melk
Meaning
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- (feminine, uncountable) milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)
- (feminine, uncountable) milk (nutritious liquid derived from vegetable sources, sometimes as a deliberate substitute of mammalian milk)
- (feminine, uncountable) various 'milky' juices (that resembles or looks like milk), as secreted by certain plants and insects
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/mɛlk/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch melc, from Old Dutch miluk, from Proto-West Germanic *meluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.
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melken
- (transitive) to milk a (farm) animal
- (intransitive) to play meekly, without risk, notably in duel ball sports like tennis
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