# bok
## English
### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /bɒk/
* (Received Pronunciation, General South African) IPA: /bɒk/
* Rhymes: -ɒk
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Afrikaans bok. Doublet of buck. Compare German Bock (“willingness, desire”).

#### Adjective

bok
* (South Africa, slang) Keen or willing.
    "Do you want to go to the movies?" "Ja, I'm bok."

### Etymology 2

Imitative

#### Interjection

bok
* The clucking sound of a chicken.
    Alternative form: bawk
** 2000, William S Pollack, Todd Shuster, Real boys' voices:And he says, "Chicken! Bok bok bok bok!" One time I got up and put the controller down and we started fighting.
** 2004, Andrew Bennett, Nicholas Royle, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory:So the librarian gives the chicken a book. The chicken goes away, but comes back the next day, goes up to the librarian's desk and says: 'Bok, bok!'

### See also

* bok-bok
* bok choy

### Anagrams

* KBO, OKB, kob

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch bok (“buck, male goat”), from Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔk/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bok (plural bokke, diminutive bokkie)
* goat
* antelope, buck
    Synonym: wildsbok
* (slang) lover (term of affection)
    Synonym: bokkie
* (gymnastics) vaulting horse
* blunder

#### Derived terms

* boerbok
* gemsbok
* kafferbok
* reebok
* sitbok
* springbok
* takbok
* waterbok
* wildsbok

#### Descendants

* → Xhosa: ibhokhwe

### Adjective

bok (attributive bokke, comparative bokker, superlative bokste)
* keen, willing

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From Philippine English bok, from bunk, shortened from bunkmate.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: bok

### Noun

bok
* one's batchmate or classmate in the Philippine Military Academy

## Choctaw
### Etymology

Attested as bayuk in the 17th century.

### Noun

bōk (alienable)
* creek, stream
* river

#### Declension

| possessive (alienable) | singular | paucal | plural |
| first-person ("my, our") | a̱bōk | pi̱bōk | hapi̱bōk |
| second-person ("thy, your") | chi̱bōk | hachi̱bōk | hachi̱bōk |
| third-person ("his, her, its, their") | i̱bōk | i̱bōk | i̱bōk |
| | absolute | nominative | accusative | oblique |
| neutral | bōk | bōkat | bōka̱ | bōkak |
| contrastive | bōkakō | bōkakōsh | bōkako̱ | bōkakakō |
| contrastive | bōkakō | bōkato | bōkano | bōkakakō |
| focus | bōkō | bōkato | bōkano | bōkakō |
| focus | bōkō | bōkōsh | bōko̱ | bōkakō |
| -ma "that, there" | -pa "this, here" | -kia "also, too" | -ba "only" | -ōk "but" | -akhī pejorative |
| bōkma | bōkpa | bōk(ak)kia | bōkba | bōkōk | bōkakhī |

#### Derived terms

* bokushi

#### Descendants

* → Cajun French: bogue
** → English: bogue

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech bok, from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈbok]

### Noun

bok m inan (diminutive boček or bůček)
* side
* flank
* (anatomy) hip

#### Related terms

* boční
* bokový
* bokovka
* úbočí
* vbok
* odbočit
* vybočit
* zabočit

### Further reading

* “bok”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “bok”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “bok”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: bok
* Rhymes: -ɔk

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch boc, from Old Dutch buc, from Proto-West Germanic *bukk, from Proto-Germanic *bukkaz.

#### Noun

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n)
* male goat, billy
    Synonym: geitenbok
* buck, horse or pony; strong contraption on legs, resembling a mount
** (gymnastics) vaulting horse
** sawbuck
    Synonym: zaagbok
** a crane on legs
* box, perch (driver's seat on a carriage)
* (printing) job case, type case
* (derogatory) churl, grouch
* (derogatory) oaf, bumpkin

##### Derived terms

* bokken
* bokkenbaard
* bokkenpruik
* bokkensprong
* bokkig
* boksbaard
* bokshoorn
* bontebok
* geitenbok
* gemsbok
* grijsbok
* hertenbok
* opbokken
* reebok
* schachtbok
* Spaanse bok
* springbok
* zaagbok
* zondebok

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: bok
** → Xhosa: ibhokhwe
* Negerhollands: bok
* Sranan Tongo: boko, bokoboko
** Aukan: boko boko

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

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

### Etymology 3

Proposed etymologies include Lokono bo-kia (“emphatic 'you'”), Lokono Lokono (“people, Arawak”), Portuguese botoque (“lip plate”), Portuguese bugre (“derogatory term for an Amerindian”). Compare English buck (“a black or Native American man”).

#### Noun

bok m (plural bokken, diminutive bokje n, feminine bokkin)
* (Suriname, obsolete) Amerindian person
** 1907, F.P. Penard, A.P. Penard, De menschetende aanbidders der zonneslang [The man-eating worshippers of the sun snake]‎, Paramaribo: H.B. Heyde, pages 49-50:Dat echter een afgerichte negerslaaf beter te gebruiken was dan 50 Bokken klinkt wel wat ongelooflijk, in aanmerking genomen, dat thans nog algemeen onder de negers het verhaal de ronde doet, dat de weggeloopen slaven veel banger waren voor de Indianen dan voor de blanken of negersoldaten. Inderdaad in Demerara waren het de Bokken, die daar de vorming van onafhankelijk negerstaten belet hebben.However, that a trained Negro slave was more useful than fifty Amerindians sounds somewhat incredible, considering that even now the story is widely told among Negroes that runaway slaves were much more afraid of Indians than whites or Negro soldiers. Indeed, in Demerara, it were the Amerindians who prevented the formation of independent Negro nations.

##### Derived terms

* bokkendorp
* bokkengrond
* bokkenhout
* bokkenkatoen
* bokkennoot
* bokkenruilder
* bokraaf

##### Descendants

* Berbice Creole Dutch: boko
* → Guyanese Creole English: buck
* → Trinidadian Creole English: buck

### Etymology 4

Borrowed from Caribbean Javanese mbok.

#### Noun

bok f (uncountable)
* (Suriname, dated) Form of address for a Javanese woman

## Kashubian
### Etymology

Borrowed from German Bock.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔk/
* Rhymes: -ɔk
* Syllabification: bok

### Noun

bok m animal
* buck, he-goat
    Synonym: kòzeł

### Further reading

* Eùgeniusz Gòłąbk (2011) “kozioł”, in Słownik Polsko-Kaszubski / Słowôrz Pòlskò-Kaszëbsczi‎

## Lower Sorbian
### Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *bokъ. Cognate with Upper Sorbian bok, Polish bok, Czech bok, Russian бок (bok), and Serbo-Croatian bȍk.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bɔk/
* Homophones: bog, Bog

### Noun

bok m inan
* side (bounding straight edge of an object; flat surface of an object; left or right half; surface of a sheet of paper)
* page (one side of a leaf of a book)
* (chiefly in the dual) breast (organs on the front of a woman’s chest, which contain the mammary glands)
    Synonym: prědk

#### Declension

* Alternative locative singular: boce

### Further reading

* Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “bok”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
* Starosta, Manfred (1999) “bok”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

## Maranao
### Etymology

From buhok, compare Tagalog buhok.

### Noun

bok
* head hair

## Marshallese
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [pˠokʷ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /pˠekʷ/
* Bender phonemes: {bȩkʷ}

#### Noun

bok
* blister
* chicken pox

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [pˠokʷ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /pˠekʷ/
* Bender phonemes: {bȩkʷ}

#### Noun

bok
* bladder

### Etymology 3

From English book.

#### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [pˠokʷ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /pˠekʷ/
* Bender phonemes: {bȩkʷ}

#### Noun

bok (construct form bokin)
* book

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [pˠɔkʷ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /pˠɛkʷ/
* Bender phonemes: {bekʷ}

#### Noun

bok
* sand
* sandspit
* sandbar

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* boc, boke, book, booke, buk, buke

### Etymology

From Old English bōc, in turn from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /boːk/

### Noun

bok (plural bokes)
* book (a written document composed of pages)

#### Related terms

* bochous
* bocstaff
* landbok

#### Descendants

* English: book (see there for further descendants)
* Geordie English: buik, beuk
* Scots: buik, beuk, buke, beuck
* Yola: buke

#### References

* “bọ̄k, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Middle Low German
### Alternative forms

* buk

### Etymology

From Old Saxon bōk, from Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

### Pronunciation

* Stem vowel: ô¹
** (originally) IPA: /boːk/

### Noun

bôk n
* book
* beechnut

#### Descendants

* Low German:
    Dutch Low Saxon: book
    German Low German: Book
* Plautdietsch: Buak

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* bog (non-standard since 1907)

### Etymology

From Old Norse bók (“beech, book”), from Proto-Germanic *bōks (“letter”), either from *bōkō (“beech”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos (“beech”), or from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to divide, distribute, allot”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːk/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bok f or m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)
* book

#### Usage notes

* One of the nouns whose feminine form is predominant in formal writing.

#### Derived terms

* abc-bok
* barnebok
* bokelsker
* bokhandel
* bokhandler
* bokholder
* bokhylle
* boklansering
* bokmerke
* dagbok
* glosebok
* guidebok
* kokebok
* lommebok
* lydbok
* lærebok
* notatbok
* notisbok
* ordbok
* referansebok
* rekordbok
* salmebok
* sangbok
* skrivebok
* årbok

### Noun

bok f or m (definite singular boka or boken, indefinite plural boker, definite plural bokene)
* beech (tree)

#### Alternative forms

* bøk

### References

* “bok” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* bók (Setesdal dialect, dialects)

### Etymology

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks. Akin to English book, German Low German Book.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːk/, [bu̞ːk]

### Noun

bok f (definite singular boka, indefinite plural bøker, definite plural bøkene)
* book

#### Derived terms

* barnebok
* bokavl
* bokhandel
* bokhylle
* boklansering
* bokmerke
* dagbok
* glosebok
* guidebok
* kokebok
* ljodbok
* lommebok
* lydbok
* lærebok
* notatbok
* notisbok
* ordbok
* referansebok
* rekordbok
* salmebok
* skrivebok
* songbok
* årbok

### References

* “bok” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Polish
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ. First attested in the 13th century.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (10th–15th CE) /bɔk/
* IPA: (15th CE) /bɔk/

### Noun

bok m inan (related adjective bokowy)
* (anatomy, attested in Masovia, Lesser Poland, Silesia, Greater Poland) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person or animal)
** 1937 [Second half of the 15th century], Józef Birkenmajer, editor, Bogarodzica dziewica. Analiza tekstu, treści i formy‎, number C, Warsaw:Czyebye dla, czlowyecze, dal bog przeklocz szobye bok, racze, nodze obye[Ciebie dla, człowiecze, dał Bog przekłóć sobie bok, ręce, nodze obie]
** c. 1500, Wokabularz lubiński, Lubiń: inkunabuł Archiwum Archidiecezjalnego w Gnieźnie, sygn. Inc. 78d., page 73v:Latus […] a lateo lates eyn seyt bok[Latus […] a lateo lates eyn seyt bok]
* side, flank (neither the front nor the back of an object)
** 1939 [end of the 14th century], Ryszard Ganszyniec, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Kubica, Ludwik Bernacki, editors, Psałterz florjański łacińsko-polsko-niemiecki [Sankt Florian Psalter]‎, Krakow: Zakład Narodowy imienia Ossolińskich, z zasiłkiem Sejmu Śląskiego [The Ossoliński National Institute: with the benefit of the Silesian Parliament], pages 47, 2:Zacladana iest weselim wszelika zema gora Syon: boky polnoczi, masto crola welikego (fundatur exultatione universae terrae mons Sion: latera aquilonis, civitas regis magni)[Zakładana jest wiesielim wszelikiej ziemie gora Syjon, boki północy, miasto króla wielikiego (fundatur exultatione universae terrae mons Sion: latera aquilonis, civitas regis magni)]

#### Derived terms

* boczyć impf

#### Descendants

* Polish: bok
* Silesian: bok

### References

* Boryś, Wiesław (2005) “bok”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, →ISBN
* Mańczak, Witold (2017) “bok”, in Polski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności, →ISBN
* Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “bok”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
* Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965) “bok”, in Jan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors, Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
* B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “bok”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN
* Ewa Deptuchowa, Mariusz Frodyma, Katarzyna Jasińska, Magdalena Klapper, Dorota Kołodziej, Mariusz Leńczuk, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, editors (2023), “bok”, in Rozariusze z polskimi glosami. Internetowa baza danych [Dictionaries of Polish glosses, an Internet database] (in Polish), Kraków: Pracownia Języka Staropolskiego Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *bōk, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, whence also Old English bōc, Old Frisian bōk, Old High German buoh, Old Norse bók.

### Noun

bōk f or n
* book

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: bôk, buk
** Low German:
    Dutch Low Saxon: book
    German Low German: Book
** Plautdietsch: Buak

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* ᛒᚮᚴ (Runic)

### Etymology

From Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks.

### Noun

bōk f
* book

#### Descendants

* Swedish: bok
* → Finnish: pyökki

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔk/
* (Middle Polish) IPA: /ˈbɔk/
* (Lesser Poland):
** (Kielce) IPA: /ˈbɔk/
* Audio 1:(file)
* Audio 2:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔk
* Syllabification: bok
* Homophones: Bock, Bok

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Polish bok.

#### Noun

bok m inan (related adjective boczny)
* (anatomy) side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person, animal)
** (Middle Polish) physical or emotional closeness to someone
* side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of an object)
    Synonym: strona
* side (place in space located to the right or left of some central reference point)
* (geometry) side (segment connecting two vertices of a polygon)
* side (place out of the way)
    Synonyms: strona, ustronie
* (obsolete, mining) shaft wall
* (Middle Polish, collective, metonomically) man; human community; group
* (Middle Polish) side; Further details are uncertain.
** 1528, J. Murmelius, Dictionarius‎, page 60:Latus Bok[Latus Bok]

##### Derived terms

* bokami
* bokiem
* na bok
* na boku
* pod boki
* pod bokiem
* z boku
* żarty na bok
* boczek
* boczniak
* bocznica
* obibok
* pobocze
* skok w bok
* ubocze
* obok
* przy boku
* u boku
* boczyć impf
* zboczyć pf, zbaczać impf
* mieć na boku impf
* odłożyć na bok pf, odkładać na bok impf
* podeprzeć się pod boki pf, podpierać się pod boki impf
* popatrzeć z boku pf, patrzeć z boku impf
* skakać na boki impf
* stać z boku impf
* stanąć z boku pf, stawać z boku impf
* wyjść bokiem pf, wychodzić bokiem impf
* zrywać boki impf

##### Derived terms

* poboczny
* zboczony
* bocznie
* pobocznie
* zboczeniec
* zboczyć pf, zbaczać impf

### Etymology 2

See bąk.

#### Noun

bok m animal
* (Kielce) Alternative form of bąk (“child”)

### Further reading

* bok in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* bok in Polish dictionaries at PWN
* Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “bok”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
* Wiesław Morawski (23.10.2012) “BOK”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
* Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego
* Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861
* J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1900), “bok”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 1, Warsaw, page 186
* bok in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bokъ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bôːk/

#### Noun

bȏk or bȍk m (Cyrillic spelling бо̑к or бо̏к)
* side (especially body part)
    bok uz bok ― side by side
* flank

##### Declension

The accent shift is non-weakened: nȁ bōk.

#### Usage notes

* Also can occur as a.p. B in western dialects: bȍk, bòka... (Milas 1903:95 (49), ŠRHJ, Kapović 2010).
* Daničić (ARj) provides short falling in plural: bȍkovi, bȍkōvā...
* Older attestations:
** Vrančić 1595: Book (Lumbus)
** Micalia 1649: bók
** Della Bella 1728: Book, ód bokka (Lato)
** Belostenec 1740: Bòki / (D[ubrovnik]) boczi
** Stulli 1806: Bōk, okka
* Dialectal attestations:
** Lužnica (Ćirić): bo̍k, bo̍kovi
** Mostar (Milas, p.95 (49)): bȍk, bòka
** Novi Vinodolski (Беличъ, p.209): bȏk, bȍka
** Susak (Hamm/Hraste/Guberina, p.106): b$^u$ȏk, bŏkȁ [a.p. D?]
** Varaždin (Lipljin): b'ok, bȏka, [Gpl] bokȏf
** Vrgada (Jurišić): bȏk, bȍka

### Etymology 2

From Bog (shortened from a greeting such as Bog s tobom, zdravobog, etc.) by devoicing of the final consonant typical in Kajkavian dialects. Attested in Zagreb colloqual usage since mid-20th century. A widespread alternative etymology proposes a fictional Austrian German greeting mein Bücken (supposedly "my bow"); the etymology is not acceptable, as the greeting is not attested in German, and the usual loanword adaptation into Croatian would yield a different phonetic form.

#### Alternative forms

* bog

#### Pronunciation

* (Zagreb) IPA: /bok/

#### Interjection

bok (Cyrillic spelling бок)
* (Croatia, Kajkavian) hi
    Synonyms: zdravo, pozdrav, ćao
* (Croatia, Kajkavian) bye
    Synonyms: zbogom, zdravo, pozdrav, ćao

### Footnotes

* ↑ Magner 1966:80
* ↑ ERHJ
* ↑ Magner 1966:80
* ↑ Babić 2019

### Bibliography

* ARj = Đuro Daničić, editor (1880–1882), “bȏk”, in Rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika‎ (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, Zagreb: JAZU, page 518
* Babić, Ivana (2019). Leksikografske dvojbe na jednome školskom primjeru. Hrvatski jezik 6/1.
* ERHJ = Matasović, Ranko (2016) “bok”, in Dunja Brozović Rončević, Dubravka Ivšić Majić, Tijmen Pronk, editors, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika [Etymological dictionary of the Croatian language] (in Serbo-Croatian), volumes I: A—Nj, Zagreb: Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, page 73
* Kapović, Mate (2010). Naglasak o-osnova muškoga roda u hrvatskom — povijesni razvoj. Filologija 54.
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* Milas, Matej (1903). Današńi mostarski dijalekat. Rad JAZU 153 (60).

## Silesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Polish bok.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbɔk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔk
* Syllabification: bok

### Noun

bok m inan (related adjective boczny)
* side, flank (neither the front nor the back; lateral part of a person, animal, or object)
** side curtain by a window
** wayside, roadside

#### Declension
### Further reading

* bok in dykcjonorz.eu
* bok in silling.org
* Henryk Jaroszewicz (2022) “bok”, in Zasady pisowni języka śląskiego (in Polish), Siedlce: Wydawnictwo Naukowe IKR[i]BL, page 65
* Aleksandra Wencel (2023) “bok”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski, page 70

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /buːk/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

From Old Swedish bōk, from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōks, of uncertain origin but usually connected to Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵ- (“beech”) or Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g- (“to allot”).

#### Noun

bok c
* book:
** collection of sheets of paper
** a work of literature
** a major division of a published work

##### Derived terms

* anteckningsbok
* boka
* bokanmälan
* bokantikvariat
* bokare
* bokauktion
* bokband
* bokbar
* bokbestånd
* bokbindare
* bokbinderi
* bokbindning
* bokbord
* bokbuss
* bokbål
* bokcafé
* bokcirkel
* bokfilm
* bokflod
* bokform
* bokformat
* bokföra
* bokförare
* bokföring
* bokförlag
* bokförläggare
* bokförsäljare
* bokhandel
* bokhylla
* bokhållare
* bokillustration
* bokkafé
* bokklubb
* boklig
* boklåda
* boklån
* boklärd
* bokläsare
* bokmal
* bokmarknad
* bokmoms
* bokmål
* bokmärke
* bokmässa
* bokning
* bokomslag
* bokpris
* bokpärm
* bokrea
* bokrecenssion
* bokrulle
* bokrygg
* boksamlare
* boksamling
* bokserie
* boksida
* bokskåp
* bokslukare
* bokslut
* bokstav
* bokstavera
* bokstavering
* bokstavlig
* bokstavligen
* bokstöd
* boksynt
* boktitel
* boktryck
* boktryckare
* boktryckeri
* bokutgivning
* bokutlåning
* bokvagn
* bokverk
* bokälskare
* bredvidläsningsbok
* dagbok
* dödbok
* faktabok
* flickbok
* föra bok
* handbok
* historiebok
* huvudbok
* kyrkbok
* loggbok
* läsebok
* läxbok
* ordbok
* plånbok
* pocketbok
* pojkbok
* räknebok
* sagobok
* skrivbok
* textbok
* uppslagsbok
* vaxduksbok
* årsbok
* äventyrsbok

### Etymology 2

From Old Swedish bōk, from Old Norse bók, from Proto-Germanic *bōkō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵos.

#### Noun

bok c
* beech (tree of the genus Fagus)

##### Derived terms

* bokfanér
* bokollon
* bokskog
* bokträd

### References

* bok in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* bok in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* bok in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بوق (bòq, “excrement, dung, turd, shit”), from Proto-Turkic *bok (“dirt, dung”). Cognate with Old Turkic 𐰉𐰸 (bok), Kazakh боқ (boq), Azerbaijani pox, Kyrgyz бок (bok), etc.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bok/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

bok (definite accusative boku, plural boklar)
* (vulgar) shit (solid excretory product evacuated from the bowel)

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
bok
boklar
definite accusative
boku
bokları
dative
boka
boklara
locative
bokta
boklarda
ablative
boktan
boklardan
genitive
bokun
bokların
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
bokum
boklarım
2nd singular
bokun
bokların
3rd singular
boku
bokları
1st plural
bokumuz
boklarımız
2nd plural
bokunuz
boklarınız
3rd plural
bokları
bokları
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
bokumu
boklarımı
2nd singular
bokunu
boklarını
3rd singular
bokunu
boklarını
1st plural
bokumuzu
boklarımızı
2nd plural
bokunuzu
boklarınızı
3rd plural
boklarını
boklarını
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
bokuma
boklarıma
2nd singular
bokuna
boklarına
3rd singular
bokuna
boklarına
1st plural
bokumuza
boklarımıza
2nd plural
bokunuza
boklarınıza
3rd plural
boklarına
boklarına
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
bokumda
boklarımda
2nd singular
bokunda
boklarında
3rd singular
bokunda
boklarında
1st plural
bokumuzda
boklarımızda
2nd plural
bokunuzda
boklarınızda
3rd plural
boklarında
boklarında
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
bokumdan
boklarımdan
2nd singular
bokundan
boklarından
3rd singular
bokundan
boklarından
1st plural
bokumuzdan
boklarımızdan
2nd plural
bokunuzdan
boklarınızdan
3rd plural
boklarından
boklarından
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
bokumun
boklarımın
2nd singular
bokunun
boklarının
3rd singular
bokunun
boklarının
1st plural
bokumuzun
boklarımızın
2nd plural
bokunuzun
boklarınızın
3rd plural
boklarının
boklarının :

#### Derived terms

* bok çukuru
* bok gibi
* bok götürmek
* boklama
* boklamak
* boklu
* bokluk
* boktan
* siktirboktan

## Volapük
### Etymology

Borrowed from English box (boks).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bok/

### Noun

bok (nominative plural boks)
* box

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* bokil (“little box / small box”) (diminutive)
* bokül

### See also

* bog
* bök