poke

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• UK: pōk
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• UK: /pəʊk/
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• US: pōk
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• US: /poʊk/
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• /ˈpoʊkeɪ/
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• /ˈpoʊki/
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From Middle English poken, perhaps from Middle Dutch poken or Middle Low German poken, both from Proto-West Germanic *pukōn or similar, which is itself of uncertain origin, but may be from an imitative Proto-Germanic root *puk-. Doublet of poach. Compare Nordic cognates Swedish påka (“to poke, muck with a stick”), påk (“club, limb; dagger”), pykel (“small poker”), dialectal Norwegian pauka (“to walk stomping, etc”), pauk (“weak, slow person”). Central European noun-cognates refer to “dagger, bad knife, poker (for a fireplace)”, with analog verbs. To a Proto-Germanic *pauk-, *puk-, meanig, “to stick, muck with a stick”.

From Middle English poke, from Anglo-Norman poke (whence pocket), from Frankish *poka. More at pocket. Doublet of pouch.

Clipping of pocan (“pokeweed”) or directly borrowed from Powhatan pocan. See pocan for more.

Borrowed from Hawaiian poke (literally “to cut crosswise into pieces”).

95 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Spanish: piquete — a prod, jab, or thrust
• Bulgarian: кеси́я (kesíja) — sack or bag
• Bulgarian: торба́ (torbá) — sack or bag
• Finnish: säkki — sack or bag
• Finnish: pussi — sack or bag
• German: Sack — sack or bag
• Portuguese: poke — Hawaiian sea food dish
• Afrikaans: por — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Aleut: chuhnil — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Arabic: خَزَّ (ḵazza) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Assamese: খুচৰ (khusor) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Bashkir: төртөү (törtöw) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Bulgarian: мушкам (muškam) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Chinese Mandarin: 戳 (chuō) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Chinese Mandarin: 捅 (tǒng) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Chinese Mandarin: 刺 (cì) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Dutch: porren — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Esperanto: punkttuŝi — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Finnish: tökkiä — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Finnish: sorkkia — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Finnish: tökätä — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• French: piquer — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Galician: zoscar — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Galician: chuzar — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Galician: picar — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Galician: fochicar — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• German: stochern — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• German: anstupsen — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Hindi: उंगली करना (uṅglī karnā) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Italian: ficcare — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Italian: pungolare — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Italian: spronare — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Jamaican Creole: jook — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Japanese: 突く (tsuku) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Japanese: 突く (tsutsuku) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Khmer: ចាក់ (cak) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Latin: fodicō — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Malayalam: കുത്തുക (kuttuka) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Māori: tīkapekape — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Nigerian Pidgin: chook — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Norwegian: pirke — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Norwegian: stikke — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Persian: سک زدن (sok zadan) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Polish: dźgnąć — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Portuguese: cutucar — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Russian: ты́кать (týkatʹ) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Russian: ткнуть (tknutʹ) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Russian: сова́ть (sovátʹ) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Russian: су́нуть (súnutʹ) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Santali: ᱨᱳᱜ (rok’) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Spanish: hurgar — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Spanish: hincar — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Swahili: sukuma — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Swedish: peta — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Tagalog: sundot — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Telugu: దూర్చు (dūrcu) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Telugu: పొడుచు (poḍucu) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Turkish: dürtmek — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Ottoman Turkish: دورتمك (dürtmek) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Ottoman Turkish: پرمقلمق (parmaklamak) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Vietnamese: chọc — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Yiddish: שטורכען (shturkhen) — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Zyphe: dong — to jab with an object such as a finger or a stick
• Afrikaans: pook — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Bashkir: болғау (bolğaw) — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Bulgarian: разбърквам (razbǎrkvam) — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Czech: prohrábnout — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Dutch: poken — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Dutch: opporren — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Finnish: kohentaa — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• French: attiser — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Galician: zoscar — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Galician: atizar — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Galician: escallar — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Gallurese: abbruncà — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• German: schüren — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Irish: rúisc — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Italian: attizzare — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Māori: tīkapekape — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Norwegian: nøre — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Portuguese: atiçar — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Quechua: achiy — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Russian: шурова́ть (šurovátʹ) — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Russian: меша́ть (mešátʹ) — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Campidanese Sardinian: acchiccare — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Sardinian: acchiccare — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Sassarese: attitzà — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Spanish: atizar — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Swedish: peta — to stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning
• Finnish: kirjoittaa — computing: to modify the value stored in a memory address
• German: poken — computing: to modify the value stored in a memory address
• Afrikaans: uitsteek — to stick out the tongue
• Finnish: tökätä — to stick out the tongue
• Māori: whātero — to stick out the tongue
• Norwegian: geipe — to stick out the tongue