sock

English

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /sɑk/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /sɒk/
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  Audio (US):

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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɒk

Etymology 1

Socks

• From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) socke, (deprecated template usage) sokke, (deprecated template usage) sok, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) socc, a (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin (deprecated template usage) soccus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) σύκχος (súkkhos), probably from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Phrygian or from other Anatolian language. Cognate with Scots (deprecated template usage) sok, West Frisian (deprecated template usage) sok, Dutch (deprecated template usage) sok, German (deprecated template usage) Socke, Danish (deprecated template usage) sok, (deprecated template usage) sokke, Swedish (deprecated template usage) sock, (deprecated template usage) socka, Icelandic (deprecated template usage) sokkur.

Noun

sock (plural socks or sox) (sox is informal and non-standard)

1. A knitted or woven covering for the foot
2. A shoe worn by Greco-Roman comedy actors
3. A violent blow, punch
4. (deprecated template usage) (Internet slang) sock puppet
5. (deprecated template usage) (firearms, informal) a gun sock

Derived terms

Terms derived from sock (noun)

• bobby socks
• knock somebody's socks off
• put a sock in it

• sock hop
• sock puppet

Translations

covering for the foot

• Abkhaz: ақалҧад (akalpad)
• Ainu: ケロㇷ゚ (kerop)
• Albanian: çorape m
• Arabic: جَوْرَب m (jawrab) (pl: جَوَارِب m pl (jawārib))

  Egyptian Arabic: شَرَاب m (šarāb), شُرَاب m (šurāb) (pl: شَرَابَات m pl (šarābāt), شُرَابَات m pl (šurābāt))

  Moroccan Arabic: تقشيرة f (teqšira), تقاشر pl (teqašer)

• Armenian: կիսագուլպա (kisagulpa), գուլպա (gulpa)
• Asturian: calcetu (ast) m
• Azeri: corab (az)
• Basque: galtzetin, galtzerdi motz
• Belarusian: шкарпэ́тка f (škarpétka)
• Bengali: মোজা (moja)
• Bulgarian: чора́п (bg) m (čoráp)
• Burmese: ခြေစွပ် (my) (hkrecwap)
• Catalan: mitjó (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 襪／袜, 袜 (mat⁶)

  Mandarin: 襪子／袜子 (zh) (wàzi), 袜子 (wàzi)

  Min Nan: 襪仔／袜仔, 袜仔 (bo̍eh-á, be̍h-á)

• Crimean Tatar: şorap
• Czech: ponožka (cs) f pl
• Danish: sok (da) c
• Dutch: sok (nl) f
• Esperanto: ŝtrumpeto
• Estonian: sokk (et)
• Faroese: sokkur m, hosa f
• Finnish: sukka (fi)
• French: chaussette (fr) f, bas (fr) m (Canadian French)
• Friulian: cjalce f, cjalcìn m
• Georgian: წინდა (c̣inda)
• German: Socke (de) f
• Greek: κάλτσα (el) f (káltsa), (obsolete) περιπόδιο (el) n (peripódio)
• Haitian Creole: chosèt
• Hebrew: גֶּרֶב (he) m (gérev)
• Hindi: मोज़ा m (mozā)
• Hungarian: zokni (hu)
• Icelandic: sokkur (is) m
• Ido: kalzeto (io)
• Indonesian: kaus kaki (id)
• Interlingua: calcea
• Irish: stoca gearr m
• Istriot: calsa f
• Italian: calza (it) f, calzino m
• Japanese: 靴下 (くつした, kutsushita), ソックス (sokkusu)
• Kazakh: ұйық (kk) (ūiyq)
• Khmer: ទ្រនាប់ជើង (trɔnoap cəəŋ), ស្រោមជើង (sraom cəəŋ)
• Korean: 양말 (ko)
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kyrgyz: байпак (ky) (baypak), носки (noski)
• Lao: ຖົງເທົ້າ (lo) (thong thao), ຖົງ (thong)
• Latin:

  New Latin: impilium n

• Latvian: zeķe f
• Lithuanian: įklotė, kojinė f
• Luxembourgish: Séckchen f
• Macedonian: чо́рап m (čórap)
• Malay: sarung kaki
• Maltese: kalzetta f, peduna f
• Maori: tōkena
• Mongolian: богино оймс (bogino ojms)
• Navajo: yistłé
• Ngazidja Comorian: hofu class 9/10
• Norman: chaussette f
• Norwegian: sokk (no) m
• Old Norse: sokkr m
• Persian: جوراب (fa) (jurâb)
• Polish: skarpeta (pl) f, skarpetka (pl) f
• Portuguese: meia (pt) f
• Romanian: ciorap (ro) m
• Romansch: chaltschiel, caltschiel, caltschol, caltschul, caltschetta, socca, piöl
• Russian: носо́к (ru) m (nosók)
• Scottish Gaelic: socais f, stocainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: чарапа f

  Roman: čarapa (sh) f

• Sicilian: quasetta (scn) f
• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: ponožka f
• Slovene: nogavica (sl) f
• Spanish: calcetín m (Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Spain), media f (Costa Rica, Cuba, Panama, Puerto Rico, South America except Chile)
• Swahili: soksi (sw)
• Swedish: socka, strumpa (sv)
• Tagalog: medyas
• Tajik: ҷуроб (jurob), ҷӯроб (jürob)
• Thai: ถุงเท้า (thǔng tháo)
• Turkish: çorap (tr)
• Turkmen: jorap
• Ukrainian: носо́к m (nosók), шкарпе́тка f (škarpétka)
• Urdu: موزا m (mozā)
• Uzbek: noski (uz), paypoq (uz)
• Venetian: calça f, calsa f, calseto m
• Vietnamese: vớ (vi), tất (vi), bít tất (vi)
• Volapük: lustog (vo)
• Walloon: tchåsse (wa) f, tchåssete (wa) f, sokete (wa) f
• Welsh: hosan f
• Yiddish: זאָק (zok)

Greco-Roman shoe

• French: socque (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

violent blow, punch

• Greek: γροθιά (el) f (grothiá)
• Finnish: isku, lyönti (fi)
• Maori: moto
• Portuguese: soco (pt) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: уда́р (ru) m (udár), нока́ут (ru) m (nokáut)
• Slovak: úder m; náraz m

sock puppet — see sock puppet

gun sock — see gun sock

Etymology 2

• Unknown, but compare Portuguese (deprecated template usage) soco ("a hit with one's hand; a punch").

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Verb

sock (third-person singular simple present socks, present participle socking, simple past and past participle socked)

1. (deprecated template usage) (transitive) To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to.

   They may let you off the first time, but the second time they'll sock it to you. — James Jones

Derived terms

• sock away
• sock in
• sockdolager

Translations

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Bulgarian: нокаутирам v (nokautiram)
• Finnish: iskeä (1)
• Russian: врезать v perf (vrezat'); ударить v perf (udarit')
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Slovak: udrieť, naraziť, raziť

Etymology 3

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French (deprecated template usage) soc, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin (deprecated template usage) soccus, perhaps of Celtic origin.

Noun

sock (plural socks)

1. A ploughshare.
   • D. Brewster, The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia

     In Wexford, the beam is shorter than in any of the other counties, and the sock in general is of cast iron.

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Swedish

Socks

Noun

sock c

1. sock

See also

• socka
• strumpa

References

• sock in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (14th ed., online)