Wiktionary

ark

See also: Ark and ārk

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old English ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“I enclose”).

 
Noah's Ark

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

ark (plural arks)

  1. A large box with a flat lid.
  2. (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Noah's Ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
      In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside.
  3. Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge
  4. A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
  5. (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
  6. (Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.

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DescendantsEdit

  • → Maori: āka

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DanishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Via Middle Low German ark from Latin arcus. The Latin words means "bow", but it is here used in a wider sense of the folded paper. Compare the same semantic development in German Bogen (“bow; sheet of paper”).

NounEdit

ark n (singular definite arket, plural indefinite arker)

  1. a sheet (of paper)
InflectionEdit
Declension of ark
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ark arket ark arkene
genitive arks arkets arks arkenes
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Etymology 2Edit

From Old Danish ark, Old Norse ǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *arkō, borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, coffin; ark”).

NounEdit

ark c (singular definite arken, plural indefinite arker)

  1. (biblical) ark ( Noah's Ark or the Ark of the Convenant)
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Declension of ark
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ark arken arker arkerne
genitive arks arkens arkers arkernes

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Dutch arke. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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NounEdit

ark f (plural arken, diminutive arkje n)

  1. ark (ark of the covenant)
  2. ark (ship)
  3. houseboat
    Synonym: woonark

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IcelandicEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Danish ark, from Latin arcus.

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NounEdit

ark n (genitive singular arks, nominative plural örk)

  1. (obsolete) sheet (of paper)

DeclensionEdit

declension of ark
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ark arkið örk örkin
accusative ark arkið örk örkin
dative arki arkinu örkum örkunum
genitive arks arksins arka arkanna

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EtymologyEdit

From Middle Irish orc, arc (“young pig”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸorkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”).

NounEdit

ark f (genitive singular arkagh, plural arkyn or irk)

  1. young pig, piglet

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Middle EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

NounEdit

ark (plural arks)

  1. The path of the sun across the sky.

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North FrisianEdit

DeterminerEdit

ark

  1. (Mooring) each; every

Norwegian BokmålEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse ǫrk (“chest”), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚱᚲᚢ (*arku), borrowed during pre-Christian time from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“enclose, box in”), from Proto-Italic *arkeō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard”).

NounEdit

ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

  1. the ark (boat of Noah)
  2. paktens ark - the Ark of the Covenant
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Etymology 2Edit

From Old Danish ark, arken, arkens, through Middle Low German or Low German arkener (“breast protection”), from Old French arquiere (“shooting range”).

NounEdit

ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

  1. (architecture) a dormer

Etymology 3Edit

From Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“arc, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”).

NounEdit

ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka or arkene)

  1. a sheet (of paper)
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Norwegian NynorskEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse ǫrk, from Latin arca (“chest, box”); sense 3 from Old French arquire, via Middle Low German or Low German and old Danish.

NounEdit

ark f (definite singular arka, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

  1. the ark (boat of Noah)
  2. paktarka - the Ark of the Covenant
  3. (architecture) a dormer
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Etymology 2Edit

From Latin arcus, via Low German ark.

NounEdit

ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka)

  1. a sheet (of paper)
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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Swedish ark, borrowed from Latin arca, into the Germanic languages in pre-Christian time.[1]

NounEdit

ark c

  1. an ark, a box; the Ark of the Covenant
  2. the ark (ship) of Noah, resembling a box
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ark 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ark arken arkar arkarna
Genitive arks arkens arkars arkarnas
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Etymology 2Edit

From Old Swedish ark, from Middle Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“bow”).[2] Compare German Bogen. It refers to the bend of the parchment when folded.[3]

NounEdit

ark n

  1. a sheet of paper
  2. (printing) a signature, a multiple of four pages printed on a single sheet, which is folded and bound into a book
DeclensionEdit
Declension of ark 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ark arket ark arken
Genitive arks arkets arks arkens
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ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ ark in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  2. ^ ark in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  3. ^ ark 2 in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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West FrisianEdit

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NounEdit

ark n (no plural)

  1. tool
  2. stuff, junk

Further readingEdit

  • “ark (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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