cloak

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• Received-Pronunciation: /kləʊk/
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• Canada, General-American: /kloʊk/
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• Australian: /kləʉk/
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• New-Zealand: /klɐʉk/
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• rhymes with -əʊk
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• CMU ARPABET: K L OW1 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English cloke, from Old Northern French cloque (“travelling cloak”), from Medieval Latin clocca (“travelers' cape, literally “a bell”, so called from the garment’s bell-like shape”), of Celtic origin, from Proto-Celtic *klokkos, ultimately imitative. Doublet of cloche and clock.

117 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: مِعْطَف فَضْفَاض (miʕṭaf faḍfāḍ) — cape
• Armenian: թիկնոց (tʻiknocʻ) — cape
• Belarusian: плашч (plašč) — cape
• Belarusian: плаш (Polatsk) — cape
• Bulgarian: плащ (plašt) — cape
• Bulgarian: наметало (nametalo) — cape
• Bulgarian: аба́ (abá) — cape
• Catalan: capa — cape
• Chinese Mandarin: 斗篷 (dǒupeng) — cape
• Czech: plášť — cape
• Dutch: mantel — cape
• Dutch: cape — cape
• Esperanto: mantelo — cape
• Finnish: viitta — cape
• French: pelisse — cape
• French: pèlerine — cape
• Galician: zurame — cape
• Galician: cerame — cape
• Galician: capeirón — cape
• Galician: gurullo — cape
• German: Umhang — cape
• German: Pelerine — cape
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌺𐌿𐌻𐍃 (hakuls) — cape
• Gothic: 𐍀𐌰𐌹𐌳𐌰 (paida) — cape
• Greek: κάπα (kápa) — cape
• Ancient Greek: χλαῖνα (khlaîna) — cape
• Ancient Greek: φᾶρος (phâros) — cape
• Hebrew: גְּלִימָה (glimá) — cape
• Hindi: चोग़ा (coġā) — cape
• Hungarian: köpeny — cape
• Hungarian: köpönyeg — cape
• Icelandic: skikkja — cape
• Icelandic: möntull — cape
• Irish: brat — cape
• Irish: clóca — cape
• Italian: tabarro — cape
• Japanese: マント (manto) — cape
• Japanese: クローク (kurōku) — cape
• Kazakh: желбегей (jelbegei) — cape
• Korean: 망토 (mangto) — cape
• Latin: pallium — cape
• Latin: lacerna — cape
• Latin: mantellum — cape
• Macedonian: наметка (nametka) — cape
• Macedonian: плашт (plašt) — cape
• Māori: tūpuni — cape
• Middle English: cope — cape
• Middle English: mantel — cape
• Middle English: cloke — cape
• Norman: cliôque — cape
• Norman: manté — cape
• Norwegian: kappe — cape
• Old English: hacele — cape
• Old English: mentel — cape
• Persian: قبا (qabâ) — cape
• Persian: یلمه (yalme) — cape
• Persian: فرچی (farači) — cape
• Polish: peleryna — cape
• Portuguese: capa — cape
• Portuguese: manto — cape
• Quechua: yaqulla — cape
• Romanian: mantie — cape
• Romanian: manta — cape
• Russian: плащ (plašč) — cape
• Russian: ма́нтия (mántija) — cape
• Russian: наки́дка (nakídka) — cape
• Sanskrit: अत्क (atka) — cape
• Scottish Gaelic: cleòc — cape
• Serbo-Croatian: plašt — cape
• Serbo-Croatian: pelerina — cape
• Serbo-Croatian: kep — cape
• Serbo-Croatian: ogrtač — cape
• Slovene: plašč — cape
• Slovene: ogrinjalo — cape
• Spanish: pendil — cape
• Spanish: palio — cape
• Spanish: percal — cape
• Swedish: slängkappa — cape
• Swedish: mantel — cape
• Tarifit: aserham — cape
• Tocharian B: kampāl — cape
• Walloon: caban — cape
• Walloon: pelurene — cape
• Welsh: clogyn — cape
• Welsh: capan — cape
• Welsh: capanau — cape
• Bulgarian: покривало (pokrivalo) — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Catalan: mantell — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Czech: plášť — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Dutch: dekmantel — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Finnish: viitta — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Finnish: kaapu — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• German: Deckmantel — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Greek: μανδύας (mandýas) — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Hebrew: אִצְטְלָה (itztəlá) — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Persian: فرغل (farġol) — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Portuguese: véu — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Russian: покро́в (pokróv) — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Spanish: embozo — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Spanish: velo — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Swedish: mantel — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Swedish: täckmantel — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Tamil: போர்வை (pōrvai) — blanket-like covering, often metaphorical
• Catalan: encapotar — to cover as with a cloak
• Dutch: verhullen — to cover as with a cloak
• Finnish: verhota — to cover as with a cloak
• Finnish: verhoutua — to cover as with a cloak
• German: verhüllen — to cover as with a cloak
• Italian: ammantare — to cover as with a cloak
• Quechua: yaqullay — to cover as with a cloak
• Spanish: embozar — to cover as with a cloak
• Swedish: dölja — to cover as with a cloak
• Swedish: skyla — to cover as with a cloak
• Ottoman Turkish: اورتمك (örtmek) — to cover as with a cloak
• Spanish: invisibilizar — science fiction
• Spanish: camuflar activamente — science fiction
• Spanish: camuflajear activamente — science fiction