bloc

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• Received-Pronunciation: /blɒk/
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• General-American: /blɑk/
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• rhymes with -ɒk
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• homophone: block
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• CMU ARPABET: B L AA1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Diminutive of Bloc Québécois.

Borrowed from French bloc (“group, block”), ultimately of Old Dutch origin, from Frankish or Proto-West Germanic *blokk, from Proto-Germanic *blukką (“beam, log”). Doublet of block.

46 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• French: Bloc — Bloc Québécois
• Arabic: كُتْلَة (kutla) — group of voters or politicians
• Armenian: բլոկ (blok) — group of voters or politicians
• Armenian: դաշինք (dašinkʻ) — group of voters or politicians
• Armenian: խմբավորում (xmbavorum) — group of voters or politicians
• Bulgarian: групировка (grupirovka) — group of voters or politicians
• Chinese Mandarin: 集團 /集团 (jítuán) — group of voters or politicians
• Finnish: liittouma — group of voters or politicians
• Finnish: blokki — group of voters or politicians
• Finnish: ryhmittymä — group of voters or politicians
• German: Block — group of voters or politicians
• Italian: blocco — group of voters or politicians
• Kyrgyz: блок m бирикме (blok) — group of voters or politicians
• Norwegian: blokk — group of voters or politicians
• Polish: blok — group of voters or politicians
• Portuguese: bloco — group of voters or politicians
• Russian: блок (blok) — group of voters or politicians
• Russian: группиро́вка (gruppiróvka) — group of voters or politicians
• Serbo-Croatian: бло̏к — group of voters or politicians
• Serbo-Croatian: blȍk — group of voters or politicians
• Spanish: bloque — group of voters or politicians
• Swedish: block — group of voters or politicians
• Vietnamese: khối — group of voters or politicians
• Arabic: كُتْلَة (kutla) — group of countries
• Armenian: բլոկ (blok) — group of countries
• Bulgarian: блок (blok) — group of countries
• Chinese Mandarin: 聯合 /联合 (liánhé) — group of countries
• Finnish: liittouma — group of countries
• Finnish: blokki — group of countries
• French: bloc — group of countries
• German: Block — group of countries
• Greek: μπλοκ (blok) — group of countries
• Hebrew: גוש (gush) — group of countries
• Italian: blocco — group of countries
• Japanese: 連合 (rengō) — group of countries
• Korean: 연합 (yeonhap) — group of countries
• Norwegian: blokk — group of countries
• Persian: بلوک (blok) — group of countries
• Polish: blok — group of countries
• Portuguese: bloco — group of countries
• Russian: блок (blok) — group of countries
• Serbo-Croatian: бло̏к — group of countries
• Serbo-Croatian: blȍk — group of countries
• Spanish: bloque — group of countries
• Swedish: block — group of countries
• Vietnamese: khối — group of countries