wok

From Cantonese 鑊 / 镬 (wok⁶).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɒk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /wɑk/

• Audio (US):

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• Homophone: walk (cot–caught merger)
• Rhymes: -ɒk

wok (plural woks)

2. (cooking) A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
   • 1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood‎^[1], →ISBN, page 86:

     The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.

3. (chiefly Europe) Any dish prepared using such a pan.

wok (third-person singular simple present woks, present participle wokking or woking, simple past and past participle wokked or woked)

1. To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.

• stir-fry

wok m inan

1. wok

Ultimately from Cantonese 鑊 / 镬 (wok6).

• IPA^(key): /ʋɔk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: wok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

wok m (plural woks or wokken, diminutive wokje n)

1. wok (large cooking pan, typical of East-Asian cuisine)

• wokken
• wokpan

• IPA^(key): /ˈwok/, [ˈwo̞k]
• Rhymes: -ok
• Syllabification^(key): wok
• Hyphenation^(key): wok

wok

1. alternative form of wokki (“wok (dish)”)
2. synonym of wokkipannu (“wok (pan)”)

wok

1. alternative form of woke

From English work.

wok

1. work

Orthographic borrowing from English wok, ultimately from Cantonese 鑊 / 镬 (wok6).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvɔk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: wok

wok m inan

1. wok (large, oriental cooking pan)

The genitive singular form woku is sometimes proscribed.

• wok in Polish dictionaries at PWN

wok f or (less common) m (plural woks)

1. wok (large round pan used in Oriental cuisine)

wok m (plural woks)

1. wok

• “wok”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

wok c

1. a wok (large, round-bottomed cooking pan)

   Synonym: wokpanna

2. a dish (typically) prepared in a wok, stir-fry

• woka

• snabbsteka

• wok in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• wok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• wok in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

wok

1. pig (animal)

• 1998, People of India: Manipur (results of the Anthropological Survey of India), page 272
• 2001, Encyclopaedia of northeast India, volume 3, →ISBN, page 230:
• Chungkham Yashwanta Singh (2002) Tarao Grammar (in Tarao), page 117

From English work.

wok intrans., transitive wokim

1. to work, to labor
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:

     Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”

     →New International Version translation

• wokim
• hatwok

wok

1. work, job, employment
2. obligation, duty

From Middle Dutch ôoc, from Old Dutch ōk, ouk, from Proto-Germanic *auk.

wok

1. also, too