paddock

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• Ireland, Received-Pronunciation, Scotland: /ˈpædək/
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• Canada, General-American: /ˈpædək/
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• Canada, General-American: [ˈpæɾək]
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• Australian: /ˈpædək/
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• Australian: [ˈpædɨ̞k]
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• Australian: [ˈpæɾɨ̞k]
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• rhymes with -ædək
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• CMU ARPABET: P AE1 D AH0 K Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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See paddock.

The noun is almost certainly a variant of dialectal British parrock (“enclosure; park; croft, small field, paddock”), from Middle English parrok, parrock (“enclosed pasture, paddock; coop; feeding stall; cabin, hut”) [and other forms], from Old English pearroc, pearruc (“fence used to enclose a space; area enclosed by such a fence, enclosure”), from Proto-West Germanic *parruk (“enclosure; pen for animals”), from Proto-Germanic *parrukaz (“fence; enclosure”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *barō (“bar, beam; barrier”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bherH- (“to pierce; to strike”). Equivalent to park + -ock. Doublet of park. The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Danish park (“pond”) * Dutch perk (“flowerbed; garden; pen”) * German Pferch (“sheepfold, sheep-pen”)

From Middle English paddok, paddoke (“frog; toad”) [and other forms], from pad, pade (“frog; toad”) + -ok (diminutive suffix). Pad, pade is derived from Old English *pada, *padda, padde, from Proto-West Germanic *paddā, from Proto-Germanic *paddǭ (“toad”); further etymology uncertain, possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bhew- (“to swell”). The English word is analysable as pad (“(Britain, dialectal) frog; toad”) + -ock (suffix forming nouns, originally with diminutive senses). Sense 2 (“sledge”) is probably from the supposed resemblance of the object to a frog or toad.

41 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: заграждение (zagraždenie) — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Czech: výběh — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Estonian: koppel — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Finnish: haka — small enclosure or field of grassland
• French: paddock — small enclosure or field of grassland
• French: enclos — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Galician: bouza — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Galician: gándara — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Galician: pardiña — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Galician: poldril — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Gamilaraay: baadi — small enclosure or field of grassland
• German: Koppel — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Macedonian: за́град (zágrad) — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Portuguese: piquete — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Russian: вы́гон (výgon) — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Slovak: výbeh — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Spanish: dehesa — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Spanish: potrero — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Võro: kopõľ — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Votic: koppani — small enclosure or field of grassland
• Finnish: haka — enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race
• Finnish: hevoshaka — enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race
• Indonesian: pedok — enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race
• Portuguese: padoque — enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race
• Portuguese: boxe — enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race
• Finnish: varikko — area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races
• German: Fahrerlager — area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races
• Portuguese: padoque — area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races
• Portuguese: boxe — area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races
• Spanish: paddock — area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races
• Finnish: laidun — field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries
• Macedonian: ли́вада (lívada) — field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries
• Macedonian: па́сиште (pásište) — field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries
• Māori: pātiki — field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries
• Portuguese: pasto — field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries
• Ottoman Turkish: قوری (korı, koru) — field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries
• Finnish: koekuoppa — place in a superficial deposit where ore or washdirt is excavated; place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.
• Finnish: ahkio — simple sledge, usually triangular, which is dragged along the ground to transport items
• Finnish: laiduntaa haassa — to place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock; to provide (such animals) with pasture
• Finnish: aidata hakaan — to enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock
• Finnish: kaivaa koekuopasta — to excavate washdirt from (a superficial deposit)