From en.wiktionary.org:
[Monk]
** English
[wikipedia]
*** Pronunciation
- [en] , [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], from [en], from [en], from [en], variant of [la], from [en],
from [grc].
**** Alternative forms
- [en]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A male member of a monastic order who has devote d his life for religious service.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. In earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite , who lived communally.
5. * [chapter=20]
6. [en] Someone who leads an isolated life; a loner , a hermit .
7. [en] An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
8. [en] A judge .
9. [en] [en] An inkblot .
10. A South American monkey ( [Pithecia monachus] ); also applied to other species, as [Cebus xanthosternos] .
11. The bullfinch , common bullfinch , [European bullfinch] , or Eurasian bullfinch ( [Pyrrhula pyrrhula] ).
12. The monkfish .
13. [en] A fuse for firing mine s.
***** Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:recluse
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|monkdom|monkery|monkess|monkfruit|monkish|monkism|monkless|monklet|monklike|monkly|monkscloth|monkshood|have
a monk on|Monk Bretton|monkette|Monk Fryston|Monk Hesleden|monk bat|monk
chair|monk fruit|monk parakeet|monk seal|monk saki |Monks Horton |Monks
Risborough |monk vulture|monk parrot|priest-monk|sea monk|the cowl does not
make the monk}}
***** Related terms
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
***** Translations
[male member of monastic order]
- Afrikaans: [af]
- Albanian: [sq]
- Arabic: [ar] , [ar]
- Armenian: [hy] , [hy]
- Aromanian: [rup]
- Asturian: [ast]
- Azerbaijani: [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Breton: [br]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Burmese: [my] , [my] , [my] , [my]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Coptic: [cop]
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Dzongkha: [dz]
- Erzya: [myv]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Estonian: [et]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl] , [gl] [archaic] , [gl] , [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi] , [hi] , [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu] , [hu]
- Icelandic: [is]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id] , [id]
- Irish:
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja] , [ja]
- Kashubian: [csb]
- Kazakh: [kk] , [kk] , [kk]
- Khmer: [km] , [km] , [km]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Kurdish:
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Lao: [lo] , [lo] , [lo] , [lo]
- Latin: [la] , [la]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Lithuanian: [lt] , [lt] [dialectal]
- Lü: [khb]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Malay: [ms] , [ms]
- Maltese: [mt]
- Maori: [mi]
- Mon: [mnw]
- Mongolian:
- Norman: [nrf]
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: [oc]
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Old Czech: [zlw-ocs]
- Old East Slavic: [orv]
- Old English: [ang]
- Old Lithuanian: [olt] , [olt]
- Old Polish: [zlw-opl]
- Oromo: [om]
- Ossetian: [os]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota] , [ota]
- Pali: [pi]
- Pashto: [ps]
- Persian:
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro] , [ro]
- Romansch: [rm] , [rm] , [rm]
- Russian: [ru]
- Sanskrit: [sa]
- Sardinian: [sc] , [sc]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Shan: [shn] , [shn]
- Skolt Sami: [sms]
- Slovak: [sk] , [sk]
- Slovene: [sl] , [sl]
- Sorbian:
- Spanish: [es]
- Swahili: [sw]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Tajik: [tg] , [tg]
- Tamil: [ta]
- Thai: [th] , [th]
- Tibetan: [bo] , [bo] [honorific] , [bo]
- Tocharian B: [txb]
- Turkish: [tr] , [tr] , [tr]
- Turkmen: [tk]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Urdu: [ur]
- Uyghur: [ug]
- Uzbek: [uz] , [uz] , [uz] [Christian]
- Venetan: [vec] , [vec]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi] [Roman Catholicism]
- Volapük: [male or female] [vo] , [male] [vo]
- Walloon: [wa]
- Welsh: [cy]
- West Frisian: [fy]
- Zhuang: [za]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: loner]
[slang: man living without sexual relationships]
- Italian: [it]
- Polish: [pl]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Slovak: [sk]
- Tamil: [ta]
[trans-bottom]
[slang: judge]
[checktrans-top]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Latin: [la]
- Persian: [fa]
- Serbo-Croatian: [sh] , [sh]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. To be a monk.
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. To act like a monk; especially to be contemplative .
5. * [en]
6. * [en]
7. * [en]
8. * [en]
9. To monkey or meddle ; to behave in a manner that is not systematic .
10. * [en]
11. * [en]
12. * [en]
13. To be intoxicated or confused .
14. * [en]
15. * [en]
16. [en] To attach so that it sticks out.
17. * [en]
18. * [en]
19. * [en]
**** See also
{{col|en |abbey |abbot |brother |cloister |convent |hermit |nun |sister }}
*** Etymology 2
By shortening.
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] A monkey .
2. * [1=en]
3. * [en]
4. *: It seems that the big MONK up on the roof is nobody but Bongo, who is a gorilla belonging to the circus, and one of the very few gorillas of any account in this country, or anywhere else, as far as this goes, because good gorillas are very scarce, indeed.
[en]
** Middle English
*** Alternative forms
- [enm]
*** Etymology
From [enm].
*** Noun
[enm-noun]
1. [en]
2. * {{ quote-text | enm | year=1407 | title=w:The Testimony of William Thorpe | pages=40–41
|passage=Also Filip of Repintoun whilis he was a chanoun of Leycetre, Nycol
Herforde, dane Geffrey of Pikeringe, MONKE of Biland and a maistir dyuynyte,
and Ioon Purueye, and manye other whiche weren holden rightwise men and
prudent, taughten and wroten bisili this forseide lore of Wiclef, and
conformeden hem therto.}}
**** Descendants
- [en]
- [sco]
[enm]
** Saterland Frisian
*** Etymology
From [stq], [ofs], from [stq]. Compare [en].
*** Preposition
[stq]
1. among
**** Synonyms
- [stq]