bark

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English[edit]

 bark on Wikipedia

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”).

Verb[edit]

bark (third-person singular simple present barks, present participle barking, simple past and past participle barked)

  1. (intransitive) To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
    Synonyms: give tongue, (rare) latrate
    The neighbour's dog is always barking.
    The seal barked as the zookeeper threw fish into its enclosure.
  2. (intransitive) To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
    • 1530, Tyndale, A Pathway into the Holy Scripture:
      And therefore they bark, and say the scripture maketh heretics.
    • 1655, Thomas Fuller, edited by James Nichols, The Church History of Britain, […], new edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
      Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed.
      The spelling has been modernized.
  3. (transitive) To speak sharply.
    The sergeant barked an order.
    • 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 3:
      Plainly he was prepared to bark out an interminable succession of charges against the Wanderer.
    • 2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 5:
      Sudden anger rose in him. “What I’m looking for,” he barked, “is to be left in peace.” His voice trembled with a rage far bigger than her intrusion merited, the rage which shocked him whenever it coursed through his nervous system, like a flood.
    • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC‎[1]:
      While McCarthy prowled the touchline barking orders, his opposite number watched on motionless and expressionless and, with 25 minutes to go, decided to throw on Nicolas Anelka for Kalou.
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Terms derived from bark verb
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Noun[edit]

bark (plural barks)

  1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
  2. (figuratively) An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
    • c. 1921, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature, volume 11:
      Fox’s clumsy figure, negligently dressed in blue and buff, seemed unprepossessing; only his shaggy eyebrows added to the expression of his face; his voice would rise to a bark in excitement.
    • 1949 January and February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
      Long before Shap platform showed up around a corner and the two arms on the gradient post drooped in both directions at once, Duchess of Buccleuch's amiable throbbing purr at the stack [funnel, chimney] had become a fierce freight-engine bark, as she resolutely dragged at her enormous load.
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English bark, from Old English barc (“bark”), from Old Norse bǫrkr (“tree bark”), from Proto-Germanic *barkuz, probably related to *birkijǭ (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰergo- (compare Latin frāxinus (“ash”), Lithuanian béržas (“birch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰereg- (“to gleam; white”) (compare English bright); akin to Danish bark, Icelandic börkur, Low German borke and Albanian berk (“bast”).

Noun[edit]

English Wikipedia has an article on:
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bark (countable and uncountable, plural barks)

  2. (countable, uncountable) The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
    • 1879, Friedrich August Flückiger et al., Pharmacographia...‎[2], page 346:
      The hardships of bark-collecting in the primeval forests of South America are of the severest kind, and undergone only by the half-civilized Indians and people of mixed race, in the pay of speculators or companies located in the towns. Those who are engaged in the business, especially the collectors themselves, are called Cascarilleros or Cascadores, from the Spanish word Cascara, bark.
    • 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time‎[3]:
      Moving about 70 miles per hour, it crashed through the sturdy old-growth trees, snapping their limbs and shredding bark from their trunks.
  3. (medicine) Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
  5. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
  7. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
    • 2009, Julie Reinhardt, She-Smoke: A Backyard Barbecue Book, page 151:
      This softens the meat further, but at some loss of crunch to the bark.
  8. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
Usage notes[edit]

Usually uncountable; bark may be countable when referring to the barks of different types of tree.

Synonyms[edit]
  • (exterior covering of a tree): rind
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
in medicine — see Jesuit's bark

Verb[edit]

bark (third-person singular simple present barks, present participle barking, simple past and past participle barked)

  1. To strip the bark from; to peel.
    • 1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate:
      Along the river freshly felled and barked trees told of the activity of beaver, and in slow current and in eddies the tops of their winter's food supply lay like submerged brush fences projecting above the surface.
  2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
    to bark one’s heel
    • 2019 May 8, Barney Ronay, “Liverpool’s waves of red fury and recklessness end in joyous bedlam”, in The Guardian‎[4]:
      Barcelona had been harried and hurried and stretched thin by the midway point in the second half. Tackles flew in. Toes were crushed, shins barked, ankles hacked.
  3. To girdle.
  4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
    bark the roof of a hut
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Translations[edit]
to girdle — see girdle

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English barke (“boat”), from Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, a regular syncope of Vulgar Latin *barica, from Classical Latin bāris, from Ancient Greek βᾶρις (bâris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Demotic br, from Egyptian bꜣjr

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(“transport ship”). Doublet of barge, barque and baris.

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Noun[edit]

bark (plural barks)

  1. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
  2. (poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
  3. (nautical) A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
    • 1997, Mark Kurlansky, Cod, page 114:
      Europeans would cross the ocean in large barks built for deck space and large holds.
Descendants[edit]
  • → Welsh: barc
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Etymology 4[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bark (plural barks)

  1. (slang, obsolete) An Irish person.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
  • 1890, John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A to Byz (page 124)

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Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Albanian *báruka, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰor-uko-, from *bʰer- (“to carry”). Compare Messapic βάρυκα (báruka). A doublet of bie, barrë, and barrë.

Noun[edit]

bark m (plural barqe, definite barku, definite plural barqet)

  1. (anatomy) belly

Declension[edit]

Declension of bark
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative bark barqe barku barqet
accusative barkun
dative barku barqeve barkut barqevet
ablative barqesh

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Danish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse bǫrkr.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bark/, [b̥ɑːɡ̊]

Noun[edit]

bark c (singular definite barken, not used in plural form)

  1. bark (covering of the trunk of a tree)
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse barki

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /bark/, [b̥ɑːɡ̊]

Noun[edit]

bark c (singular definite barken, plural indefinite barker)

  1. bark (large sailing boat)
Inflection[edit]
Declension of bark
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bark barken barker barkerne
genitive barks barkens barkers barkernes

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Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bark m (plural barken, diminutive barkje n)

  1. the bark of certain trees, used for its tannin

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle Dutch barke, from Old French barque.

Noun[edit]

bark f (plural barken, diminutive barkje n)

  1. barge, a large type of rowing or sailing boat
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Faroese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Danish bark, from Middle French barque, from Late Latin barca, from Vulgar Latin barica, from Ancient Greek βάρις (báris, “Egyptian boat”), from Coptic ⲃⲁⲁⲣⲉ (baare, “small boat”), from Egyptian bꜣjr (“transport ship, type of fish”),

bbAAy
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Noun[edit]

bark f (genitive singular barkar, plural barkir)

  1. (nautical) bark: A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

Declension[edit]

Declension of bark
f2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative bark barkin barkir barkirnar
accusative bark barkina barkir barkirnar
dative bark barkini barkum barkunum
genitive barkar barkarinnar barka barkanna

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Middle English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Old English bark, from Old Norse bǫrkr, from Proto-Germanic *barkuz.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bark (plural barkes)

  1. bark (a tree's covering, often used in leatherworking or as a pharmaceutical).
  2. The exterior layer of a nut or other fruit.
  3. (rare, Late Middle English, figurative) A shallow look at something.

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse bǫrkr.

Noun[edit]

bark m (definite singular barken, uncountable)

  1. bark (outer layer of trunks and branches of trees and bushes)
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Etymology 2[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

From Late Latin barca, via French barque.

Noun[edit]

bark m (definite singular barken, indefinite plural barker, definite plural barkene)

  1. (nautical) a barque or bark (type of sailing ship)

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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Late Latin barca, via French barque.

Noun[edit]

bark m (definite singular barken, indefinite plural barkar, definite plural barkane)

  1. (nautical) a barque or bark (type of sailing ship)

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Polish[edit]

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Wikipedia pl
Bark (1.2) bastionu
bark (2.1)

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Old Polish bark, from Proto-Slavic *bъrkъ.

Noun[edit]

bark m inan

  1. shoulder (the part of the body between the base of the neck and forearm socket)
    Synonym: ramię
  2. (architecture, historical) the side extension of a fort or fortification
  3. (in the plural) upper back (area including the shoulder blades from one shoulder to the other)
Declension[edit]
Declension of bark
singular plural
nominative bark barki
genitive barku barków
dative barkowi barkom
accusative bark barki
instrumental barkiem barkami
locative barku barkach
vocative barku barki
Derived terms[edit]
adjectives
adverbs
nouns
verbs

Etymology 2[edit]

Borrowed from English barque, from Latin barca. Doublet of barka.

Noun[edit]

bark m inan

  1. (nautical) barque (sailing vessel)
Declension[edit]
Declension of bark
singular plural
nominative bark barki
genitive barku barków
dative barkowi barkom
accusative bark barki
instrumental barkiem barkami
locative barku barkach
vocative barku barki
Derived terms[edit]
adjective

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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse bǫrkr, from Proto-Germanic *barkuz.

Noun[edit]

bark c (uncountable)

  1. bark (covering of the trunk of a tree)
  2. barque (type of ship)
    Synonym: barkskepp

Declension[edit]

Declension of bark 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative bark barken barkar barkarna
Genitive barks barkens barkars barkarnas

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Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *b(i)ark (“home”).

Noun[edit]

bark (definite accusative barkı, plural barklar)

  1. (idiomatic) home

Declension[edit]

Inflection
Nominative bark
Definite accusative barkı
Singular Plural
Nominative bark barklar
Definite accusative barkı barkları
Dative barka barklara
Locative barkta barklarda
Ablative barktan barklardan
Genitive barkın barkların
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular barkım barklarım
2nd singular barkın barkların
3rd singular barkı barkları
1st plural barkımız barklarımız
2nd plural barkınız barklarınız
3rd plural barkları barkları
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular barkımı barklarımı
2nd singular barkını barklarını
3rd singular barkını barklarını
1st plural barkımızı barklarımızı
2nd plural barkınızı barklarınızı
3rd plural barklarını barklarını
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular barkıma barklarıma
2nd singular barkına barklarına
3rd singular barkına barklarına
1st plural barkımıza barklarımıza
2nd plural barkınıza barklarınıza
3rd plural barklarına barklarına
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular barkımda barklarımda
2nd singular barkında barklarında
3rd singular barkında barklarında
1st plural barkımızda barklarımızda
2nd plural barkınızda barklarınızda
3rd plural barklarında barklarında
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular barkımdan barklarımdan
2nd singular barkından barklarından
3rd singular barkından barklarından
1st plural barkımızdan barklarımızdan
2nd plural barkınızdan barklarınızdan
3rd plural barklarından barklarından
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular barkımın barklarımın
2nd singular barkının barklarının
3rd singular barkının barklarının
1st plural barkımızın barklarımızın
2nd plural barkınızın barklarınızın
3rd plural barklarının barklarının

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