different between trek vs brek

English

Alternative forms

• treck (archaic)

Etymology

From Afrikaans trek, from Dutch trekken, from Middle Dutch trekken (weak verb) and tr?ken (“to trek, place, bring, move”, strong verb), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan, from Proto-Germanic *trekan?, *trakjan? (“to drag, haul, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?k, IPA^(key): /t??k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

trek (plural treks)

1. (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
2. (South Africa) The Boer migration of 1835-1837.
3. A slow or difficult journey.

4. A long walk.

   Synonym: slog

Verb

trek (third-person singular simple present treks, present participle trekking, simple past and past participle trekked)

1. (intransitive) To make a slow or arduous journey.
   • 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Beach of Falesá

     Before that they had been a good deal on the move, trekking about after the white man, who was one of those rolling stones that keep going round after a soft job.

2. (intransitive) To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
3. (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.

Related terms

• trigger

Translations

Anagrams

• rekt

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /træk/

Etymology 1

From Dutch trekken.

Verb

trek (present trek, present participle trekkende, past participle getrek)

1. to haul
2. to move (moving house)
3. to pull

Descendants

• ? English: trek

Etymology 2

From Dutch trek.

Noun

trek (plural trekke)

1. journey

Derived terms

• Groot Trek

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?k/
• Hyphenation: trek
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trec, from trecken.

Noun

trek m (plural trekken, diminutive trekje n)

1. (uncountable) appetite

   Ik heb trek in een reep chocola — I could (now) have a chocolate bar

   Ik heb geen trek in deze klus — I have no mind to carry out this task

2. (countable) journey, migration
3. (uncountable) animal migration
4. (uncountable) draught, air current through a chimney.
5. (countable) feature, trait

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

trek

1. first-person singular present indicative of trekken
2. imperative of trekken

Anagrams

• rekt

French

Noun

trek m (plural treks)

1. treck
2. trecking

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?ek]

Noun

trek

1. truck

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 30

English

Etymology 1

Shortening.

Noun

brek (countable and uncountable, plural breks)

1. (informal) breakfast

Etymology 2

Verb

brek

1. Pronunciation spelling of break.

Anagrams

• Berk, berk, kerb

Czech

Alternative forms

• brekot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?br?k]
• Hyphenation: brek

Noun

brek m inan

1. crying

Declension

Synonyms

• plá?, brekot, bek

Related terms

• bre?et

Further reading

• brek in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• brek in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Faroese

Noun

brek n (genitive singular breks, plural brek)

1. defect
2. disability
3. infirmity
4. hindrance
5. (computing) bug

Declension

Icelandic

Noun

brek n (genitive singular breks, nominative plural brek)

1. (uncountable) trickery
2. (countable) practical joke

Declension

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bre?k/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

brek n (definite singular breket, indefinite plural brek, definite plural breka)

1. a bleat

Verb

brek

1. imperative of breka

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Noun

brek c (plural brekken, diminutive brekje)

1. break, fracture
2. fraction

Further reading

• “brek (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011