# drink
## English
### Alternative forms

* dhrink (pronunciation spelling, imitating an Irish accent)
* drank (slang)
* drinck, drinke (obsolete)
* thrink (pronunciation spelling)

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: drĭngk, IPA: /dɹɪŋk/, [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷɪŋk]
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋk

### Etymology 1

From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan (“to drink, swallow up, engulf”), from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną (“to drink”), of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰrenǵ- (“to draw into one's mouth, sip, gulp”), nasalised variant of *dʰreǵ- (“to draw, glide”).
Cognate with West Frisian drinke (“to drink”), Low German drinken (“to drink”), Dutch drinken (“to drink”), German trinken (“to drink”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål drikke (“to drink”), Norwegian Nynorsk drikka (“to drink”).

#### Verb

drink (third-person singular simple present drinks, present participle drinking, simple past drank or (southern US) drunk or (nonstandard) drinked, past participle drunk or (chiefly archaic) drunken or (dialectal) drank or (all nonstandard, archaic or obsolete) drinked or drinken or dranken)
* (ambitransitive) To consume (a liquid) through the mouth.
    He drank the water I gave him.
    You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
** 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 47, recto:[…] There liues ſhee with the bleſſed Gods in bliſſe: / There drinks the Nectar with Ambroſia mixt […]
** 1857–1858, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume I, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858, →OCLC, page 283:It was he who proposed the bowl of punch, which was brewed and drunk in Mrs. Betty’s room, and which Gumbo concocted with exquisite skill.
** 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter II, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
* (transitive, metonymically) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.).
    Jack drank the whole bottle by himself.
* (intransitive) To consume alcoholic beverages.
    You've been drinking, haven't you?
    No thanks, I don't drink.
    Everyone who is drinking is drinking, but not everyone who is drinking is drinking.
** c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:I drink to the general joy of the whole table, / And to our dear friend Banquo.
** 1852, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. […] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] Smith, Elder, & Company, […], →OCLC:Bolingbroke always spoke freely when he had drunk freely.
** 1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 168:The waiter came up, and I ordered a Coke for her—she didn't drink—and a Scotch and soda for myself, but the sonuvabitch wouldn't bring me one, so I had a Coke, too.
** 2007, Matthew Weiner, “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, in Mad Men, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Roger Sterling:You don't know how to drink. Your whole generation, you drink for the wrong reasons. My generation, we drink because it's good, because it feels better than unbuttoning your collar, because we deserve it. We drink because it's what men do.
* (transitive) To take in (a liquid), in any manner; to suck up; to absorb; to imbibe.
** 1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Let the purple violets drink the stream.
* (transitive) To take in; to receive within one, through the senses; to inhale; to hear; to see.
** c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:My ears have not yet drunk a hundred words / Of that tongue's utterance.
** 1717, Alexander Pope, “Eloisa to Abelard”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintot, […], published 1717, →OCLC:
** 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=Prologue or Rpilogue, or |canto=I to CXXIX):to drink the cooler air
* (transitive) To toast (someone or something) with a drink; to drink to.
* (transitive, obsolete) To smoke, as tobacco.
** 1630, John Taylor, A Proclomation or approbation from the King of execration, to euery nation, for Tobaccoes propogration:And some men now live ninety yeeres and past, / Who never dranke tobacco first nor last.

##### Synonyms

* (consume (liquid) through the mouth): gulp, imbibe, quaff, sip, see also Thesaurus:drink
* (consume alcoholic beverages): drink alcohol, booze, hit the sauce

##### Derived terms

* bedrink
* drincc
* drinkability
* drinkable
* drink and drive
* drinkathon
* drink down
* drinker
* drink from a firehose
* drink from the fire hydrant
* drink from the furry cup
* drink in
* drinking
* drinking-cup
* drinking straw
* drinking water
* drinkle
* drink like a fish
* drink off
* drink oneself to death
* drink one's own Kool-Aid
* drink out
* drink someone under the table
* drink something like lemonade
* drink the Kool-Aid
* drink to
* drink under
* drink under the table
* drink up
* drinkware
* drink with the flies
* drive someone to drink
* I'll drink to that
* nondrinking
* outdrink
* overdrink
* piss more than one drinks
* preach water and drink wine
* ready-to-drink
* redrink
* undrink
* undrinkability

##### Related terms

* drunken, drunk, dranken

##### Descendants

* Belizean Creole: jrink
* Chinese Pidgin English: drinkee, dlinkee
* Sranan Tongo: dringi
** Aukan: diingi
** Saramaccan: diíngi
* Tok Pisin: dringim
* → Esperanto: drinki
* → Ido: drinkar

##### Translations

Abkhaz: ажәра (aẑʷra)
Afrikaans: drink (af)
Akan: nom
Akkadian: 𒅘 (, šatû, NAG)
Aklanon: inom
Albanian: pi (sq)
American Sign Language: C@NearMouth-TipForward C@NearMouth-TipUp
Amharic: መጠጣት (mäṭäṭat)
Arabic: شَرِبَ (ar) (šariba)
Chadian Arabic: شرب (širib)
Egyptian Arabic: شرب (širib)
Hijazi Arabic: شِرِب (širib)
Moroccan Arabic: شْرب (šrab)
Aragonese: beber (an)
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܫܬܐ (šθa)
Armenian: ըմպել (hy) (əmpel), խմել (hy) (xmel)
Aromanian: beau (roa-rup)
Assamese: খা (kha)
Asturian: beber (ast), tomar (ast)
Aukan: diingi
Azerbaijani: içmək (az)
Bashkir: эсеү (esew)
Basque: edan (eu)
Bedjond: à̰ȳ
Belarusian: піць (be) impf (picʹ), вы́піць pf (výpicʹ)
Belizean Creole: jrink
Bengali: খাওয়া (bn) (khaōẇa), পিয়া (bn) (piẏa)
Besisi: cado
Bhojpuri: पिअल (pial)
Biatah Bidayuh: nok
Brahui: kunak
Breton: evañ (br)
Bukar-Sadung Bidayuh: sihip
Bulgarian: пи́я (bg) impf (píja)
Burmese: သောက် (my) (sauk)
Buryat: ууха (uuxa)
Carpathian Rusyn: пи́ти impf (pýty)
Catalan: beure (ca)
Cebuano: inom
Chechen: мала (mala)
Chichewa: mwa
Chickasaw: ishko
Chinese:
Cantonese: 飲 / 饮 (jam$^2$), 呷 (haap$^3$)
Dungan: хә (hə)
Eastern Min: 啜 (chiók)
Gan: 吃 (qiah$^6$)
Hakka: 食 (sṳ̍t)
Hokkien: 啉 (zh-min-nan) (lim)
Jin: 喝 (hah$^4$)
Mandarin: 喝 (zh) (hē), 飲 / 饮 (zh) (yǐn) (literary)
Wu: 吃
Xiang: 吃 (qia$^6$)
Chinook Jargon: loqa
Classical Nahuatl: ī
Cornish: eva
Czech: pít (cs) impf
Dalmatian: bar
Danish: drikke (da)
Drung: ngaq
Dutch: drinken (nl)
Eastern Cham: ꨟꨐꨭꩌ (mưnhum)
Egyptian: (zwr)
Elfdalian: drikka
Esperanto: trinki (eo)
Estonian: jooma (et)
Evenki: ум- (um-)
Fang (Bantu): áñú
Faroese: drekka (fo)
Fijian: gunuva (fj)
Finnish: juoda (fi)
French: boire (fr)
Friulian: bevi
Galician: beber (gl)
Georgian: სმა (sma), დალევა (daleva)
German: trinken (de), saufen (de) (for animals)
Alemannic German: trinke
Gothic: 𐌳𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌺𐌰𐌽 (drigkan)
Greek: πίνω (el) (píno) (used for animals also), απορροφώ (el) (aporrofó) (used for plants)
Ancient: πίνω (pínō)
Doric: πώνω (pṓnō)
Greenlandic: imerpoq
Gujarati: પીવું (pīvũ)
Haitian Creole: bwè
Hawaiian: inu, inumia
Hebrew: שָׁתָה (he) (shatá), גָּמַע (he) (gamá')
Higaonon: inom
Hindi: पीना (hi) (pīnā), सोखना (hi) (sokhnā)
Hungarian: iszik (hu)
Hunsrik: drinke
Icelandic: drekka (is)
Ido: drinkar (io)
Igbo: nuo
Indonesian: minum (id)
Ingrian: joovva
Ingush: мала (mala)
Interlingua: biber (ia)
Inuktitut: ᐃᒥᖅᑐᖅ (imiqtoq)
Irish: ól, ibh (literary)
Old Irish: ibid
Isnag: inum
Isthmus Zapotec: reʼ
Istro-Romanian: be
Italian: bere (it)
Iu Mien: hopv
Japanese: 飲む (ja) (のむ, nomu), 召し上がる (ja) (めしあがる, meshiagaru) (honorific), 頂く (ja) (いただく, itadaku) (humble)
Jarai: mơñum
Javanese: ngombé (jv) (casual), ngunjuk (jv) (polite), mimik (jv) (children)
Jeju: 먹다 (meokda), 마시다 (masida)
Jingpho: lu
Jutish: drek
Kalmyk: уух (uux)
Karakhanid: اِجْماكْ (ičmēk)
Kashmiri: چۆن (con)
Kashubian: pic
Kazakh: ішу (kk) (ışu)
Khakas: ізерге (ìzerge), ічерге (ìçerge) (dialectal)
Khmer: ផឹក (km) (phək)
Kituba: nwa, kunwa
Korean: 마시다 (ko) (masida), (honorific) 드시다 (deusida), 먹다 (ko) (meokda)
Kumyk: ичмек (içmek)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: خواردنەوە (ckb) (xwardnewe)
Northern Kurdish: vexwarin (ku)
Kyrgyz: ичүү (ky) (icüü)
Laboya: enu
Lao: ດື່ມ (dư̄m)
Latgalian: dzert
Latin: bibo (la), poto
Latvian: dzert (lv)
Ligurian: béive
Lithuanian: gerti (lt)
Livonian: jūodõ
Lombard: bev (lmo)
Low German: drinken (nds)
Lü: please add this translation if you can
Luganda: okunywa
Luxembourgish: drénken
Macedonian: пие impf (pie)
Maguindanao: minum
Malay: minum (ms)
Malayalam: കുടിയ്ക്കുക (kuṭiykkuka)
Maltese: xorob
Manchu: ᠣᠮᡳᠮᠪᡳ (omimbi)
Mansaka: inum
Manx: oyl, iu
Maori: inu
Maranao: inom
Marathi: पिणे (piṇe), (द्रव) पान ((drav) pān), पीना (pīnā)
Mauritian Creole: bwar
Middle High German: trinken
Minangkabau: minun
Mòcheno: trinken
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: уух (mn) (uux)
Mwani: kunywa
Nanai: омиори (omiori)
Neapolitan: veve
Nepali: खानु (ne) (khānu)
Nivkh: радь (rad̦)
Norman: baithe
North Frisian:
Föhr: drank
Hallig: drinke
Mooring: drainke
Northern Ohlone: owahto
Northern Sami: juhkat
Norwegian:
Bokmål: drikke (no)
Nǀuu: kxʼâi, kxʼâ
Occitan: beure (oc)
Odia: ପିଇବା (or) (piibā)
Ojibwe: minikwe
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: пити impf (piti)
Old English: drincan (ang)
Old Frisian: drinka
Old High German: trinkan
Old Saxon: drinkan
Old Turkic: 𐰃𐰲 (ič /⁠ič-⁠/)
Oromo: dhuguu
Ossetian: нуазын (nwazyn)
Ottoman Turkish: ایچمك (içmek)
Pacoh: ngoiq
Pannonian Rusyn: пиц impf (pic), попиц pf (popic)
Papiamentu: bebe
Pashto: شومل (ps) (šumə́l), شومول (šumawə́l)
Pela: ʃauʔ⁵⁵
Pennsylvania German: drinke
Persian:
Iranian Persian: نوشیدَن (nušidan), آشامیدَن (âšâmidan)
Piedmontese: bèive
Polish: pić (pl) impf
Portuguese: beber (pt), tomar (pt)
Quechua: upyay, suq'uy
Romanian: bea (ro)
Romansch: baiver, bever, beiber, beber
Russian: пить (ru) impf (pitʹ), вы́пить (ru) pf (výpitʹ), попи́ть (ru) pf (popítʹ)
Sanskrit: पिबति (sa) (pibati)
Sardinian: bíbere, biri, bíere, bívere
Logudorese: buffare
Scottish Gaelic: òl
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: п̏ити impf, по̀пити pf, ѝспити pf
Roman: pȉti (sh) impf, pòpiti (sh) pf, ìspiti (sh) pf
Shan: ၵိၼ် (shn) (kǐn)
Sherpa: དུང (dung)
Sicilian: bìviri (scn), vìviri (scn)
Sindhi: پيئڻ
Slovak: piť (sk) impf, vypiť pf
Slovene: piti (sl) impf
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: piś impf
Upper Sorbian: pić impf
Southern Altai: ичер (ičer)
Southern Sami: jovkedh
Spanish: beber (es), tomar (es), abrevar (es)
Sranan Tongo: dringi
Sundanese: arot, leueut
Swabian: schlotza
Swahili: -nywa
Swedish: dricka (sv)
Tagalog: inom, uminom
Tajik: нӯшидан (tg) (nüšidan)
Tamil: குடி (ta) (kuṭi)
Tatar: эчәргә (tt) (eçärgä)
Tausug: inum
Tedim Chin: dawn
Telugu: తాగు (te) (tāgu)
Ternate: oke
Tetum: hemu
Thai: ดื่ม (th) (dʉ̀ʉm)
Tibetan: འཐུང ('thung), མཆོད (mchod)
Tocharian B: yok-
Tumbuka: mwa
Turkish: içmek (tr)
Turkmen: içmek
Ugaritic: 𐎌𐎚𐎊 (šty)
Ukrainian: пи́ти (uk) impf (pýty), ви́пити pf (výpyty)
Urdu: پِینا (pīnā)
Uyghur: ئىچمەك (ichmek)
Uzbek: ichmoq (uz)
Vandalic: drincan
Venetan: trincàr, bevare
Vietnamese: uống (vi)
Volapük: drinön (vo)
Walloon: boere (wa)
Waray-Waray: irimnon
Welsh: yfed (cy)
West Frisian: drinke
Western Bukidnon Manobo: inum
White Hmong: haus
Yakut: ис (is)
Yámana: ala
Yiddish: טרינקען (yi) (trinken)
Yoruba: mu
Yurok: rekwoh, 'ahspek'
Zazaki: şımıtene (diq)
Zealandic: drienke
Zhuang: luj, hop, rop, rwd, saed, ndouq, sud
Zulu: -phuza
Zyphe: ding
ǃKung: čiŋ, k"aː
ǃXóõ: kxʻāhã :
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### Etymology 2

From Middle English drink, drinke (also as drinche, drunch), from Old English drynċ, from Proto-Germanic *drunkiz, *drankiz. Compare Dutch drank.

#### Noun

drink (countable and uncountable, plural drinks)
* A beverage.
    I’d like another drink please.
* (uncountable) Drinks in general; something to drink.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 25:35:For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink
* A type of beverage (usually mixed).
    My favourite drink is the White Russian.
* A (served) alcoholic beverage.
    Can I buy you a drink?
* The action of drinking, especially with the verbs take or have.
    He was about to take a drink from his root beer.
* Alcoholic beverages in general.
** 1935, George Goodchild, chapter 1, in Death on the Centre Court:She mixed furniture with the same fatal profligacy as she mixed drinks, and this outrageous contact between things which were intended by Nature to be kept poles apart gave her an inexpressible thrill.
** 1995, “Daddy's on the Drink” (track 12), in Shame-Based Man‎, performed by Bruce McCulloch:The face of work is a drunk man in the same chair, chewing on the same bone for five thousand nights. The face of work is a, coffee cup in hand, frustrated: "You don't get it. They all don't get it. You don't understand, man." Daddy's on the drink again.
** 2014 November 14, Blake Bailey, “'Tennessee Williams,' by John Lahr [print version: Theatrical victory of art over life, International New York Times, 18 November 2014, p. 13]”, in The New York Times‎:[…] she was indeed Amanda in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.
* A standard drink.
    A drink of wine is about 5 ounces
** 1963, Vital and Health Statistics: Programs and collection procedures, page 125:And when (SUBJECT) was 55, would you say (he/she) drank more than, less than, or about 2 to 3 drinks a day?
* (colloquial, with the) Any body of water.
    If he doesn't pay off the mafia, he’ll wear cement shoes to the bottom of the drink!
** 1996, John French+, A Drop in the Ocean: Dramatic Accounts of Aircrew Saved From the Sea, Pen and Sword, →ISBN, page 99:When in mid-Channel the speed slowed and I was informed by A.C. Russell that another dinghy had been spotted. This turned out to contain a Canadian fighter pilot who had been in the drink for three days and was in rather a bad way. He said he had seen all the aircraft flying over in the two days before D-Day and since, but no one had sighted him.
** 2011, Levi Johnston, Deer in the Headlights: My Life in Sarah Palin's Crosshairs, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 34:In seconds, we went from sitting in a boat to threading ice-cold water. I wasn't wearing a life jacket and am not the best paddler, but there I was, in the drink, splashing around.
** 2012, Jack R. Myers, Shot at and Missed: Recollections of a World War II Bombardier, University of Oklahoma Press, →ISBN, page 31:If the planes couldn't make it, they would go in the drink, eject their rubber lifeboats, inflate them, climb in, and pray for the Navy to pick them up before the Germans did.
* (Australia, figurative) A downpour; a cloudburst; a rainstorm; a deluge; a lot of rain.
** 2023 April 13, 07:56 am (UTC+10/AEST), in News Breakfast, season 2023, episode 74, spoken by Nate Byrne, Melbourne, Australia: ABC News:Now this is going to bring some huge totals of rainfall with it—200 to 400 millimetres with it—and along with that, these winds—gusts to 275 kilometres an hour near the cyclone [Cyclone Ilsa] core—and that's a real concern. That's very destructive winds and it's going to carry this inertia and the rain with it well inland. And we're likely going to be talking about a cyclone all the way through Friday as it slowly weakens, eventually washing that moisture out into a front going through the south. It means the southeast is getting a drink but W.A.'s northwest really copping it, individual totals significantly higher than what you're seeing here [on the weather map].
* (informal) This term needs a definition. Please help out and add a definition, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.
** 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube:He [a sea-serpent] was giant, massive. A huge drink of man-eater. But even now, you know, I could take him.

##### Usage notes

* A plainer term than more elevated term beverage. Beverage is of French origin, while drink is of Old English origin, and this stylistic difference by origin is common; see list of English words with dual French and Anglo-Saxon variations.
* In the sense of any body of water the term is often associated with (a threat of) drowning.

##### Synonyms

* (served beverage): beverage, see also Thesaurus:beverage
* (served alcoholic beverage): beverage, see also Thesaurus:alcoholic beverage
* (action of drinking): gulp, sip, swig
* (type of beverage): beverage
* (alcoholic beverages in general): alcohol

##### Derived terms

* antidrink
* B-drink
* be the worse for drink
* black drink
* call drink
* can I buy you a drink
* cold drink money
* cooldrink
* dew-drink
* drank
* drink alert
* drink-driver
* drink-driving
* drinkery
* drinkfest
* drink hail
* drinkie
* drinkless
* drink link
* drinkmaking
* drinkologist
* drinkometer
* drink problem
* drink run
* drinks cabinet
* drink shop
* drinksie
* drinks o'clock
* drinks table
* drinks trolley
* drinkstuff
* drinks waiter
* drink table
* drink walking
* Drinkwater
* drinkwater
* drinkworthy
* drive to drink
* energy drink
* fizzy drink
* fountain drink
* functional drink
* gangly drink of water
* hard drink
* have drink taken
* hold one's drink
* in drink
* interdrink
* in the drink
* long drink
* long drink of water
* meat and drink
* medium drink
* mixed drink
* orange drink
* pre-drink
* predrinks
* pre-drinks
* rail drink
* red drink
* scrawny drink of water
* short drink
* skinny drink of water
* soft drink
* sports drink
* standard drink
* straw that stirs the drink
* strong drink
* Swedish drink
* take to drink
* tall drink
* tall drink of water
* the big drink
* the drinks are on me
* top-heavy with drink
* well drink

##### Descendants

* Tok Pisin: dring
* → Czech: drink
* → Danish: drink
* → Dutch: drink
* → Finnish: drinkki
* → French: drink
* → German: Drink
* → Italian: drink
* → Japanese: ドリンク (dorinku)
* → Polish: drink
* → Portuguese: drinque, drink
* → Swedish: drink

##### Translations

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## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch drinken, from Middle Dutch drinken, from Old Dutch drinkan, from Proto-Germanic *drinkaną.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

drink (present drink, present participle drinkende, past participle gedrink)
* to drink

## Czech
### Etymology

Borrowed from English drink.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdrɪŋk]

### Noun

drink m inan
* drink (a (mixed) alcoholic beverage)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “drink”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “drink”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Danish
### Etymology

From English drink.

### Noun

drink c (singular definite drinken, plural indefinite drinks)
* drink; a (mixed) alcoholic beverage

#### Synonyms

* sjus c

### Further reading

* “drink” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /drɪŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: drink
* Rhymes: -ɪŋk

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English drink.

#### Noun

drink m (plural drinks)
* (Belgium) a social event were beverages are served, with or without snacks, e.g. as a celebration
* (Netherlands) a beverage, a drink

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

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

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English drink.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʁiŋk/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

drink m (plural drinks)
* a reception or afterparty where alcohol is served

### Further reading

* “drink”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English drink.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdrink/
* Rhymes: -ink
* Hyphenation: drìnk

### Noun

drink m (usually invariable, plural (dated) drinks)
* drink (served beverage and mixed beverage)
    Synonym: bevanda
** 1970, “Ⅻ”, in Mercedes Giardini, transl., Il padrino, Milan: dall'Oglio editore, translation of The Godfather by Mario Puzo, page 160:«Non sono in forma con la voce», rispose. «E con tutta sincerità, sono stufo di sentirmi cantare». Sorseggiarono i drinks."My voice is not doing well", he replied. "And, in all honesty, I'm tired of hearing myself singing". They sipped their drinks.
** 2013, Paolo Sorrentino, 01:39:42 from the start, in La grande bellezza, spoken by Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo):Io berrò molti drink, ma non così tanti da diventare molesto.I'll drink many drinks, but not so many to become annoying.

### References

* ↑ drink in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

### Further reading

* drink in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Low German
### Verb

drink
* first-person singular of drinken

## North Frisian
### Alternative forms

* drank (Föhr-Amrum)
* drainke (Mooring)

### Etymology

From Old Frisian drinka, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan.

### Pronunciation

* (Sylt) IPA: [d̥rɪŋk]

### Verb

drink (present)
* (Sylt, Heligoland) to drink

#### Conjugation
## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English drink. Doublet of dręk and trunek.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdriŋk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iŋk
* Syllabification: drink

### Noun

drink m animal
* cocktail, drink (served alcoholic beverage)
** 2011, “Kawałek do tańca”, performed by Poparzeni Kawą Trzy:Jeszcze trochę do północy drink jak zagubiony pocisk strzelił mocno mi do głowy coraz trudniej się wysłowić.There's still some time before midnight The drink, like a lost bullet, shot me right in the head it's getting harder and harder to speak.

#### Derived terms

* drinkować impf

### Further reading

* drink in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* drink in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English drink.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɾĩ.ki/, /ˈdɾĩk/
* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɾĩ.ki/, /ˈdɾĩk/
** (Southern Brazil) IPA: /ˈdɾĩk/, /ˈdɾĩ.ki/
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈdɾĩk/
* Hyphenation: drink

### Noun

drink m (plural drinks)
* Alternative form of drinque

## Swedish
### Etymology

From English drink. Doublet of dryck.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /drɪŋk/
* Audio (Gotland):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪŋk

### Noun

drink c
* a drink ((mixed) alcoholic beverage)
    ta en drinkenjoy a drink

#### Usage notes

Drink in the more general sense of beverage is dryck.

#### Derived terms

* drinkare
* drinkblandare
* drinklista
* drinkpinne
* drinktilltugg
* fördrink
* kaffedrink
* mjölkdrink
* paraplydrink
* proteindrink
* softdrink
* stilldrink
* välkomstdrink

#### See also

* dryck
* grogg
* sup

### References

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

## Yola
### Etymology

From Middle English drinken, from Old English drincan, from Proto-West Germanic *drinkan.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /drɪŋk/

### Verb

drink
* to drink
** 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:Drink a heall to a breede. "Shud with, a voorneen."Drink a health to the bride, "Here's to you, my dear."

### Noun

drink
* drink
** 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 98:Tibbès an crockès wee drink war ee-felt.[Tubs and crocks were filled with drink.]

### References

* Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 96