trek

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Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: trĕk, IPA(key): /tɹɛk/
  • Rhymes: -ɛk
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Noun

trek (plural treks)

  1. (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
  2. (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835–1837.
  3. A slow or difficult journey.
    We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.
    • 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:
      Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
  4. A long walk.
    Synonym: slog
    I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.

Verb

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

  1. (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
    • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:
      Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
  2. (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
  3. (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.
  4. (Nigeria) To travel by walking.

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Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch trekken.

Verb

trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)

  1. to haul
  2. to move (moving house)
  3. to pull
Descendants
  • → English: trek

Etymology 2

From Dutch trek.

Noun

trek (plural trekke)

  1. journey
Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.

Noun

trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)

  1. (uncountable) appetite
    Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar
    Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task
  2. (countable) journey, migration
  3. (uncountable) animal migration
  4. (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
  5. (countable) feature, trait
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trek

  1. inflection of trekken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

French

Noun

trek m (plural treks)

  1. treck
  2. trecking

Ternate

Pronunciation

Noun

trek

  1. truck

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30
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