Frank

• enPR: frăngk, IPA^(key): /fɹæŋk/

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• Rhymes: -æŋk
• Homophones: frank, franc

From Middle English Frank, partially from Old English Franca (“a Frank”); and partially from Old French Franc, and/or Latin Francus (“a Frank”), from Frankish *Franko (“a Frank”); both maybe from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”). Cognate with Old High German Franko (“a Frank”), Old English franca (“spear, javelin”). Compare Saxon, ultimately a derivative of Proto-Germanic *sahsą (“knife, dagger”).^[1] Doublet of franc, frank, and farang.

Frank (plural Franks)

1. One of the Franks, a Germanic federation that inhabited parts of what are now France, the Low Countries and Germany.

• Frankish
• Frankland

The surname derives from the medieval tribal name. The given name is also a form of Francis, with formal given name status since the 19th century.

Frank

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     Mrs. Ford. How now, sweet Frank! why art thou melancholy?

2. A diminutive of the male given name Francis.
   • 1996, Frank McCourt, chapter VII, in Angela's Ashes, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 197:

     Your name is Francis, is it?
     Frank, sir.
     Your name is Francis. There was never a St. Frank. That's a name for gangsters and politicians.

3. A surname transferred from the nickname.
4. A place name:
   1. A community in Crowsnest Pass municipality, south-west Alberta, Canada.
   2. An unincorporated community in Avery County, North Carolina, United States.
   3. A census-designated place in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States.

• Frank-ter Haar syndrome

Frank

1. a male given name borrowed from English and German

• IPA^(key): /frɑŋk/
• Hyphenation: Frank
• Rhymes: -ɑŋk

From Middle Dutch vranke, from Old Dutch franko, from Frankish *frankō.

Frank m (plural Franken)

1. (historical, chiefly plural) Frank (member of a Migration-Period Germanic tribe)

• Frankisch
• Frankrijk

Frank m

1. a male given name from Dutch, Frank

Frank m

1. a male given name

• son of Frank: Franksson
• daughter of Frank: Franksdóttir

• IPA^(key): /fʁɑ̃k/

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Frank m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Frank

• More often spelled Franck

From Middle High German Franke, from Old High German Franko (“a Frank”). Used in the Middle Ages and revived in the 19th century.

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• Rhymes: -aŋk

Frank m (proper noun, strong, genitive Franks or (with an article) Frank, plural Franks or Frank or Franke)

1. a male given name, popular especially in the 1960s and 70s

Frank m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Franks or (with an article) Frank, plural Franks or Frank)

1. a surname

• IPA^(key): /fraŋ̊k/
• Rhymes: -aŋ̊k

Frank m (proper noun, genitive singular Franks)

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Frank

From Latin Francia, from Francus (“Frank”).

yn Rank f (genitive ny Frank)

1. France

   Haink eh noal ass yn Rank.

   He came over from France.

   Hooar eh baase 'sy Rank.

   He got killed in France.

   Ren ad troailt 'sy Rank as ayns yn Spaainey ny yei shen.

   They travelled in France and then in Spain.

   T'eh ceau yn geurey ayns jiass ny Frank.

   He winters in the south of France.

• Always preceded by the definite article.

• Frangagh
• Frangish

From Latin Francus (“Frank”).

Frank m

1. a male given name from Latin, equivalent to English Francis

   Coordinate term: Frangaid

From English or, rarely, English Frank, in the 19th century.

Frank

1. a male given name

• Kristoffer Kruken - Ola Stemshaug: Norsk personnamnleksikon, Det Norske Samlaget, Oslo 1995, →ISBN
• [2] Statistisk sentralbyrå, Namnestatistikk: 10 272 males with the given name Frank living in Norway on January 1st 2011, with the frequency peak in the 1960s. Accessed on April 29th, 2011.

Learned borrowing from Latin Francus, from Frankish *Frank. Doublet of frank.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfraŋk/
• Rhymes: -aŋk
• Syllabification: Frank
• Homophone: frank

Frank m pers

1. (historical) Frank (one of the Franks)

• Frank in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• Frank in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Unadapted borrowing from English Frank.

Frank m

1. a male given name from English, equivalent to English Frank

• Franco

• IPA^(key): [frank]

Frank m pers (female equivalent Franková)

1. a male surname

• “Frank”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

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Frank c (genitive Franks)

1. a male given name borrowed from English or, rarely, from German