blok

• IPA^(key): /blɔːk/

blok 

1. mushroom

French bloc

blok

1. block

• Mirjejev, V. A., Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajinsʹko-krymsʹkotatarsʹkyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]‎^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, →ISBN
• “blok”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

Borrowed from German Block (“block”); other senses developed later.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈblok]

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• Homophone: blog

blok m inan (diminutive bloček)

1. block
2. notebook (a book in which notes or memoranda are written)

   Synonyms: zápisník, notes

3. (computing) block
4. (volleyball) block

• “blok”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “blok”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “blok”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From Middle Low German block. Cognate with English block, German Block, Norwegian Bokmål blokk and Swedish block.

• IPA^(key): /blɔk/, [b̥lʌɡ̊]

blok c (singular definite blokken, plural indefinite blokke)

1. block
2. rock, boulder
3. notepad
4. bloc

• → Greenlandic: blokki

• blok on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

• IPA^(key): /blɔk/

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• Hyphenation: blok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

From Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch *blok, from Proto-Germanic *blukką.

blok n (plural blokken, diminutive blokje n)

1. a block (e.g. wood)
2. a street block
3. a political bloc

• Afrikaans: blok
• Berbice Creole Dutch: bloko
• → Caribbean Javanese: blog
• → Indonesian: blok
• → Papiamentu: blòki, blokki (from the diminutive)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

blok

1. inflection of blokken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Borrowed from English block.

• IPA^(key): /bluək/

blok

1. block

From Dutch blok (“block”), from Middle Dutch blok, from Old Dutch *blok, from Proto-Germanic *blukką, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰelǵ- (“thick plank, beam, pile, prop”). Cognate of Afrikaans blok.

• Semantic loan from English block for sense of (sport) an action to interfere.

• IPA^(key): [ˈblɔk̚]
• Hyphenation: blok

blok (plural blok-blok)

1. block:
   1. substantial often approximately cuboid piece
   2. group of buildings demarcated by streets
   3. (sports) an action to interfere with the movement of an opposing player or of the object of play (ball, puck)
   4. (nautical) a case with one or more sheaves/pulleys, used with ropes to increase or redirect force, for example, as part of the rigging of a sailing ship

      Synonym: kontrol

   5. (anesthesiology, neurology) deliberate interruption of signals traveling along a nerve, often for the purpose of pain relief

      Synonym: sekatan

   6. (colloquial) something that prevents something from passing
2. bloc: a group of countries acting together for political or economic goals

• “blok” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• block

From Old Saxon blok.

blok m or n

1. block

• "blok" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelniederdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

• bloch (Przemyśl)

Borrowed from German Block.^[1] Sense 8 is a semantic loan from English code block, sense 9 is a semantic loan from English block, sense 10 is a semantic loan from English heart block, and sense 11 is a semantic loan from English engine block. First attested in 1782.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɔk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: blok
• Homophones: blog, Blok

blok m inan (diminutive bloczek)

1. block (cuboid piece of hard material)
2. apartment building, block, block of flats, tower block
3. block, cellblock
4. block, pad (for writing)

   Synonyms: notes, zeszyt

5. block (series of similar items)
6. (politics) bloc
7. (philately) block, miniature sheet (joined group of four (or in some cases nine) postage stamps, forming a roughly square shape)

   blok okolicznościowy/pamiątkowy ― a commemorative block

   wydać blok ― to print a block

9. (computing) code block (block of source code, often one that is delimited by brackets or in some similar way, depending on the programming language)
11. (volleyball) block (defensive play by one or more players meant to deflect a spiked ball back to the hitter’s court)
13. (pathology) heart block

    blok serca ― a heart block

    blok przedsionkowo-komorowy ― an atrioventricular block

15. engine block

    blok napędowy ― a driving block

    blok cylindrów ― a cylinder block

    blok silnika ― an engine block

16. block, pulley wheel, sheave

    Synonym: krążek

17. (cooking) a type of desert made from powdered milk and crushed biscuits or wafers

• blok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• blok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• blok in PWN's encyclopedia

Borrowed from French bloc.

• IPA^(key): /blôk/

blȍk m inan (Cyrillic spelling бло̏к)

1. block (a cuboid piece)
2. (sports) block
3. (politics) bloc, coalition
4. block of flats

• “blok”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From French bloc and English block.

• IPA^(key): /ˈb(ɯ)lok/

blok (definite accusative bloku, plural bloklar)

1. bloc
   • 1938 January 5, headline in Kurun:

     Romanya, Rusya'ya karşı bir blok kurmak istiyor

     Romania wants to form a bloc against Russia

2. block
3. group

• bloklamak

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “blok”, in Nişanyan Sözlük