trek

See also: Trek

English

Alternative forms

treck (archaic)

Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-West Germanic *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

Pronunciation

enPR: trĕk, IPA^(key): /tɹɛk/
Rhymes: -ɛk
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Noun

trek (plural treks)

(South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
(South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835-1837.
A slow or difficult journey.
We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.
- 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 327:
  Early the next morning I set off on the long and hazardous trek through jungles and hills into Assam, and regretfully said "good-bye" to the gallant little Burma Railways, which had functioned to the last and played a big part in evacuating many thousands of refugees and wounded soldiers in the path of the rapidly advancing Japanese.
A long walk.
Synonym: slog
I would drive to the shops from here; you can walk, but it's quite a trek.

Verb

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

(intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá
  Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.
(intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
(South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.

Related terms

trigger

Translations

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Chinese: 跋涉 (zh)
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: tarpoa (1), patikoida (fi) (2)
Korean: 트래킹 오래걷기 (teuraeking oraegeotgi)
Spanish: jornada (es) f

Anagrams

rekt

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /træk/

Etymology 1

From Dutch trekken.

Verb

trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)

to haul
to move (moving house)
to pull

Descendants

→ English: trek

Etymology 2

From Dutch trek.

Noun

trek (plural trekke)

journey

Derived terms

Groot Trek

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /trɛk/
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Hyphenation: trek
Rhymes: -ɛk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.

Noun

trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)

(uncountable) appetite
Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar
Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task
(countable) journey, migration
(uncountable) animal migration
(uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
(countable) feature, trait

Derived terms

eendentrek
haringtrek
trekgans
trekvis
trekvogel
trekwild
trekwind
vogeltrek
zalmtrek

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trek

first-person singular present indicative of trekken
imperative of trekken

Anagrams

rekt

French

Noun

trek m (plural treks)

treck
trecking

Ternate

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɾek]

Noun

trek

truck

References

Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30