ok

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌəʊˈkeɪ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌoʊˈkeɪ/
• Hyphenation: o‧k

• Audio (US):

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ok

1. (informal) Alternative letter-case form of OK.

• KO, Ko, ko

• IPA^(key): /ok/

ok

1. water

• Thomas Weber, Henry Whitney, Bimin Phonology Essentials (1999)

Abbreviation of okka "kilogramme"

ok

1. (Romania) kg

• IPA^(key): [ˈok]

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ok

1. genitive plural of oko

From Old Norse haukr, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, Cognate with Swedish hök.

ok m

1. hawk

From Latin octo.

• IPA^(key): /ok/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Audio 3:

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• Rhymes: -ok
• Syllabification: ok

ok

1. eight (8)

• okangulo (“octagon”)
• oko (“a group or set of eight”)
• okuna (“octave”)

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

• IPA^(key): /ˈoːʰk/
• Rhymes: -oːʰk

ok n (genitive singular oks, plural ok)

1. yoke

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ok

1. (anatomy) belly, stomach

• auk, ouk, ock, ohk, ook

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon ōk, like German auch.

ok

1. also; and also

From the obsolete dialectal okik (“to learn a lesson, to be edified”), itself from a Turkic language.^[1] Compare Kyrgyz угуу (uguu, “to hear, to understand”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈok]

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• Rhymes: -ok

ok (plural okok)

1. cause

   Holonyms: okság, ok-okozati viszony

   Coordinate terms: következmény, okozat

2. reason, motive

   Synonym: indok

• ok in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

• IPA^(key): /ɔːk/
• Rhymes: -ɔːk

ok n (genitive singular oks, nominative plural ok)

1. yoke

   Synonym: klafi

From Esperanto ok, from Latin octo, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

ok

1. eight (8)

• IPA^(key): /ok/

ok

1. water

• op

• Robert Conrad, May River Iwam Organised Phonology Data (1992)

From Proto-Turkic *ok.

ok

1. arrow

• N. A. Baskakov, S.M. Šapšala, editor (1973), “ok”, in Karaimsko-Russko-Polʹskij Slovarʹ [Karaim-Russian-Polish Dictionary], Moscow: Moskva, →ISBN

ok

1. foot

• IPA^(key): /oq/

ok

1. water

• Randy Lebold, Ronald Kriens, Yunita Susanto, A report on the Bamgi, Kia, and Lower Digul River language survey in Papua, Indonesia (2013, SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2013-008, 1-52), page 40

From Proto-Athabaskan *ʔaˑqʼ.

• IPA^(key): /ʔɔkʰ/, /ʔɔqʰ/

ok

1. fog
2. mist

• ok tu' (“fog water”)

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 59

From Proto-Micronesian *wuko, from Proto-Oceanic *pukot, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pukət.

• (phonetics) IPA^(key): [wokʷ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /wekʷ/
• Bender phonemes: {wȩkʷ}

ok

1. fish net.
2. netting.
3. screen; sieve.

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Inherited from Old English āc, from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks.

• hok, oek, ooc, ook
• oc (Early Middle English); hoke, hokke, oke, wocke (Late Middle English)
• ake (Northern)

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̝ːk/
• IPA^(key): /ɑːk/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA^(key): /aːk/ (Northern)

ok (plural okes)

1. oak (tree of the genus Quercus or its wood)
   • 14^th Century, Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Knight's Tale

     The brighte swerdes wenten to and fro
     So hidously þat with þe leste strook
     That it semeþ þat it wolde felle an ook

• English: oak
• Scots: aik, ake, yik

• “ōk(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Borrowed from Old Norse ok, variant of auk, from Proto-Germanic *auk. Doublet of ek.

• ocke
• oc (Early Middle English)
• occ (Ormulum)

• IPA^(key): /ɔk/, (rare) /oːk/

ok (East Midland, chiefly Early Middle English)

1. Also, furthermore, as well.

• “ok, adv. and conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ok (East Midland or Ireland, chiefly Early Middle English)

1. But, nevertheless, on the contrary, rather.
2. (rare) And, yet, also.

• “oc, conj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ok

1. and...

• Gunther Michelson (1973), A thousand words of Mohawk, University of Ottawa Press, page 83

ok

1. to burn

• koahok

• Harrison, Sheldon P., Mokilese-English Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1977

ok

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

ok f

1. water (in a well)

ok m

1. water (drawn, e.g. out of well)
2. sap (in fruits)

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)
• Jan Honoré Maria Cornelis Boelaars, The Linguistic Position of South-Western New Guinea (III), chapter XII, Kati language

From Old Norse ók.

• IPA^(key): /uːk/

ok

1. past tense of ake

3=ok
4=oka
dp2=oki

ok n (plural oket)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of åk

• k.o., KO

• auk — ᛅᚢᚴ (auk)

From earlier auk, from Proto-Germanic *auk (“also”). Cognate with Old English ēac, Old Frisian āk, Old Saxon ōk, Old High German ouh, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk).

ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

1. and
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:ok.

ok

1. also, too

From Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm.

ok n (genitive oks, plural ok)

2. yoke

• eykr m (“draft animal”)
• eyki n (“vehicle, cart”)
• oka (“to yoke”)

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “ok2”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “ok”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From Proto-West Germanic *auk.

ōk

1. also, too

• Middle Low German: ôk
  • Low German: ook
    • Dutch Low Saxon: ok, ook
    • German Low German: ok, auk, ouk, ock, ohk, ook
  • Plautdietsch: uk

• oc, ock, och

From Old Norse ok.

ok (runic script ᚢᚴ)

1. and

ok

1. also, too

From Old Norse ok.

• uk

ok n

2. yoke

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔk/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɔk
• Syllabification: ok

ok n

1. genitive plural of oko (some meanings)

• Audio (Portugal (Porto)):

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ok

1. alternative letter-case form of OK

ok m (plural oks)

1. alternative letter-case form of OK

ok

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

From Old Norse ok, from Proto-Germanic *juką, from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm. Doublet of zygot.

ok n

1. a yoke
   1. a wooden bar used to connect two oxen by their shoulders
   2. a wooden bar placed over the shoulders of a person (used to carry for example buckets)
   3. (clothing) a part of a shirt draped over the shoulders
   4. (figuratively) a burden
      • 2000, 1973 års bibelkommission, “Matteusevangeliet [Matthew] 11:30”, in Bibel 2000‎^[2], © Svenska Bibelsällskapet, accessed at Bible.com, archived from the original on 4 October 2025:

        Mitt ok är skonsamt och min börda är lätt.

        My yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

      • 2004 June 13, Ingalill Mosander, “Orden har befriat mig [The words have liberated me]”, in Aftonbladet‎^[3], archived from the original on 4 October 2025:

        Det är som om ett ok har lyfts från mina axlar.

        It's as if a yoke has been lifted from my shoulders.

      • 2018, Johannes Magnus, translated by Kurt Johannesson, edited by Hans Helander, Goternas och svearnas historia‎^[4], Michaelisgillet & Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, archived from the original on 4 October 2025:

        Därefter lades danskarna under oket av svenskarna för andra gången.

        Then the Danes were put under the yoke by the Swedes for the second time.

• oka
• okben
• okbåge
• bromsok

• OK

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

• ko

ok

1. alternative form of okt (“eight”)

From Ottoman Turkish اوق, from Proto-Turkic *ok (“arrow”). Compare Old Turkic 𐰸 (ok, “arrow”).

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ok (definite accusative oku, plural oklar)

1. arrow

   Dörtnala koşan bir yük arabasının oku böğrüme çarptı.

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اوق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[5] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 194

ok

1. water

• ô kê, OK

From French OK.

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ʔo˧˧ ke˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʔow˧˧ kej˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʔow˧˧ kej˧˧]
• Phonetic spelling: ô kê

• Audio (Hà Nội):

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ok

1. (informal) OK, okay (acknowledgement or acceptance)
2. (computing) OK, okay (dismissal of a dialog box or confirmation of a prompt)

ok

1. (informal) OK; good; fine

• (acknowledgement or acceptance): ờ, ừ, ừm
• (dismissal of a dialog box or confirmation of a prompt): được

• (antonym(s) of “dismissal of a dialog box or confirmation of a prompt”): hủy bỏ, hủy, thôi

• ko

• Audio:

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ok

1. only, to

ok

1. oneself

ok

1. water

• Cornelis L. Voorhoeve, Languages of Irian Jaya Checklist (1975, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics)

ok

1. heat

• wordlist

• okw

ok m

1. water

• Australian Languages: Classification and the comparative method (2004, →ISBN
• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66 (as okw)

From Proto-Tai *ʔoːkᴰ (“to exit”).^[1]

Cognate with Thai ออก (ɔ̀ɔk), Northern Thai ᩋᩬᨠ, Lao ອອກ (ʼǭk), Lü ᦀᦸᧅᧈ (˙ʼoak¹), Shan ဢွၵ်ႇ (ʼàuk), Ahom 𑜒𑜨𑜀𑜫 (ʼok).

Perhaps related to Chinese 屙 (ē).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔoːk˧˥/
• Tone numbers: og⁷
• Hyphenation: ok

ok (Sawndip forms 𭃀[2] or ⿰出悪[2] or 𫫇[2] or 恶[2] or 𫥫[2] or 屋[2] or 跒[2] or ⿰出屋[2] or 喔[2] or 𡁮[2] or 沃[2], 1957–1982 spelling ok)

1. to exit

   ok ranz

   to leave the house

2. to provide; to give
3. to excrete
4. to produce; to make
5. to sprout; to put forth; to bud
6. to occur; to happen; to come up
7. to exceed; to go over
8. to present; to put forth; to raise; to pose
9. to issue; to release
10. to publish