hok

hok

1. (international standards) ISO 639-5 language code for Hokan languages.

Borrowed from Afrikaans hok, from Dutch hok.

hok (plural hoks)

1. (South Africa) A kind of small hut.

• Kho, OHK

From Dutch hok.

hok (plural hokke, diminutive hokkie)

1. A living shelter for domesticated animals.

• → English: hok

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔk/

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• Hyphenation: hok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

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hok n (plural hokken, diminutive hokje n)

1. A living shelter for domesticated animals such as a kennel, cage, hut or a pen.
2. A closet or small room.
3. A den; a small and often dark dwelling such as a hut.

• berghok
• hokken
• hondenhok
• kippenhok
• kolenhok
• washok
• werkhok

• Afrikaans: hok
  • → English: hok
• → Papiamentu: hòki

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hok

1. first-person singular present indicative of hokken
2. imperative of hokken

H-insertion on ok, past tense of ake.

• IPA^(key): /huːk/

hok

1. (dialectal) past tense of haka (“to go; sled; glide”)
   • 1953, Holtvedt, Reidar, Historier fra Krokskauen, Oslo: Aschehoug, page 132:

     Så hok dom, og strast føre berjhufsen hevde mann se ta, [m]en kjelken reste beint utføre så det bare vart flisa att.

     They sledded, and right before the cliff, you'd throw yourself off, but the sled raced straight down, so that there were only splinters left.