ok

English Online Dictionary. What means ok‎? What does ok mean?

English

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: o‧k

Adjective

ok

1. (informal) Alternative letter-case form of OK

Anagrams

• KO, Ko, ko

Bimin

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Thomas Weber, Henry Whitney, Bimin Phonology Essentials (1999)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈok]

Noun

ok

1. genitive plural of oko

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse haukr, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, Cognate with Swedish hök.

Noun

ok m

1. hawk

Declension

Esperanto

Etymology

From Latin octo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

Numeral

ok

1. eight (8)

Derived terms

• okangulo (“octagon”)
• oko (“a group or set of eight”)

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːʰk/
• Rhymes: -oːʰk

Noun

ok n (genitive singular oks, plural ok)

1. yoke

Declension

Garo

Etymology

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

Noun

ok

1. (anatomy) belly, stomach

German Low German

Alternative forms

• auk, ock, ohk, ook

Etymology

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon ōk, like German auch.

Adverb

ok

1. also; and also

Hungarian

Etymology

From the obsolete dialectal okik (“to learn a lesson, to be edified”), itself from a Turkic language. Compare Kyrgyz угуу (uguu, “to hear, to understand”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈok]
• Rhymes: -ok

Noun

ok (plural okok)

1. cause

   Holonyms: okság, ok-okozati viszony

   Coordinate terms: következmény, okozat

2. reason, motive

   Synonym: indok

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

References

Further reading

• ok in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk

Noun

ok n (genitive singular oks, nominative plural ok)

1. yoke

Declension

Synonyms

• klafi

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto ok, from Latin octo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

ok

1. eight (8)

Iwam

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ok/

Noun

ok

1. water

Synonyms

• op

Further reading

• Robert Conrad, May River Iwam Organised Phonology Data (1992)

Karaim

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *ok.

Noun

ok

1. arrow

References

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ok”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

Lacandon

Noun

ok

1. foot

Mandobo Atas

Noun

ok

1. water

Mandobo Bawah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /oq/

Noun

ok

1. water

References

• Randy Lebold, Ronald Kriens, Yunita Susanto, A report on the Bamgi, Kia, and Lower Digul River language survey in Papua, Indonesia (2013, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2013-008, 1-52), page 40

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [wokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {wȩkʷ}

Noun

ok

1. fish net.
2. netting.
3. screen; sieve.

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mohawk

Particle

ok

1. and...

References

• Gunther Michelson (1973) A thousand words of Mohawk, University of Ottawa Press, page 83

Mokilese

Verb

ok

1. to burn

Derived terms

• koahok

References

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

Ninggerum

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

North Muyu

Noun

ok f

1. water (in a well)

Noun

ok m

1. water (drawn, e.g. out of well)
2. sap (in fruits)

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)
• Jan Honoré Maria Cornelis Boelaars, The Linguistic Position of South-Western New Guinea (III), chapter XII, Kati language

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ók.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uːk/

Verb

ok

1. past tense of ake

Etymology 2

Noun

ok n (plural oket)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of åk

Anagrams

• k.o., KO

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• auk (ᛅᚢᚴ (auk))

Etymology 1

From earlier auk, from Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Old English ēac, Old Frisian āk, Old Saxon ōk, Old High German ouh, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk).

Conjunction

ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

1. and
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:ok.

Descendants

Adverb

ok

1. also, too

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

Noun

ok n (genitive oks, plural ok)

2. yoke

Declension

Related terms

• eykr m (“draft animal”)
• eyki n (“vehicle, cart”)
• oka (“to yoke”)

Descendants

References

• “ok2”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

References

• “ok”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *auk.

Adverb

ōk

1. also, too

Descendants

• Middle Low German: ôk
  • Dutch Low Saxon: ok, ook
  • German Low German: ok, auk, ock, ohk, ook
  • Plautdietsch: uk

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• oc, ock, och

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ok.

Conjunction

ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

1. and

Adverb

ok

1. also, too

Etymology 2

From Old Norse ok.

Alternative forms

• uk

Noun

ok n

2. yoke

Declension

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: ok

Noun

ok n

1. genitive plural of oko (some meanings)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Interjection

ok

1. Alternative letter-case form of OK

Noun

ok m (plural oks)

1. Alternative letter-case form of OK

South Muyu

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Doublet of zygot.

Noun

ok n

1. a yoke (wooden bar used to connect two oxen by their shoulders)
2. a yoke (wooden bar placed over the shoulders, used to carry for example buckets)
3. (figuratively) a yoke, a burden

4. a yoke (part of a shirt draped over the shoulders)

Declension

Derived terms

• bromsok

Etymology 2

Conjunction

ok

1. Alternative form of och

Adverb

ok

1. Alternative form of ock

See also

• oka
• OK

References

• ok in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ok in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• ko

Tocharian B

Numeral

ok

1. Alternative form of okt (“eight”)

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوق, from Proto-Turkic *ok (“arrow”). Compare Old Turkic 𐰸 (ok, “arrow”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ok (definite accusative oku, plural oklar)

1. arrow

Derived terms

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 194

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Conjunction

ok

1. only, to

Volapük

Pronoun

ok

1. oneself

Declension

Wambon

Noun

ok

1. water

Further reading

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

Wastek

Noun

ok

1. heat

References

• wordlist

Yessan-Mayo

Alternative forms

• okw

Noun

ok m

1. water

References

• Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method (2004, →ISBN
• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66 (as okw)

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *ʔoːkᴰ (“to exit”). Cognate with Thai ออก (ɔ̀ɔk), Northern Thai ᩋᩬᨠ, Lao ອອກ (ʼǭk), Lü ᦀᦸᧅᧈ (˙ʼoak¹), Shan ဢွၵ်ႇ (ʼàuk), Ahom 𑜒𑜨𑜀𑜫 (ʼok). Perhaps related to Chinese 屙 (ē).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔoːk˧˥/
• Tone numbers: ok⁷
• Hyphenation: ok

Verb

ok (Sawndip forms 𭃀 or ⿰出悪 or 𫫇 or 恶 or 𫫇 or 𫥫 or 屋 or 跒 or ⿰出屋 or 喔 or 𡁮 or 沃, 1957–1982 spelling ok)

1. to exit

2. to provide; to give
3. to excrete
4. to produce; to make
5. to sprout; to put forth; to bud
6. to occur; to happen; to come up
7. to exceed; to go over
8. to present; to put forth; to raise; to pose
9. to issue; to release
10. to publish