coke

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• Canada, General-American: /koʊk/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /kəʊk/
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• UK: /kəʊk/
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The origin is not certain. The OED says it is first attested in 1669. The MED has an earlier attestation in the related sense of "charcoal" in 1430: Middle English coke. This may be the same word as colk (“core”) (perhaps from the notion that coke is the core of the material left after it burning), from Old English *colc (“hole, well”), from Proto-West Germanic *kolk, from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz (“a hollow, depression”), from Proto-Indo-European *g(w)el- (“to swallow, devour; gullet”). If so, cognate with Saterland Frisian Kolk (“maelstrom, depression, whirlpool”), West Frisian kolk (“maelstrom, whirlpool”), Dutch kolk (“maelstrom, vortex, whirlpool”), German Kolk (“pothole”).

Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukabor. Spanish cocabor. English coca Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Indo-European *-iHnos Proto-Italic *-īnos Latin -īnusder. Old French -inbor. Middle English -in English -ine English cocaineclip. English coke Originated circa 1908 in American English as a clipping of cocaine.

1909, from the name of the American company Coca-Cola and the beverage it produced; the drink was named for two of its original ingredients, coca leaves and cola nut.

Etymology tree Aymarader. Quechua kukabor. Aymara kukabor. Spanish cocabor. English coca Niger-Congoder. English cola English Coca-Colaclip. English Coke Clipping of Coca-Cola. See coke (“cola”).

139 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: кокс (koks) — coal product
• Catalan: carbó de coc — coal product
• Catalan: coc — coal product
• Chinese Mandarin: 焦炭 (jiāotàn) — coal product
• Czech: koks — coal product
• Danish: koks — coal product
• Dutch: cokes — coal product
• Estonian: koks — coal product
• Faroese: koks — coal product
• Finnish: koksi — coal product
• French: charbon — coal product
• French: coke — coal product
• German: Koks — coal product
• Greek: κοκ (kok) — coal product
• Icelandic: koks — coal product
• Ido: koko — coal product
• Irish: cóc — coal product
• Italian: coke — coal product
• Japanese: コークス (kōkusu) — coal product
• Japanese: 骸炭 (gaitan) — coal product
• Korean: 코크스 (kokeuseu) — coal product
• Korean: 골탄 (goltan) — coal product
• Korean: 해탄 (haetan) — coal product
• Lithuanian: koksas — coal product
• Norwegian: koks — coal product
• Polish: koks — coal product
• Portuguese: coque — coal product
• Romanian: cocs — coal product
• Russian: кокс (koks) — coal product
• Slovak: koks — coal product
• Slovene: koks — coal product
• Spanish: coque — coal product
• Spanish: cok — coal product
• Swedish: koks — coal product
• Turkish: kok — coal product
• Ottoman Turkish: كومور (kömür) — coal product
• Welsh: golosg — coal product
• Welsh: llosglo — coal product
• Yiddish: קאָקס (koks) — coal product
• Zazaki: komır — coal product
• Bulgarian: ко́ка (kóka) — short for cocaine
• Danish: coke — short for cocaine
• Estonian: koka — short for cocaine
• Finnish: koka — short for cocaine
• Finnish: spägä — short for cocaine
• Finnish: keula — short for cocaine
• Finnish: koksu — short for cocaine
• French: coke — short for cocaine
• French: coca — short for cocaine
• German: Koks — short for cocaine
• Greek: κόκα (kóka) — short for cocaine
• Italian: coca — short for cocaine
• Lithuanian: koksas — short for cocaine
• Polish: koka — short for cocaine
• Portuguese: coca — short for cocaine
• Russian: кокс (koks) — short for cocaine
• Russian: ко́кос (kókos) — short for cocaine
• Russian: ко́ка (kóka) — short for cocaine
• Spanish: coca — short for cocaine
• Swedish: kola — short for cocaine
• Swedish: kox — short for cocaine
• Swedish: koks — short for cocaine
• Swedish: ladd — short for cocaine
• Swedish: snö — short for cocaine
• Armenian: կոլա (kola) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Bulgarian: кола (kola) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Chinese Cantonese: 可樂 /可乐 (ho2 lok6) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Hakka Chinese: 可樂 /可乐 (khó-lá, khó-là) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Chinese: 可樂 /可乐 (zh-min-nan) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Chinese Mandarin: 可樂 /可乐 (kělè) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Danish: cola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Estonian: koola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Finnish: kokis — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• French: coca — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• French: Coke — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• German: Cola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Hebrew: קולה (kóla) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Hindi: कोक (kok) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Icelandic: kók — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Italian: cola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Japanese: コーラ (kōra) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Korean: 콜라 (kolla) — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Norwegian: cola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Portuguese: coca — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Portuguese: cola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Spanish: cola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Spanish: bebida de cola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Spanish: refresco de cola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Swedish: kola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Turkish: kola — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Yoruba: kóòkì — informal: any cola-flavored drink
• Arabic: كُولَا (kulā) — Coca-Cola
• Armenian: կոլա (kola) — Coca-Cola
• Chinese Mandarin: 可樂 /可乐 (kělè) — Coca-Cola
• Cornish: kok — Coca-Cola
• Czech: kola — Coca-Cola
• Danish: cola — Coca-Cola
• Dutch: cola — Coca-Cola
• Estonian: koka — Coca-Cola
• Finnish: kokis — Coca-Cola
• French: coca — Coca-Cola
• German: Cola — Coca-Cola
• German: Coca-Cola — Coca-Cola
• Hungarian: kóla — Coca-Cola
• Italian: Coca — Coca-Cola
• Marathi: कोक (kok) — Coca-Cola
• Portuguese: coca — Coca-Cola
• Russian: ко́ла (kóla) — Coca-Cola
• Scottish Gaelic: còc — Coca-Cola
• Serbo-Croatian: кола — Coca-Cola
• Serbo-Croatian: kola — Coca-Cola
• Spanish: coca — Coca-Cola
• Spanish: coke — Coca-Cola
• Spanish: Coca-Cola — Coca-Cola
• Swedish: cola — Coca-Cola
• Swedish: coca — Coca-Cola
• Swedish: cokis — Coca-Cola
• Thai: โค้ก (kóok) — Coca-Cola
• Ukrainian: ко́ла (kóla) — Coca-Cola
• Vietnamese: coca — Coca-Cola
• Welsh: côc — Coca-Cola
• Yoruba: kóòkì — Coca-Cola
• Estonian: karastusjook — informal: any soft drink
• Finnish: limu — informal: any soft drink
• Portuguese: refri — informal: any soft drink
• Bulgarian: коксу́вам (koksúvam) — to produce coke
• Finnish: koksata — to produce coke
• Finnish: koksittaa — to produce coke
• German: koken — to produce coke
• Lithuanian: koksuoti — to produce coke
• Polish: koksować — to produce coke
• Ukrainian: коксувати (koksuvaty) — to produce coke
• Yiddish: קאָקסירן (koksirn) — to produce coke
• Bulgarian: коксувам (koksuvam) — to turn into coke
• Finnish: koksautua — to turn into coke
• German: verkoken — to turn into coke
• Polish: koksować — to turn into coke
• Ukrainian: коксувати (koksuvaty) — to turn into coke
• Yiddish: קאָקסירן זיך (koksirn zikh) — to turn into coke