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See also: Ark and ārk

English

Etymology

From Middle English arke, from Old English ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“I enclose”).

Noah's Ark

Pronunciation

Noun

ark (plural arks)

  1. A large box with a flat lid.
  2. (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Noah's ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
      In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside.
  3. Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge.
  4. (figuratively) The body as a vessel.
  5. A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
    • 1990, Lou Sullivan, chapter 7, in From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, page 76:
      Some seventy or seventy-five arks were permanently located on McLeod's Lake and between 110 and 125 people lived in them.
  6. (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
  7. (Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.

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Descendants

  • → Maori: āka

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Danish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Via Middle Low German ark from Latin arcus. The Latin words means "bow", but it is here used in a wider sense of the folded paper. Compare the same semantic development in German Bogen (“bow; sheet of paper”).

Noun

ark n (singular definite arket, plural indefinite arker)

  1. a sheet (of paper)
Declension
Declension of ark
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ark arket ark arkene
genitive arks arkets arks arkenes
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Old Danish ark, Old Norse ǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *arkō, borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, coffin; ark”).

Noun

ark c (singular definite arken, plural indefinite arker)

  1. (biblical) ark (Noah's Ark or the Ark of the Convenant)
Declension
Declension of ark
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ark arken arker arkerne
genitive arks arkens arkers arkernes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch arke. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

Noun

ark f (plural arken, diminutive arkje n)

  1. ark (ark of the covenant)
  2. ark (ship)
  3. houseboat
    Synonym: woonark

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Descendants

Icelandic

Etymology

From Danish ark, from Latin arcus.

Pronunciation

Noun

ark n (genitive singular arks, nominative plural örk)

  1. (obsolete) sheet (of paper)

Declension

declension of ark
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ark arkið örk örkin
accusative ark arkið örk örkin
dative arki arkinu örkum örkunum
genitive arks arksins arka arkanna

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Maltese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from English arc.

Pronunciation

Noun

ark m (plural arkiet or arkijiet)

  1. arc

Manx

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish orc, arc (“young pig”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸorkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”).

Noun

ark f (genitive singular arkagh, plural arkyn or irk)

  1. young pig, piglet

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Noun

ark (plural arks)

  1. The path of the sun across the sky.

Descendants

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North Frisian

Determiner

ark

  1. (Mooring) each; every

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ǫrk (“chest”), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚱᚲᚢ (*arku), borrowed during pre-Christian time from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“enclose, box in”), from Proto-Italic *arkeō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard”).

Noun

ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

  1. the ark (boat of Noah)
  2. paktens ark - the Ark of the Covenant
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Old Danish ark, arken, arkens, through Middle Low German or Low German arkener (“breast protection”), from Old French arquiere (“shooting range”).

Noun

ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

  1. (architecture) a dormer

Etymology 3

From Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“arc, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”).

Noun

ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka or arkene)

  1. a sheet (of paper)
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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ǫrk, from Latin arca (“chest, box”); sense 3 from Old French arquire, via Middle Low German or Low German and old Danish.

Noun

ark f (definite singular arka, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

  1. the ark (boat of Noah)
  2. paktarka - the Ark of the Covenant
  3. (architecture) a dormer
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From Latin arcus, via Low German ark.

Noun

ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka)

  1. a sheet (of paper)
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Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish ark, borrowed from Latin arca, into the Germanic languages in pre-Christian time.

Noun

ark c

  1. an ark, a box; the Ark of the Covenant
  2. the ark (ship) of Noah, resembling a box
Declension
Declension of ark 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ark arken arkar arkarna
Genitive arks arkens arkars arkarnas
Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish ark, from Middle Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Compare German Bogen. It refers to the bend of the parchment when folded.

Noun

ark n

  1. a sheet of paper (for writing on)
  2. (printing) a signature, a multiple of four pages printed on a single sheet, which is folded and bound into a book
Declension
Declension of ark 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative ark arket ark arken
Genitive arks arkets arks arkens
Synonyms
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Descendants

References

  1. ^ ark in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  2. ^ ark in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  3. ^ ark 2 in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

Turkish

Pronunciation

Noun

ark (definite accusative arkı, plural arklar)

  1. (chiefly Internet) Abbreviation of arkadaş.

West Frisian

Pronunciation

Noun

ark n (no plural)

  1. tool
  2. stuff, junk

Further reading

  • “ark (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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