ark

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

Noah's Ark

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

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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. A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
5. (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
6. (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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• ark in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• AKR, KAR, RAK, RKA, kar, kra

• 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, örk

• 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

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, 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
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): /ark/

ark n (no plural)

1. tool
2. stuff, junk

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