sack

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation, US: /sæk/
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• British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /sak/
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• New-Zealand: /sɛk/
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• homophone: SAC
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From Middle English sak, sek, sach, zech (“bag, sackcloth”), from Old English sacc (“sack, bag”) and sæċċ (“sackcloth, sacking”); both from Proto-West Germanic *sakku, from late Proto-Germanic *sakkuz (“sack”), borrowed from Latin saccus (“large bag”), from Ancient Greek σάκκος (sákkos, “bag of coarse cloth”), from Semitic, possibly Phoenician or Hebrew. Cognate with Dutch zak, German Sack, Swedish säck, Danish sæk, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk sekk, Faroese and Icelandic sekkur, Hebrew שַׂק (śaq, “sack, sackcloth”), Aramaic סַקָּא, Classical Syriac ܣܩܐ, Ge'ez ሠቅ (śäḳ), Akkadian 𒆭𒊓 (saqqu), Egyptian sꜣgꜣ. Doublet of sac, saccus, saco, and sakkos. Černý and Forbes suggest the word was originally Egyptian, a nominal derivative of sꜣq (“to gather or put together”) that also yielded Coptic ⲥⲟⲕ (sok, “sackcloth”) and was borrowed into Greek perhaps by way of a Semitic intermediary. However, Vycichl and Hoch reject this idea, noting that such an originally Egyptian word would be expected to yield Hebrew *סַק rather than שַׂק. Instead, they posit that the Coptic and Greek words are both borrowed from Semitic, with the Coptic word perhaps developing via Egyptian sꜣgꜣ. Sense evolution * “Pillage” senses from the use of sacks in carrying off plunder. From Middle French sac, shortened from the phrase mettre à sac (“put it in a bag”), a military command to pillage; also parallel meaning with Italian sacco (“plunder”), from Medieval Latin saccō (“pillage”). From Vulgar Latin saccare (“to plunder”), from saccus (“sack”). See also ransack. American football “tackle” sense from this “plunder, conquer” root. * “Removal from employment” senses attested since 1825; the original formula was “to give (someone) the sack”, likely from the notion of a worker going off with his tools in a sack, or being given such a sack for his personal belongings as part of an expedient severance. Idiom exists earlier in French (on luy a donné son sac, 17c.) and Middle Dutch (iemand den zak geven). English verb in this sense recorded from 1841. Current verb, to sack (“to fire”) carries influence from the forceful nature of “plunder, tackle” verb senses. * Slang meaning “bunk, bed” is attested since 1825, originally nautical, likely in reference to sleeping bags. The verb meaning “go to bed” is recorded from 1946. * Slang meaning "scrotum" is an ellipsis of ballsack.

From earlier (wyne) seck from Middle French (vin (“wine”)) sec (“dry”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).

312 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: sak — bag for commodities or items
• Albanian: thes — bag for commodities or items
• Arabic: كِيس (kīs) — bag for commodities or items
• Arabic: كيس (kīs) — bag for commodities or items
• Armenian: պարկ (park) — bag for commodities or items
• Armenian: քսակ (kʻsak) — bag for commodities or items
• Aromanian: sac — bag for commodities or items
• Azerbaijani: çuval — bag for commodities or items
• Bashkir: тоҡ (toq) — bag for commodities or items
• Belarusian: мяшо́к (mjašók) — bag for commodities or items
• Bengali: ছালা (chala) — bag for commodities or items
• Bengali: বস্তা (bosta) — bag for commodities or items
• Bhojpuri: थैला (thailā) — bag for commodities or items
• Bulgarian: чува́л (čuvál) — bag for commodities or items
• Burmese: အိတ် (it) — bag for commodities or items
• Catalan: sac — bag for commodities or items
• Cherokee: ᏕᎦᎵᏗ (degalidi) — bag for commodities or items
• Chinese: бозы (bozɨ) — bag for commodities or items
• Chinese Mandarin: 袋 (dài) — bag for commodities or items
• Chinese Mandarin: 囊 (náng) — bag for commodities or items
• Chinese Mandarin: 包 (bāo) — bag for commodities or items
• Ngazidja Comorian: djunia — bag for commodities or items
• Czech: pytel — bag for commodities or items
• Danish: sæk — bag for commodities or items
• Danish: pose — bag for commodities or items
• Dutch: zak — bag for commodities or items
• Egyptian: q:r-f:t-S28 (qrft) — bag for commodities or items
• Esperanto: sako — bag for commodities or items
• Estonian: kott — bag for commodities or items
• Faroese: sekkur — bag for commodities or items
• Finnish: säkki — bag for commodities or items
• French: sac — bag for commodities or items
• Friulian: sac — bag for commodities or items
• Galician: saco — bag for commodities or items
• Georgian: ტომარა (ṭomara) — bag for commodities or items
• Georgian: პარკი (ṗarḳi) — bag for commodities or items
• Georgian: ქისა (kisa) — bag for commodities or items
• German: Sack — bag for commodities or items
• German: Papiersack — bag for commodities or items
• German: Beutel — bag for commodities or items
• German: Tüte — bag for commodities or items
• Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐌻𐌲𐍃 (balgs) — bag for commodities or items
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌰𐌺𐌺𐌿𐍃 (sakkus) — bag for commodities or items
• Greek: σάκκος (sákkos) — bag for commodities or items
• Greek: σακί (sakí) — bag for commodities or items
• Greek: τσουβάλι (tsouváli) — bag for commodities or items
• Greek: σακούλα (sakoúla) — bag for commodities or items
• Ancient Greek: θύλακος (thúlakos) — bag for commodities or items
• Ancient Greek: σάκκος (sákkos) — bag for commodities or items
• Ancient Greek: σάκτας (sáktas) — bag for commodities or items
• Haitian Creole: sak — bag for commodities or items
• Hebrew: שַׂק (sak) — bag for commodities or items
• Hebrew: אַמְתַּחַת (amtakhát) — bag for commodities or items
• Hindi: बोरा (borā) — bag for commodities or items
• Hindi: बोरी (borī) — bag for commodities or items
• Hindi: थैला (thailā) — bag for commodities or items
• Hindi: थैली (thailī) — bag for commodities or items
• Hiri Motu: puse — bag for commodities or items
• Hungarian: zsák — bag for commodities or items
• Icelandic: sekkur — bag for commodities or items
• Icelandic: poki — bag for commodities or items
• Icelandic: posi — bag for commodities or items
• Ido: sako — bag for commodities or items
• Indonesian: karung — bag for commodities or items
• Irish: sac — bag for commodities or items
• Italian: sacco — bag for commodities or items
• Japanese: 袋 (fukuro) — bag for commodities or items
• Japanese: サック (sakku) — bag for commodities or items
• Kazakh: қап (qap) — bag for commodities or items
• Khmer: ថង់ (thɑng) — bag for commodities or items
• Korean: 자루 (jaru) — bag for commodities or items
• Kyrgyz: мүшөк (müşök) — bag for commodities or items
• Kyrgyz: кап (kap) — bag for commodities or items
• Kyrgyz: мешок (meşok) — bag for commodities or items
• Lao: ຖົງ (thong) — bag for commodities or items
• Latin: saccus — bag for commodities or items
• Latin: culeus — bag for commodities or items
• Latin: follis — bag for commodities or items
• Latvian: maiss — bag for commodities or items
• Lithuanian: maišas — bag for commodities or items
• Macedonian: вреќа (vreḱa) — bag for commodities or items
• Macedonian: арар (arar) — bag for commodities or items
• Malay: guni — bag for commodities or items
• Malay: karung — bag for commodities or items
• Malayalam: ചാക്ക് (cākkŭ) — bag for commodities or items
• Maltese: xkora — bag for commodities or items
• Mandinka: boto — bag for commodities or items
• Māori: pēke — bag for commodities or items
• Middle English: sak — bag for commodities or items
• Mingrelian: საკი (saḳi) — bag for commodities or items
• Mongolian: уут (uut) — bag for commodities or items
• Mongolian: хүүдий (xüüdii) — bag for commodities or items
• Mongolian: шуудай (šuudaj) — bag for commodities or items
• Motu: puse — bag for commodities or items
• Navajo: naaltsoos azis — bag for commodities or items
• Neapolitan: sacco — bag for commodities or items
• Norwegian Bokmål: sekk — bag for commodities or items
• Norwegian Bokmål: pose — bag for commodities or items
• Norwegian Nynorsk: sekk — bag for commodities or items
• Norwegian Nynorsk: pose — bag for commodities or items
• Occitan: sac — bag for commodities or items
• Ojibwe: mashkimod — bag for commodities or items
• Old Church Slavonic: врѣтище (vrětište) — bag for commodities or items
• Old English: codd — bag for commodities or items
• Old Norse: sekkr — bag for commodities or items
• Old Norse: posi — bag for commodities or items
• Persian: کیسه (kise) — bag for commodities or items
• Persian: گونی (guni) — bag for commodities or items
• Persian: ساک (sâk) — bag for commodities or items
• Plautdietsch: Sak — bag for commodities or items
• Polish: worek — bag for commodities or items
• Portuguese: saco — bag for commodities or items
• Portuguese: saca — bag for commodities or items
• Romani: gono — bag for commodities or items
• Romanian: sac — bag for commodities or items
• Russian: мешо́к (mešók) — bag for commodities or items
• Russian: куль (kulʹ) — bag for commodities or items
• Sardinian: sacu — bag for commodities or items
• Scottish Gaelic: poca — bag for commodities or items
• Scottish Gaelic: baga — bag for commodities or items
• Scottish Gaelic: màileid — bag for commodities or items
• Serbo-Croatian: вре̏ћа — bag for commodities or items
• Serbo-Croatian: vrȅća — bag for commodities or items
• Shor: қап (qap) — bag for commodities or items
• Slovak: vrece — bag for commodities or items
• Slovene: torba — bag for commodities or items
• Slovene: bisaga — bag for commodities or items
• Lower Sorbian: měch — bag for commodities or items
• Spanish: bolsa — bag for commodities or items
• Spanish: saco — bag for commodities or items
• Spanish: costal — bag for commodities or items
• Spanish: chácara — bag for commodities or items
• Spanish: shicra — bag for commodities or items
• Spanish: shigra — bag for commodities or items
• Spanish: bayón — bag for commodities or items
• Swahili: gunia — bag for commodities or items
• Swedish: säck — bag for commodities or items
• Tajik: халта (xalta) — bag for commodities or items
• Tajik: ҷувол (juvol) — bag for commodities or items
• Talysh: کیسه (kisa) — bag for commodities or items
• Tewa: múu — bag for commodities or items
• Thai: ถุง (tǔng) — bag for commodities or items
• Tocharian B: ṣorpor — bag for commodities or items
• Turkish: çuval — bag for commodities or items
• Ottoman Turkish: چوال (çuval) — bag for commodities or items
• Ottoman Turkish: طوربه (torba) — bag for commodities or items
• Turkmen: çuwal — bag for commodities or items
• Turkmen: halta — bag for commodities or items
• Ukrainian: мішо́к (mišók) — bag for commodities or items
• Unami: mënutès — bag for commodities or items
• Unami: èmsinutay — bag for commodities or items
• Urdu: بورا (borā) — bag for commodities or items
• Urdu: بوری (borī) — bag for commodities or items
• Uzbek: xalta — bag for commodities or items
• Uzbek: qop — bag for commodities or items
• Vietnamese: bao — bag for commodities or items
• Vietnamese: bao tải — bag for commodities or items
• Yiddish: זאַק (zak) — bag for commodities or items
• Zazaki: çuwal — bag for commodities or items
• Zazaki: xalte — bag for commodities or items
• Bashkir: тоҡ (toq) — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Danish: sækfuld — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Danish: posefuld — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Finnish: säkillinen — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• German: Sack voll — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• German: Sackvoll — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Greek: σακί (sakí) — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Greek: τσουβάλι (tsouváli) — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Ido: sakedo — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Latvian: maiss — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Malayalam: ചാക്ക് (cākkŭ) — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Middle English: sak — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Russian: мешо́к (mešók) — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Scottish Gaelic: poca — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Scottish Gaelic: baga — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Scottish Gaelic: màileid — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Spanish: saco — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Spanish: costal — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Swedish: säckfull — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Ukrainian: мішо́к (mišók) — amount that can be put in a sack; traditional units based on this amount
• Bulgarian: разграбване (razgrabvane) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Catalan: saqueig — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Chinese Mandarin: 洗劫 (xǐjié) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Chinese Mandarin: 劫掠 (jiélüè) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Dutch: plundering — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Dutch: plunder — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Finnish: ryöstö — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• French: sac — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Galician: roubo — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Georgian: ძარცვა (ʒarcva) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• German: Plünderung — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Greek: λεηλασία (leïlasía) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Greek: κούρσεμα (koúrsema) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Greek: διαγούμισμα (diagoúmisma) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Ancient Greek: πόρθησις (pórthēsis) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Hungarian: fosztogatás — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Ido: spolio — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Italian: sacco — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Italian: saccheggio — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Macedonian: грабеж (grabež) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Māori: taeatanga — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Portuguese: saque — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Russian: разграбле́ние (razgrablénije) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Russian: грабёж (grabjóž) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Spanish: saqueo — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Swedish: plundring — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Ottoman Turkish: صویغون (soygun) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Ottoman Turkish: تاراج (tarac) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Ottoman Turkish: چاپول (çapul) — the plunder and pillaging of a city
• Bulgarian: плячка (pljačka) — booty obtained by pillage
• Catalan: botí — booty obtained by pillage
• Danish: bytte — booty obtained by pillage
• Danish: udbytte — booty obtained by pillage
• Finnish: saalis — booty obtained by pillage
• Finnish: ryöstösaalis — booty obtained by pillage
• French: butin — booty obtained by pillage
• Georgian: ნაძარცვი (naʒarcvi) — booty obtained by pillage
• Greek: λάφυρα (láfyra) — booty obtained by pillage
• Ido: spoliajo — booty obtained by pillage
• Italian: bottino — booty obtained by pillage
• Macedonian: пљачка (pljačka) — booty obtained by pillage
• Māori: parakete — booty obtained by pillage
• Russian: награ́бленное (nagráblennoje) — booty obtained by pillage
• Russian: добы́ча (dobýča) — booty obtained by pillage
• Spanish: botín — booty obtained by pillage
• Ottoman Turkish: تاراج (tarac) — booty obtained by pillage
• German: Sack — successful tackle of the quarterback
• Bulgarian: уволнение (uvolnenie) — informal: dismissal from employment
• Danish: afskedigelse — informal: dismissal from employment
• Danish: fyring — informal: dismissal from employment
• Dutch: zak — informal: dismissal from employment
• Finnish: potkut — informal: dismissal from employment
• French: paquet — informal: dismissal from employment
• Georgian: დათხოვნა (datxovna) — informal: dismissal from employment
• Georgian: განთავისუფლება (gantavisupleba) — informal: dismissal from employment
• Greek: απόλυση (apólysi) — informal: dismissal from employment
• Italian: benservito — informal: dismissal from employment
• Macedonian: отказ (otkaz) — informal: dismissal from employment
• Māori: pana — informal: dismissal from employment
• Māori: pananga — informal: dismissal from employment
• Norwegian: sparken — informal: dismissal from employment
• Portuguese: despedido — informal: dismissal from employment
• Russian: увольне́ние (uvolʹnénije) — informal: dismissal from employment
• Spanish: despedido — informal: dismissal from employment
• Swedish: sparken — informal: dismissal from employment
• Bulgarian: постеля (postelja) — colloquial: bed
• Dutch: nest — colloquial: bed
• Finnish: pehkut — colloquial: bed
• French: lit — colloquial: bed
• French: pieu — colloquial: bed
• Macedonian: кревет (krevet) — colloquial: bed
• Russian: посте́ль (postélʹ) — colloquial: bed
• Finnish: munat — slang: scrotum
• Finnish: pussit — slang: scrotum
• German: Sack — slang: scrotum
• Italian: scroto — slang: scrotum
• Portuguese: saco — slang: scrotum
• Russian: мудо́ (mudó) — slang: scrotum
• Russian: мошо́нка (mošónka) — slang: scrotum
• Catalan: ensacar — to put in a sack or sacks
• Portuguese: ensacar — to put in a sack or sacks
• Spanish: ensacar — to put in a sack or sacks
• Bulgarian: грабя (grabja) — to plunder
• Bulgarian: разграбвам (razgrabvam) — to plunder
• Danish: plyndre — to plunder
• Danish: ribbe — to plunder
• Dutch: plunderen — to plunder
• Finnish: ryöstää — to plunder
• French: saccager — to plunder
• German: plündern — to plunder
• Greek: λεηλατώ (leïlató) — to plunder
• Greek: κουρσεύω (koursévo) — to plunder
• Greek: διαγουμίζω (diagoumízo) — to plunder
• Ancient Greek: πορθέω (porthéō) — to plunder
• Ido: spoliar — to plunder
• Ingrian: rööstää — to plunder
• Irish: creach — to plunder
• Italian: saccheggiare — to plunder
• Italian: predare — to plunder
• Italian: fare man bassa — to plunder
• Māori: romi — to plunder
• Māori: mūrei — to plunder
• Māori: pāhua — to plunder
• Māori: pāhuahua — to plunder
• Māori: tāoro — to plunder
• Norwegian: plyndre — to plunder
• Romanian: prăda — to plunder
• Spanish: saquear — to plunder
• Turkish: yağmalamak — to plunder
• Ottoman Turkish: چاپوللامق (çapullamak) — to plunder
• Bulgarian: уволнявам (uvolnjavam) — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Catalan: acomiadar — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Catalan: destituir — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Catalan: despedir — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Danish: fyre — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Danish: afskedige — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Danish: opsige — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Dutch: de zak geven — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Finnish: antaa potkut — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• French: virer — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• French: saquer — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Galician: chimpar — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• German: feuern — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• German: entlassen — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• German: rausschmeißen — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Greek: απολύω (apolýo) — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Māori: pana — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Russian: увольня́ть (uvolʹnjátʹ) — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Russian: уво́лить (uvólitʹ) — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Spanish: correr — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Spanish: despedir — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire
• Turkish: sepetlemek — informal: to remove from a job or position — see also fire