beak

Etymology 1
From, borrowed from , , from , from , from , possibly from ,. Cognate with 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬; Dutch

Noun



 * 1) A rigid structure projecting from the front of a bird's face, used for pecking, grooming, foraging, carrying items, eating food, etc.
 * 2) A similar pointed structure forming the nose and mouth of various animals, such as turtles, platypuses, whales, etc.
 * 3) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects and other invertebrates, as in the.
 * 4) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve.
 * 5) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.
 * 6)  Any process somewhat like the beak of a bird, terminating the fruit or other parts of a plant.
 * 7) Anything projecting or ending in a point like a beak, such as a promontory of land.
 * 8)  A continuous slight projection ending in an arris or narrow fillet; that part of a drip from which the water is thrown off.
 * 9)  A toe clip.
 * 10)  That part of a ship, before the forecastle, which is fastened to the stem, and supported by the main knee.
 * 11)  A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, used as a ram to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.
 * 12)  Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
 * 13) A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
 * 14)   A person's mouth.
 * 15)  Cocaine.
 * 1)  Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus, notable for the beak-like elongation on their heads.
 * 2) A person's nose, especially one that is large and pointed.
 * 3)   A person's mouth.
 * 4)  Cocaine.
 * 1)   A person's mouth.
 * 2)  Cocaine.
 * 1)  Cocaine.
 * 1)  Cocaine.
 * 1)  Cocaine.
 * 1)  Cocaine.

Translations

 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic: مِنْقَار
 * Egyptian Arabic: منقار
 * Hijazi Arabic: منقار
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: ঠোঁট
 * Asturian:
 * Avar: гозо
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: moko
 * Bats: ზოქ
 * Bau Bidayuh: tukuk
 * Belarusian: дзю́ба
 * Bengali:, চঁচু
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: sungo
 * Central Melanau: mujun
 * Chechen: зӏок
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Chuvash: сӑмса
 * Crimean Tatar: ğağa
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: beko
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: nev
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: bec
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian: ნისკარტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ῥάμφος
 * Gujarati: ચાંચ, તુંડ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: चोंच,, , , , , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingush: зӏок
 * Irish: gob
 * Isan:
 * Italian:, , ranfoteca
 * Japanese:
 * Jarai: tơƀuaĭ
 * Kashubian: dzëba
 * Kazakh: тұмсық
 * Khmer:
 * Kimaragang: tinduk, tinduk
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Southern Kurdish: دەنۊک
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao: ສະກອຍ, ສົບ
 * Latgalian: gnēze
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: knābis
 * Lithuanian:
 * Low German:
 * Plauttdietsch (Mennonite Low German): Schnovel, Schnowel
 * Lü:
 * Luxembourgish: Schniewel
 * Macedonian: клун
 * Malay: paruh, cotok
 * Maltese: munqar
 * Maori: timo
 * Marathi: चोच
 * Mingrelian: ნინძგი
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ
 * Norman: baec
 * Northern Thai:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: nebb
 * Occitan:
 * Ottoman Turkish: بورون
 * Pashto: مښوکه, نوله
 * Persian:, ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua: chhutuna
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gob
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кљу̑н
 * Roman:
 * Shan:
 * Slovak: zobák
 * Slovene:
 * Southern Thai:
 * Spanish:
 * Svan: ნიკრა̈ტ, ნჷნძგ
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagal Murut: tinduk
 * Tagalog: tuka
 * Tajik: нул, нӯл, минқор
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: çüňk, çokja
 * Ukrainian: дзьоб
 * Urdu: چونچ
 * Uyghur: تۇمشۇق
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:, bödahoned, tipamud
 * Walloon:
 * Waray-Waray: tuktok
 * Welsh:, gylfin
 * West Coast Bajau: tinduk, jungur
 * West Frisian: snaffel
 * Yagnobi: нул
 * Yakut: тумус
 * Yiddish: שנאָבל
 * Zazaki: naqur


 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Korean: 주둥이
 * Macedonian: клун
 * Russian:


 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἔμβολον
 * Italian:
 * Macedonian: клун

Verb

 * 1)  To strike with the beak.
 * 2)  To seize with the beak.
 * 3)  To play truant.

Etymology 2
en; originally cant; first recorded in 17thC; probably related to obsolete cant beck "constable".

Noun

 * 1)  A justice of the peace; a magistrate.
 * 2)  A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
 * 3) * 1907,, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]:
 * It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.
 * 1)  A schoolmaster (originally, at Eton).
 * 2) * 1907,, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]:
 * It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.
 * 1) * 1907,, The Longest Journey, Part II, XX [Uniform ed., p. 201]:
 * It’s easy enough to be a beak when you’re young and athletic, and can offer the latest University smattering. The difficulty is to keep your place when you get old and stiff, and younger smatterers are pushing up behind you. Crawl into a boarding-house and you’re safe. A master’s life is frightfully tragic.

Noun

 * 1) bow down