ork

ork (plural orks)

1. Obsolete form of orc (“killer whale”).
2. (fantasy, mythology) Alternative spelling of orc.
3. (specific to Warhammer 40,000, science fiction) A species of aggressive, fungal humanoid alien, corresponding to the orcs in other fantasy works.

• ork-pop

• KOR, OKR, ROK, kor, rok

ork c (singular definite orken, plural indefinite orker)

1. (fantasy, mythology) orc

ork

1. imperative of orke

• IPA^(key): /ɔrk/
• Hyphenation: ork
• Rhymes: -ɔrk

Borrowed from Middle French orque, from Latin orca.

ork m (plural orken, diminutive orkje n)

1. (dated) killer whale, Orcinus orca

   Synonym: orka

Borrowed from English orc.

ork m (plural orks, diminutive orkje n, feminine orkin)

1. (fantasy) orc

From Italian orco, from Latin Orcus (“god of the underworld”).

• IPA^(key): /ork/

ork m

1. ogre

• Anthony R. Rowley, Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.

Borrowed from English orc, probably from Italian orco (“man-eating giant”); later revived by J. R. R. Tolkien, partly after Old English orc (“demon”); both from Latin Orcus (“the underworld; the god Pluto”), from Ancient Greek Ὄρκος (Órkos), the personified demon of oaths (ὅρκος (hórkos, “oath”)) who inflicts punishment upon perjurers. Doublet of ogr (“ogre”).

• IPA^(key): /ɔrk/

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• Rhymes: -ɔrk
• Syllabification: ork

ork m animal

1. orc
2. (colloquial, offensive) Russian soldier

• ork in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Deverbative of orka (“to have strength”), from Old Norse orka, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (“to work”).

ork c (uncountable)

1. the strength or power to do something

• orka

• kor