ark

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• UK: /ɑːk/
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• Canada, US: /ɑɹk/
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• rhymes with -ɑː(ɹ)k
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• homophone: arc
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• CMU ARPABET: AA1 R K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English arke, from Old English earc, ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“to enclose”).

89 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: сандъ́к (sandǎ́k) — large box
• Galician: arca — large box
• Galician: arcaz — large box
• Hebrew: אָרוֹן — large box
• Indonesian: tabut — large box
• Indonesian: peti — large box
• Norwegian: ark — large box
• Portuguese: arca — large box
• Russian: сунду́к (sundúk) — large box
• Swedish: ark — large box
• Yiddish: אָרון (orn) — large box
• Arabic: سَفِينَة (safīna) — Noah's ship
• Arabic: فُلْك (fulk) — Noah's ship
• Armenian: տապան (tapan) — Noah's ship
• Basque: Noeren ontzia — Noah's ship
• Belarusian: каўчэ́г (kawčéh) — Noah's ship
• Bulgarian: ковче́г (kovčég) — Noah's ship
• Bulgarian: ба́рка (bárka) — Noah's ship
• Catalan: arca — Noah's ship
• Chinese Mandarin: 方舟 (fāngzhōu) — Noah's ship
• Ngazidja Comorian: safina — Noah's ship
• Czech: archa — Noah's ship
• Esperanto: arkeo — Noah's ship
• Estonian: Ark — Noah's ship
• Faroese: ørk — Noah's ship
• Finnish: arkki — Noah's ship
• French: arche — Noah's ship
• Georgian: კიდობანი (ḳidobani) — Noah's ship
• German: Arche — Noah's ship
• Greek: κιβωτός (kivotós) — Noah's ship
• Hebrew: תֵּיבָה (tevá) — Noah's ship
• Hindi: कश्ती (kaśtī) — Noah's ship
• Hungarian: bárka — Noah's ship
• Icelandic: örk — Noah's ship
• Ido: archo — Noah's ship
• Indonesian: bahtera — Noah's ship
• Irish: áirc — Noah's ship
• Italian: arca — Noah's ship
• Japanese: 箱舟 (hakobune) — Noah's ship
• Korean: 방주 (bangju) — Noah's ship
• Latin: arca — Noah's ship
• Latvian: arka — Noah's ship
• Latvian: šķirsts — Noah's ship
• Lithuanian: arka — Noah's ship
• Macedonian: арка (arka) — Noah's ship
• Macedonian: ковчег (kovčeg) — Noah's ship
• Malay: bahtera — Noah's ship
• Maltese: arka — Noah's ship
• Māori: āka — Noah's ship
• Norwegian: ark — Noah's ship
• Old Church Slavonic: ковьчєгъ (kovĭčegŭ) — Noah's ship
• Persian: کشتی (kašti) — Noah's ship
• Polish: arka — Noah's ship
• Portuguese: arca — Noah's ship
• Romanian: arca — Noah's ship
• Russian: ковче́г (kovčég) — Noah's ship
• Serbo-Croatian: ковчег — Noah's ship
• Serbo-Croatian: kovčeg — Noah's ship
• Slovak: archa — Noah's ship
• Slovene: barka — Noah's ship
• Spanish: arca — Noah's ship
• Swahili: safina — Noah's ship
• Swedish: ark — Noah's ship
• Turkish: Nuh'un gemisi — Noah's ship
• Ukrainian: ковче́г (kovčéh) — Noah's ship
• Vietnamese: tàu — Noah's ship
• Volapük: lenaf — Noah's ship
• Walloon: åtche — Noah's ship
• Yiddish: תּבֿה (teyve) — Noah's ship
• Bulgarian: киво́т (kivót) — consecrated container
• Faroese: ørk — consecrated container
• French: arche — consecrated container
• Greek: κιβωτός (kivotós) — consecrated container
• Ido: archo — consecrated container
• Indonesian: tabut — consecrated container
• Irish: áirc — consecrated container
• Māori: āka — consecrated container
• Norwegian: ark — consecrated container
• Old Church Slavonic: кивотъ (kivotŭ) — consecrated container
• Polish: arka — consecrated container
• Portuguese: arca — consecrated container
• Russian: кио́т (kiót) — consecrated container
• Russian: киво́т (kivót) — consecrated container
• Russian: ковче́г (kovčég) — consecrated container
• Russian: божни́ца (božníca) — consecrated container
• Spanish: arca — consecrated container
• Swedish: ark — consecrated container
• Yiddish: אָרון (orn) — consecrated container
• Yiddish: אָרון־קודש (orn-koydesh) — consecrated container