wok
UK/wɒk//wɑk/
wok noun: a large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
Noun
wok (plural woks)
- A large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
- The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood, →ISBN, page 86
- Any dish prepared using such a pan.
Verb
wok (third-person singular simple present woks, present participle woking or wokking, simple past and past participle woked or wokked)
- To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.
wok meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Tagalog and Arabic
wok in Tamil
- கடாய்
wok in Urdu
- چینی کڑھائی, کڑھائی
wok in Tagalog
- large round pan
- kawali, tulyasi, talyasi
wok in Arabic
- large round pan
- وُوك wūk
More languagesFewer languages
- wok in Malay
- kuali
- wok in Indonesian
- wajan
- wok in Thai
- กระทะ grà-tá
- wok in Vietnamese
- xanh, chảo, sanh
- wok in Myanmar
- ဒယ်အိုး daiui:
Forms of wok
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | woks |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | woks |
| present participle | woking |
| present participle | wokking |
| past participle | woked |
| past | woked |
| past participle | wokked |
| past | wokked |
Origin of wok
Borrowed from Cantonese 鑊 /镬 (wok⁶).
Words formed from wok
Phrases with wok
Words that rhyme with wok
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sock
- unlock
- baroque
- flock
- locke
- mock
- ad hoc
- frock
- unblock
- undock
- VOC
- chock
- defrock
- nock
- o'clock
- prairie dock
- proc
- smock
- acock
- amok
- bangkok
- bloc
- Carvel Rock
- doc
- grok
- hough
- loch
- pock
- slock
- wedlock
- 24-hour clock
- bock
- bok
- brocc
- choc
- croc
- digital clock
- drop lock
- Farallon Rock
- flight sock
- freezer block
- gock
- hashlock
- hock
- kozachok
- lough
- Nixon shock
- oc
Questions about wok
- What does wok mean?
- Wok means a large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
- What is wok in Tamil?
- Wok in Tamil is கடாய். See Wok meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is wok?
- Wok can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce wok?
- Wok is pronounced /wɒk/ (UK).
- What is the plural of wok?
- The plural of wok is woks.
Words near wok in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: wok (page history and authors); wok (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wok (Urdu 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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