# duk
## Albanian
### Alternative forms

* dok (Gheg)

### Etymology

See medio-passive voice form duket (“it seems like, appears like”).

### Noun

duk
* virtue
* attribute

### Verb

duk (aorist duk, participle dukur), active voice
* it seemed
* it looked like
* it appeared

#### Conjugation

(*): Gheg forms

#### Antonyms

* zhduk

#### Derived terms

* zhduk
* dukje
* dukuri

#### Related terms

* duket
* dukem
* nduk
* ndihem
* ndiej

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /duk/ [d̪uk]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -uk
* Hyphenation: duk

### Verb

duk
* Informal second-person singular masculine (hik), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, present indicative form of izan.
* Masculine allocutive form of da.

#### Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

## Danish
### Verb

duk
* imperative of dukke

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch doek, from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *duok, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʊk̚/
* Hyphenation: duk

### Noun

duk (plural duk-duk)
* a piece of cloth:
** cloth menstrual pad
** (surgery, colloquial) drape

#### Related terms

* handuk
* spanduk

### Further reading

* “duk” 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.

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [doʔ]
* Rhymes: -uk
* Hyphenation: duk

### Verb

duk
* (informal) Clipping of duduk.
    Kau duk kat mana sekarang?Where do you live now?

### Further reading

* “duk” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Mauritian Creole
### Noun

duk
* Alternative spelling of douk

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* deuk, dewke, doc, douk, doyk, duc, duck, dug, duke, dux, duyk, dwk

### Etymology

Borrowed from Old French duc, from Latin dux.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diu̯k/, /duk/

### Noun

duk (plural dukes)
* leader, guide, boss
* commander, general
* noble, lord (especially of high rank)
* duke (rank of nobility)
** p. 1154, “AD 1129”, in Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (MS. Laud Misc. 636, continuation), Peterborough, folio 87, verso; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2018 February 8:ſe an ƿæſ ᵹehaten petruſ · he ƿæſ munec of clunni ·⁊ ƿeaſ boren of þa ricceſte men of rome · mid him helden ða of rome ·⁊ ſe duc of ſicilie ·One was called Peter; he was a monk from Cluny who was descended from Rome's most powerful men. The people of Rome and the duke of Sicily sided with him.

#### Related terms

* duche
* duchesse
* dukdom

#### Descendants

* English: duke
* Scots: duik, duke
* → Breton: duk
* → Cornish: duk
* → Irish: diúc
* → Manx: duic
* → Scottish Gaelic: diùc
* → Welsh: dug

#### References

* “dūk, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-02.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse dúkr and Middle Low German duk.

### Noun

duk m (definite singular duken, indefinite plural duker, definite plural dukene)
* a cloth, tablecloth, altar cloth, dropcloth etc.
* canvas, tarpaulin
* bandana, handkerchief
* metal sieve

#### Derived terms

* bordduk

### References

* “duk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse dúkr and Middle Low German duk.

### Noun

duk m (definite singular duken, indefinite plural dukar, definite plural dukane)
* a cloth, tablecloth, altar cloth, dropcloth etc.
* canvas, tarpaulin
* bandana, handkerchief
* metal sieve

#### Derived terms

* bordduk

### References

* “duk” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *-Cuk.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /dʊk/
* Rhymes: -dʊk
* Hyphenation: duk

### Noun

duk
* stab, thrust
* while
* (black) fibre of the sugar palm

#### Derived terms

* aduk-dukan
* anduk
* aṅduk
* aṅdukakĕn
* dinuk
* dinūkakĕn
* dukduk
* dumuk
* dumukakĕn
* pandukan
* paṅduk

### Adverb

duk
* just while

### Further reading

* "duk" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

## Pangutaran Sama
### Noun

duk
* garbage

## Polish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Ciszewski points to Bruckner Prace fil. VI page 625 and duczaja”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈduk/
* (Greater Poland):
** (Kuyavia) IPA: /ˈduk/
* (Masovia):
** (Far Masovian) IPA: /ˈduk/
* Rhymes: -uk
* Syllabification: duk
* Homophone: Duk

### Noun

duk m inan
* (Far Masovian) hole in a tree caused by decay
* (Far Masovian) barrel for holding grain
* (Kuyavia) Synonym of studnia

### Further reading

* Stanisław Ciszewski (1909) “duk”, in “Przyczynek do słownika gwary mazowieckiej”, in Prace Filologiczne (in Polish), volume 7, z. 1, Warsaw: skł. gł. w Księgarni E. Wende i Ska, page 205
* Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “duk”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, in Materyały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 387

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse dúkr, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdʉːk/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ʉːk

### Noun

duk c
* tablecloth; a similar piece of cloth used for protection or decoration of e.g. a chest of drawers
* (painting) canvas
* piece of cloth whose purpose is specified by the context
    Examples: halsduk, näsduk, segelduk

#### Related terms

* bordsduk
* flaggduk
* halsduk
* handduk
* huvudduk
* näsduk
* tältduk
* vita duken

### Further reading

* duk in Svensk ordbok.

## Uzbek
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

duk (plural duklar)
* rapping, banging, tapping, thumping noise
* spindle
    Synonym: yig