leken

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈleː.kə(n)/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eːkən
  • Hyphenation: le‧ken

Noun

leken

  1. plural of leek

Verb

leken

  1. inflection of lijken:
    1. plural past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

Anagrams

Hungarian

Etymology

le- (down; fully) + ken (smear)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛkɛn]
  • Hyphenation: le‧ken
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Verb

leken

  1. (transitive, of machinery) to grease, to lubricate
  2. (transitive, of hair) to smarm (to flatten the hair, etc. with cream or grease)
  3. (transitive, colloquial) to slap someone on the face

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • lekenés

Further reading

  • leken in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *lekan, from Proto-West Germanic *lekan, from Proto-Germanic *lekaną.

Verb

lēken

  1. to leak, to be leaky
  2. to leak away, to flow away (of a liquid)

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Dutch: lekken
  • Limburgish: laeke

Further reading

  • leken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “leken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

leken m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of leke

leken m

  1. definite singular of lek

Swedish

Noun

leken

  1. definite singular of lek

Anagrams

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