koken

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Japanese 後見(こうけん) (kōken, “a staff in noh and kabuki”). === Noun === koken (plural kokens) (theater) A black-clad person who enters the stage to rearrange the set, unremarked by the actors === Anagrams === Knoke == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch cōken, from Old Dutch *kokon, from Proto-West Germanic *kokōn. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkoː.kə(n)/ Hyphenation: ko‧ken Rhymes: -oːkən === Verb === koken (ambitransitive) to cook, boil (intransitive, figuratively) to seethe, boil with anger ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== keuken ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: kook Berbice Creole Dutch: koki Jersey Dutch: kôke Negerhollands: kook, kok, kuk → Saramaccan: akòkí == Haitian Creole == === Etymology === From French coquin (“scoundrel”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kokɛ̃n/ === Noun === koken swindler, crook, scoundrel === References === Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 95 == Japanese == === Romanization === koken Rōmaji transcription of こけん