Koch

• (US) IPA^(key): /koʊk/, /kɑx/, /kʊk/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəʊk/, /kɒx/
• Rhymes: -əʊk, -ɒx, -ʊk

Koch

1. A language of Meghalaya (India), Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Bihar, and Bangladesh.

• Ethnologue entry for Koch, kdq ⁠

Borrowed from German Koch (“cook”), an occupational surname. Doublet of Cook and Kok.

Koch (plural Kochs)

1. A surname from German.
   • 2019 August 23, Chris Cillizza, “How the Koch brothers fundamentally changed modern politics”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     It was a one-stop political and policy shop, a sort of shadow Republican Party but crafted in the libertarian molds of the Kochs and entirely controlled by them.
     That wasn’t the only thing that the Koch brothers did differently.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Koch is the 698^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 49,395 individuals. Koch is most common among White (95.3%) individuals.

• Koch Hajo

• hock

• IPA^(key): [ˈkox]

Koch m anim (female equivalent Kochová)

1. a male surname

• “Koch”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): /kɔx/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)); [kɔχ]:

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• Audio (southern); [kox]:

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From Middle High German koch, from Old High German choch, from Proto-West Germanic *kok (“a cook”).

Koch m (strong, genitive Kochs or Koches, plural Köche, feminine Köchin)

1. cook (one who cooks; male or unspecified gender)

• Chefkoch
• viele Köche verderben den Brei

• kochen

Koch m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Kochs or (with an article) Koch, plural Kochs)

1. a surname originating as an occupation

• ⇒ Translingual: Kochia

From Middle High German koch, derived from the verb kochen (“to cook”).

Koch n (strong, genitive Kochs or Koches, no plural)

1. (Austria, Bavaria) mush, porridge

• “Koch (Gastronom, Küchenchef)” in Duden online
• “Koch” in Duden online
• “Koch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Koch” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• Koch on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

• IPA^(key): /kox/

Koch m (plural Kech, feminine Kechin)

1. cook

• koche

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Koch”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

Koch m (plural Kochen)

1. cook

Borrowed from German Koch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔx/
• Rhymes: -ɔx
• Syllabification: Koch

Koch m pers

1. a male surname from German

Koch f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname from German

• Koch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “Koch”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030