orc

Etymology 1
From, , and their source,. .

Noun

 * 1)  Any of several large, ferocious sea creatures, now especially the killer whale.

Etymology 2


Probably from ; later revived by, partly after , which he took to mean "demon". Both are from. .

or, both from the English word and possibly under the influence of. Popularized in English in 2022, following the.

Noun

 * 1)  A mythical evil monstrous humanoid creature, usually quite aggressive and often green.
 * 2) * 1834, "The National Fairy Mythology of England" in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. 10, p. 53:
 * The chief exploit of the hero, Beowulf the Great, is the destruction of the two monsters Grendel and his mother; both like most of the evil beings in the old times, dwellers in the fens and the waters; and both, moreover, as some Christian bard has taken care to inform us, of "Cain's kin," as were also the eotens, and the elves, and the orcs (eótenas, and ylfe, and orcneas).
 * 1)   A Russian soldier or gangster. Sometimes considered an ethnic slur for Russians.
 * 2)   A Russian person.
 * 1)   A Russian soldier or gangster. Sometimes considered an ethnic slur for Russians.
 * 2)   A Russian person.
 * 1)   A Russian person.
 * 1)   A Russian person.
 * 1)   A Russian person.
 * 1)   A Russian person.
 * 1)   A Russian person.

Descendants
Some listed may be semantic loans.



Translations

 * Arabic: أُورْك
 * Armenian: օրկ
 * Belarusian: орк
 * Bulgarian: орк
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 奧克, 歐克
 * Czech: ork,
 * Danish: ork
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: orko
 * Estonian: mäekoll, örk
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: orco
 * Georgian: ორკი
 * German:
 * Greek: ορκ
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: orki
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 오크
 * Latvian: orks
 * Lithuanian: orkas
 * Luxembourgish: Ork
 * Macedonian: орк
 * Marathi: ऑर्क
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: ork, orc
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, orque
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: орк
 * Roman: ork
 * Slovak: ohyzd, ork, škrat, škriatok
 * Slovene: ork
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: orch,
 * Ukrainian:


 * Armenian: օրկ
 * Belarusian: орк
 * Dutch:
 * Georgian: ორკი
 * Hungarian:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Ukrainian:

Noun

 * 1) an

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) cup, tankard

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) hell
 * 2) a demon

Usage notes

 * The sense "demon" is uncertain. Two ambiguous occurrences of orc, one in the plural compound word orcneas in Beowulf (singular, where means "corpse", as in ) and the other in a glossary which glosses  as "orc. þyrs  hel deofol", have been interpreted to mean "demon" (including by the OED), and Tolkien held this interpretation when he revived the word with a similar sense in modern English, matching some of the Romance descendants of . However, it has been argued that this is a misunderstanding and that both instances are of the other sense, "hell".

Etymology
From, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) piglet

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   evil, monstrous humanoid creature