flek

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from German Fleck.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈflɛk]
  • Hyphenation: flek

Noun

flek m inan

  1. (informal) spot
  2. (informal) job, employment, post
  3. (in the plural) a kind of small pasta
  4. (card games) raise, double (multiplies the current stake by 2)

Declension
Declension of flek (velar masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative flek fleky
genitive fleku fleků
dative fleku flekům
accusative flek fleky
vocative fleku fleky
locative fleku flecích, flekách
instrumental flekem fleky

Derived terms

References
  1. "flek" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, electronic version, Leda, 2007

Indonesian

Noun

flek (first-person possessive flekku, second-person possessive flekmu, third-person possessive fleknya)

  1. spot
  2. mark

Old High German

Alternative forms
  • flec

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *flekka-.

Noun

flek m

  1. spot
  2. mark
  3. piece

Declension
Declension of flek (masculine a-stem)
case singular plural
nominative flek fleka
accusative flek fleka
genitive flekes fleko
dative fleke flekum
instrumental fleku —

Descendants
  • Middle High German: vlëc
    • German: Fleck
    • Yiddish: פֿלעק‎ (flek)

References
  1. Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /flêk/

Noun

flȅk m (Cyrillic spelling фле̏к)

  1. Alternative form of flȅka

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *flekk, from Proto-Germanic *flekka-.

Noun

flek c (plural flekken, diminutive flekje)

  1. spot, speck
  2. town, large village (in the past often possessing market rights)

Alternative forms

Further reading
  • “flek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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