prik

Root
p-r-k (lightning)
3 terms

From Arabic بَرِيق (barīq).

prik m (plural prek)

1. lightning flash

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 157

From Middle Low German pricke (“a prick”), pricken (“to prick”).

• IPA^(key): /prek/, [pʰʁ̥æɡ̊]

prik n (singular definite prikket, plural indefinite prik)

1. prick (the feeling of being pierced or punctured by an object with a fine point, the action of pricking)

prik c (singular definite prikken, plural indefinite prikker)

1. dot, point
2. spot

prik

1. infinitive of prikke

• IPA^(key): /prɪk/

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• Hyphenation: prik
• Rhymes: -ɪk

From Middle Dutch pricke, likely a variant of pikken with an emphatic -r-.^[1]

prik f (plural prikken, diminutive prikje n)

1. sting, prick (sting or bite from a bug, etc.)
2. small pointy object, prong
3. goad, prod
4. lamprey, fish of the order Petromyzontiformes

   Synonyms: lamprei, negenoog

5. (medicine, informal) injection, jab, shot

The informal diminutive prikkie is in common use in the Netherlands with the specific meaning of “a small amount of money”. The regular diminutive prikje is also used to mean this, though perhaps more commonly outside the Netherlands.

• griepprik
• ossenprik
• prikje
• prikken
• ruggenprik
• zeeprik

• prikker

• → Papiamentu: prek

From prikken.

prik m (uncountable)

1. (uncountable) fizz, carbonation

• priklimonade
• prikwater

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

prik

1. inflection of prikken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Old Norse prik, from Proto-Germanic *prik-, related to the verb *prikjaną (“to prick”).

• IPA^(key): /pʰrɪːk/
• Rhymes: -ɪːk

prik n (genitive singular priks, nominative plural prik)

1. stick, staff

   Synonym: stafur