bek

bek (plural beks)

1. Alternative form of bey (Turkish governor)

• KBE, Keb

From Dutch bek, from Middle Dutch bec, from Old French bec.

• IPA^(key): /bɛk/

bek (plural bekke, diminutive bekkie)

1. beak
2. mouth of an animal
3. (derogatory) mouth of a human

From Proto-Bahnaric *biak.

• IPA^(key): /bɛːk/

bek

1. fat

• IPA^(key): /bɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Homophone: beg

From back, which was borrowed from English back. See also bachyně.[1]

• back (archaic)

bek m

1. (animate, colloquial, sports) back [20th c.]
   • 1996, Bohumil Hrabal, Ze zápisníku zapisovatele‎, Praha: Pražská imaginace, →ISBN, page 251:

     Vojta Bradáč dvěma góly vyrovnal a pak zdánlivě kulhající Puč najednou nekulhal, obešel halvy, pak po něm vystartoval bek Černý, ale Puč dělovkou překonal brankáře Tichého a já jsem odcházel z hřiště smutný…

     Vojta Bradáč equalized with two goals and then seemingly limping Puč suddenly wasn't limping, got through the half-backs, then back Černý started off against him, but Puč defeated goalkeeper Tichý with a hard shot and I was leaving the pitch sad…

2. (inanimate, colloquial, sports) defense (portion of a team dedicated to defending) [20th c.]
   • 1999, Vlasta Chramostová, Vlasta Chramostová‎, Brno: Doplněk, →ISBN, page 176:

     Standíkovi bylo třináct čtrnáct a hrál na beku.

     Standík was thirteen or fourteen and played in the defense.

animate

inanimate

• (back): obránce, zadák
• (defense): obrana, defenziva, defenzíva

• (back): útočník, forward
• (defense): útok, ofenziva, ofenzíva

bek m inan

1. bleat
   • 1902, Josef K. Šlejhar, Temno‎, J. Otto, page 210:

     V tu dobu zase žalný bekot telátka přerývavě zazněl z chléva. Nejistý, bázlivý byl to bek […]

     Sad bleating was heard disjointedly from the barn in that time. It was uncertain, timid bleating […]

2. cry
   • 1900, Holeček, Josef, Květy‎, volume 45:

     Frantík tentokrát nedal se pro sklamání do beku.

     This time Frantík didn't start crying because of his disappointment.

• (bleat): bekot, bečení
• (cry): pláč, brek, brekot, brečení

bek

1. (onomatopoeia) The characteristic bark of a roe deer.
   • 2015, Karel Čapek, Hordubal‎, KKnihy.cz, →ISBN, page 37:

     Bek, bek, povídá, zadupe kopýtky a kluše dál.

     "Bark, bark", she says, stamps with her little hooves and keeps trotting.

• bek in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• bek in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• IPA^(key): /bɛk/

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• Hyphenation: bek
• Rhymes: -ɛk

From Middle Dutch bec, from Old French bec.

bek m (plural bekken, diminutive bekje n)

1. a bird's beak

   Synonym: snavel

2. any animal's mouth (such as a snout)
3. (informal, rude) a human mouth

   Hou je bek!

   Shut your trap!

• Afrikaans: bek

bek

1. first-person singular present indicative of bekken
2. imperative of bekken

From English back.

bek

1. back

bek

1. back

• IPA^(key): /bɛk/

bek m inan

1. bleat (cry of a sheep or goat)
2. (colloquial) wail

• (verbs) beknąć, beczeć
• (noun) beczenie

bek m inan

1. (informal) verbal noun of bekać

From English back.

bek m pers

1. (dated, sports) defender

   Synonym: obrońca

From Romanian bec.

bek m inan

1. (Bukovina) lightbulb

   Synonym: żarówka

bek

1. genitive plural of beka

• bek in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From English bag.

bek

1. bag

From English back.

bek

1. back
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:19:

     (please add an English translation of this quote)

From Old Norse bik, from Latin pix.

• IPA^(key): /bɪːk/, /bek/ (example of pronunciation)

bek n

1. pitch; A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.

• bek
• bekulæpp