rook

Etymology 1



 * From, , from , from , from (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, obsolete 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬.
 * Probably from the resemblance in plumage to a parson's garments.

Noun

 * 1) A European bird,, of the crow family.
 * 2) A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
 * 3) * 7 April 1705, William Wycherley, Letter to Alexander Pope in The Works of Alexander Pope 36:
 * So I am (like an old rook, who is ruined by gaming) forced to live on the good fortune of the pushing young men, whose fancies are so vigorous that they ensure their success in their adventures with Muses, by their strength and imagination.
 * 1) A bad deal; a rip-off.
 * 2)  A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
 * 3)  A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
 * 4)  A parson.
 * 1)  A type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
 * 2)  A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
 * 3)  A parson.
 * 1)  A parson.

Translations

 * Aragonese: gralla
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: ipar-bele
 * Belarusian: грак
 * Bulgarian: посе́вна вра́на, по́лска вра́на
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: къиг
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: frugilego, kampokorvo
 * Faroese: felliskráka, hjaltakráka
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician: grallo,
 * Georgian: ჭილყვავი
 * German:
 * Greek:, σταροκόρακας
 * Hebrew: עורב מזרע
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: rúcach
 * Italian: corvo comune
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kumyk: жыргъыт
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: قاژوو
 * Latvian: krauķis
 * Lithuanian:, kovarnis
 * Macedonian: врана гагец, полска врана
 * Manx: trogh, troghan, troghan doo
 * Nanai: тораки
 * Northern Sami: bealdovuoraš
 * Norwegian: kornkråke
 * Old English: hrōc
 * Ottoman Turkish: زاغ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: cioară de semănătură
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: гакуша
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: grakuša, poljska vrana
 * Spanish: graja,
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:, га́йворон
 * Welsh: ydfran, brân bigwen


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Greek:, ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Turkish:


 * Finnish:, rook-korttipeli

Verb

 * 1)  To cheat or swindle.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:, , , , ,  falsch spielen,  , ,
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , нечестно игра́ть, выманивать де́ньги, ,

Etymology 2
From, , , , from , ultimately from , from. Compare.

Noun

 * 1)  A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
 * 2)  A castle or other fortification.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: toring
 * Albanian:, torrë,
 * Arabic: قَلْعَة, رُخّ, طَابِيَة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque:
 * Belarusian:, ладзьдзя́, ве́жа, тура́
 * Bengali:
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 車, 城堡
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: turo
 * Estonian: vanker,
 * Faroese: rókur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ეტლი, როქი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, रुख़, किश्ती
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: hrókur
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: caiseal
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:
 * Kazakh: ладья
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean: 룩
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ладья
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: tornis
 * Lithuanian: bokštas
 * Macedonian: топ
 * Malay:, tir
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: kastell
 * Manx: cashtal
 * Maori: pā tūwatawata
 * Maranao: ti'ir
 * Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭠𐭲𐭢𐭣𐭠𐭫
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Navajo: kinyaaʼáhí
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: tårn
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: chi-ogimaawigamig
 * Old Norse: hrókr
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: tur
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: топ, кула
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian: turri
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: рух
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ruh
 * Ukrainian: тура́
 * Urdu: رخ
 * Uyghur: توپ
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: cögatüm
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: stins
 * Yiddish: טורעם


 * Armenian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: тврђава, кула
 * Roman: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Turkish:


 * Low German:
 * Persian: (1, 2)
 * Romanian: ,

Etymology 3
From rookie.

Noun

 * 1)  A rookie.

Etymology 4
From, , , from , related to 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, , Modern 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) mist; fog; roke

Verb

 * 1)  To squat; to ruck.

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) smoke

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to smoke (a tobacco product or surrogate)

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) smoke