leken

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈleː.kə(n)/
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  • Rhymes: -eːkən
  • Hyphenation: le‧ken

Etymology 1

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Noun

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leken

  1. plural of leek

Etymology 2

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Verb

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leken

  1. inflection of lijken:
    1. plural past indicative
    2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

Anagrams

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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le- (down; fully) +‎ ken (smear)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈlɛkɛn]
  • Hyphenation: le‧ken
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Verb

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leken

  1. (transitive, of machinery) to grease, to lubricate
  2. (transitive, of hair) to smarm (to flatten the hair, etc. with cream or grease)
  3. (transitive, colloquial) to slap someone on the face

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • leken in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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From Old Dutch *lekan, from Proto-West Germanic *lekan, from Proto-Germanic *lekaną.

Verb

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lēken

  1. to leak, to be leaky
  2. to leak away, to flow away (of a liquid)

Inflection

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Descendants

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  • Dutch: lekken
  • Limburgish: laeke

Further reading

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Noun

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leken m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of leke

leken m

  1. definite singular of lek

Swedish

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Noun

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leken

  1. definite singular of lek

Anagrams

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