different between hok vs yok

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans hok, from Dutch hok.

Noun

hok (plural hoks)

1. (South Africa) A kind of small hut.

Anagrams

• Kho

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hok.

Noun

hok (plural hokke, diminutive hokkie)

1. A living shelter for domesticated animals.

Descendants

• ? English: hok

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

hok n (plural hokken, diminutive hokje n)

1. A living shelter for domesticated animals such as a kennel, cage, hut or a pen.
2. A closet or small room.
3. A den; a small and often dark dwelling such as a hut.

Derived terms

• berghok
• hokken
• hondenhok
• kippenhok
• kolenhok
• washok
• werkhok

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hok
  • ? English: hok

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

hok

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?k/

Etymology 1

Noun

yok (plural yoks)

1. Alternative form of yock

Verb

yok (third-person singular simple present yoks, present participle yokking, simple past and past participle yokked)

1. Alternative form of yock

Etymology 2

Reversal of goy, with final devoicing.

Alternative forms

• Yok

Noun

yok (plural yoks)

1. (derogatory) A non-Jew; a Gentile.
   • 2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Vintage 2007, page 162:

     I'd been warned about just such a day, when the yoks would come with their white-boned fists and start knocking us about.

Marshallese

Alternative forms

• eok
• yuk

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [e?ok?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /jek?/
• Bender phonemes: {y?k?}

Pronoun

yok

1. you (singular); thou.

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mbula

Noun

yok

1. water

References

• Robert D. Bugenhagen, Salme E. Bugenhagen, Ro ta ipiyooto sua Mbula Uunu = Mbula-English dictionary (2007, SIL)

Middle English

Noun

yok

1. Alternative form of ?ok

Tocharian B

Etymology

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

Noun

yok ?

1. hair
2. color

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????, from Proto-Turkic *y?k (“no; is not, there is not”). Compare Old Turkic ????????? (yok, “no; is not, there is not”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jok/

Adjective

yok (not comparable)

1. there isn't, there aren't (not a verb)

2. it doesn't exist

3. Expressing possession, equivalent of not have.

4. prohibited, forbidden

Usage notes

As an adjective, yok is only used predicatively.

Declension

or

Particle

yok

1. no, nope

Interjection

yok

1. no, nope

Synonyms

• mafi? (slang: there is not; it has ended)
• cicoz (slang: there is not)
• yasak (forbidden)
• hay?r (no as particle or interjection)

Antonyms

• var (there is, there are, have)
• ha, he (yes as particle or interjection)
• evet (yes as particle or interjection)

Volapük

Noun

yok (nominative plural yoks)

1. yoke

Declension