hok

hok

1. (international standards) ISO 639-5 language code for Hokan languages.

Borrowed from Afrikaans hok, from Dutch hok.

hok (plural hoks)

1. (South Africa) A kind of small hut.

• Kho, OHK

From Dutch hok.

hok (plural hokke, diminutive hokkie)

1. A living shelter for domesticated animals.

• → English: hok

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• IPA^(key): /hok/, [hok̚]

hok • (hok)

1. to buy, purchase

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔk/

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• Hyphenation: hok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

Of unclear origin, but possibly related to the rare noun honk (“shelter, home”), the latter presumably a later nasalized variant. Compare Middle Low German [Term?] and Norwegian Nynorsk gapahuk.

hok n (plural hokken, diminutive hokje n)

1. a living shelter for domesticated animals such as a kennel, cage, hut or a pen
2. a closet or small room
3. a den; a small and often dark dwelling such as a hut

• Afrikaans: hok
  • → English: hok
• → Papiamentu: hòki

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

hok

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

Borrowed from Bengali হক (hok).

• IPA^(key): /hɔk/, [hɔk]

hok f

1. truth, righteousness

   ka jingbishar hok ― justice

   Balei mem kren ïa ka hok? ― Why do you not speak the truth?

   • 1891, “Salm 37:6”, in Ka Baibl (Khasi Bible):

     Bad un pynmih noh ïa ka hok jong me kum ka jingshai[.]

     And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light.

2. right
   • 2012, Meghalaya Peoples Human Rights Council, “Jinis 1”, in Ka Jingpynbna-ïar Satlak ïa ki Hok Longbriew Manbriew‎^[1]:

     Ïa ki bynriew baroh la kha laitluid bad ki ïaryngkat ha ka burom bad ki hok.

     All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

hok

1. true, sincere

H-insertion on ok, past tense of ake.

• IPA^(key): /huːk/

hok

1. (dialectal) past tense of haka (“to go; sled; glide”)
   • 1953, Reidar Holtvedt, Historier fra Krokskauen, Oslo: Aschehoug, page 132:

     Så hok dom, og strast føre berjhufsen hevde mann se ta, [m]en kjelken reste beint utføre så det bare vart flisa att.

     They sledded, and right before the cliff, you'd throw yourself off, but the sled raced straight down, so that there were only splinters left.

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [ˈhɔk]

hok m inan

1. (Przemyśl) alternative form of hak (“thick bent nail”)
2. (Przemyśl) alternative form of hak (“agricultural tool”)

• Aleksander Saloni (1899) “hok”, in “Lud wiejski w okolicy Przeworska”, in M. Arct, E. Lubowski, editors, Wisła : miesięcznik gieograficzno-etnograficzny (in Polish), volume 13, Warsaw: Artur Gruszecki, page 239