Roch

From Middle English Rechedham, from Old English Reċedhām, of Brythonic origin, from the intensive Proto-Brythonic prefix *ar- + *koɨd (“wood”), meaning "river opposite of the wood." More at Roch.

Roch

1. A river in Greater Manchester, England, which joins the River Irwell.
2. A village in Nolton and Roch community, Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM8721).

• Rochdale (English town)
• Nolton and Roch (Welsh community)

• Roach (alternative spelling for the river)
• Riemann-Roch theorem, Hirzebruch-Riemann-Roch theorem (etymologically unrelated)

• Mills, A.D.: A Dictionary of English Place Names, 2nd Edition, page 289, s.n. Rochdale. Oxford University Press, 1998

• OCHR, chor

Of Germanic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔk/

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Roch m

1. a male given name, equivalent to English Rocco

From Middle High German roch, from Arabic رُخّ (ruḵḵ), from Middle Persian lhw'. The /x/ must be compared to the word Schach. In both of these cases it is either due to direct borrowing from Arabic (during the Crusades) or alternatively to borrowing via Middle Dutch roc, from Old French roc, with artificial application of the High German consonant shift.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔx/

Roch m (strong, genitive Roches or Rochs, plural Roche)

1. (chess, obsolete) synonym of Turm (“rook”)

Derived from:

• Saint Roch
• truncation of Polish personal names beginning with Ro- (e.g. Rościsław and Rodsław) + -ch
• Old Polish roch ("rook", chess piece), from Old French roc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɔx/

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• Rhymes: -ɔx
• Syllabification: Roch

Roch m pers

1. a male surname

Roch f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• “Roch”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2025–2030