haak

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• IPA^(key): /ɦaːk/

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• Hyphenation: haak
• Rhymes: -aːk

From Middle Dutch hāke, from Old Dutch *hako, from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô.

haak m (plural haken, diminutive haakje n)

1. hook
2. (usually in the plural, diminutive) bracket (for enclosing text or mathematical symbols)

• Afrikaans: haak
• Berbice Creole Dutch: haki
• Negerhollands: huk
• → Indonesian: hak
• → Papiamentu: hak, haak
• → Sranan Tongo: aka
  • → Caribbean Javanese: akah

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

haak

1. inflection of haken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Derived from a Germanic language, probably Low German hake. Compare Finnish haka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːk/, [ˈ(h)ɑːkˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑːk
• Hyphenation: haak

haak (genitive haagi, partitive haaki)

1. hook (usually as part of a closure, etc.)
2. detour (deviation from moving in a straight direction)

• → Votic: haakki

• haak in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “haak”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009