balken
Meaning
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- (intransitive) to bray, make a donkey's sound
- (figuratively, intransitive) to utter asinine talk
- (intransitive) to bawl, cry, weep loudly
- (intransitive) to belt, sing loudly
Concepts
Frequency
Hyphenated as
bal‧ken
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɑlkə(n)/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch balken, belken, also bulken, probably onomatopoeic. Similar formations are found in German bölken (from Middle Low German), West Frisian balkje, English belch.
New
balk
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- (masculine) a beam, solid support
- (masculine) a cuboid
- (masculine) a section, icon et cetera in such rectangular shape
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