ark

From Middle English arke, from Old English earc, ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“I enclose”).

 

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑɹk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: arc

ark (plural arks)

1. A large box with a flat lid.
2. (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.

3. Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge.
4. (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 […]

5. 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.

6. (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
8. (Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.

• barge
• basket
• chest
• coffer
• hutch
• refuge
• retreat
• shelter
• ship
• vessel

• → Maori: āka

• “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.

• RAK, KRA, kar, Kra, kra, KAR, RKA, AKR

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑːɡ̊]

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)

1. a sheet (of paper)

• papir

From Old Danish ark, Old Norse ǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *arkō, borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, coffin; ark”).

ark c (singular definite arken, plural indefinite arker)

1. (biblical) ark (Noah's Ark or the Ark of the Convenant)

From Middle Dutch arke. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ɑrk/

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• Hyphenation: ark
• Rhymes: -ɑrk

ark f (plural arken, diminutive arkje n)

1. ark (ark of the covenant)
2. ark (ship)
3. houseboat

   Synonym: woonark

• woonark

• Afrikaans: ark

From Danish ark, from Latin arcus.

• IPA^(key): /ar̥k/
• Rhymes: -ar̥k

ark n (genitive singular arks, nominative plural örk)

1. (obsolete) sheet (of paper)

• (sheet of paper): blað, örkż

• arku

Borrowed from English arc.

• IPA^(key): /ˈark/

ark m (plural arkiet or arkijiet)

1. arc

• urk

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)

1. young pig, piglet

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 orc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• arke

Borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

ark (plural arks)

1. The path of the sun across the sky.

• English: arc

• “ark, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

ark

1. (Mooring) each; every

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)

1. the ark (boat of Noah)
2. 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)

1. (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)

1. a sheet (of paper)

• papir

• A4-ark
• faktaark
• papirark
• regneark

• “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)

1. the ark (boat of Noah)
2. paktarka - the Ark of the Covenant
3. (architecture) a dormer

• kvist (dormer)

From Latin arcus, via Low German ark.

ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka)

1. a sheet (of paper)

• papir

• A4-ark
• faktaark
• papirark

• “ark” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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From Old Swedish ark, borrowed from Latin arca, into the Germanic languages in pre-Christian time.^[1]

ark c

1. an ark, a box; the Ark of the Covenant
2. the ark (ship) of Noah, resembling a box

• förbundsark

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

1. a sheet of paper (for writing on)
2. (printing) a signature, a multiple of four pages printed on a single sheet, which is folded and bound into a book

• papper
• blad

• arkmatare
• arksignatur
• dubbelark

• → Finnish: arkki

• kar, rak

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾk/

ark (definite accusative arkı, plural arklar)

1. (chiefly Internet) Abbreviation of arkadaş.

• IPA^(key): /ark/

ark n (no plural)

1. tool
2. stuff, junk

• “ark (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011