ark

See also: Ark and ārk

English

Etymology

From Middle English arke, from Old English earc, ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“I enclose”).

Noah's Ark

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɑːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɑɹk/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)k
• Homophone: arc

Noun

ark (plural arks)

1. A large box with a flat lid.
2. (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) Noah's ark: the ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 201:

     In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside.

3. Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge.
4. (figuratively) The body as a vessel.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XII:

     Like her I go; I cannot stay;
     ⁠I leave this mortal ark behind,
     A weight of nerves without a mind,
     And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]

5. A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
   • 1990, Lou Sullivan, chapter 7, in From Female to Male: The Life of Jack Bee Garland, page 76:

     Some seventy or seventy-five arks were permanently located on McLeod's Lake and between 110 and 125 people lived in them.

6. (Judaism) The Ark of the Covenant.
8. (Judaism) A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.

Synonyms

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• barge
• basket
• chest
• coffer
• hutch
• refuge
• retreat
• shelter
• ship
• vessel

Derived terms

• ark clam
• ark-floater
• arkful
• arklike
• ark load
• arkload
• Ark of the Covenant
• ark shell
• ark storm
• arkwright
• go out with the ark
• Noah's Ark (place name)
• Noah's ark (the ark)
• out of the ark
• pig ark

 

Descendants

• → Maori: āka

Translations

large box

• Bulgarian: сандъ́к (bg) m (sandǎ́k)
• Galician: arca (gl) f, arcaz m
• Hebrew: אָרוֹן (he) m
• Indonesian: tabut (id), peti (id)
• Norwegian: ark (no) m
• Portuguese: arca (pt) f
• Russian: сунду́к (ru) m (sundúk)
• Swedish: ark (sv) c
• Yiddish: אָרון m (orn)

Noah's ship

• Arabic: سَفِينَة (ar) f (safīna)
• Armenian: տապան (hy) (tapan)
• Basque: Noeren ontzia
• Belarusian: каўчэ́г m (kaŭčéh)
• Bulgarian: ковче́г (bg) m (kovčég), ба́рка f (bárka)
• Catalan: arca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 方舟 (zh) (fāngzhōu)

• Czech: archa (cs) f
• Esperanto: arkeo
• Estonian: Ark (et)
• Faroese: ørk f
• Finnish: arkki (fi)
• French: arche (fr) f
• Georgian: კიდობანი (ka) (ḳidobani)
• German: Arche (de) f
• Greek: κιβωτός (el) f (kivotós)
• Hebrew: תֵּיבָה (he) f (tevá)
• Hindi: कश्ती (hi) f (kaśtī)
• Hungarian: bárka (hu)
• Icelandic: örk (is) f
• Ido: archo (io)
• Indonesian: bahtera (id)
• Irish: áirc f
• Italian: arca (it) f
• Japanese: 箱舟 (はこぶね, hakobune)
• Korean: 방주(方舟) (ko) (bangju)
• Latin: arca f
• Latvian: arka f
• Lithuanian: arka (lt) f
• Macedonian: арка f (arka), ковчег m (kovčeg)
• Malay: bahtera (ms)
• Maltese: arka f
• Maori: āka
• Ngazidja Comorian: safina class 9
• Norwegian: ark (no) m
• Old Church Slavonic: ковьчєгъ m (kovĭčegŭ)
• Persian: کشتی (fa) (kašti)
• Polish: arka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arca (pt) f
• Romanian: arca f
• Russian: ковче́г (ru) m (kovčég)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ковчег m

  Roman: kovčeg (sh) m

• Slovak: archa f
• Slovene: barka f
• Spanish: arca (es) f
• Swahili: safina
• Swedish: ark (sv) c
• Turkish: Nuh'un gemisi (tr)
• Ukrainian: ковче́г (uk) m (kovčéh)
• Vietnamese: tàu (vi)
• Volapük: lenaf
• Walloon: åtche (wa) f
• Yiddish: תּבֿה f (teyve)

consecrated container

• Bulgarian: киво́т m (kivót)
• Faroese: ørk f
• French: arche (fr) f
• Greek: κιβωτός (el) f (kivotós)
• Ido: archo (io)
• Indonesian: tabut (id)
• Irish: áirc f
• Maori: āka
• Norwegian: ark (no) m
• Polish: arka (pl) f
• Portuguese: arca (pt) f
• Russian: кио́т (ru) m (kiót), киво́т (ru) m (kivót) (dated), ковче́г (ru) m (kovčég), божни́ца (ru) f (božníca)
• Spanish: arca (es) f
• Swedish: ark (sv) c
• Yiddish: אָרון m (orn), אָרון־קודש m (orn-koydesh)

Further reading

• “ark”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “ark”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• RAK, KRA, kar, Kra, kra, KAR, RKA, AKR

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑːɡ̊]

Etymology 1

Via Middle Low German ark from Latin arcus. The Latin words means "bow", but it is here used in a wider sense of the folded paper. Compare the same semantic development in German Bogen (“bow; sheet of paper”).

Noun

ark n (singular definite arket, plural indefinite arker)

1. a sheet (of paper)

Declension

Declension of ark

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ark	arket	ark	arkene
genitive	arks	arkets	arks	arkenes

Synonyms

• papir

Etymology 2

From Old Danish ark, Old Norse ǫrk, from Proto-Germanic *arkō, borrowed from Latin arca (“chest, coffin; ark”).

Noun

ark c (singular definite arken, plural indefinite arker)

1. (biblical) ark (Noah's Ark or the Ark of the Convenant)

Declension

Declension of ark

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ark	arken	arker	arkerne
genitive	arks	arkens	arkers	arkernes

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch arke. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɑrk/

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• Hyphenation: ark
• Rhymes: -ɑrk

Noun

ark f (plural arken, diminutive arkje n)

1. ark (ark of the covenant)
2. ark (ship)
3. houseboat

   Synonym: woonark

Derived terms

• woonark

Descendants

• Afrikaans: ark

Icelandic

Etymology

From Danish ark, from Latin arcus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ar̥k/
• Rhymes: -ar̥k

Noun

ark n (genitive singular arks, nominative plural örk)

1. (obsolete) sheet (of paper)

Synonyms

• (sheet of paper): blað, örkż

Maltese

Alternative forms

• arku

Etymology

Borrowed from English arc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈark/

Noun

ark m (plural arkiet or arkijiet)

1. arc

Manx

Alternative forms

• urk

Etymology

From Middle Irish orc, arc (“young pig”), from Proto-Celtic *ɸorkos, from Proto-Indo-European *pórḱos, from *perḱ- (“to dig”).

Noun

ark f (genitive singular arkagh, plural arkyn or irk)

1. young pig, piglet

References

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 orc”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Alternative forms

• arke

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French arc, from Latin arcus (“a bow, arc, arch”).

Noun

ark (plural arks)

1. The path of the sun across the sky.

Descendants

• English: arc

References

• “ark, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

North Frisian

Determiner

ark

1. (Mooring) each; every

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ǫrk (“chest”), from Proto-Norse *ᚨᚱᚲᚢ (*arku), borrowed during pre-Christian time from Latin arca (“chest, box”), from arceō (“enclose, box in”), from Proto-Italic *arkeō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (“to protect, guard”).

Noun

ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

1. the ark (boat of Noah)
2. paktens ark - the Ark of the Covenant

Synonyms

• kvist (dormer)

Etymology 2

From Old Danish ark, arken, arkens, through Middle Low German or Low German arkener (“breast protection”), from Old French arquiere (“shooting range”).

Noun

ark m (definite singular arken, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

1. (architecture) a dormer

Etymology 3

From Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“arc, arch”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erkʷo- (“bow, arrow”).

Noun

ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka or arkene)

1. a sheet (of paper)

Synonyms

• papir

Derived terms

• A4-ark
• faktaark
• papirark
• regneark

References

• “ark” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse ǫrk, from Latin arca (“chest, box”); sense 3 from Old French arquire, via Middle Low German or Low German and old Danish.

Noun

ark f (definite singular arka, indefinite plural arker, definite plural arkene)

1. the ark (boat of Noah)
2. paktarka - the Ark of the Covenant
3. (architecture) a dormer

Synonyms

• kvist (dormer)

Etymology 2

From Latin arcus, via Low German ark.

Noun

ark n (definite singular arket, indefinite plural ark, definite plural arka)

1. a sheet (of paper)

Synonyms

• papir

Derived terms

• A4-ark
• faktaark
• papirark

References

• “ark” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Old Swedish ark, borrowed from Latin arca, into the Germanic languages in pre-Christian time.

Noun

ark c

1. an ark, a box; the Ark of the Covenant
2. the ark (ship) of Noah, resembling a box

Declension

Declension of ark

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ark	arks
	definite	arken	arkens
plural	indefinite	arkar	arkars
	definite	arkarna	arkarnas

Related terms

• förbundsark

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish ark, from Middle Low German ark, from Latin arcus (“bow”). Compare German Bogen. It refers to the bend of the parchment when folded.

Noun

ark n

1. a sheet of paper (for writing on)
2. (printing) a signature, a multiple of four pages printed on a single sheet, which is folded and bound into a book

Declension

Declension of ark

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	ark	arks
	definite	arket	arkets
plural	indefinite	ark	arks
	definite	arken	arkens

Synonyms

• papper
• blad

Related terms

• arkmatare
• arksignatur
• dubbelark

Descendants

• → Finnish: arkki

Anagrams

• kar, rak

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɾk/

Noun

ark (definite accusative arkı, plural arklar)

1. (chiefly Internet) Abbreviation of arkadaş.

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ark/

Noun

ark n (no plural)

1. tool
2. stuff, junk

Further reading

• “ark (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011