English Explanatory Dictionary

bark

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs).
  2. To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries.
  3. To speak sharply.
noun
  1. The short, loud, explosive sound uttered by a dog, a fox, and some other animals.
  2. An abrupt loud vocal utterance.
  3. The quick opening of the hi-hat cymbal as it is hit, followed by its timely closing.
intj
  1. The sound of a dog barking.
noun
  1. The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree or of various other woody plants.
  2. Peruvian bark or Jesuit's bark, the bark of the cinchona from which quinine is produced.
  3. Hard candy made in flat sheets, for instance out of chocolate, peanut butter, toffee or peppermint.
  4. The crust formed on barbecued meat that has had a rub applied to it.
  5. The envelopment or outer covering of anything.
  6. Woodchips.
verb
  1. To strip the bark from; to peel.
  2. To abrade or rub off any outer covering from.
  3. To girdle.
  4. To cover or inclose with bark, or as with bark.
noun
  1. A small sailing vessel, e.g. a pinnace or a fishing smack; a rowing boat or barge.
  2. A sailing vessel or boat of any kind.
  3. A vessel, typically with three (or more) masts, with the foremasts (or fore- and mainmasts) square-rigged, and mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
noun
  1. An Irish person.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/bɑːk/ /bɑɹk/ En-uk-bark.ogg en-us-bark.ogg

Word forms

bark barks barking barked barke barque

Etymology

From Middle English barken, berken, borken, from Old English beorcan (“to bark”), from the Proto-West Germanic *berkan (“to bark”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerg- (“to make a noise, growl, bark”), from *bʰer- (“to drone, hum, buzz”). Cognate with Icelandic berkja (“to bark, bluster”), Icelandic barki (“throat, windpipe”), dialectal Lithuanian burgė́ti (“to growl, grumble, grouch, quarrel”), Serbo-Croatian brbljati (“to murmur”). For the noun, compare Old English beorc, bearce (“barking”)..

Synonyms

give tongue latrate woof rind

Derived words

bark at print bark at the wrong tree barking barking deer barking dogs never bite barking spider barking squirrel bark up the wrong tree barky bebark buy a dog and bark oneself dogs are barking don't keep a dog and bark yourself have a dog and bark oneself keep a dog and bark oneself outbark park and bark the dogs bark, but the caravan goes on the dogs bark, but the caravan moves on why keep a dog and bark yourself all bark and no bite all bark but no bite all bark no bite bark collar Barkese barkitecture bark mitzvah barkometer bark park barksome midbark one's bark is worse than one's bite barkery barkless bark bed bark beetle barkbound bark bread bark dust barklike bark louse bark mill bark mixture bark scorpion bark spud beech bark disease birchbark bitter bark cabbage-bark Cartagena bark China bark cinchona bark crampbark debark debarker disbark dita bark elm bark beetle holy bark ironbark

Translations

Afrikaans: blaf Afrikaans: geblaf Arabic: نُبَاح Armenian: հաչոց Asturian: lladríu Belarusian: брахня́ Belarusian: лай Belarusian: га́ўканне Belarusian: брэх Bulgarian: лай Catalan: lladruc Chinese Mandarin: 吠 Cornish: harth Crimean Tatar: talamaq Czech: štěkání Czech: štěkot Danish: gøen Dutch: geblaf Esperanto: bojo Finnish: haukku Finnish: haukahdus French: aboiement Galician: ladro Georgian: ყეფა German: Bellen German: Gebell Greek: γάβγισμα Greek: αλύχτημα Greek: υλακή Ancient Greek: ὑλαγμός Hebrew: נביחה Hungarian: ugatás Icelandic: gelt Icelandic: gá Icelandic: hundgá Icelandic: gey Icelandic: gjamm Icelandic: bofs Irish: tafann Irish: sceamh Italian: abbaiamento Italian: latrato Japanese: 吠え声 Khmer: ព្រុស Central Kurdish: ھەپاندن Central Kurdish: وەڕین Northern Kurdish: reyîn Northern Kurdish: ewtîn Northern Kurdish: rewîn Latin: lātrātus Macedonian: лаеж Maguindanao: gebu Malay: salak Malay: salakan Malay: gonggongan Malay: kongkong Malay: kung-kung Māori: auau Maranao: gebo Norwegian: bjeff Ojibwe: migiwin Old English: ġebeorc Persian: لایش Persian: پارس
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