choc

See also: choć, chốc, chọc, and Choc

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃɒk/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɒk
• Homophone: chock

Noun

choc (countable and uncountable, plural chocs)

1. (informal) Clipping of chocolate.

   mint choc chip ice cream; a box of chocs

Derived terms

• choc chip
• choccy
• choc ice
• chocophile

See also

• choc-a-bloc

French

Etymology 1

16th century, from choquer (“to hit, to shock”); influenced by Italian ciocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

choc m (plural chocs)

1. hit, strike
2. shock (surprise, startling)
3. electrical shock
4. clash
5. episode

Derived terms

• choc anaphylactique
• choc culturel
• choc terminal
• choquer
• de choc
• onde de choc
• pare-choc

Descendants

Descendants

• → Danish: chok
• → Georgian: შოკი (šoḳi)
• → Greek: σοκ (sok)
• → Italian: choc
• → Portuguese: choque
• → Russian: шок (šok)
• → Swedish: chock
• → Persian: شوک (šok)
• → Turkish: şok

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʃɔk/

Noun

choc m (plural chocs)

1. (Louisiana) Alternative form of tchoque (“blackbird”)

Further reading

• “choc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Huave

Noun

choc

1. insect

Derived terms

• arrier choc

References

• Stairs Kreger, Glenn Albert, Scharfe de Stairs, Emily Florence, Olvaries Oviedo, Proceso, Ponce Villanueva, Tereso, Comonfort Llave, Lorenzo (1981) Diccionario huave de San Mateo del Mar (Serie de vocabularios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 24)‎^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 93

Interlingua

Noun

choc (plural chocs or choches)

1. shock

Italian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French choc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): ^*/ˈʃɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

choc m (invariable)

1. Alternative spelling of shock

Polish

Pronunciation

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Western Lublin) IPA^(key): [ˈxɔt͡s]

Conjunction

choc

1. (Western Lublin, Pożóg) Alternative form of choć

Particle

choc

1. (Western Lublin, Pożóg) Alternative form of choć

Further reading

• Hieronim Łopaciński (1892) “choc”, in “Przyczynki do nowego słownika języka polskiego (słownik wyrazów ludowych z Lubelskiego i innych okolic Królestwa Polskiego”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 4, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 187