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English

Alternative forms

• dawk

Etymology

From Hindi ??? (??k), from Ashokan Prakrit *???????????????? (*?akka), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *?akkas.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??k/, /d??k/

Noun

dak (plural daks)

1. (India) A post system by means of transport relays of horses stationed at intervals along a route or network, carrying mail and passengers.

Derived terms

• dak bungalow

Anagrams

• DKA

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dak, from Old Dutch *thak, from Proto-Germanic *þak?, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dak/

Noun

dak (plural dakke, diminutive dakkie)

1. roof

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *dauka, from Proto-Indo-European *dheu, further related to Lithuanian dvékti (“to breathe”), dv?kas (“breath”). Related to dash.

Noun

dak m (indefinite plural daqe, definite singular daku, definite plural daqet)

1. big ram

Related terms

• dash

References

Central Nicobarese

Noun

dak

1. water

References

• Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80: In Car-Nicobarese mak. Central Nic. dak, Chowra rak, 'water', […]
• Heinz-Jürgen Pinnow, The Position of the Munda Languages within the Austroasiatic Language Family (1963), page 149: Nancowry daak

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dac, from Old Dutch thak, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þak?, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?k/
• Hyphenation: dak
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

dak n (plural daken, diminutive dakje n or daakje n)

1. roof

Derived terms

Related terms

• dekken

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dak
• ? Indonesian: dak
• ? Papiamentu: dak
• ? Sranan Tongo: daki

Eastern Mnong

Etymology

From Proto-Bahnaric /*?a?k/, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *?aak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?k/

Noun

dak

1. water
2. lake

Derived terms

• dak Lak (“Lak Lake”)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch dak (“roof”), from Middle Dutch dac, from Old Dutch thak, from Proto-Germanic *þak?, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?dak]
• Hyphenation: dak

Noun

dak (first-person possessive dakku, second-person possessive dakmu, third-person possessive daknya)

1. (engineering) roof, the top external level of a building.

Further reading

• “dak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Kharia

Etymology

For Munda cognates, see Mundari ??? (d??).

Noun

dak

1. water

References

• Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80

Korwa

Etymology

For Munda cognates, see Mundari ??? (d??).

Noun

dak

1. water

References

• Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (2002), page 80

Malay

Etymology

Cognate with tidak, tak, from Proto-Malayic *da? (compare Indonesian tidak), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *diaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?/
• Rhymes: -da?, -a?

Adverb

dak

1. (informal) not (negates meaning of verb)

   Saya dak mahu makan.

   I don't want to eat.

2. (informal) not (To no degree)

   Buku itu dak mahal.

   That book is not expensive.

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (??ka).

Determiner

dak (feminine dik, plural dawk)

1. that

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English duck, from Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, d?ce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *d?can (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to dive, bend down”).

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [r??k]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /r?æk/
• Bender phonemes: {dak}

Noun

dak

1. a duck

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *?ak (“trap; to trap”).

Noun

dak

1. trap

References

Semelai

Etymology

From Proto-Aslian [Term?], from Proto-Mon-Khmer *?aak (“water, liquid”).

Noun

dak

1. water

References

• Nicole Kruspe, A Grammar of Semelai (2004)

Wutunhua

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan ??? (stag).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t?x]

Noun

dak

1. tiger

References

• Erika Sandman (2016) A Grammar of Wutun?^[1], University of Helsinki (PhD), ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?k, IPA^(key): /d?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English *dukken, from Old English *ducan, *duccan (“to duck”). Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”); a secondary verb akin to Middle English duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *d?can (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *d?ban? (“to dive”)). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).

Verb

duck (third-person singular simple present ducks, present participle ducking, simple past and past participle ducked)

1. (intransitive) To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something.

2. (transitive) To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
   • c. 1729, Jonathan Swift, To Dr. Delany on the Libels Written Against Him

     As some raw youth in country bred,
     To arms by thirst of honour led,
     When at a skirmish first he hears
     The bullets whistling round his ears,
     Will duck his head aside

3. (transitive) To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
   • 1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews

     Adams, after ducking the squire twice or thrice, leaped out of the tub.

4. (intransitive) To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.

   • In Tiber ducking thrice by break of day.

5. (intransitive) To bow.
   • c. 1605–1608, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens

     The learned pate / Ducks to the golden fool.

6. (transitive) To evade doing something.
7. (transitive) To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
8. (intransitive) To enter a place for a short moment.

Synonyms

• (to lower the head): duck down
• (to lower into the water): dip, dunk
• (to lower in order to prevent it from being struck by something): dip

Coordinate terms

• (to lower the head or body to prevent it from being struck): hit the deck

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English doke, ducke, dukke, dokke, douke, duke, from Old English duce, d?ce (“duck”, literally “dipper, diver, ducker”), from Old English *d?can (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-Germanic *d?kan? (“to dive, bend down”). See verb above. Cognate with Scots duik, duke, dook (“duck”), Danish dukand, dykand (“sea-duck”), Swedish dykfågel (“a diver, diving bird, plungeon”), Middle Dutch duycker (“diver”), Low German düker (“diver”).

Alternative forms

• ducke (obsolete)

Noun

duck (countable and uncountable, plural ducks)

1. An aquatic bird of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet.
2. Specifically, an adult female duck; contrasted with drake and with duckling.
3. (uncountable) The flesh of a duck used as food.
4. (cricket) A batsman's score of zero after getting out. (short for duck's egg, since the digit "0" is round like an egg.)
5. (slang) A playing card with the rank of two.
6. A partly-flooded cave passage with limited air space.
7. A building intentionally constructed in the shape of an everyday object to which it is related.

   A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly.

   • 2007, Cynthia Blair, "It Happened on Long Island: 1988—Suffolk County Adopts the Big Duck," Newsday, 21 Feb.:

     The Big Duck has influenced the world of architecture; any building that is shaped like its product is called a ‘duck’.

8. A marble to be shot at with another marble (the shooter) in children's games.
9. (US) A cairn used to mark a trail.
10. One of the weights used to hold a spline in place for the purpose of drawing a curve.
11. (finance, slang, dated) Synonym of lame duck (“one who cannot fulfil their contracts”)
12. (medicine) A long-necked medical urinal for men.

Hyponyms

• (bird): Anas platyrhynchos (domesticus), Mallard-derived domestic breeds, including Pekin, Rouen, Campbell, Call, Runner; Cairina moschata, Muscovy duck

Derived terms

Translations

See also

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ?ISBN

Etymology 3

From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doeck, doec (“linen cloth”), from Old Dutch *d?c, from Proto-West Germanic *d?k, from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (“cloth, rag”), from Proto-Indo-European *dw?g-, *dw?k-. Cognate with German Tuch (“cloth”), Swedish duk (“cloth, canvas”), Icelandic dúkur (“cloth, fabric”). Doublet of doek.

Alternative forms

• dook, doock (Scotland)

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

2. A tightly-woven cotton fabric used as sailcloth.
   • 1912, Katherine Mansfield, "The Woman At The Store", from Selected Short Stories:

     He was dressed in a Jaeger vest—a pair of blue duck trousers, fastened round the waist with a plaited leather belt.

3. (in the plural) Trousers made of such material.
   • 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 56:

     And they would go up and find old Allington, in white ducks, standing in the fringe of long grasses and cow-parsley on the other edge of the island […].

   • 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 74:

     A native servant emerged, anonymous in his white ducks and red fez, to say My Player was wanted on the telephone.

Derived terms

• duck tape

Translations

Etymology 4

Potteries dialect, Black Country dialect and dialects of the former territory of Mercia (central England). Compare Danish dukke (“doll”), Swedish docka (“baby; doll”), dialectal English doxy (“sweetheart”).

Noun

duck (plural ducks)

1. A term of endearment; pet; darling.

   And hold-fast is the only dog, my duck (William Shakespeare - The Life of King Henry the Fifth, Act 2, Scene 3).

2. (Midlands) Dear, mate (informal way of addressing a friend or stranger).

   Ay up duck, ow'a'tha?

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:friend

Derived terms

• ay up me duck
• duckie

References

• duck at OneLook Dictionary Search
• Birks, Steve (2005-01-26) , “The history of the Potteries dialect”, in BBC?^[2], retrieved 2014-11-19

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?k

Verb

duck

1. singular imperative of ducken