bark

Significat (English)

Verb

1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
3. To speak sharply.

Noun

1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
2. An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
3. The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.

Noun

1. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree.
2. Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
3. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
4. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
5. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
2. A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
3. A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.

Noun

An Irish person.

Synonyms

skin

peel

rind

shell

🐚

barque

husk

yelp

bay

howl

hide

shout

crust

barking

roar

yap

yell

leather

bow-wow

cortex

barc

hull

pelt

bark of tree

growl

remove bark

scream

😱

call

cry

😢

tree bark

snarl

bawl

bellow

cover

fur

holler

sheath

sing

tan

yip

bark at

fiber

flame

flax

outer case

gnarl

grizzle

covering

guilty

gums

hemp

cornhusk

paperbark

come through

coat

🧥

clothing

incrustation

integument

investment

invite

jacket

jaw

jute

clapperclaw

liberal

make noise

mantle

munch

overlay

pan

paring

peal

clams

peeling

choir

pod

pot

purr

ramie

casing

case

roast

bush

human skin

bowwow

ship

🚢

boom

💥

shriek

crust tyre

skim

boo

argue

someone

something

surface

hude flower

tanbark

test

thunder

🌩️

to

trash

trumpet

🎺

valve

vast

very

vessel

waste wood

whittle

wrapper

boat

⛵

blast

blanket

yelping

of a deer

bang away

bema

at

belabour

diss

holler out

make a noise

make sound

outer layer

pallium

pry out

raise one’s voice

shave off

take to task

barge

trim off

testa

untanned pelt

give mouth

episperm

rhytidome

logging residues

logging wastes

wood trimmings

yaff

crow

craft

curry

🍛

denigrate

encrustation

envelope

✉️

epidermis

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɑːk/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: barken

Inherited from anglès antic: beorcan

Cognate with islandès: berkja

Cognate with islandès: barki

Cognate with lituà: burgeti

Cognate with serbocroat: brbljati

Cognate with anglès antic: beorc

Cognate with llatí: frāxinus

Cognate with lituà: béržas

Cognate with anglès: bright

Cognate with danès: bark

Cognate with islandès: börkur

Cognate with baix alemany: borke

Cognate with albanès: berk

In summary

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”).

recorded barks (noun sense 1) of a dog

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