duk

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See also: dük, dûk, dúḵ, -duk, and -dük

Albanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

See medio-passive voice form duket (it seems like, appears like).

Noun

duk

  1. virtue
  2. attribute

Verb

duk (aorist duk, participle dukur), active voice

  1. it seemed
  2. it looked like
  3. it appeared

Conjugation

(*): Gheg forms

Antonyms

Derived terms

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -uk
  • Hyphenation: duk

Verb

duk

  1. Informal second-person singular masculine (hik), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, present indicative form of izan.
  2. Masculine allocutive form of da.

Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

Danish

Verb

duk

  1. imperative of dukke

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *duok, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dʊk̚/
  • Hyphenation: duk

Noun

duk

  1. a piece of cloth:
    1. cloth menstrual pad.
    2. (surgery, colloquial) drape.

Further reading

Malay

Pronunciation

Verb

duk

  1. (informal) Clipping of duduk.
    Kau duk kat mana sekarang?
    Where do you live now?

Further reading

Mauritian Creole

Noun

duk

  1. Alternative spelling of douk

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French duc, from Latin dux.

Pronunciation

Noun

duk (plural dukes)

  1. leader, guide, boss
  2. commander, general
  3. noble, lord (especially of high rank)
  4. duke (rank of nobility)
    • p. 1154, “AD 1129”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 87, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:
      ſe an ƿæſ ᵹehaten petruſ · he ƿæſ munec of clunni ·⁊ ƿeaſ boren of þa ricceſte men of rome · mid him helden ða of rome ·⁊ ſe duc of ſicilie ·
      One was called Peter; he was a monk from Cluny who was descended from Rome's most powerful men. The people of Rome and the duke of Sicily sided with him.

Descendants

  • English: duke
  • Scots: duik, duke
  • Breton: duk
  • Cornish: duk
  • Irish: diúc
  • Manx: duic
  • Scottish Gaelic: diùc
  • Welsh: dug

References

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

From Old Norse dúkr and Middle Low German duk.

Noun

duk m (definite singular duken, indefinite plural duker, definite plural dukene)

  1. a cloth, tablecloth, altar cloth, dropcloth etc.
  2. canvas, tarpaulin
  3. bandana, handkerchief
  4. metal sieve

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse dúkr and Middle Low German duk.

Noun

duk m (definite singular duken, indefinite plural dukar, definite plural dukane)

  1. a cloth, tablecloth, altar cloth, dropcloth etc.
  2. canvas, tarpaulin
  3. bandana, handkerchief
  4. metal sieve

Derived terms

References

Old Javanese

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *-Cuk.

Pronunciation

Noun

duk

  1. stab, thrust
  2. while
  3. (black) fibre of the sugar palm

Derived terms

Adverb

duk

  1. just while

Further reading

  • "duk" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

Pangutaran Sama

Noun

duk

  1. garbage

Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Ciszewski points to Bruckner Prace fil. VI page 625 and duczaja”)

Pronunciation

 

Noun

duk m inan

  1. (Far Masovian) hole in a tree caused by decay
  2. (Far Masovian) barrel for holding grain
  3. (Kuyavia) Synonym of studnia

Further reading

  • Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “duk”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 205
  • Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “duk”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, in Materyały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 387

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse dúkr, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk-.

Pronunciation

Noun

duk c

  1. tablecloth; a piece of cloth used for protection of a table or for decoration

Declension

Declension of duk
nominative genitive
singular indefinite duk duks
definite duken dukens
plural indefinite dukar dukars
definite dukarna dukarnas

Further reading

Uzbek

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Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

duk (plural duklar)

  1. rapping, banging, tapping, thumping noise
  2. spindle
    Synonym: yig

Declension

* Note: The type of possessive is not specified.