melk

• IPA^(key): [mɛɫk]

From Dutch melk.

melk (uncountable)

1. milk

From Dutch melken.

melk (present melk, present participle melkende, past participle gemelk)

1. to milk

• IPA^(key): /mɛlk/, [mɛɫk], [ˈmɛ.lək]
• Rhymes: -ɛlk

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From Middle Dutch melc, from Old Dutch miluk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-.

melk f (uncountable)

1. Milk, nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother
2. (botany) Various resembling 'milky' juices, as secreted by certain plants and insects

• Afrikaans: melk
• → Sranan Tongo: merki
• → Tok Pisin: melek

• zuivel

See the etymology of the main entry.

melk

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

• klem

melk

1. Imperative singular of melken.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of melken.

• mjølk

From Old Norse mjolk, mjǫlk, from Proto-Germanic *meluks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂melǵ-. Compare with Danish mælk, Swedish mjölk, Icelandic mjölk.

melk f or m (definite singular melka or melken, indefinite plural melker, definite plural melkene)

1. milk (nutritious liquid produced by a lactating mammalian mother)
2. (botany) A juice from plants that looks like milk.

• mjølk (Nynorsk)

melk

1. imperative of melke

• “melk” in The Bokmål Dictionary.