different between nark vs naik

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n??k/, enPR: näk
• (US) IPA^(key): /n???k/, enPR: närk
• Rhymes: -??(?)k

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Perhaps from Angloromani nok (“nose”), from Romani nak, from Sauraseni Prakrit ???????????????? (?akka), ultimately a doublet of nose.

Alternative forms

• narc

Noun

nark (plural narks)

1. (Britain, slang) A police spy or informer.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:informant

   • 1912, George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Act I,

     It’s a—well, it’s a copper’s nark, as you might say. What else would you call it? A sort of informer.
2. (Australia, slang) An unpleasant person, especially one who makes things difficult for others.

   Synonyms: spoilsport; see also Thesaurus:jerk, Thesaurus:git

Related terms

• (police spy): copper's nark

Translations

Verb

nark (third-person singular simple present narks, present participle narking, simple past and past participle narked)

1. (transitive, thieves' cant) To watch; to observe.
2. (intransitive, slang) To serve or behave as a spy or informer.

   Synonyms: rat, tattle; see also Thesaurus:rat out

3. (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate.

4. (intransitive, slang) To complain.

5. (transitive, slang, often imperative) To stop.

Derived terms

• (watch): nark it (“look out”)
• (inform on): narking dues

Translations

Etymology 2

See narc.

Noun

nark (plural narks)

1. Alternative form of narc (narcotics officer).

References

• “nark” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.

Anagrams

• ARNK, Karn, karn, knar, kran, rank

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)