stuk

== Afrikaans == === Etymology === From Dutch stuk. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /stœk/ === Noun === stuk (plural stukke, diminutive stukkie) A piece, part. == Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /stʏk/ Hyphenation: stuk Rhymes: -ʏk === Etymology 1 === From Middle Dutch stucke, stuc, from Old Dutch *stukki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Cognate with German Stück, dialectal English steck and borrowed shtick. Doublet of stuc. ==== Noun ==== stuk n (plural stukken, diminutive stukje n) a piece, part, share (of a whole) Ik snij deze peer in vier stukken. ― I’m cutting this pear in four pieces. Synonym: deel a theatrical piece, play, skit a document (especially official) (board games) a playing piece (chess) a piece, one of the playing pieces in chess usually excluding pawns (colloquial) a hottie, babe, attractive person (of any gender) ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== Negerhollands: stuk, stek, stik, steki, stiki, teki Skepi Creole Dutch: steki (from the diminutive) ==== Noun ==== stuk n (plural stuks, diminutive stukje n) a piece, one (countable), an item (of a thing, kind, ware; often untranslated in English) === Etymology 2 === By shortening of the adverbial form aan stuk, now obsolete and superseded by aan stukken (“to pieces”). ==== Adjective ==== stuk (comparative stukker, superlative stukst) broken, rendered useless; out of order Synonyms: kapot, kaduuk, defect ===== Usage notes ===== The adjective is used chiefly predicatively. At least colloquially, however, inflected forms are quite common: een stukke wasmachine (“a broken washing machine”), het is stukker dan stuk (“it’s totally ruined”, literally: “more broken than broken”). ===== Declension ===== ===== Derived terms ===== === Anagrams === kust == Polish == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Slavic *stukъ. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈstuk/ Rhymes: -uk Syllabification: stuk Homophone: stóg === Noun === stuk m inan knock Synonym: stukot ==== Declension ==== === Interjection === stuk (colloquial) knock! Synonym: puk ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “stuk”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN “stuk”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[2] (in Polish)