# trek
## English
### Alternative forms

* treck (archaic)

### Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: trĕk, IPA: /tɹɛk/
* Rhymes: -ɛk
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### Noun

trek (plural treks)
* (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
* (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835–1837.
* A slow or difficult journey.
    We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.
** 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
* A long walk.
    Synonyms: slog, schlep
    I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.

### Verb

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)
* (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
** 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá:Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
* (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
* (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.
* (Nigeria) To travel by walking.

#### Related terms

* trigger

#### Translations

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### Anagrams

* rekt

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /træk/

### Etymology 1

From Dutch trekken.

#### Verb

trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)
* to haul
* to move (moving house)
* to pull

##### Descendants

* → English: trek

### Etymology 2

From Dutch trek.

#### Noun

trek (plural trekke)
* journey

##### Derived terms

* Groot Trek

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /trɛk/
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* Hyphenation: trek
* Rhymes: -ɛk

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.

#### Noun

trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)
* (uncountable) appetite
    Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar
    Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task
* (countable) journey, migration
* (uncountable) animal migration
* (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney
* (countable) feature, trait

##### Derived terms

* eendentrek
* haringtrek
* trekgans
* trekvis
* trekvogel
* trekwild
* trekwind
* vogeltrek
* zalmtrek

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

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

### Anagrams

* rekt

## French
### Noun

trek m (plural treks)
* treck
* trecking

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɾek]

### Noun

trek
* truck

#### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30