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auk

/ɔːk/

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Australia/oːk/

auk noun: any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.

auk: any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae
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Noun

auk (plural auks)

  1. Any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
    • Further afield, these auks are also in dire straits: Norway has seen vertiginous crashes, with hundreds of thousands of adult puffins in the once-teeming colony of Røst struggling to fledge any chicks in recent years.2018 June 20, Louise Tickle, The Guardian
    Synonyms:
    alcid

auk meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Marathi

auk in Hindi

seabird of the family Alcidae
अलका alkā

auk in Tamil

ஆர்க்டிக் பிரதேசப் பறவை இனம், குட்டையான இறுகளையுடைய கடல்பறவை

auk in Marathi

seabird of the family Alcidae
अलका alkā

Synonyms of auk

Forms of auk

pluralauks
alternative formawk
alternative formalk

Origin of auk

From Icelandic álka, from Old Norse alka (“auk”), from Proto-Germanic *alkǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁el- (“a kind of bird”). Cognate with Swedish alka (“auk”), Norwegian and Danish alke (“auk”), Swedish dialectal alla (“long-tailed duck”) (Clangula hyemalis, syn. Fuligula glacialis), Latin olor (“swan”), Ancient Greek ἐλέα (eléa, “marsh-bird”), Welsh alarch (“swan”).

Words formed from auk

Words that rhyme with auk

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Questions about auk

What does auk mean?
Auk means any of several species of Arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae.
What is auk in Hindi?
Auk in Hindi is अलका (alkā). See Auk meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is auk?
Auk is a noun.
How do you pronounce auk?
Auk is pronounced /ɔːk/ (UK).
What is the plural of auk?
The plural of auk is auks.

Words near auk in the dictionary

  1. AUI
  2. Auicen
  3. AUIF
  4. Aujeszky
  5. Aujeszky's disease
  6. auk
  7. Aukan
  8. Aukaner
  9. Aukaners
  10. Aukans
  11. Auke

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: auk (page history and authors); auk (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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