roc

• enPR: rŏk, IPA^(key): /ɹɒk/
• Homophones: rock, rawk
• Rhymes: -ɒk

Spanish rocho, ruc, from Arabic رُخّ‎ (ruḵḵ), from Persian رخ‎ (rox).

• roche
• rok
• ruc
• rukh

roc (plural rocs)

1. An enormous mythical bird in Eastern legend.
   • The Arabian Nights Entertainment. Tale 4. Sinbad. The Second Voyage.

     "By this time the sun was about to set, and all of a sudden the sky became as dark as if it had been covered with a thick cloud. I was much astonished at this sudden darkness, but much more when I found it occasioned by a bird of a monstrous size, that came flying toward me. I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a miraculous bird called Roc, and conceived that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. In short, the bird alighted, and sat over the egg. As I perceived her coming, I crept to the egg, so that I had before me one of the legs of the bird, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, in hopes that the roc next morning would carry me with her out of this desert island. After having passed the night in this condition, the bird flew away as soon as it was daylight, and carried me so high, that I could not discern the earth;

• peng (Chinese contexts)

roc

1. (medicine, colloquial) Rocuronium.

• COR, CRO, CoR, Cor., OCR, ORC, cor, cor-, orc

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) /ˈrɔk/

From roca.

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock, stone

• pedra

From Persian رخ‎ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”).

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (obsolete) rook (chess piece)

   Synonym: torre

2. (heraldry) rook (heraldic charge)
3. (mythology) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (mythological bird)

• “roc” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /ʁɔk/

• roc

  (file)

Variant of roche.

roc m (plural rocs)

1. rock

• solide comme un roc

• roche
• rocher

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), ultimately from Persian رخ‎ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”), possibly from Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot”).

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (dated, chess) rook

   Synonym: tour

• roquer
• rocade

• “roc”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• cor

roc (plural roches)

1. rook (chess piece)

• IPA^(key): /ɾˠɔk/

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. ray (fish)

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

roc m (genitive singular roic, nominative plural roic)

1. wrinkle, ruck, crease, pucker

   Bhí roic sa léine.

   There were wrinkles in the shirt.

roc (present analytic rocann, future analytic rocfaidh, verbal noun rocadh, past participle roctha) (transitive, intransitive)

1. wrinkle, crease, pucker
2. corrugate
3. kink
4. crimp

• rocach

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “roc”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

roc

1. inflection of rakt:
   1. second-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

roc m (plural rocs)

1. (chess) rook

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

Borrowed from Arabic رُخّ‎ (ruḵḵ), from Persian رخ‎ (rox).

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

1. (chess) rook

• Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
• → Middle English: rook
  • English: rook
    • → Japanese: ルーク (rūku)
    • → Korean: 룩 (ruk)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (roc)

roc

1. Latin script form of រោច៑ (“to withdraw”)

roc

1. Latin script form of រោច៑ (“fortnight following full moon”)

roc m

1. Alternative spelling of rok

From English rock.

• IPA^(key): /rɔk/
• Rhymes: -ɔk

roc m (not mutable)

1. rock (style of music)

   Synonym: cerddoriaeth roc

• roc-a-rôl
• roc-an-rôl

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “roc”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Related to Persian روز‎ (ruz).

roc (n)

1. Sun
2. day