trek

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and trēken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekaną, *trakjaną (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

• enPR: trĕk, IPA^(key): /tɹɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

trek (plural treks)

1. A slow or difficult journey.

   We're planning a trek up Kilimanjaro.

2. (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
3. (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835-1837.

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

1. (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

     Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.

2. (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
3. (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.

• rekt

From Dutch trekken.

trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)

1. to haul
2. to move (moving house)
3. to pull

• → English: trek

From Dutch trek.

trek (plural trekke)

1. journey

• Groot Trek

• IPA^(key): /trɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.

trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)

1. (uncountable) appetite

   Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar

   Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task

2. (countable) journey, migration
3. (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
4. (countable) feature, trait

See the etymology of the main entry.

trek

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

• rekt

trek m (plural treks)

1. treck
2. trecking