roc

roc

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cacgia Roglai.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cacgia Roglai terms

• enPR: rŏk, IPA^(key): /ɹɒk/
• Homophones: rock, rawk
• Rhymes: -ɒk

Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Classical Persian رُخ (rux).

• roche
• rok
• ruc, rukh

roc (plural rocs)

1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
   • The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.

     "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;

• peng (Chinese contexts)

roc

1. (medicine, colloquial) Rocuronium.

• CoR, orc, Orc, cro, cor-, ORC, Cor., OCR, CRO, cor., COR, cor

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrɔk]

From roca.

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock, stone

• pedra

From Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”).

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (obsolete) rook (chess piece)

   Synonym: torre

2. (heraldry) rook (heraldic charge)
3. (mythology) roc (mythological bird)

• “roc”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔk/

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Variant of roche.

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock

• solide comme un roc

• roche
• rocher

From Old French roc, ultimately from Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”), possibly from Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot”).

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (dated, chess) rook

   Synonym: tour

• roquer
• rocade

• “roc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cor

roc (plural roches)

1. rook (chess piece)

• IPA^(key): /ɾˠɔk/

Borrowed from Old Norse hrukka (“wrinkle”)

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. ray (fish)

• MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “roc”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language‎^[1], Stirling, →ISBN

From Old Irish roc (“wrinkle”).

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker

   Bhí roic sa léine.

   There were wrinkles in the shirt.

roc (present analytic rocann, future analytic rocfaidh, verbal noun rocadh, past participle roctha) (ambitransitive)

1. wrinkle, crease, pucker
2. corrugate
3. kink
4. crimp

• rocach

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “roc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

roc

1. inflection of rakt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Old French roc.

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (chess) rook

• French: roc

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

From Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz.

rōc m

1. smoke

• wīrōc

• Middle Dutch: rôoc
  • Dutch: rook
    • Afrikaans: rook
    • Negerhollands: rook
  • → Middle English: roke (also possibly through Old Norse *rauk)
    • Scots: rok, roke, roik, rouk
    • English: roke

• “rōk”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Borrowed from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Persian رخ (rox).

roc oblique singular, m (oblique plural ros, nominative singular ros, nominative plural roc)

1. (chess) rook

• Middle French: roc
  • French: roc
• → Middle English: rook
  • English: rook
    • → Japanese: ルーク (rūku)
    • → Korean: 룩 (ruk)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

roc

1. Latin script form of រោច៑ (“to withdraw”)

roc

1. Latin script form of រោច៑ (“fortnight following full moon”)

roc m

1. alternative spelling of rok

From English rock.

• IPA^(key): /rɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk

roc m (not mutable)

1. rock (style of music)

   Synonym: cerddoriaeth roc

• roc-a-rôl
• roc-an-rôl

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “roc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Related to Persian روز (ruz).

roc n

1. Sun
2. day