ark
English
/ɑːk/, /ɑɹk/
noun
Definitions
- A large box with a flat lid.
- (Judaism) Noah's Ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
- Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge
- A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
- (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
- (Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.
Etymology
Derived from Old English ærc derived from Latin arca (chest, box, coffer, coffin, a chest, ark) root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (guard, protect, hold, shut in).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂erk-
Gloss
guard, protect, hold, shut in
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
💂 💂♀️ 💂♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ark load English
- arkful English
- arkload English
- arkwright English
- coerce English
- coercion English
- load English
- wright English
- Orcus Latin
- arca Latin
- arcanus Latin
- arcarius Latin
- arcella Latin
- arcera Latin
- arcula Latin
- arcus Latin
- arcānus Latin
- arx Latin
- coerceo Latin
- exerceo Latin
- exercitium Latin
- exercitāre Latin
- exercitātiōnem Latin
- porceo Latin
- arca Italian
- ἀρκέω Ancient Greek
- *h₂erk- Proto-Indo-European
- *arkō Proto-Germanic
- ærc Old English
- ǫrk Old Norse
- arche Old French
- arquire Old French
- ارگ Persian
- arch Welsh
- áirc, árc Old Irish
- arkë Albanian
- 𐌰𐍂𐌺𐌰 Gothic
- ark Old Swedish
- *arkeō Proto-Italic
- *pe-arkō, *pearkō Proto-Italic
- arca Old Spanish
- *ᚨᚱᚲᚢ Proto-Norse
- aa'k Gullah