oak

oak

See also: OAK, ÖAK, ÖÄK, and o'ak

English

white oak (Quercus alba) leaves and acorns (1)

Etymology

From Middle English ook, oke, aik, ake, from Old English āc (also as Old English ǣċ), from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).

Cognates

From Proto-Germanic: Scots aik, West Frisian iik, Dutch eik, German Eiche, Danish eg, Norwegian eik, Swedish ek, Yiddish אייכנבוים‎ (eykhnboym).

From Proto-Indo-European: Latin aesculus (“Durmast oak”), Lithuanian ąžuolas (“oak”), Albanian enjë (“juniper, yew”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”)).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /oʊk/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əʊk/
• enPR: ōk
• Rhymes: -əʊk

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• (obsolete) enPR: wōk, IPA^(key): /woʊk/

Noun

oak (countable and uncountable, plural oaks)

1. (countable) A deciduous tree with distinctive deeply lobed leaves, acorns, and notably strong wood, typically of England and northeastern North America, included in genus Quercus.
   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], OCLC 752825175:

     It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.

   • 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 8, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, OCLC 6868219:

     Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks, and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.

2. (uncountable) The wood of the oak.
3. A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.

   oak:  

4. Any tree of the genus Quercus, in family Fagaceae.
5. Any tree of other genera and species of trees resembling typical oaks of genus Quercus in some ways.
   1. The she-oaks in Allocasuarina and Casuarina, of family Casuarinaceae
   2. Lagunaria, white oak, in family Malvaceae
   3. Various species called silky oak, in family Proteaceae
   4. Toxicodendron, poison oak, in family Anacardiaceae
   5. Various tanbark oak or stone oak species in family Fagaceae, genera Lithocarpus and Notholithocarpus.
6. The outer (lockable) door of a set of rooms in a college or similar institution. (Often in the phrase "to sport one's oak").
   • 1930, Frank Richards, The Magnet, Prout's Lovely Black Eye

     It was hardly the thing for a master to sport his oak where another member of the staff was concerned.

   • The New Sporting Magazine (volume 15, page 23)

     The vesper bell had rung its parting note; the domini were mostly caged in comfortable quarters, discussing the merits of old port; and the merry student had closed his oak, to consecrate the night to friendship, sack, and claret.

7. (wine) The flavor of oak.

Alternative forms

• (oak tree): woak, yack (England, dialectal, possibly obsolete)

Hypernyms

• (oak tree): tree

Meronyms

• (oak tree): acorn

Derived terms

Terms derived from oak (noun)

• Burnt Oak
• bur oak, burr oak, Burr Oak
• Four Oaks
• Gospel Oak
• holly oak
• Holly Oak
• Honor Oak
• oak-apple
• Oak Creek
• Oak Grove
• oakleaf, oak leaf
• Oak Park
• Oak Ridge, Oakridge
• oak wilt
• oak wreath
• oil-on-oak
• Old Oak Common
• red oak
• Red Oak (place name)
• Round Oak
• Royal Oak
• Selly Oak
• Shire Oak
• Three Oaks

Translations

tree or shrub of the genus Quercus

Abkhaz: аџь (adž) Adyghe: чъыгай (ĉəɣaaj) Alemannic German: aaich Albanian: dushk (sq) m Arabic: بَلُّوط‎ m (ballūṭ), سِنْدِيَان‎ m (sindiyān) Moroccan Arabic: بلوط‎ (ballūṭ) Armenian: կաղնի (hy) (kałni) Asturian: carbayu (ast) m, roble (ast) m Avar: микк (mikk) Azerbaijani: palıd (az) Bashkir: имән (imän) Basque: haritz (eu) Belarusian: дуб m (dub) Breton: dero (colloquial), dervenn (br) sg Bulgarian: дъб (bg) m (dǎb) Burmese: ဝက်သစ်ချ (my) (waksachkya.) Catalan: roure (ca) m Chechen: наж (naž) Cherokee: ᎠᏓᏯᎯ (adayahi), ᏧᏍᎦ (tsusga) Cheyenne: oó'omêše Chinese: Mandarin: 橡樹／橡树 (zh) (xiàngshù) Chukchi: кытоттоот (kytottoot), кытоттыт pl (kytottyt) Chuvash: юман (juman) Cimbrian: àicha f Classical Nahuatl: āhuatl, āhuacuahuitl Cree: ᒥᐢᑎᑯᒥᓈᐦᑎᐠ (mistikominaahtik) Crimean Tatar: emen, meşe Czech: dub (cs) m Dalmatian: bos m Danish: eg (da) c, egetræ n Dutch: eik (nl) m, eikenboom (nl) m East Central German: Aach f Erzya: тумо (tumo) Esperanto: kverko (eo) Estonian: tamm (et), tammepuu Faroese: eikitræ n, eik f Finnish: tammi (fi) Franco-Provençal: châno m French: chêne (fr) m Old French: chesne m Galician: carballo (gl) m Georgian: მუხა (muxa) German: Eiche (de) f Old High German: eih Greek: δρυς (el) f (drys), βελανιδιά (el) f (velanidiá) Ancient: δρῦς f (drûs), φηγός f (phēgós) Doric: φαγός f (phagós) Greenlandic: orpik manngertoq Hebrew: אלון‎ (he) m (alon) Hindi: बलूत (hi) m (balūt) Hungarian: tölgy (hu), tölgyfa (hu) Icelandic: eik (is) f, eikitré n, eiki n Ido: querko (io) Indonesian: ek Irish: dair f Old Irish: dair f Italian: quercia (it) f, (Quercus robur) farnia f Japanese: 楢 (ja) (ナラ, nara), 柞 (ja) (ナラ, nara), 枹 (ja) (ナラ, nara), オーク (ōku), 柏 (ja) (カシワ, kashiwa), 槲 (ja) (カシワ, kashiwa), 檞 (カシワ, kashiwa) Karachay-Balkar: эмен (emen) Kazakh: емен (kk) (emen) Korean: 참나무속 (chamnamusok) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: بەڕوو‎ (ku) (berrû) Latgalian: ūzuls Latin: quercus (la) f, rōbur (la) n Latvian: ozols m Laz: ჭყონი (ç̌qoni) Lithuanian: ąžuolas (lt) m Livonian: täm Low German: German Low German: Eek (nds) Luxembourgish: Eech f Macedonian: даб m (dab) Malay: oak Maltese: ballut m Manchu: ᠠᠪᡩᠠᡵᡳ (abdari) Manx: darragh m, ree ny keylley m Maori: ōki Mari: Eastern Mari: тумо (tumo) Western Mari: тумна (tumna) Middle French: chesne m Mingrelian: ჭყონი (č̣q̇oni), ჭყონი (č̣q̇oni) Moksha: тума (tuma) Mongolian: царс (mn) (cars) Nahuatl: teōcuahuitl, ahuatl (nah), ahuacuahuitl (nah) Nivkh: кʼмый (kʼməj) Norman: tchêne m North Frisian: (Mooring) iik f Norwegian: Bokmål: eik (no) m or f, eiketre n Nynorsk: eik f, eiketre n Occitan: garric (oc) m, casse (oc) m, roire (oc) m Ojibwe: mitigomizh Old Church Slavonic: дѫбъ m (dǫbŭ) Old English: āc f Old High German: eih Old Norse: eik f, eikitré n Oroqen: tɪbgʊra Ossetian: Digor: толдзӕ (tolʒæ) Iron: тулдз (tulʒ) Persian: بلوط‎ (fa) (balut, bolut) Punjabi: ਬਲੂਤ (pa) m (balūt) Plautdietsch: Ieekj f Polabian: dǫb m Polish: dąb (pl) m Portuguese: carvalho (pt) m Romanian: stejar (ro) m Russian: дуб (ru) m (dub) Samogitian: ōžouls m Scottish Gaelic: darach m, darag f, rìgh-na-coille m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: храст m Roman: hrast (sh) m Slovak: dub (sk) m Slovene: hrast (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: dub m Southern Ohlone: rappak Spanish: roble (es) m, encina (es), carrasca (es) Svan: ჯიჰრა (ǯihra) Swahili: mwaloni class 3 Swedish: ek (sv) c, ekträd n Tagalog: roble Tajik: булут (bulut) Taos: kwę́łoną Tatar: имән (tt) (imän) Thai: โอ๊ก (óok) Turkish: meşe (tr) Udmurt: тыпы (typy) Ukrainian: дуб m (dub) Uzbek: eman (uz) Vietnamese: sồi (vi) Vilamovian: aach f Volapük: kvärabim (vo), kvärep (vo), gölog (older word, now obsolete) Welsh: derwen West Frisian: iik c Westrobothnian: eik f Yiddish: אייכנבוים‎ m (eykhnboym), דעמב‎ m (demb) Yámana: xanis

wood

Arabic: سِنْدِيَان‎ m (sindiyān), بَلُّوط‎ m (ballūṭ) Egyptian Arabic: أرو‎ m (ʾarru) Armenian: կաղնի (hy) (kałni) Bashkir: имән (imän) Basque: harizki (eu), haritz (eu) Burmese: ဝက်သစ်ချ (my) (waksachkya.) Catalan: roure (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 橡木 (zh) (xiàngmù) Czech: dub (cs) m Dalmatian: please add this translation if you can Danish: eg (da) c, egetræ n Dutch: eik (nl) m, eikenhout (nl) n Esperanto: kverka Estonian: tamm (et), tammepuit Faroese: eik f Finnish: tammi (fi) French: chêne (fr) m Galician: carballo (gl) m Georgian: მუხა (muxa) German: Eiche (de) f, Eichenholz (de) n Hebrew: אלון‎ (he) m (alon) Hungarian: tölgy (hu) Icelandic: eik (is) f Italian: rovere (it) m or f, legno di quercia m Japanese: オーク (ōku) Kazakh: емен (kk) (emen) Latgalian: ūzuls m Latin: rōbur (la) Latvian: ozols m Lithuanian: ąžuolas (lt) m Maltese: ballut m Navajo: chéchʼil Norwegian: eik (no) f Old English: āc f Old High German: eih Polish: dąb (pl) m, dębina (pl) f Portuguese: carvalho (pt) m Romanian: stejar (ro) m Russian: дуб (ru) m (dub) Scottish Gaelic: darach m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: храстовина f, храст m Roman: hrastovina (sh) f, hrast (sh) m Slovak: dub (sk) m Slovene: hrast (sl) m, hrastovina f Spanish: roble (es) m Swedish: ek (sv) c, ekträ (sv) n, ekvirke n, eke (sv) n Vilamovian: aach Welsh: (coed) derw

colour

Old High German: eih Swedish: ek (sv) c

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Italian: (please verify) quercia (it) f (English oak) (please verify) farnia f, (please verify) rovere (it) m or f

Adjective

oak (not comparable)

1. having a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
2. made of oak wood or timber

   an oak table, oak beam, etc

Synonyms

• (made of oak): oaken

Translations

made of oak wood

Danish: ege- Dutch: eiken (nl) French: chêne (fr) m, chênes (fr) m pl German: Eichen- Greek: δρύινος (el) (drýinos) Ancient Greek: δρύϊνος (drúïnos) Old English: ǣċen Polish: dębowy (pl) Russian: дубо́вый (ru) (dubóvyj) Swedish: ekträ (sv), ek (sv)

Verb

oak (third-person singular simple present oaks, present participle oaking, simple past and past participle oaked)

1. (wine, transitive) To expose to oak in order for the oak to impart its flavors.

Derived terms

terms derived from oak (tree species)

• acute oak decline
• bear oak (Quercus ilicifolia)
• blackjack oak (Quercus marilandica)
• chestnut oak (Quercus montana)
• Chapman oak (Quercus chapmanii)
• chinquapin oak (Quercus muehlenbergii)
• cork oak (Quercus suber)
• durmast oak (Quercus petraea)
• Emory oak (Quercus emoryi)
• fumed oak
• Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii)
• holly oak (Quercus ilex)
• holm oak (Quercus ilex)
• Jerusalem oak
• kermes oak (Quercus coccifera)
• leather oak (Quercus durata)
• live oak
• myrtle oak (Quercus myrtifolia)
• oak apple
• oak fern
• Oak Forest
• oak gall
• oak leaf cluster
• Oak Park
• oak pruner
• oak wilt (Ceratocystis fagacearum)
• oaken
• Oakland
• Oakley
• oakmoss (Evernia prunastri)
• oak processionary moth (Thaumetopoea processionea)
• Oakville
• pin oak (Quercus palustris)
• poison oak (Toxicodendron spp.)
• red oak (Quercus rubra)
• Royal Oak
• Sandhill oak (Quercus inopina)
• Santa Cruz Island oak (Quercus parvula)
• scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea)
• sessile oak (Quercus petraea)
• silky oak
• scrub oak
• tan oak (Notholithocarpus)
• Tucker oak (Quercus john-tuckeri)
• turkey oak (Quercus laevis)
• Turkey oak (Quercus cerris)
• valley oak (Quercus lobata)
• water oak (Quercus nigra)
• white oak (Quercus alba)
• willow oak (Quercus phellos)

See also

• acorn
• cork
• ellagic acid
• encina
• nutgall
• quercetin
• quercitron
• roble
• shillelagh
• tanbark
• valonia
• wainscot
• Appendix:Colors

Further reading

• oak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• oak at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• A-OK, AOK, Kao, Oka, koa, oka