klink

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English

Noun

klink

  1. Alternative spelling of clink (“prison”)
    • 2011, Death Grips (lyrics and music), “Klink”, in Exmilitary:
      Try to hem me up like for life / Stuck in the klink, haters in blue / How they set me up? Should I test my luck? / Here they come, they're in pursuit

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch klink, form Middle Dutch clinke.

Noun

klink (plural klinke)

  1. handle
  2. latch

Etymology 2

From Dutch klinken, from Middle Dutch clingen, from Old Dutch *clingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą.

Verb

klink (present klink, present participle klinkende, past participle geklink)

  1. to sound

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /klɪŋk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: klink
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch clinke. Related to German Klinke.

Noun

klink f (plural klinken, diminutive klinkje n)

  1. latch
  2. handle (on a door)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

klink

  1. inflection of klinken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

klin +‎ -k

Pronunciation

Noun

klink m inan

  1. diminutive of klin

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

klink

  1. imperative of klinka
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