Wt/sco/rook

See also: Wt/sco/röök

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹʊk/

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• Rhymes: -ʊk

Etymology 1

A rook (bird)

Frae Middle Inglis rok, roke, frae Old English hrōc, frae Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (compare Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), frae Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarie кро́кон (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kóraks, “falcon”), Old Armenian ագռաւ (agṙaw), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬝 (kahrkatat̰, “rooster”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “rooster”)), Ukrainian крук (kruk, “raven”).

Noun

rook (plural Wt/sco/rooks)

1. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, o the craw faimily.
   • Pennant

     The rook […] should be treatit as the fairmer's friend.

2. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wycherley to this entry?)

3. (Britain) a type o firecracker uised bi fairmers tae scare birds o the same name.

Synonyms

• (swindler): swindler, cheat

Hypernyms

• (bird): bird
• (firecracker): firecracker

Translations

bird

• Armenian: սերմնագռավ (sermnagṙav)
• Azeri: zağca
• Belarusian: грак m (hrak)
• Bulgarian: посевна врана f (posévna vrána), полска врана f (pólska vrána) (lit.: Polish crow)
• Catalan: graula f
• Chechen: къиг (q̇ig)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禿鼻烏鴉, 秃鼻乌鸦 (zh) (tūbíwūyā), 白嘴鴉, 白嘴鸦 (zh) (báizuǐyā)

• Czech: havran (cs) m
• Danish: råge c
• Dutch: roek (nl) m
• Esperanto: (♂♀) frugilego, (♂) virfrugilego, (♀) frugilegino, (♂♀ offspring) frugilegido, (♂) virfrugilegido, (♀) frugilegidino, (♂♀) kampokorvo, (♂) virkampokorvo, (♀) kampokorvino, (♂♀ offspring) kampokorvido, (♂ offspring) virkampokorvido, (♀) kampokorvidino
• Faroese: felliskráka f, hjaltakráka f
• Finnish: mustavaris (fi)
• French: corbeau freux (fr) m, freux (fr) m
• Georgian: ჭილყვავი (čilqvavi)
• German: Saatkrähe (de) f
• Greek: χαβαρόνι n (chavaróni), σταροκόρακας m (starokórakas)
• Hebrew: עורב מזרע‎ m ('orév mizrá')
• Hungarian: vetési varjú
• Icelandic: bláhrafn (is)

• Irish: rúcach m
• Italian: corvo comune m
• Japanese: ミヤマガラス (miyamagarasu), 深山烏 (みやまがらす, miyamagarasu), 深山鴉 (みやまがらす, miyamagarasu)
• Lithuanian: kovas (lt), kovarnis
• Macedonian: врана гагец f (vrána gágec), полска врана f (pólska vrána) (lit.: Polish crow)
• Manx: trogh m, troghan m, troghan doo m
• Northern Sami: bealdovuoraš
• Norwegian: kornkråke
• Persian: زاغ‎ (fa) (zâğ)
• Polish: gawron (pl) m
• Portuguese: gralha (pt)
• Romanian: cioară de semănătură f
• Russian: грач (ru) m (grač)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гакуша f

  Roman: gakuša f

• Slovak: havran m
• Slovene: grakuša f, poljska vrana f (lit.: Polish crow)
• Spanish: graja f
• Swedish: råka (sv)
• Ukrainian: грак m (hrak), гайворон m (hájvoron)
• Volapük: (♂♀) grenakrov (vo), (♂) grenahikrov, (♀) grenajikrov, (♂♀ offspring) grenakrovül (vo), (♂ offspring) grenahikrovül, (♀ offspring) grenajikrovül

swindler

• German: Schwindler m, Schwindlerin f, Betrüger m Betrügerin f, Gauner m Gaunerin f
• Greek: απατεώνας (el) m (apateónas), αγύρτης (el) m (agýrtis), χαρτοκλέφτης (el) m (chartokléftis)

• Russian: жулик (ru) (žulik), мошенник (ru) (mošennik), плут (ru) (plut), шулер (ru) (šuler), шельма (ru) m, f (šélʹma), аферист (ru) m (aferíst)

Verb

rook (third-person singular semple praisent Wt/sco/rooks, praisent pairteeciple Wt/sco/rooking, simple past and past participle Wt/sco/rooked)

1. (transitive) Tae cheat or swindle.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 311:

     Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.

Synonyms

• (cheat, swindle): cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindle

Translations

cheat, swindle

• Dutch: valsspelen (nl)
• French: rouler (fr)
• German: schwindeln, betrügen, übers Ohr hauen (idiomatic), lügen, hintergehen, falsch spielen (idiomatic), hinters Licht führen (idiomatic), ergaunern, abgaunern

• Italian: imbrogliare (it)
• Polish: oszukać (pl)
• Russian: обманывать (ru) (obmanyvatʹ), мошенничать (ru) (mošenničatʹ), (related to playing cards) нечестно играть (nečestno igratʹ), выманивать деньги (vymanivatʹ denʹgi), обдирать (ru) (obdiratʹ), (related to buyer, client) обсчитывать (obsčityvatʹ)

Etymology 2

A ruik (chess)

Frae Old French roc, ultimately frae Persie رخ (rox). Compare .

Noun

rook (plural Wt/sco/rooks)

1. (chess) A piece shaped lik a castle touer, that can be moved anly up, doun, left or richt (but nae diagonally) or in castlin.
2. (rare) A castle or ither fortification.
3. An Amish card gemme.

Synonyms

• (chesspiece): castle

Translations

chesspiece

• Translingual: ♜, ♜
• Afrikaans: toring
• Albanian: kala f
• Arabic: طابية‎ f (ṭābya)
• Armenian: նավակ (navak)
• Asturian: torre f
• Basque: gaztelu (eu)
• Breton: tour (br) m
• Bulgarian: топ (bg) (top)
• Catalan: torre (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 車 (zh), 车 (zh) (jū) , 城堡 (zh) (chéngbǎo)

• Czech: věž (cs) f
• Danish: tårn n
• Dutch: toren (nl) m
• Esperanto: turo (eo)
• Estonian: vanker
• Faroese: rókur m
• Finnish: torni (fi)
• French: tour (fr) f
• Galician: torre (gl) f
• Georgian: ეტლი (etli), როქი (rok’i)
• German: Turm (de) m
• Greek: πύργος (el) m (pýrgos)
• Gujarati: please add this translation if ye can[[Category:Wt/sco/Translation requests (Template:Langname)]]
• Hebrew: צַרִיחַ‎ (he) m (tzariakh)
• Hindi: हाथी (hi) m (hāthī)
• Hungarian: bástya (hu)
• Icelandic: hrókur
• Indonesian: benteng (id)
• Irish: caiseal m
• Italian: rocco (it) m, torre (it) f
• Japanese: ルーク (rūku)

• Khmer: ,
• Korean: 룩 (ruk)
• Latin: turris (la)
• Latvian: tornis m
• Lithuanian: bokštas m
• Macedonian: топ m (top)
• Malay: benteng, tir
• Maltese: kastell m
• Manx: cashtal m
• Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭠𐭲𐭢𐭣𐭠𐭫‎ (mādayār)
• Norwegian: tårn

  Nynorsk: sjakkbrikka tårn

• Occitan: castel (oc)
• Persian: رخ‎ (fa) (rox)
• Polish: wieża (pl) f
• Portuguese: torre (pt) f
• Romanian: turn (ro) n
• Romansch: tur m
• Russian: ладья (ru) f (lad'já), тура (ru) f (turá) (informal)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: топ m, кула f

  Roman: top m, kula f

• Slovak: veža f
• Slovene: trdnjava (sl) f
• Spanish: torre (es) f
• Swedish: torn (sv) n
• Telugu: ఏనుగు (te) (ēnugu)
• Turkish: kale (tr)
• Ukrainian: тура (tura)
• Urdu: ہاتھی‎ m (hāthī)
• Volapük: cögatüm
• Welsh: castell (cy)
• West Frisian: stins

fortification

• Armenian: ամրոց (amrocʿ)
• Dutch: vesting (nl) f, burcht f
• Finnish: linnoitus (fi)
• German: Festung (de) f, Burg (de) f
• Hungarian: bástya (hu)
• Italian: rocca (it)
• Japanese: 城塞 (じょうさい, jōsai)

• Russian: крепость (ru) f (krépost')
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: тврђава f, кула f

  Roman: tvrđava f, kula f

• Spanish: baluarte m, bastión (es) m
• Turkish: kale (tr)

card gemme

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Translations tae be checked

• LaitinTemplate:Categorize: Corvus frugilegus

• LithuanianTemplate:Categorize: (3) kovas m
• Low GermanTemplate:Categorize: Saatkreih f
• PersieTemplate:Categorize: رخ (rukh) (1, 2)
• RomanianTemplate:Categorize: citadelă f (1), tură f (2)

See also

• squab

Etymology 3

Frae rookie.

Noun

rook (plural Wt/sco/rooks)

1. (baseball, slang) A rookie.

Etymology 4

Noun

rook (uncoontable)

1. mist; fog; roke

Etymology 5

Verb

rook (third-person singular semple praisent Wt/sco/rooks, praisent pairteeciple Wt/sco/rooking, simple past and past participle Wt/sco/rooked)

1. (obsolete) Tae squat; tae ruck.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Anagrams

• koro

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /roːk/
• Rhymes: -oːk

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Etymology 1

Frae Middle Dutch rooc, frae Old Dutch *rōk, rouc, frae Proto-Germanic *raukiz.

Noun

rook m (uncountable)

1. smeuk

Derived terms

• roken
• rookontwikkeling
• rooksignaal
• rookwolk

Etymology 2

Non-lemma forms.

Verb

rook

1. first-person seengular present indicative o roken
2. imperative o roken

Verb

rook

1. seengular past indicative o ruiken
2. seengular past indicative o rieken

Anagrams

• koor