smok

See also: Smok, SMOK, smók, šmok, and Šmok

North Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Likely a Middle Low German borrowing, from smuk (“supple, bendsome, pleasing”), from Old Saxon *smuk, *smukk, from Proto-Germanic *smukkaz (“flexible, bendsome, easy”). Compare German schmuck.

Adjective

smok (comparative smoker, superlative smokst)

  1. (Föhr-Amrum) beautiful, handsome

Inflection

Inflection of smok (Föhr-Amrum dialect)
  masculine feminine /
neuter 		plural
indefinite definite
positive
predicative / adverbial smok
attributive smoken smok smok
independent smoken
partitive smoks —
comparative
predicative / adverbial smoker
attributive smokeren smoker smoker
independent smokeren
partitive smokers —
superlative
predicative / adverbial am smoksten
attributive — smokst smokst
independent smoksten

Polish

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *smokъ.

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): /ˈsmɔk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔk
  • Syllabification: smok
  • Homophones: smog, Smok

Noun

smok m animal (female equivalent smoczyca, diminutive smoczek, augmentative smoczysko, related adjective smoczy)

  1. dragon (mythical creature)
    • 2012, Ewa Mirkowska, 59 bajek o zwierzętach, Siedmioróg:
      – No właśnie – pokiwał głową tata kot – takie są krokodyle, wyglądają jak zielone smoki.
      "Exactly", papa cat nodded his head, "that's crocodiles for you, they look like green dragons."
  2. (Podegrodzie, humorous) used as a nickname for someone

Declension

Declension of smok
singular plural
nominative smok smoki
genitive smoka smoków
dative smokowi smokom
accusative smoka smoki
instrumental smokiem smokami
locative smoku smokach
vocative smoku smoki

Derived terms

verbs

Further reading

  • smok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • smok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • smok in PWN's encyclopedia
  • Karol Mátyás (1891) “smok”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 329

Volapük

Noun

smok (nominative plural smoks)

  1. smoke

Declension

Declension of smok
singular plural
nominative smok smoks
genitive smoka smokas
dative smoke smokes
accusative smoki smokis
vocative 1 o smok! o smoks!
predicative 2 smoku smokus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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