different between nabk vs naik

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• nabak, nabq, nubk, nebeck, nebbuk, nebak

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ?????? (nabq).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?næb(?)k/

Noun

nabk (plural nabks)

1. Either of two thorny shrublike trees, of the genus Ziziphus, from North Africa and the Middle East; Ziziphus spina-christi is supposed to be the plant from which Christ's crown of thorns was made.
   • 1870, Christian Henry Bateman (editor), The Bible class magazine (volume 10, page 61)

     Now we passed through a grove of palms, with their long bare stems and their feathery tufts lying motionless in the air; now through a forest of acacias and nabks; now along the edge of a deep canal, and then through fields of greenest corn […]

2. The edible berry of Ziziphus lotus.

Anagrams

• Bank, Knab, bank, knab

English

Alternative forms

• nayak, nayaka

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (n?yaka, “leader, governor”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n???k/, /?ne??k/

Noun

naik (plural naiks)

1. A lord or governor in South Asia.
2. An officer (equivalent to corporal) in a corps of Indian or Nepalese soldiers.
   • 1888: Also, he had to keep his temper [...] especially once when he was abused by a Naik he had himself recruited from Isser Jang village — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Miss Youghal's Sais’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2007, p. 26)

Anagrams

• Akin, Inka, Kian, akin, kain, kina

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay naik, from Classical Malay [Term?], from Old Malay n?yik. First attested in the Kedukan Bukit inscription.

Verb

naik

1. to climb, to ascend, to rise
2. be on the increase
3. to ride in or on something, to travel (in a vehicle)

Malay

Verb

naik

1. to climb, to ascend, to rise
2. be on the increase
3. to ride in or on something, to travel (in a vehicle)

Tagalog

Noun

naik

1. suburb (or the surrounding countryside)