yok

• IPA^(key): /jɒk/

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• Rhymes: -ɒk

yok (plural yoks)

1. Alternative form of yock

yok (third-person singular simple present yoks, present participle yokking, simple past and past participle yokked)

1. Alternative form of yock

Reversal of goy, with final devoicing.

• Yok

yok (plural yoks)

1. (derogatory) A non-Jew; a Gentile.
   • 1979, Clive Sinclair, Hearts of Gold, Penguin, published 1983, page 43:

     [W]e had not only won the cup but also a great moral victory over the yoks.

   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage, published 2007, page 162:

     I'd been warned about just such a day, when the yoks would come with their white-boned fists and start knocking us about.

• eok
• yuk

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [e̯okʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /jekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {yȩkʷ}

yok

1. you (singular); thou.

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

yok

1. water

• Robert D. Bugenhagen, Salme E. Bugenhagen, Ro ta ipiyooto sua Mbula Uunu = Mbula-English dictionary (2007, SIL)

• ȝocke, ȝok, ȝoke, ȝook, ȝoocke, jok, yoke, yokke
• ȝeoce, ȝocc, iuc (Early Middle English)

Inherited from Old English ġeoc, from Proto-West Germanic *juk, *jok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Forms with a long vowel are either leveled from inflected forms or influenced by the verb yoken, where open-syllable lengthening took place.

• IPA^(key): /jɔk/, /jɒːk/, /jɔːk/

yok (plural yokes)

1. yoke (attachment connecting animals to a farm implement).
2. A yoked group of draught animals.
3. (figuratively) Regulation; limits or their imposition:
   1. A restriction or limit; that which restrains.
   2. Bondage, subjection; lack of freedom.
   3. Marriage; the marital bond.
4. Something resembling a yoke.
5. (rare) A challenge, burden or load.

• yoken

• English: yoke (obsolete yock)
• Middle Scots: ȝok, ȝoke, ȝock, ȝocke, yok, yoke
  • Scots: yoke, yock

• “yōke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Possibly specialized in meaning from the sense for "hair" > "hair color" > "color"; see Etymology 2 below.

yok m sg

1. color

yok (masculine singular accusative yokäṃ, masculine plural nominative yokäñ, feminine singular accusative yokäññai, feminine plural nominative yokäñña)

1. colored

Uncertain. Adams speculates about the relation with the hapax legomenon in Vedic Sanskrit याशु (yāśu) etc., which he reads as "pubic hair", and Old Armenian ասր (asr, “fleece”).[1]

yok n (plural yākwa)

1. hair
2. wool

• (colloquial) yoo
• (regional) yoh, yog, yoğ

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish یوق (yok), from Proto-Turkic *yōk. Compare Old Turkic 𐰖𐰸 (yok).

• IPA^(key): /ˈjok/, (colloquial) /ˈjoː/, (regional) /ˈjoχ/

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yok

1. absent, nonexistent, not there

   Antonym: var

   Kitapta 150 sayfa yok. ― There aren't 150 pages in the book.

2. prohibited, forbidden

   Synonym: yasak

   Sigara içmek yok! ― No smoking (cigarettes)!)

yok (definite accusative yoku or yoğu, plural yoklar)

1. something that doesn't exist
2. nonexistence

yok

1. no, nope

   Synonym: hayır

yok

1. Used between two contrasting conditional clauses, conveying a negative meaning to the latter, similar to yoksa.

   Verdiler, ne âlâ; yok vermediler, döner gelirsin. ― If they give it, very well; if they don't, you'll just come back.

2. Used to denote sarcastic disbelief or belittlement to what someone else has said.

   Yok kâğıdı kalmamış, yok mürekkebi iyi değilmiş, hasılı bir alay bahaneler! ― He didn't have paper left, his ink wasn't good, whole bunch of excuses!

• “yok”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “yok”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5347

yok (nominative plural yoks)

1. yoke