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. (gymnastics) 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 inan

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
• Negerhollands: bok
• Sranan Tongo: boko, bokoboko
  • Aukan: boko boko

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

bok

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

Proposed etymologies include Lokono bo-kia (“emphatic 'you'”), Lokono Lokono (“people, Arawak”), Portuguese botoque (“lip plate”), Portuguese bugre (“derogatory term for an Amerindian”). Compare English buck (“a black or Native American man”).

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n, feminine bokkin)

1. (Suriname, obsolete) Amerindian person
   • 1907, F.P. Penard, A.P. Penard, De menschetende aanbidders der zonneslang [The man-eating worshippers of the sun snake]‎, Paramaribo: H.B. Heyde, pages 49-50:

     Dat echter een afgerichte negerslaaf beter te gebruiken was dan 50 Bokken klinkt wel wat ongelooflijk, in aanmerking genomen, dat thans nog algemeen onder de negers het verhaal de ronde doet, dat de weggeloopen slaven veel banger waren voor de Indianen dan voor de blanken of negersoldaten. Inderdaad in Demerara waren het de Bokken, die daar de vorming van onafhankelijk negerstaten belet hebben.

     However, that a trained Negro slave was more useful than fifty Amerindians sounds somewhat incredible, considering that even now the story is widely told among Negroes that runaway slaves were much more afraid of Indians than whites or Negro soldiers. Indeed, in Demerara, it were the Amerindians who prevented the formation of independent Negro nations.

• Berbice Creole Dutch: boko
• → Guyanese Creole English: buck
• → Trinidadian Creole English: buck

Borrowed from Caribbean Javanese mbok.

bok f (uncountable)

1. (Suriname, dated) Form of address for a Javanese woman

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 inan

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɔk]
• Syllabification: bok

Inherited from Old Polish bok.

bok m inan

1. (anatomy) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person or animal)
2. side, flank (neither the front nor the back of an object)

Borrowed from German Bock.

bok m animal

1. buck, ram (uncastrated male sheep)

• Zofia Stamirowska (1987-2024) “I. bok, II. bok”, in Anna Basara, editor, Słownik gwar Ostródzkiego, Warmii i Mazur‎, volume 1, Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich Wydawnictwo Polskiej Akademii Nauk, →ISBN, pages 202-203

• 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 (a written document composed of pages)

• bochous
• bocstaff
• landbok

• English: book (see there for further descendants)
• Geordie English: buik, 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 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. 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. beech (tree)

• bøk

• “bok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• bók (Setesdal, dialects)

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

• IPA^(key): /buːk/, [bu̞ːk]

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

1. book

• “bok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ. First attested in the 13th century.

• IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /bɔk/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /bɔk/

bok m inan (related adjective bokowy)

1. (anatomy) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person or animal)
   • 1937 [15th century], Józef Birkenmajer, editor, Bogarodzica dziewica. Analiza tekstu, treści i formy‎, number CDEF, Krakow, Warsaw, Częstochowa, Cieszyn, Sandomierz, Płock:

     Czyebye dla, czlowyecze, dal bog przeklocz szobye bok, racze, nodze obye

     [Ciebie dla, człowiecze, dał Bog przekłóć sobie bok, ręce, nodze obie]

   • c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 73v:

     Latus […] a lateo lates eyn seyt bok

     [Latus […] a lateo lates eyn seyt bok]

2. side, flank (neither the front nor the back of an object)
   • 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎, Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 47, 2:

     Zacladana iest weselim wszelika zema gora Syon: boky polnoczi, masto crola welikego (fundatur exultatione universae terrae mons Sion: latera aquilonis, civitas regis magni)

     [Zakładana jest wiesielim wszelikiej ziemie gora Syjon, boki północy, miasto króla wielikiego (fundatur exultatione universae terrae mons Sion: latera aquilonis, civitas regis magni)]

• Masurian: bok (“side”)
• Polish: bok
• Silesian: bok

• Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “bok”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
• Mańczak, Witold (2017) “bok”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
• Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “bok”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
• Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “bok”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
• B. Sieradzka-Baziur, editor (2011–2015), “bok”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
• Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “bok”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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

• ᛒᚮᚴ (Runic)

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

bōk f

1. book

• Swedish: bok
• → Finnish: pyökki

Inherited from Old Polish bok.

• IPA^(key): /bɔk/
• (Middle Polish) IPA^(key): /ˈbɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: bok
• Homophones: Bock, Bok

bok m inan (related adjective boczny)

1. (anatomy) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person, animal)
   1. (Middle Polish) physical or emotional closeness to someone
2. side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of an object)

   Synonym: strona

3. side (place in space located to the right or left of some central reference point)
4. (geometry) side (segment connecting two vertices of a polygon)
5. side (place out of the way)

   Synonyms: strona, ustronie

6. (obsolete, mining) shaft wall
7. (Middle Polish, collective, metonomically) man; human community; group
8. (Middle Polish) side; Further details are uncertain.
   • 1528, J. Murmelius, Dictionarius‎, page 60:

     Latus Bok

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), bok is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 25 times in scientific texts, 3 times in news, 2 times in essays, 20 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 58 times, making it the 1105th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[1]

• bok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• bok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bok”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• Wiesław Morawski (23.10.2012) “BOK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861‎
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego‎ (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 186
• bok in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̏к)

1. side

   bok uz bok ― side by side

2. flank

Inherited 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

Inherited from Old Polish bok.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: bok

bok m inan (related adjective boczny)

1. side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person, animal, or object)
   1. side curtain by a window
   2. wayside, roadside

• bok in dykcjonorz.eu
• bok in silling.org
• Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “bok”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 65
• Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “bok”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski‎, page 70

• 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 Ottoman Turkish بوق (bòq, “excrement, dung, turd, shit”), from Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”).
Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰸 (bok), Kazakh боқ (boq), Azerbaijani pox, Kyrgyz бок (bok), etc.

• IPA^(key): /bok/

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bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)

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

Borrowed from English box (boks).

• IPA^(key): /bok/

bok (nominative plural boks)

1. box

• bokil (“little box / small box”) (diminutive)
• bokül

• bog
• bök