See also: ROC, RoC, Roc, R.O.C., and R. O. C.

English

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Etymology 1

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Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Persian رخ (rox).

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Noun

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roc (plural rocs)

  1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
    • The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.
      "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;
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  • peng (Chinese contexts)
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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roc

  1. (medicine, colloquial) Rocuronium.

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Catalan

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Etymology 1

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From roca.

Noun

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. rock, stone

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Etymology 2

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From Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, rook, castle (chess)).

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. (obsolete) rook (chess piece)
    Synonym: torre
  2. (heraldry) rook (heraldic charge)
  3. (mythology) roc (mythological bird)

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʁɔk/
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Etymology 1

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Variant of roche.

Noun

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. rock
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Etymology 2

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From Old French roc, ultimately from Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, rook, castle (chess)), possibly from Sanskrit रथ (ratha, chariot).

Noun

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. (dated, chess) rook
    Synonym: tour
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Interlingua

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Noun

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roc (plural roches)

  1. rook (chess piece)

Irish

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Old Norse hrukka (wrinkle)

Noun

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roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

  1. ray (fish)
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Etymology 2

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From Old Irish roc (wrinkle).

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roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

  1. wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker
    Bhí roic sa léine.
    There were wrinkles in the shirt.
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roc (present analytic rocann, future analytic rocfaidh, verbal noun rocadh, past participle roctha) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. wrinkle, crease, pucker
  2. corrugate
  3. kink
  4. crimp
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Latvian

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Verb

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roc

  1. inflection of rakt:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French roc.

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roc m (plural rocs)

  1. (chess) rook

Descendants

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  • French: roc

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (roc)

Old French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Persian رخ (rox).

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roc oblique singularm (oblique plural ros, nominative singular ros, nominative plural roc)

  1. (chess) rook

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  • Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (roc)

Old Khmer

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roc

  1. Latin script form of រោច៑ (to withdraw)

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roc

  1. Latin script form of រោច៑ (fortnight following full moon)

Old Saxon

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roc m

  1. Alternative spelling of rok

Welsh

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Etymology

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From English rock.

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Noun

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roc m (not mutable)

  1. rock (style of music)
    Synonym: cerddoriaeth roc

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Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “roc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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Etymology

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Related to Persian روز (ruz).

Noun

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roc (n)

  1. Sun
  2. day