mūks

 mūks on Latvian Wikipedia

Borrowed from Old Norse munkr (“monk”) (cf. also Swedish, Danish munk), from Old English munuc. This word must have been borrowed during the time of the un > ū change (9th-12th century); its first mention (already in its modern form), however, is found in 17th-century dictionaries.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [mūːks]

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mūks m (1st declension, feminine form: mūķene)

1. monk (male member of a monastic or religious order, usually lives in a monastery)

   mūku iesvētīšana ― the ordaining of monks

   mūks vientuļnieks ― hermit monk

   dzīvot kā mūkam ― to live like a monk (= in isolation)

   kristietības pirmie mūki bija ēģiptiešu Antonijs Lielais un Pahomijs Lielais ― the first Christian monks were the Egyptians Anthony the Great and Pachomius the Great

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