different between roc vs roy

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?k, IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -?k
• Homophones: rock, rawk

Etymology 1

Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic ????? (ru??), from Persian ??? (rox).

Alternative forms

• roche
• rok
• ruc
• rukh

Noun

roc (plural rocs)

1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
   • The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.

     "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;

Synonyms

• peng (Chinese contexts)

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

roc

1. (medicine, colloquial) Rocuronium.

Anagrams

• COR, CRO, CoR, Cor., OCR, ORC, cor, cor-, orc

Catalan

Etymology

From roca.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?r?k/

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock, stone

See also

• pedra

Further reading

• “roc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k/

Etymology 1

Variant of roche.

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock

Related terms

• roche
• rocher

Etymology 2

Old French roc, ultimately from Persian ??? (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”), possibly from Sanskrit ?? (ratha, “chariot”).

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (dated, chess) rook

Synonyms

• tour

Related terms

• roquer
• rocade

Further reading

• “roc” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cor

Interlingua

Noun

roc (plural roches)

1. rook (chess piece)

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???k/

Etymology 1

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Noun

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. ray (fish)

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish roc (“wrinkle”).

Noun

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker

Declension

Verb

roc (present analytic rocann, future analytic rocfaidh, verbal noun rocadh, past participle roctha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. wrinkle, crease, pucker
2. corrugate
3. kink
4. crimp

Conjugation

Derived terms

• rocach

References

• "roc" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Latvian

Verb

roc

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of rakt
2. 2nd person singular imperative form of rakt

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French roc

Noun

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (chess) rook

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (ru??), from Persian ??? (rukh).

Noun

roc m (oblique plural ros, nominative singular ros, nominative plural roc)

1. (chess) rook

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Old Khmer

Verb

roc

1. Latin script form of ???? (“to withdraw”)

Noun

roc

1. Latin script form of ???? (“fortnight following full moon”)

Old Saxon

Noun

roc m

1. Alternative spelling of rok

English

Etymology

From Middle English roy, roye, borrowed from Old French roi (“king”). Doublet of loa, rajah, Rex, and rex.

Noun

roy (plural roys)

1. (obsolete, formal) A king.

Related terms

• viceroy

Adjective

roy

1. (obsolete) Royal.

Anagrams

• -ory, yor

French

Noun

roy m (plural roys)

1. (pre-1800) Obsolete spelling of roi

Further reading

• “roy” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French roi, rei, from Latin rex, regem.

Noun

roy m (plural roys)

1. king (male ruler)

Descendants

• French: roi, roy
  • Antillean Creole: wa
  • Guianese Creole: rwè
  • Haitian Creole: wa
    • (perhaps) ? Haitian Creole: lwa
      • ? English: loa
  • Karipúna Creole French: hué
  • Louisiana Creole French: rwa
  • Seychellois Creole: lerwa
• Norman:

  Continental Normandy: rai, ré, rey

  Guernsey: ré, roué

  Jersey: rouai

  Sark: rwe

Old French

Noun

roy m (oblique plural roys, nominative singular roys, nominative plural roy)

1. Alternative form of roi