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birk

UK/bɜː(ɹ)k/US/bɝk/

birk noun: a birch tree. Also the alternative spelling of berk.

Noun

birk (plural birks)

  1. (Northern England) A birch tree.
    • Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave.1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dirge”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 56
  2. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

Proper noun capitalized: Birk

Birk (plural Birks)

  1. A surname.
  2. A male given name.

Also used as

birk is also the alternative spelling of berk.

Forms of birk

Noun
pluralbirks
Proper noun
pluralBirks

Origin of birk

From Northern Middle English birk, birke, byrke (“birch”), (southern Middle English birche). More at birch. (tree): Cognate with Scots birk.

From the Anglo-Norman surname, from Old English burh, burg (“fortification, city”).

Words that rhyme with birk

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Questions about birk

What does birk mean?
Birk means a birch tree.
What part of speech is birk?
Birk can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce birk?
Birk is pronounced /bɜː(ɹ)k/ (UK).
What is the plural of birk?
The plural of birk is birks.

Words near birk in the dictionary

  1. biritch
  2. biritual
  3. biriyani
  4. biriyanis
  5. Birjand
  6. birk
  7. birkarl
  8. birkarls
  9. Birkbeck
  10. Birkbecks
  11. Birkby

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Adapted from Wiktionary: birk (page history and authors); Birk (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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