ô¹
Noun edit
bôk n
Descendants edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
- bog (non-standard since 1907)
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
bok f or m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)
- a book
Usage notes edit
- One of the nouns whose feminine form is predominant in formal writing.
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
bok f or m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural boker, definite plural bokene)
- a beech (tree).
Alternative forms edit
References edit
- “bok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
- bók (Setesdal)
Etymology edit
From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Akin to English book.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok f (definite singular boka, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)
- a book
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “bok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ. First attested in the 13th century.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok m inan (related adjective bokowy)
- (anatomy) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person or animal)
- 1937 [13th century], Józef Birkenmajer, editor, Bogarodzica dziewica. Analiza tekstu, treści i formy[4], page CDEF:
- Czyebye dla, czlowyecze, dal bog przeklocz szobye bok, racze, nodze obye
- [Ciebie dla, człowiecze, dał Bog przekłóć sobie bok, ręce, nodze obie]
- c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 73v:
- Latus […] a lateo lates eyn seyt bok
- [Latus […] a lateo lates eyn seyt bok]
- side, flank (neither the front nor the back of an object)
- 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Latin-Polish-German Florian Psalter][5], Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 47, 2:
- Zacladana iest weselim wszelika zema gora Syon: boky polnoczi, masto crola welikego (fundatur exultatione universae terrae mons Sion: latera aquilonis, civitas regis magni)
- [Zakładana jest wiesielim wszelikiej ziemie gora Syjon, boki północy, miasto króla wielikiego (fundatur exultatione universae terrae mons Sion: latera aquilonis, civitas regis magni)]
Derived terms edit
- boczyć impf
Descendants edit
References edit
- Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “bok”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
- Mańczak, Witold (2017) “bok”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
- Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “bok”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “bok”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
- B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “bok”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
- Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “bok”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Old Saxon edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
bōk f or n
Declension edit
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | bōk | bōki |
accusative | bōk | bōki |
genitive | bōki | bōkiō |
dative | bōki | bōkium |
instrumental | — | — |
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | bōk | bōk |
accusative | bōk | bōk |
genitive | bōkes | bōkō |
dative | bōke | bōkun |
instrumental | — | — |
Descendants edit
Old Swedish edit
Alternative forms edit
- ᛒᚮᚴ (Runic)
Etymology edit
From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.
Noun edit
bōk f
Declension edit
Descendants edit
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Polish bok.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /bɔk/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈbɔk/
Audio 1 (file) Audio 2 (file) - Rhymes: -ɔk
- Syllabification: bok
- Homophones: Bock, Bok
Noun edit
bok m inan (related adjective boczny)
- (anatomy) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person, animal)
- (Middle Polish) physical or emotional closeness to someone
- side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of an object)
- Synonym: strona
- side (place in space located to the right or left of some central reference point)
- (geometry) side (segment connecting two vertices of a polygon)
- side (place out of the way)
- (obsolete, mining) shaft wall
- (Middle Polish, collective, metonomically) man; human community; group
- (Middle Polish) side; Further details are uncertain.
- 1528, J. Murmelius, Dictionarius[6], page 60:
- Latus Bok
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
- mieć na boku impf
- odłożyć na bok pf, odkładać na bok impf
- podeprzeć się pod boki pf, podpierać się pod boki impf
- popatrzeć z boku pf, patrzeć z boku impf
- skakać na boki impf
- stać z boku impf
- stanąć z boku pf, stawać z boku impf
- wyjść bokiem pf, wychodzić bokiem impf
- zrywać boki impf
Derived terms edit
Trivia edit
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), bok is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 25 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 2 times in essays, 20 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 58 times, making it the 1105th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]
References edit
Further reading edit
- bok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- bok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bok”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- Wiesław Morawski (23.10.2012) “BOK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego[7]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[8]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego[9] (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 186
- bok in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.
Noun edit
bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏к)
Declension edit
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bogъ. Other fringe theories exist but are largely unsupported.
Alternative forms edit
Interjection edit
bok (Cyrillic spelling бок)
Silesian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Polish bok.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok m inan (related adjective boczny)
Declension edit
Further reading edit
- bok in dykcjonorz.eu
- bok in silling.org
- Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “bok”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 65
- Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “bok”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski[10], page 70
Swedish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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 edit
bok c
- book:
- collection of sheets of paper
- a work of literature
- a major division of a published work
Declension edit
Declension of bok | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bok | boken | böcker | böckerna |
Genitive | boks | bokens | böckers | böckernas |
Derived terms edit
- anteckningsbok
- boka
- bokanmälan
- bokantikvariat
- bokare
- bokauktion
- bokband
- bokbar
- bokbestånd
- bokbindare
- bokbinderi
- bokbindning
- bokbord
- bokbuss
- bokbål
- bokcafé
- bokcirkel
- bokfilm
- bokflod
- bokform
- bokformat
- bokföra
- bokförare
- bokföring
- bokförlag
- bokförläggare
- bokförsäljare
- bokhandel
- bokhylla
- bokhållare
- bokillustration
- bokkafé
- bokklubb
- boklig
- boklåda
- boklån
- boklärd
- bokläsare
- bokmal
- bokmarknad
- bokmoms
- bokmål
- bokmärke
- bokmässa
- bokning
- bokomslag
- bokpris
- bokpärm
- bokrea
- bokrecenssion
- bokrulle
- bokrygg
- boksamlare
- boksamling
- bokserie
- boksida
- bokskåp
- bokslukare
- bokslut
- bokstav
- bokstavera
- bokstavering
- bokstavlig
- bokstavligen
- bokstöd
- boksynt
- boktitel
- boktryck
- boktryckare
- boktryckeri
- bokutgivning
- bokutlåning
- bokvagn
- bokverk
- bokälskare
- bredvidläsningsbok
- dagbok
- dödbok
- faktabok
- flickbok
- föra bok
- handbok
- historiebok
- huvudbok
- kyrkbok
- loggbok
- läsebok
- läxbok
- ordbok
- plånbok
- pocketbok
- pojkbok
- räknebok
- sagobok
- skrivbok
- textbok
- uppslagsbok
- vaxduksbok
- årsbok
- äventyrsbok
Etymology 2 edit
From Old Swedish bōk, from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōkō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.
Noun edit
bok c
Declension edit
Declension of bok | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | bok | boken | bokar | bokarna |
Genitive | boks | bokens | bokars | bokarnas |
Derived terms edit
References edit
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
Noun edit
bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)
Declension edit
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Definite accusative | boku | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Definite accusative | boku | bokları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | boka | boklara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | bokta | boklarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genitive | bokun | bokların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Derived terms edit
Volapük edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
bok (nominative plural boks)