ark - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Article Images
From Middle English arke, from Old English earc, ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“I enclose”).
ark (plural arks)
- A large box with a flat lid.
- (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Noah's ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:
In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside.
- Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge.
- (figuratively) The body as a vessel.
1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XII:
Like her I go; I cannot stay;
I leave this mortal ark behind,
A weight of nerves without a mind,
And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]
- A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
1990, Lou Sullivan, chapter 7, in From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, page 76:
Some seventy or seventy-five arks were permanently located on McLeod's Lake and between 110 and 125 people lived in them.
- (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
- (Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.
- → Maori: āka
large box
Noah's ship
- Arabic: سَفِينَة (ar) f (safīna)
- Armenian: տապան (hy) (tapan)
- Basque: Noeren ontzia
- Belarusian: каўчэ́г m (kaŭčéh)
- Bulgarian: ковче́г (bg) m (kovčég), ба́рка f (bárka)
- Catalan: arca (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Czech: archa (cs) f
- Esperanto: arkeo
- Estonian: Ark (et)
- Faroese: ørk f
- Finnish: arkki (fi)
- French: arche (fr) f
- Georgian: კიდობანი (ka) (ḳidobani)
- German: Arche (de) f
- Greek: κιβωτός (el) f (kivotós)
- Hebrew: תֵּיבָה (he) f (tevá)
- Hindi: कश्ती (hi) f (kaśtī)
- Hungarian: bárka (hu)
- Icelandic: örk (is) f
- Ido: archo (io)
- Indonesian: bahtera (id)
- Irish: áirc f
- Italian: arca (it) f
- Japanese: 箱舟 (はこぶね, hakobune)
- Korean: 방주(方舟) (ko) (bangju)
- Latin: arca f
- Latvian: arka f
- Lithuanian: arka (lt) f
- Macedonian: арка f (arka), ковчег m (kovčeg)
- Malay: bahtera (ms)
- Maltese: arka f
- Maori: āka
- Ngazidja Comorian: safina class 9
- Norwegian: ark (no) m
- Old Church Slavonic: ковьчєгъ m (kovĭčegŭ)
- Persian: کشتی (fa) (kašti)
- Polish: arka (pl) f
- Portuguese: arca (pt) f
- Romanian: arca f
- Russian: ковче́г (ru) m (kovčég)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: archa f
- Slovene: barka f
- Spanish: arca (es) f
- Swahili: safina
- Swedish: ark (sv) c
- Turkish: Nuh'un gemisi (tr)
- Ukrainian: ковче́г (uk) m (kovčéh)
- Vietnamese: tàu (vi)
- Volapük: lenaf
- Walloon: åtche (wa) f
- Yiddish: תּבֿה f (teyve)
consecrated container
- Bulgarian: киво́т m (kivót)
- Faroese: ørk f
- French: arche (fr) f
- Greek: κιβωτός (el) f (kivotós)
- Ido: archo (io)
- Indonesian: tabut (id)
- Irish: áirc f
- Maori: āka
- Norwegian: ark (no) m
- Polish: arka (pl) f
- Portuguese: arca (pt) f
- Russian: кио́т (ru) m (kiót), киво́т (ru) m (kivót) (dated), ковче́г (ru) m (kovčég), божни́ца (ru) f (božníca)
- Spanish: arca (es) f
- Swedish: ark (sv) c
- Yiddish: אָרון m (orn), אָרון־קודש m (orn-koydesh)
- “ark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “ark”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Via Middle Low German ark from Latin arcus. The Latin words means "bow", but it is here used in a wider sense of the folded paper. Compare the same semantic development in German Bogen (“bow; sheet of paper”).
ark n (singular definite arket, plural indefinite arker)
- a sheet (of paper)
From Old Danish ark, Old Norse ǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *arkō, borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, coffin; ark”).
From Middle Dutch arke. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
ark f (plural arken, diminutive arkje n)
- Afrikaans: ark
From Danish ark, from Latin arcus.
ark n (genitive singular arks, nominative plural örk)
Declension of ark | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
n-s | singular | plural | ||
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | ark | arkið | örk | örkin |
accusative | ark | arkið | örk | örkin |
dative | arki | arkinu | örkum | örkunum |
genitive | arks | arksins | arka | arkanna |
From Middle Irish orc, arc (“young pig”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸorkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”).
ark f (genitive singular arkagh, plural arkyn or irk)
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 orc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).
ark (plural arks)
- The path of the sun across the sky.
- English: arc
- “ark, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
ark
From Old Norse ǫrk (“chest”), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚱᚲᚢ (*arku), borrowed during pre-Christian time from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“enclose, box in”), from Proto-Italic *arkeō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard”).
ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)
- the ark (boat of Noah)
- paktens ark - the Ark of the Covenant
- kvist (dormer)
From Old Danish ark, arken, arkens, through Middle Low German or Low German arkener (“breast protection”), from Old French arquiere (“shooting range”).
ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)
- (architecture) a dormer
From Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“arc, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”).
ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka or arkene)
- a sheet (of paper)
- “ark” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
From Old Norse ǫrk, from Latin arca (“chest, box”); sense 3 from Old French arquire, via Middle Low German or Low German and old Danish.
ark f (definite singular arka, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)
- the ark (boat of Noah)
- paktarka - the Ark of the Covenant
- (architecture) a dormer
- kvist (dormer)
From Latin arcus, via Low German ark.
ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka)
- a sheet (of paper)
- “ark” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
From Old Swedish ark, borrowed from Latin arca, into the Germanic languages in pre-Christian time.[1]
ark c
- an ark, a box; the Ark of the Covenant
- the ark (ship) of Noah, resembling a box
Declension of ark | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ark | arken | arkar | arkarna |
Genitive | arks | arkens | arkars | arkarnas |
From Old Swedish ark, from Middle Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“bow”).[2] Compare German Bogen. It refers to the bend of the parchment when folded.[3]
ark n
- a sheet of paper (for writing on)
- (printing) a signature, a multiple of four pages printed on a single sheet, which is folded and bound into a book
Declension of ark | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | ark | arket | ark | arken |
Genitive | arks | arkets | arks | arkens |
- → Finnish: arkki
- ^ ark in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- ^ ark in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- ^ ark 2 in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
ark (definite accusative arkı, plural arklar)
- (chiefly Internet) Abbreviation of arkadaş.
ark n (no plural)
- “ark (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011