Define:Rook

Relatit: röök

English

Pronunciation

• /ɹʊk/
• Audio (US) 
• (deprecatit uise o |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ʊk

Etymology 1

A rook (bird)

Frae Middle Inglis rok, roke, frae Old English hrōc, frae Proto-Germanic *hrōkaz (compare Saterland Frisian Rouk, Dutch roek, obsolete German Ruch), frae Proto-Indo-European *kerk- (“crow, raven”) (compare Old Irish cerc (“hen”), Old Prussian kerko (“loon, diver”), dialectal Bulgarie кро́кон (krókon, “raven”), Ancient Greek κόραξ (kóraks, “falcon”), Old Armenian ագռաւ (agṙaw), Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀𐬝 (kahrkatat̰, “rooster”), Sanskrit कृकर (kṛkara, “rooster”)), Ukrainian крук (kruk, “raven”).

Noun

Rook (plural Rooks)

1. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, o the craw faimily.
   • Pennant

     The rook […] should be treatit as the fairmer's friend.

2. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wycherley to this entry?)

3. (British) a type o firecracker uised bi fairmers tae scare birds o the same name.

Synonyms

• (swindler): swindler, cheat

Hypernyms

• (bird): bird
• (firecracker): firecracker

Translations

bird

• Armenian: սերմնագռավ (sermnagṙav)
• Azeri: zağca
• Belarusian: грак m (hrak)
• Bulgarian: посевна врана f (posévna vrána), полска врана f (pólska vrána) (lit.: Polish crow)
• Catalan: graula f
• Chechen: къиг (q̇ig)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 禿鼻烏鴉, 秃鼻乌鸦 (zh) (tūbíwūyā), 白嘴鴉, 白嘴鸦 (zh) (báizuǐyā)

• Czech: havran (cs) m
• Danish: råge c
• Dutch: roek (nl) m
• Esperanto: (♂♀) frugilego, (♂) virfrugilego, (♀) frugilegino, (♂♀ offspring) frugilegido, (♂) virfrugilegido, (♀) frugilegidino, (♂♀) kampokorvo, (♂) virkampokorvo, (♀) kampokorvino, (♂♀ offspring) kampokorvido, (♂ offspring) virkampokorvido, (♀) kampokorvidino
• Faroese: felliskráka f, hjaltakráka f
• Finnish: mustavaris (fi)
• French: corbeau freux (fr) m, freux (fr) m
• Georgian: ჭილყვავი (čilqvavi)
• German: Saatkrähe (de) f
• Greek: χαβαρόνι n (chavaróni), σταροκόρακας m (starokórakas)
• Hebrew: עורב מזרע‎ m ('orév mizrá')
• Hungarian: vetési varjú
• Icelandic: bláhrafn (is)

• Irish: rúcach m
• Italian: corvo comune m
• Japanese: ミヤマガラス (miyamagarasu), 深山烏 (みやまがらす, miyamagarasu), 深山鴉 (みやまがらす, miyamagarasu)
• Lithuanian: kovas (lt), kovarnis
• Macedonian: врана гагец f (vrána gágec), полска врана f (pólska vrána) (lit.: Polish crow)
• Manx: trogh m, troghan m, troghan doo m
• Northern Sami: bealdovuoraš
• Norwegian: kornkråke
• Persian: زاغ‎ (fa) (zâğ)
• Polish: gawron (pl) m
• Portuguese: gralha (pt)
• Romanian: cioară de semănătură f
• Russian: грач (ru) m (grač)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: гакуша f

  Roman: gakuša f

• Slovak: havran m
• Slovene: grakuša f, poljska vrana f (lit.: Polish crow)
• Spanish: graja f
• Swedish: råka (sv)
• Ukrainian: грак m (hrak), гайворон m (hájvoron)
• Volapük: (♂♀) grenakrov (vo), (♂) grenahikrov, (♀) grenajikrov, (♂♀ offspring) grenakrovül (vo), (♂ offspring) grenahikrovül, (♀ offspring) grenajikrovül

swindler

• German: Schwindler m, Schwindlerin f, Betrüger m Betrügerin f, Gauner m Gaunerin f
• Greek: απατεώνας (el) m (apateónas), αγύρτης (el) m (agýrtis), χαρτοκλέφτης (el) m (chartokléftis)

• Russian: жулик (ru) (žulik), мошенник (ru) (mošennik), плут (ru) (plut), шулер (ru) (šuler), шельма (ru) m, f (šélʹma), аферист (ru) m (aferíst)

Verb

Rook (third-person singular simple present Rooks, present participle Rooking, simple past an past participle Rooked)

1. (transitive) Tae cheat or swindle.
   • 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York 2007, p. 311:

     Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.

Synonyms

• (cheat, swindle): cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindle

Translations

cheat, swindle

• Dutch: valsspelen (nl)
• French: rouler (fr)
• German: schwindeln, betrügen, übers Ohr hauen (idiomatic), lügen, hintergehen, falsch spielen (idiomatic), hinters Licht führen (idiomatic), ergaunern, abgaunern

• Italian: imbrogliare (it)
• Polish: oszukać (pl)
• Russian: обманывать (ru) (obmanyvatʹ), мошенничать (ru) (mošenničatʹ), (related to playing cards) нечестно играть (nečestno igratʹ), выманивать деньги (vymanivatʹ denʹgi), обдирать (ru) (obdiratʹ), (related to buyer, client) обсчитывать (obsčityvatʹ)

Etymology 2

A ruik (chess)

Frae Auld French

roc

, ultimately frae Persie

رخ

. Compare

roc

.

Noun

Rook (plural Rooks)

1. (
   ) A piece shaped lik a castle touer, that can be moved anly up, doun, left or richt (but nae diagonally) or in castlin.
   1. (rare) A castle or ither fortification.
   2. An Amish card gemme.

   Synonyms

   • (chesspiece): castle

   Translations

   chesspiece

   • Translingual: ♜, ♜
   • Afrikaans: toring
   • Albanian: kala f
   • Arabic: طابية‎ f (ṭābya)
   • Armenian: նավակ (navak)
   • Asturian: torre f
   • Basque: gaztelu (eu)
   • Breton: tour (br) m
   • Bulgarian: топ (bg) (top)
   • Catalan: torre (ca) f
   • Chinese:

     Mandarin: 車 (zh), 车 (zh) (jū) , 城堡 (zh) (chéngbǎo)

   • Czech: věž (cs) f
   • Danish: tårn n
   • Dutch: toren (nl) m
   • Esperanto: turo (eo)
   • Estonian: vanker
   • Faroese: rókur m
   • Finnish: torni (fi)
   • French: tour (fr) f
   • Galician: torre (gl) f
   • Georgian: ეტლი (etli), როქი (rok‘i)
   • German: Turm (de) m
   • Greek: πύργος (el) m (pýrgos)
   • Template:Trreq
   • Hebrew: צַרִיחַ‎ (he) m (tzariakh)
   • Hindi: हाथी (hi) m (hāthī)
   • Hungarian: bástya (hu)
   • Icelandic: hrókur
   • Indonesian: benteng (id)
   • Irish: caiseal m
   • Italian: rocco (it) m, torre (it) f
   • Japanese: ルーク (rūku)

   • Khmer: ទូក (km) (tuuk), ប្រាសាទ (km) (praasaat)
   • Korean: 룩 (ruk)
   • Latin: turris (la)
   • Latvian: tornis m
   • Lithuanian: bokštas m
   • Macedonian: топ m (top)
   • Malay: benteng, tir
   • Maltese: kastell m
   • Manx: cashtal m
   • Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭠𐭲𐭢𐭣𐭠𐭫‎ (mādayār)
   • Norwegian: tårn

     Nynorsk: sjakkbrikka tårn

   • Occitan: castel (oc)
   • Persian: رخ‎ (fa) (rox)
   • Polish: wieża (pl) f
   • Portuguese: torre (pt) f
   • Romanian: turn (ro) n
   • Romansch: tur m
   • Russian: ладья (ru) f (lad'já), тура (ru) f (turá) (informal)
   • Serbo-Croatian:

     Cyrillic: топ m, кула f

     Roman: top m, kula f

   • Slovak: veža f
   • Slovene: trdnjava (sl) f
   • Spanish: torre (es) f
   • Swedish: torn (sv) n
   • Telugu: ఏనుగు (te) (ēnugu)
   • Turkish: kale (tr)
   • Ukrainian: тура (tura)
   • Urdu: ہاتھی‎ m (hāthī)
   • Volapük: cögatüm
   • Welsh: castell (cy)
   • West Frisian: stins
   fortification

   • Armenian: ամրոց (amrocʿ)
   • Dutch: vesting (nl) f, burcht f
   • Finnish: linnoitus (fi)
   • German: Festung (de) f, Burg (de) f
   • Hungarian: bástya (hu)
   • Italian: rocca (it)
   • Japanese: 城塞 (じょうさい, jōsai)

   • Russian: крепость (ru) f (krépost')
   • Serbo-Croatian:

     Cyrillic: тврђава f, кула f

     Roman: tvrđava f, kula f

   • Spanish: baluarte m, bastión (es) m
   • Turkish: kale (tr)
   card gemme
   • Template:Ttbc: Corvus frugilegus

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   • Template:Ttbc: (3) kovas m
   • Template:Ttbc: Saatkreih f
   • Template:Ttbc: رخ (rukh) (1, 2)
   • Template:Ttbc: citadelă f (1), tură f (2)
   |}

   See also

   • squab

   Etymology 3

   Frae rookie.

   Noun

   Rook (plural Rooks)

   1. (baseball, Template:Context 2) A rookie.

   Etymology 4

   Noun

   Rook (uncountable)

   1. mist; fog; roke

   Etymology 5

   Verb

   Rook (third-person singular simple present Rooks, present participle Rooking, simple past an past participle Rooked)

   1. (obsolete) Tae squat; tae ruck.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

   Anagrams

   • koro

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   Dutch

   Pronunciation

   • /roːk/
   • (deprecatit uise o |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -oːk
   • audio 

   Etymology 1

   Frae Middle Dutch rooc, frae Old Dutch *rōk, rouc, frae Proto-Germanic *raukiz.

   Noun

   Rook m (uncountable)

   1. smeuk

   Derived terms

   • roken
   • rookontwikkeling
   • rooksignaal
   • rookwolk

   Etymology 2

   Non-lemma forms.

   Verb

   1. first-person seengular present indicative o roken
   2. imperative o roken

   Verb

   1. seengular past indicative o ruiken
   2. seengular past indicative o rieken

   Anagrams

   • koor