beuk

• IPA^(key): /bøːk/

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• Hyphenation: beuk
• Rhymes: -øːk

From eastern Middle Dutch boke, boeke, from Old Dutch *buoka, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā. Western varieties of Dutch, including generally Standard Dutch, do not have umlaut of long vowels. The eastern variety with umlaut was probably adopted to avoid homonymy with boek.

beuk m (plural beuken, diminutive beukje n)

1. a beech, tree of the genus Fagus

   Synonym: beukenboom

2. common beech (Fagus sylvatica)

   Synonym: gewone beuk

• Afrikaans: beuk

Deverbal from beuken (“to ram, knock”).

beuk m (plural beuken, diminutive beukje n)

1. (informal) a ram or heavy knock

   Synonyms: ram, oplawaai, dreun

   Hij gaf de deur een harde beuk met zijn schouder. ― He rammed the door hard with his shoulder. (literally, “He gave the door a hard ram with his shoulder.”)

Variant of buik.

beuk m (plural beuken, diminutive beukje n)

1. part of a church building

   Synonym: schip

From Middle Dutch boke, boeke, from Old Dutch *buoka, from Proto-West Germanic *bōkijā.

• buik (Sittard)
• Büekembuom (Krefeld)
• Böük (Eupen)

• IPA^(key): /bøː˨k/
• Hyphenation: beuk
• Rhymes: -øːk

beuk m or f

1. (countable, widespread variant) a beech (Fagus); the common tree
2. (uncountable) beech; the wood of the tree

   Synonym: Beukehout

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /bøː˦k/
• Hyphenation: beuk
• Rhymes: -øːk

beuk

1. nominative/genitive/dative/accusative plural of book

beuk (plural beuks)

1. alternative form of buik