bark

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

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

Intj

The sound of a dog barking.

Noun

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

yelp

husk

bay

hide

howl

shout

crust

roar

barking

yap

yell

leather

cortex

hull

bow-wow

barc

remove bark

tree bark

growl

bark of tree

scream

😱

call

pelt

cry

😢

cover

bawl

bark at

tan

fur

snarl

sheath

sing

bellow

holler

yip

covering

boom

💥

cornhusk

boo

come through

coat

🧥

boat

⛵

hemp

clothing

gums

Translations

écorce

aboyer

ladrar

corteccia

corteza

Rinde

bellen

Borke

latrare

abbaiare

schors

cortex

casca

blaffen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɑːk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: barken

Inherited from Old English: beorcan

Cognate with Icelandic: berkja

Cognate with Icelandic: barki

Cognate with Lithuanian: burgeti

Cognate with Serbo-Croatian: brbljati

Cognate with Old English: beorc

Cognate with Latin: frāxinus

Cognate with Lithuanian: béržas

Cognate with English: bright

Cognate with Danish: bark

Cognate with Icelandic: börkur

Cognate with Low German: borke

Cognate with Albanian: 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”)..