brok

From Middle Low German brok. Compare German Bruch.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbʁʌɡ]

brok c or n (singular definite brokken or et, plural indefinite brok)

1. (pathology) hernia

A back-formation of brokke.

brok c or n (uncountable)

1. complaining, grumbling

   Synonym: brokkeri

2. trouble; mess, problem

From English brock, ultimately from Proto-Celtic *brokkos.

brok c (singular definite brokken, plural indefinite brokke)

1. (archaic, hunting) a badger

   Synonym: grævling

• “brok” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch broc (“broken-off piece”), also attested as plural brocken. Probably from a merger of two interrelated nouns, both belonging to the root of breken (“to break”):

• Old Dutch *broc, from Proto-Germanic *brukaz, cognate with Old High German broh, Old English (ge)broc;
• Old Dutch *brocko, from Proto-Germanic *brukkô, cognate with Old High German brocko (modern German Brocken).

The merger is made likely because in Middle Dutch the first noun should have plural *broken, whereas the latter noun should have singular *brocke. Alternatively, the attested forms can be due to early levelling.

• IPA^(key): /brɔk/

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• Hyphenation: brok
• Rhymes: -ɔk

brok m or n (plural brokken, diminutive brokje n)

1. a scrap, remnant of shattering
2. (in the plural, informal) damage, harm, wreckage, pieces (as a consequence of an accident)
3. a lump, chunk, piece
4. (in the plural) a dry, lumpy form of pet food

• breken
• breuk

• Negerhollands: broki, brokkie, brokkies
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: broki (archaic)

From Old Norse brók, from Proto-Germanic *brōks. Akin to English breeches.

• IPA^(key): /bruːk/

brok f (definite singular broka, indefinite plural brøker, definite plural brøkene)

1. (clothing) A pair of trousers, pants.

• “brok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• bork

Borrowed from German Brocken.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbrɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: brok
• Homophone: Brok

brok m inan

1. (hunting) birdshot (very fine hunting shot)

   Hypernym: śrut

2. (Near Masovian, milling) steel bushing in which a spindle of a windmill rotates

• brok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Władysław Matlakowski (1891), “brok”, in “Zbiór wyrazów ludowych dawnej ziemi czerskiej”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności‎^[1], volume 4, Krakow: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 363