different between tabernacle vs ark

English

Etymology

From Middle English tabernacle (14th century), from Old French tabernacle, from Latin tabern?culum (“tent, booth, shed”), the diminutive of taberna (“hut, shed”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?tæb?nækl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?tæb?nækl?/
• Hyphenation: tab?er?nac?le

Noun

tabernacle (plural tabernacles)

1. Any temporary dwelling; a hut, tent, or booth.
2. (biblical) The portable tent used before the construction of the temple, where the shekinah (presence of God) was believed to dwell.
3. (by extension) The Jewish Temple at Jerusalem (as continuing the functions of the earlier tabernacle).
4. Any portable shrine used in heathen or idolatrous worship.
5. A sukkah, the booth or 'tabernacle' used during the Jewish Feast of Sukkot.
6. A small ornamented cupboard or box used for the reserved sacrament of the Eucharist, normally located in an especially prominent place in a Roman Catholic church.
   • 1997, Catechism of the Catholic Church, Part II, Section 1183:

     The tabernacle is to be situated "in churches in a most worthy place with the greatest honor." The dignity, placing, and security of the Eucharistic tabernacle should foster adoration before the Lord really present in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar.

7. (US) A temporary place of worship, especially a tent, for a tent meeting, as with a venue for revival meetings.
   • 1927, Sinclair Lewis, Elmer Gantry, Chapter 13:

     It was over these innocent necessary precautions that the local committees always showed their meanness. They liked giving over only one contribution to the evangelist, but they wanted nothing said about it till they themselves had been taken care of--till the rent of the hall or the cost of building a tabernacle, the heat, the lights, the advertising, and other expenses had been paid.

8. (by extension) Any house of worship; used especially of Mormon churches.
9. (figuratively) Any abode or dwelling place, or especially the human body as the temporary dwelling place of the soul, or life.
10. (nautical) A hinged device allowing for the easy folding of a mast 90 degrees from perpendicular, as for transporting the boat on a trailer, or passing under a bridge.

Derived terms

• tabernacular
• tin tabernacle

Translations

Verb

tabernacle (third-person singular simple present tabernacles, present participle tabernacling, simple past and past participle tabernacled)

1. (intransitive) To dwell; to abide for a time.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.b??.nakl/

Noun

tabernacle m (plural tabernacles)

1. tabernacle
2. (Quebec) Alternative form of tabarnak

Further reading

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

English

Etymology

From Old English ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arce? (“I enclose”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??k/
• Rhymes: -??(?)k
• Homophone: arc

Noun

ark (plural arks)

1. A large box with a flat lid.
2. (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Noah's Ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
3. Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge
4. A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
5. (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
6. (Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.

Synonyms

• barge
• basket
• chest
• coffer
• hutch
• refuge
• retreat
• shelter
• ship
• vessel

Derived terms

• Ark of the Covenant
• Noah's Ark
• pig ark

Descendants

• ? Maori: ?ka

Translations

Further reading

• ark in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• ark in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• AKR, KAR, RAK, RKA, kar, kra

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?????]

Etymology 1

Via Middle Low German ark from Latin arcus. The Latin words means "bow", but it is here used in a wider sense of the folded paper. Compare the same semantic development in German Bogen (“bow; sheet of paper”).

Noun

ark n (singular definite arket, plural indefinite arker)

1. a sheet (of paper)

Inflection

Synonyms

• papir

Etymology 2

From Old Danish ark, Old Norse ?rk, from Proto-Germanic *ark?, borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, coffin; ark”).

Noun

ark c (singular definite arken, plural indefinite arker)

1. (biblical) ark (Noah's Ark or the Ark of the Convenant)

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch arke. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?rk/
• Hyphenation: ark
• Rhymes: -?rk

Noun

ark f (plural arken, diminutive arkje n)

1. ark (ark of the covenant)
2. ark (ship)
3. houseboat

   Synonym: woonark

Derived terms

• woonark

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ark

Icelandic

Etymology

From Danish ark, from Latin arcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar?k/
• Rhymes: -ar?k

Noun

ark n (genitive singular arks, nominative plural örk)

1. (obsolete) sheet (of paper)

Declension

Synonyms

• (sheet of paper): blað, örk

Manx

Alternative forms

• urk

Etymology

From Middle Irish orc, arc (“young pig”), from Proto-Celtic *?orkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pór?os, from *per?- (“to dig”).

Noun

ark f (genitive singular arkagh, plural arkyn or irk)

1. young pig, piglet

References

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 orc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Alternative forms

• arke

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Noun

ark (plural arks)

1. The path of the sun across the sky.

Descendants

• English: arc

References

• “ark, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

North Frisian

Determiner

ark

1. (Mooring) each; every

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ?rk (“chest”), from Proto-Norse *???? (*arku), borrowed during pre-Christian time from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arce? (“enclose, box in”), from Proto-Italic *arke?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk- (“to protect, guard”).

Noun

ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

1. the ark (boat of Noah)
2. paktens ark - the Ark of the Covenant

Synonyms

• kvist (dormer)

Etymology 2

From Old Danish ark, arken, arkens, through Middle Low German or Low German arkener (“breast protection”), from Old French arquiere (“shooting range”).

Noun

ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

1. (architecture) a dormer

Etymology 3

From Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“arc, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?erk?o- (“bow, arrow”).

Noun

ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka or arkene)

1. a sheet (of paper)

Synonyms

• papir

Derived terms

• A4-ark
• faktaark
• papirark
• regneark

References

• “ark” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ?rk, from Latin arca (“chest, box”); sense 3 from Old French arquire, via Middle Low German or Low German and old Danish.

Noun

ark f (definite singular arka, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

1. the ark (boat of Noah)
2. paktarka - the Ark of the Covenant
3. (architecture) a dormer

Synonyms

• kvist (dormer)

Etymology 2

From Latin arcus, via Low German ark

Noun

ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka)

1. a sheet (of paper)

Synonyms

• papir

Derived terms

• A4-ark
• faktaark
• papirark

References

• “ark” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish ark, borrowed from Latin arca, into the Germanic languages in pre-Christian time.

Noun

ark c

1. an ark, a box; the Ark of the Covenant
2. the ark (ship) of Noah, resembling a box

Declension

Related terms

• förbundsark

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish ark, from Middle Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Compare German Bogen. It refers to the bend of the parchment when folded.

Noun

ark n

1. a sheet of paper
2. (printing) a signature, a multiple of four pages printed on a single sheet, which is folded and bound into a book

Declension

Synonyms

• papper
• blad

Related terms

• arkmatare
• arksignatur
• dubbelark

Descendants

• ? Finnish: arkki

References

Anagrams

• kar, rak

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ark/

Noun

ark n (no plural)

1. tool
2. stuff, junk

Further reading

• “ark (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011