# Beck
## Translingual
### Proper noun

Beck
* A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Günther von Mannagetta und Lërchenau Beck (1856-1931).

### Further reading

* Author query of the International Plant Names Index

## English
### Etymology

* As a German surname, from Beck (“stream, brook”), see also Old Norse bekkr. Also a spelling variant of Becker (“baker”).
* As a Hebrew surname, shortened from בני (B'nei) קדושים (Kdoshim, “sons of the martyrs”).

### Proper noun

Beck (countable and uncountable, plural Becks)
* A surname.
** 2014 March 8, John Vaught Labeaume, “No Thanks, CPAC. This Libertarian Won't Attend a Conservative Love-Fest.”, in Reason Magazine‎:As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,, his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler."
* An unincorporated community in Covington County, Alabama, United States, likely named after the Beck family.
* The River Beck, or The Beck, a minor river in south-east Greater London, England, which becomes the Pool River before joining the Ravensbourne.

#### Derived terms

* Beck's scale
* Beckton

#### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Beck is the 328th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 93,786 individuals. Beck is most common among White (90.27%) individuals.

### See also

* Becker
* Beck-Ibrahim disease
* Beckman

### Further reading

* Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Beck”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 123.

## Alemannic German
### Etymology

from Middle High German becke, from Old High German becko, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”).

### Pronunciation

* (Zürich) IPA: /bek/

### Noun

Beck m (plural Becke)
* baker

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɛt͡sk]

### Proper noun

Beck m anim (female equivalent Becková)
* a male surname from German

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “Beck”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

## East Central German
### Etymology

from Middle High German becke, from Old High German becko, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”).

### Noun

Beck m
* (Erzgebirgisch) baker

### Noun

Beck
* plural of Buuk

### Further reading

* 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 21:

## German
### Etymology 1

From Middle High German becke, from Old High German becko, ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”). Doublet of Bäcker.

#### Noun

Beck m (weak, genitive Becken, plural Becken)
* (archaic to obsolete) baker

##### Descendants

* → Kajkavian Serbo-Croatian: pek

#### Proper noun

Beck m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Becks or (with an article) Beck, feminine genitive Beck, plural Becks)
* a surname

##### Descendants

* → English: Beck

##### See also

* Becker
* Beckmann

### Etymology 2

From Middle Low German beck, probably through Dutch bek, from Middle Dutch bec, from Middle French bec (“beak”) or Old French bec, from Vulgar Latin beccus, probably from Gaulish. Compare modern French bec, English beak.

#### Noun

Beck m (strong, genitive Beckes or Becks, plural Becke)
* (falconry) The beak of a bird of prey.

##### Declension

$^1$Now rare, see notes.

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbɛk]
* Hyphenation: Beck
* Rhymes: -ɛk

### Proper noun

Beck
* a surname