Noun: mūks
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | mūks |
| Accusative | mūku |
| Genitive | mūka |
| Dative | mūkam |
| Instrumental | mūku |
| Locative | mūkā |
| Vocative | mūk |
Plural
| Nominative | mūki |
| Accusative | mūkus |
| Genitive | mūku |
| Dative | mūkiem |
| Instrumental | mūkiem |
| Locative | mūkos |
| Vocative | mūki |
Sample Sentences
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mūku iesvētīšana (the ordaining of monks)
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mūks vientuļnieks (hermit monk)
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dzīvot kā mūkam (to live like a monk (= in isolation))
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kristietības pirmie mūki bija ēģiptiešu Antonijs Lielais un Pahomijs Lielais (the first Christian monks were the Egyptians Anthony the Great and Pachomius the Great)
Nouns inflected like mūks
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse munkr (“monk”) (cf. also Swedish, Danish munk), from Old English munuc. This word must have been borrowed during the time of the un > ū change (9th-12th century); its first mention (already in its modern form), however, is found in 17th-century dictionaries. See: Old Norse Nouns '
munkr', Old English Nouns '
munuc'.
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