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English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dæ?k/
• (æ-tensing) IPA^(key): /de??k/
• Rhymes: -æ?k

Etymology 1

From Middle English danke (“wet, damp; dampness, moisture”), probably from North Germanic, related to Swedish dank (“marshy spot”), Icelandic dökk (“pool”), Old Norse d?kk (“pit, depression”), from Proto-Germanic *dankwaz (“dark”). However, some trace it to a West Germanic source such as Dutch damp (“vapor”) or Middle High German damph, both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dampaz (“smoke, steam, vapor”).

Adjective

dank (comparative danker, superlative dankest)

1. Dark, damp and humid.
   • 1835, Richard Chenevix Trench, The Story of Justin Martyr

     Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground.

   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XXII:

     Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, / Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank / Soil to a plash? [...]

2. (figuratively, of marijuana) Highly potent.

3. (slang, often ironic) Great, awesome.

Derived terms

• danken
• dankly
• dankness
• dank meme

Translations

Noun

dank (plural danks)

1. Moisture; humidity; water.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VII, verse 441:

     "Yet oft they quit | The dank, and rising on siff pennons, tow'r | the mid aerial sky"

Etymology 2

From Middle English danken, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

dank (third-person singular simple present danks, present participle danking, simple past and past participle danked)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To moisten, dampen; used of mist, dew etc.

References

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• danek

Noun

dank (plural danks)

1. A small silver coin formerly used in Persia.

Anagrams

• D. Kan., N. Dak., NKDA, kDNA, kand, kdna

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch danc, from Old Dutch *thank, from Proto-Germanic *þankaz.

Noun

dank m (uncountable)

1. gratitude, thanks
2. show/token of recognition
3. reward, recompense

Synonyms

• dankbetoon
• dankbetuiging
• dankzegging

Antonyms

• ondank

Derived terms

• danken
• dankbaar
• dankloos
• dankwoord
• dankzeggen
• plasdank
• stank voor dank

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

dank

1. first-person singular present indicative of danken
2. imperative of danken

German

Etymology

Cognate with danken and Dutch dank; compare the Latin gr?tia.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Preposition

dank (+ genitive or dative)

1. thanks to, because of

Related terms

• danken
• bedanken
• Dank m, Undank

Further reading

• “dank” in Duden online

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dank/, [da?k]

Noun

dank m

1. tax, fine, levy, duty

Declension

Further reading

• dank in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Luxembourgish

Verb

dank

1. second-person singular imperative of danken

English

Etymology

From Scottish Gaelic fang.

Noun

fank (plural fanks)

1. A pen for enclosing sheep, mainly in the Scottish Highlands.

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989