wok

English

Etymology

From Cantonese 鑊／镬 (wok6).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /wɒk/
  • (US) IPA(key): /wɑk/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Homophone: walk (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
  • Rhymes: -ɒk

Noun

wok (plural woks)

  1. A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
    • 1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood‎, →ISBN, page 86:
      The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.
a wok being used for cooking
  1. (chiefly Europe) Any dish prepared using such a pan.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

wok (third-person singular simple present woks, present participle wokking or woking, simple past and past participle wokked or woked)

  1. To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.

Translations

See also

Czech

Noun

wok m inan

  1. wok

Declension
Declension of wok (velar masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative wok woky
genitive woku woků
dative woku wokům
accusative wok woky
vocative woku woky
locative woku wocích
instrumental wokem woky

Dutch

Etymology

Ultimately from Cantonese 鑊／镬 (wok6).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʋɔk/
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: wok
  • Rhymes: -ɔk

Noun

wok m (plural woks or wokken, diminutive wokje n)

  1. wok (large cooking pan, typical of East-Asian cuisine)

Derived terms

Middle English

Adjective

wok

  1. Alternative form of woke

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English work.

Verb

wok

  1. work

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wok, ultimately from Cantonese 鑊／镬 (wok6).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /vɔk/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔk
  • Syllabification: wok

Noun

wok m inan

  1. wok (large, oriental cooking pan)

Declension
Declension of wok
singular plural
nominative wok woki
genitive woka/woku woków
dative wokowi wokom
accusative wok woki
instrumental wokiem wokami
locative woku wokach
vocative woku woki

The genitive singular form woku is sometimes proscribed.

Further reading
  • wok in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation
 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈɔ.ki/ [ʊˈɔ.ki], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔ.ki/, /uˈɔk/ [ʊˈɔk], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔk/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /uˈɔk/ [ʊˈɔk], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔk/, /uˈɔ.ki/ [ʊˈɔ.ki], (faster pronunciation) /ˈwɔ.ki/

Noun

wok f or (less common) m (plural woks)

  1. wok (large round pan used in Oriental cuisine)

Spanish

Noun

wok m (plural woks)

  1. wok

Further reading

Swedish

Noun

wok c

  1. a wok (large, round-bottomed cooking pan)
    Synonym: wokpanna
  2. a dish (typically) prepared in a wok, stir-fry

Declension
Declension of wok 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative wok woken wokar wokarna
Genitive woks wokens wokars wokarnas

See also

References

Tarao

Noun

wok

  1. pig (animal)

References
  • 1998, People of India: Manipur (results of the Anthropological Survey of India), page 272
  • 2001, Encyclopaedia of northeast India, volume 3, →ISBN, page 230:
  • Chungkham Yashwanta Singh (2002) Tarao Grammar (in Tarao), page 117

Tok Pisin
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Etymology

From English work.

Verb

wok intrans., transitive wokim

  1. to work, to labor
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:
      Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”
      →New International Version translation

Noun

wok

  1. work, job, employment
  2. obligation, duty

West Flemish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ôoc, from Old Dutch ōk, ouk, from Proto-Germanic *auk.

Adverb

wok

  1. also, too
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