naken

• nakyn (Scotland)

From Middle English nakenen, nacnen, equivalent to nake +‎ -en.

• Rhymes: -eɪkən

naken (third-person singular simple present nakens, present participle nakening, simple past and past participle nakened)

1. (transitive, UK, dialectal) To make naked; nake.

• Kenan, Kenna

From Middle Dutch nâken, from Old Dutch nāken, from Proto-Germanic *nēkijaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːkə(n)/

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naken

1. (intransitive) to draw near, to approach, to be imminent

   het nakende onweer ― the approaching thunderstorm

   • 2025 March 10, Japke-d. Bouma, “Willen alle ‘personal coaches’ en ‘verandermanagers’ hun mond houden over Zelensky? Dank alvast”, in NRC:

     Op LinkedIn analyseren trainers, coaches en allerlei andere ‘experts’ het optreden van president Zelensky op 28 februari in de Oval Office. [...] „Alsof de nakende Derde Wereldoorlog een netwerkborrel is, en een kernoorlog een kans voor persoonlijke groei.”

     On LinkedIn, trainers, coaches and various other sorts of ‘experts’ analyze president Zelenskyy's performance on February 28 in the Oval Office. [...] “As if the imminent Third World War is a networking event, and nuclear war an opportunity for personal growth.”

• genaken

• kanen

From Old Dutch nāken, from Proto-Germanic *nēkijaną.

nâken

1. to approach, to near

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• Dutch: naken

• “naken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “naken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• nake, nakyn, nakkin, nakyne

Inherited from Old English nacian, from Proto-Germanic *nakwōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnaːkən/, /ˈnakən/

naken

1. To remove clothes or make naked; to nake.
   • c. 1380s [c. 524], Geoffrey, transl. Chaucer, Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiae, book 4, metre 7, translation of The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius, line 70; republished in The Complete Works Of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Oxford University Press, 1912, page 192:

     O nyce men, why nake ye youre bakkes?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. To remove; to expose or make visible.

• nakenen

• English: nake
• Scots: nake

• “nāken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 21 September 2018.

From Old Norse nakinn, nǫkkviðr (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked, bare”).

naken (neuter singular nakent, definite singular and plural nakne, comparative naknere, indefinite superlative naknest, definite superlative nakneste)

1. nude, naked, bare

• nakenhet
• nakenstrand

• “naken” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse nakinn, nǫkkviðr (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked, bare”).

• IPA^(key): /²naːçən/, [²nɐ̞ːçən], [²nɐ̞ːc͡çən]
• (newer or regional) IPA^(key): /²naːkən/, [²nɐ̞ːkən]
• Rhymes: -çən
• Hyphenation: na‧ken

naken (comparative naknare, superlative naknast)

1. naked, nude, bare

• nakenstrand

• “naken” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *nēkijaną.

nāken

1. to approach, to near, to come closer

• Middle Dutch: nâken
  • Dutch: naken

• “nāken”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Old Norse nakinn, nǫkkviðr (“naked”), from Proto-Germanic *nakwadaz, from Proto-Indo-European *nogʷós (“naked, bare”).

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naken (comparative naknare, superlative naknast)

1. naked

   Har man inga kläder på sig så är man naken

   If you have no clothes on, you are naked

   nakenråtta

   naked mole rat [naked-rat]

   Den nakna sanningen

   The naked truth

   1. nude

• naken in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• naken in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Fula Ordboken

• nakne