bok

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

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”).

bok (plural bokke, diminutive bokkie)

1. goat
2. antelope, buck
3. (slang) also bokkie My lover.
4. vaulting-horse
5. blunder

• (antelope): wildsbok

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

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbok]

bok m

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

• boční
• bokovka
• odbočit
• vybočit
• zabočit
• vbok

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

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

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• Hyphenation: bok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

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

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)

1. male goat, buck, billy

   Synonym: geitenbok

2. (gymnastics) vaulting horse
3. a crane on legs
4. box, perch (driver's seat on a carriage)
5. (printing) job case, type case
6. sawbuck, buck

   Synonym: zaagbok

7. (derogatory) churl, grouch
8. (derogatory) oaf, bumpkin

• bokkenbaard
• bokkenpruik
• bokkensprong
• bokkig
• boksbaard
• geitenbok
• hertenbok
• reebok
• schachtbok
• springbok
• zaagbok
• zondebok

See the etymology of the main entry.

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)

• Alternative locative singular: boce

• (breast): prědk

• bok in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
• bok in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

• MED phonemes: {bẹkʷ}
• IPA^(key): /pˠɘkʷ/, [pˠɤ͡okʷ]

bok

1. blister
2. chicken pox

• MED phonemes: {bẹkʷ}
• IPA^(key): /pˠɘkʷ/, [pˠɤ͡okʷ]

bok

1. bladder

From English book.

• MED phonemes: {bẹkʷ}
• IPA^(key): /pˠɘkʷ/, [pˠɤ͡okʷ]

bok

1. book

• MED phonemes: {bekʷ}
• IPA^(key): /pˠɜkʷ/, [pˠʌ͡ɔkʷ]

bok

1. sand
2. sandspit
3. sandbar

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

bok

1. Alternative form of booke

• buk

From Old Saxon 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

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

• 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

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/

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

1. a book

• “bok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/

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bok m inan

1. side

   Synonym: strona

• boczek
• boczniak
• bocznica
• boczny
• pobocze
• na bok
• u boku
• z boku

• 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
2. (Croatia) bye

• (hi): zdravo, pozdrav, ćao
• (bye): zbogom, zdravo, pozdrav, ćao

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

• IPA^(key): /buːk/

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bok c

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

book

beech

• bokfanér
• bokollon
• bokskog
• bokträd

• bok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

From Old Turkic bok, from Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”).

• IPA^(key): /bok/

bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)

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

• boklama
• boklamak
• boklu
• bokluk

• IPA^(key): /bok/

bok (nominative plural boks)

1. box

• bokül