teak

teak

See also: teák

English

Teak wood

Alternative forms

• teek (obsolete)

Etymology

From Portuguese teca, from Malayalam തേക്ക് (tēkkŭ) or Tamil தேக்கு (tēkku).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːk/

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• Rhymes: -iːk

Noun

teak (usually uncountable, plural teaks)

1. (uncountable, countable) An extremely durable timber highly valued for shipbuilding and other purposes, yielded by Tectona grandis (and Tectona spp.).
2. (countable) A tree of the species in the genus Tectona
3. (uncountable) A yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.

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Derived terms

• teak oil
• teaky
• tough as teak

Translations

timber

Acehnese: jatoë Arabic: سَاج‎ m (sāj) Bulgarian: тик m (tik) Catalan: tec m, teca f Faroese: tekk n Finnish: tiikki (fi) French: teck (fr) m Galician: teca (gl) f Hindi: सागौन (hi) m (sāgaun) Hungarian: tíkfa Norman: tique m Portuguese: teca f Romanian: tec (ro) m Russian: тик (ru) m (tik) Spanish: teca (es) f Spanish: teca (es) f Swedish: teak (sv) c Tagalog: teka Telugu: టేకు కలప (te) (ṭēku kalapa)

tree

Acehnese: jatoë Arabic: سَاج‎ m (sāj) Armenian: տեքի (hy) (tekʿi), կաղնի հնդկական (kałni hndkakan), սաճի (sači), հնդկակաղնի (hndkakałni) Basque: teka Bengali: সেগুন (segun) Bulgarian: тик m (tik), тиково дърво n (tikovo dǎrvo) Burmese: ကယ့န္းသစ္, ကျွန်းသစ် (kywan:sac) Catalan: tec m, teca f Chinese: Mandarin: 柚木 (zh) (yóumù) Czech: teka obrovská f, teak (cs) m, týk (cs) m Danish: teaktræ n Dutch: teakboom m Esperanto: granda tektono Estonian: tiikpuu Faroese: tekk n, tekktræ n Finnish: tiikki (fi) French: teck (fr) m Galician: teca (gl) f Georgian: ტექტონა (ṭekṭona) German: Teakbaum (de) m, Teak (de) n Gujarati: સાગ (sāg) Hebrew: טִיק‎ m (tik) Hindi: सागौन (hi) m (sāgaun) Hungarian: tíkfa Icelandic: tekk n Ido: teko (io) Indonesian: jati (id) Irish: téac f Italian: teak (it) m, teck m Japanese: チーク (chīku) Javanese: jati Kannada: ಸಾಗುವಾನಿ (sāguvāni) Kazakh: тик (tik) Korean: 티크 (tikeu) Latvian: tīkkoks m, tīks m Lithuanian: tikmedis m Malay: pokok jati Malayalam: തേക്കു് (tēkkŭŭ), തേക്ക് (ml) (tēkkŭ) Marathi: साग (sāg), सागवान (sāgvān) Norman: tique m Norwegian: Bokmål: teak m Nynorsk: teak m Occitan: tèc m Persian: ساج‎ (fa) (sâj) Polish: teczyna wyniosła f Portuguese: teca f Punjabi: ਟੀਕ (pa) (ṭīk) Romanian: tec (ro) m Russian: тик (ru) m (tik), ти́ковое де́рево n (tíkovoje dérevo) Scottish Gaelic: tìoc m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ти̏к m Roman: tȉk (sh) m Slovak: tík m Slovene: tik (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: teakowy bom m Upper Sorbian: hoberski teakowc Spanish: teca (es) f Sundanese: jati (su) Swedish: teak (sv) c Tagalog: teka Tamil: தேக்கு (ta) (tēkku) Telugu: టేకు (te) (ṭēku) Thai: สัก (th) (sàk) Tulu: ತೆಕ್ಕಿದ (tekkida) Turkish: tik ağacı (tr) Ukrainian: тик m (tyk), дерево тика n (derevo tyka), тикове дерево n (tykove derevo) Uzbek: Cyrillic: тик (uz) (tik) Roman: tik (uz) Vietnamese: tếch (vi), giá tỵ Welsh: tîc m Western Panjabi: ٹیک‎

colour

Japanese: チーク色 (chīkuiro)

Adjective

teak (not comparable)

1. Of a yellowish brown colour, like that of teak wood.

Translations

colour

Japanese: チーク色の (chīkuiro no)

See also

• afrormosia
• iroko
• Appendix:Colors

Anagrams

• Kate, kate, keta, take

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Basque

Noun

teak

1. absolutive plural of te
2. ergative singular of te

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

teak n (plural teaks)

1. teak

Derived terms

• teakhout

Anagrams

• akte

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Finnish

Etymology

From English teak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːk/, [ˈt̪iːk]

Noun

teak

1. teak (timber or tree)

Declension

Inflection of teak (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		teak	teakit
genitive		teakin	teakien
partitive		teakia	teakeja
illative		teakiin	teakeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		teak	teakit
accusative	nom.	teak	teakit
	gen.	teakin
genitive		teakin	teakien
partitive		teakia	teakeja
inessive		teakissa	teakeissa
elative		teakista	teakeista
illative		teakiin	teakeihin
adessive		teakilla	teakeilla
ablative		teakilta	teakeilta
allative		teakille	teakeille
essive		teakina	teakeina
translative		teakiksi	teakeiksi
instructive		—	teakein
abessive		teakitta	teakeitta
comitative		—	teakeineen

Possessive forms of teak (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	teakini	teakimme
2nd person	teakisi	teakinne
3rd person	teakinsa

Synonyms

• tiikki (recommendable)

Anagrams

• ekat, kate, keat