# merk
## English
### Pronunciation

* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)k

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

merk (plural merks)
* Obsolete spelling of mark.
* (Scotland) Alternative form of mark

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

merk (third-person singular simple present merks, present participle merking, simple past and past participle merked)
* Alternative spelling of murk (“to murder”)
** 2018 March 26, A. A. Dowd, “Steven Spielberg Finds Fun, and maybe even a Soul, in the Pandering Pastiche of Ready Player One”, in The A.V. Club‎, archived from the original on 31 May 2018:In truth, there are Easter eggs planted in just about every frame of Ready Player One, which never misses an opportunity to insert a recognizable character (hey, is that Jason Voorhees getting merked during the film’s first-person shooter level?) or toss a sop to the faithful.
** 2022, Sean Thor Conroe, Fuccboi‎, Hachette, →ISBN:But what I realized was, for however much I want to rep the motherland, be bitter towards America for merking 1/20 of Japan's population, I actually know next to nothing about Japan.
* (African-American Vernacular, slang) To run.
** 2014 May 8, Alice Goffman, “How Poor Young Black Men Run from the Police”, in Vice‎:If you hear the law coming, you merk on [run away from] them niggas.

### Anagrams

* kmer, Kmer

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛrk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛrk

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch marc, merc, from Old Dutch marc, from Proto-West Germanic *mark, from Proto-Germanic *marką (“mark, sign”), cognate with English mark, German Mark.

#### Noun

merk n (plural merken, diminutive merkje n)
* mark
* logo
* brand

##### Alternative forms

* (obsolete) merck

##### Derived terms

* brandmerk
* handelsmerk
* kenmerk
* oogmerk
* woordmerk

##### Related terms

* markeren
* merken

##### Descendants

* Berbice Creole Dutch: merki
* Negerhollands: merk
* → Indonesian: merek

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

merk
* inflection of merken:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

##### Alternative forms

* (obsolete) merck

### Anagrams

* kerm

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɛrk/

### Noun

mèrk (plural merk-merk)
* Nonstandard form of merek.

### Further reading

* “merk” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Marke.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɛrk/
* Rhymes: -ɛrk
* Syllabification: merk

### Noun

merk m inan
* mark, sign
    Synonyms: znak, céch

### Further reading

* “merk”, in Internetowi Słowôrz Kaszëbsczégò Jãzëka [Internet Dictionary of the Kashubian Language], Fundacja Kaszuby, 2022
* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “znak”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

## Middle English
### Noun

merk
* resemblance
** 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “(please specify the story)”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:Which mankynde is so fair part of thy werk / That thou it madest lyk to thyn owene merk.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

merk
* imperative of merke

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian merked, from Latin mercatus.

### Noun

merk c (plural merken, diminutive merkje)
* market

#### Further reading

* “merk (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011