pook

From Middle Dutch poke, poken or Middle Low German poken (both from Proto-Germanic *puk-), which is probably imitative. See also English poke.

• IPA^(key): /poːk/

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• Hyphenation: pook
• Rhymes: -oːk

pook m (plural poken, diminutive pookje n)

1. poker (stick to kindle the fire in a fireplace)

   Synonym: kachelpook

2. gearstick

   Synonym: versnellingspook

• kachelpook
• versnellingspook

• poken

• koop

From Proto-Mon-Khmer *pɔɔk (“to peel”). Cognate with Vietnamese bóc, Khmer បក (bɑɑk, “to peel”), Mon လ္ပံက်.

pook^[1]

1. to peel

• pooc — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography
• puok — obsolete

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /poˈʔok/ [poˈʔok̚]
    • Rhymes: -ok
  • IPA^(key): /ˈpoʔok/ [ˈpoː.ʔok̚] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: po‧ok

poók (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜂᜃ᜔)

1. place; region; site; location

   Synonyms: purok, sityo, dako, distrito, lugar, lunan, nayon

• “pook”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• kopo