bok

• (General American) IPA^(key): /bɒk/
• (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA^(key): /bɒk/
• Rhymes: -ɒk

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From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck.

bok

1. (South Africa, slang) keen or willing.

   "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."

Imitative

bok

1. The clucking sound of a chicken.
   • 2000, William S Pollack; Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices:

     And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.

   • 2004, Andrew Bennett; Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory:

     So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'

• KBO, OKB, kob

From Dutch bok (“buck, male goat”), from Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

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bok (plural bokke, diminutive bokkie)

1. goat
2. antelope, buck

   Synonym: wildsbok

3. (slang) lover (term of affection)

   Synonym: bokkie

4. vaulting horse
5. blunder

• → Xhosa: ibhokhwe

bok (attributive bokke, comparative bokker, superlative bokste)

1. keen, willing

From Philippine English bok, from bunk, shortened from bunkmate.

• Hyphenation: bok

bok

1. one's batchmate or classmate in the Philippine Military Academy

Attested as bayuk in the 17th century.

bōk (alienable)

1. creek, stream
2. river

• bokushi

• → Cajun French: bogue
  • → English: bogue

Inherited from Old Czech bok, from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbok]

bok m

1. side
2. flank
3. (anatomy) hip

• bok in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• bok in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
• bok in Internetová jazyková příručka

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

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• Hyphenation: bok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

From Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)

1. male goat, billy

   Synonym: geitenbok

2. buck, horse or pony; strong contraption on legs, resembling a mount
   1. (gymnastics) vaulting horse
   2. sawbuck

      Synonym: zaagbok

   3. a crane on legs
3. box, perch (driver's seat on a carriage)
4. (printing) job case, type case
5. (derogatory) churl, grouch
6. (derogatory) oaf, bumpkin

• Afrikaans: bok
  • → Xhosa: ibhokhwe
• Berbice Creole Dutch: boko
• Negerhollands: bok
• → Aukan: boko boko
• → Guyanese Creole English: buck
• → Sranan Tongo: boko, bokoboko
• → Trinidadian Creole English: buck

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bok

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

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian bok, Polish bok, Czech bok, Russian бок (bok), and Serbo-Croatian bȍk.

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/
• Homophones: bog, Bog

bok m

1. side (bounding straight edge of an object; flat surface of an object; left or right half; surface of a sheet of paper)
2. page (one side of a leaf of a book)
3. (chiefly in the dual) breast (organs on the front of a woman’s chest, which contain the mammary glands)

   Synonym: prědk

• Alternative locative singular: boce

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “bok”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “bok”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

From buhok, compare Tagalog buhok.

bok

1. head hair

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩkʷ}

bok

1. blister
2. chicken pox

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩkʷ}

bok

1. bladder

From English book.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {bȩkʷ}

bok (construct form bokin)

1. book

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [pˠɔkʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /pˠɛkʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {bekʷ}

bok

1. sand
2. sandspit
3. sandbar

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

• boc, boke, book, booke, buk, buke

From Old English bōc, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

• IPA^(key): /boːk/

bok (plural bokes)

1. book (written document composed of pages)

• bochous
• bocstaff
• landbok

• English: book (see there for further descendants)
  • Northumbrian: beuk
• Scots: buik, beuk, buke, beuck
• Yola: buke

• “bọ̄k, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• buk

From Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

• Stem vowel: ô¹
  • (originally) IPA^(key): /boːk/

bôk n

1. book
2. beechnut

• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: book

  German Low German: Book

• Plautdietsch: Buak

• bog (non-standard since 1907)

From Danish bog (“book”), from Old Norse bók (“beech, book”), from Proto-Germanic *bōks (“letter”), either from *bōkō (“beech”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”).

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

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bok f or m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)

1. a book

• One of the nouns whose feminine form is predominant in formal writing.

bok f or m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural boker, definite plural bokene)

1. a beech (tree).

• bøk

• “bok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Akin to English book.

• IPA^(key): /buːk/, [bu̞ːk]

bok f (definite singular boka, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)

1. a book

• “bok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, whence also Old English bōc, Old Frisian bōk, Old High German buoh, Old Norse bók.

bōk f or n

1. book

• Middle Low German: bôk, buk
  • Low German:

    Dutch Low Saxon: book

    German Low German: Book

  • Plautdietsch: Buak

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

bōk f

1. book

• Swedish: bok
• → Finnish: pyökki

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: bok

bok m inan

1. side, flank (neither the front nor the back)

   Synonym: strona

• bok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bok in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏к)

1. side

   bok uz bok ― side by side

2. flank

From Proto-Slavic *bogъ. Other fringe theories exist but are largely unsupported.

• bog

bok (Cyrillic spelling бок)

1. (Croatia) hi

   Synonyms: zdravo, pozdrav, ćao

2. (Croatia) bye

   Synonyms: zbogom, zdravo, pozdrav, ćao

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

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From Old Swedish bōk, from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, of uncertain origin but usually connected to Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵ- (“beech”) or Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to allot”).

bok c

1. book:
   1. collection of sheets of paper
   2. a work of literature
   3. a major division of a published work

From Old Swedish bōk, from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōkō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

bok c

1. beech (Fagus)

• bok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

From Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”). Cognate with Old Turkic [script needed] (bok), Kazakh боқ (boq), Azerbaijani pox, Kyrgyz бок (bok), etc.

• IPA^(key): /bok/

bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)

1. shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)

• IPA^(key): /bok/

bok (nominative plural boks)

1. box

• bokül