wok

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 鑊／镬 (wok6).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɒk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /wɑk/

• Audio (US)

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• Homophone: walk (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒk

Noun

wok (plural woks)

1. A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
   • 1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood‎^[1], →ISBN, page 86:

     The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.

a wok being used for cooking

1. (chiefly Europe) Any dish prepared using such a pan.

Derived terms

• wok race
• wok racing

Related terms

• wok hei

Translations

large round pan

• Arabic: وُوك m (wūk)
• Armenian: վոկ (vok)
• Bulgarian: уок m (uok)
• Burmese: ဒယ်အိုး (my) (daiui:)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 鑊／镬 (wok⁶)

  Hakka: 鑊／镬 (vo̍k)

  Hokkien: 鼎 (zh-min-nan) (tiáⁿ)

  Mandarin: 鍋／锅 (zh) (guō), 鑊／镬 (zh) (huò), 炒鍋／炒锅 (zh) (chǎoguō)

• Czech: pánev wok f
• Danish: wok c
• Dutch: wok (nl) m
• Esperanto: uoko, volbopato
• Faroese: vokk f
• Finnish: wokkipannu
• French: wok (fr) m
• German: Wok (de) m
• Green Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: ווק (he) m
• Icelandic: wok-panna f
• Indonesian: wajan (id)
• Irish: wok
• Japanese: 中華鍋 (ja) (ちゅうかなべ, Chūka-nabe)
• Khmer: ខ្ទះ (km) (kteah)
• Korean: 중국 냄비 (Jungguk naembi)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Malay: kuali (ms)
• Maori: wāka
• Polish: wok (pl) m
• Portuguese: wok f or m
• Russian: вок (ru) m (vok)
• Scottish Gaelic: wok
• Spanish: wok (es) m
• Swedish: wok (sv) c, wokpanna (sv) c
• Tagalog: kawali (tl), tulyasi, talyasi
• Thai: กระทะ (th) (grà-tá)
• Turkish: wok tava
• Vietnamese: xanh (vi), chảo (vi)
• Welsh: woc m or f
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Zhuang: rek, cauq

Verb

wok (third-person singular simple present woks, present participle wokking or woking, simple past and past participle wokked or woked)

1. To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.

Translations

to use a wok

• Dutch: wokken (nl)
• Finnish: wokata
• Spanish: wokiar, usar un wok
• Swedish: woka (sv)

See also

• stir-fry

Czech

Noun

wok m inan

1. wok

Declension

Declension of wok (velar masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	wok	woky
genitive	woku	woků
dative	woku	wokům
accusative	wok	woky
vocative	woku	woky
locative	woku	wocích
instrumental	wokem	woky

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Cantonese 鑊／镬 (wok6).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɔk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: wok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

wok m (plural woks or wokken, diminutive wokje n)

1. wok (large cooking pan, typical of East-Asian cuisine)

Derived terms

• wokken
• wokpan

Middle English

Adjective

wok

1. Alternative form of woke

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English work.

Verb

wok

1. work

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wok, ultimately from Cantonese 鑊／镬 (wok6).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vɔk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: wok

Noun

wok m inan

1. wok (large, oriental cooking pan)

Declension

Declension of wok

	singular	plural
nominative	wok	woki
genitive	woka/woku	woków
dative	wokowi	wokom
accusative	wok	woki
instrumental	wokiem	wokami
locative	woku	wokach
vocative	woku	woki

The genitive singular form woku is sometimes proscribed.

Further reading

• wok in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈɔ.ki/ [ʊˈɔ.ki], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔ.ki/, /uˈɔk/ [ʊˈɔk], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔk/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈɔ.ki/ [ʊˈɔ.ki], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔ.ki/, /uˈɔk/ [ʊˈɔk], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔk/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /uˈɔk/ [ʊˈɔk], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔk/, /uˈɔ.ki/ [ʊˈɔ.ki], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔ.ki/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔk/

Noun

wok f or (less common) m (plural woks)

1. wok (large round pan used in Oriental cuisine)

Spanish

Noun

wok m (plural woks)

1. wok

Further reading

• “wok”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Noun

wok c

1. a wok (large, round-bottomed cooking pan)

   Synonym: wokpanna

2. a dish (typically) prepared in a wok, stir-fry

Declension

Declension of wok
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	wok	woken	wokar	wokarna
Genitive	woks	wokens	wokars	wokarnas

Related terms

• woka

See also

• snabbsteka

References

• wok in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• wok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• wok in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tarao

Noun

wok

1. pig (animal)

References

• 1998, People of India: Manipur (results of the Anthropological Survey of India), page 272
• 2001, Encyclopaedia of northeast India, volume 3, →ISBN, page 230:
• Chungkham Yashwanta Singh (2002) Tarao Grammar (in Tarao), page 117

Tok Pisin

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Etymology

From English work.

Verb

wok intrans., transitive wokim

1. to work, to labor
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:

     Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”

     →New International Version translation

Related terms

• wokim
• hatwok

Noun

wok

1. work, job, employment
2. obligation, duty

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ôoc, from Old Dutch ōk, ouk, from Proto-Germanic *auk.

Adverb

wok

1. also, too