# huke
## English
### Alternative forms

* huque, heuk, heuke, hyke

### Etymology

From Old French huque, from Latin huca. See Dutch huik (“sleeveless cape”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /h(j)uːk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːk

### Noun

huke (plural hukes)
* (historical) An outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.
** 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:there came one that seemed to be a messenger , in a rich huke
** 1930, “The real Joan of Arc: a manly maid - her appearance, her dress, her armour”, in The Illustrated London News:Her only extravagances were fine accoutrements, gorgeous hukes, and mighty war-horses.
** 1980, A. Ernestine Jones, The Trial of Joan of Arc:Judging from the surviving documents it would appear that Charles VII did nothing at all about Joan of Arc [...] but [she] also swore that she herself was often visited by God, dressed in a white robe with a scarlet huke over it.
** 2015 March 12, Phyllis G. Tortora, Sara B. Marcketti, Survey of Historic Costume, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 173:[…] but after this date “white” armor, or highly polished metal armor, was rarely covered except by a tabard or huke […]

#### Translations
### Further reading

* “huke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* heuk, kueh

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Navarro-Lapurdian) /huke/ [hu.ke]
* IPA: (Southern) /uke/ [u.ke]
* Rhymes: -uke
* Hyphenation: hu‧ke

### Verb

huke
* Informal second-person singular (hik), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, hypothetic consequential indicative form of izan.

#### Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *pukes (compare with Tahitian huʻe, Tongan fuke, Samoan fuʻe) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *bu(ŋ)kas (“to uncover” – compare with Malay bungkas “to tip upside from the bottom, to uproot”, Tagalog bukas “to open”).

### Verb

huke
* to uncover (of earth ovens)
* to unearth, to dig up, to excavate
    Synonyms: kari, kōkō
* to gut or disembowel fish etc.

#### Derived terms

* kohuke

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 92
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “fuke”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 150

### Further reading

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “huke”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 119
* “huke” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From the noun huk.

#### Verb

huke (imperative huk, present tense huker, passive hukes, simple past huka or huket or hukte, past participle huka or huket or hukt, present participle hukende)
* to hook, to pull in with a hook
* to grab, snatch
* huke tak (i) - to catch hold (of)

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse húka and huk.

#### Verb

huke (imperative huk, present tense huker, passive hukes, simple past huka or huket or hukte, past participle huka or huket or hukt, present participle hukende)
* (reflexive) to crouch, squat

### References

* “huke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
* “huke_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
* “huke_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* huka

### Etymology 1

From the noun huk.

#### Verb

huke (present tense hukar, past tense huka, past participle huka, passive infinitive hukast, present participle hukande, imperative huke/huk)
* to hook, to pull in with a hook
* to grab, snatch
* huke tak (i) - to catch hold (of)

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse húka and huk.

#### Verb

huke (present tense huker, past tense hukte, past participle hukt, passive infinitive hukast, present participle hukande, imperative huk)
* (reflexive) to crouch, squat

### References

* “huke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.