birk

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UK/bɜː(ɹ)k/US/bɝk/

noun

A birch tree.

OriginNorthern Middle English birk →
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Meanings

birk1

nounbirk (plural birks)

plural birks

  1. Northern EnglandA birch tree.

    Shadows of the silver birk / Sweep the green that folds thy grave.

    1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Dirge”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, stanza I, page 56
  2. A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).

birk2

nounbirk (plural birks)

plural birks

  1. UKalternativeslangAlternative spelling of berk.

Birk3

proper nounBirk (plural Birks)

plural Birks

  1. A surname.
  2. A male given name.

Origin

birk · noun

  1. Northern Middle Englishbirk
  2. Englishbirk

From Northern Middle English birk, birke, byrke (“birch”), (southern Middle English birche). More at birch. (tree): Cognate with Scots birk.

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Birk · proper noun

  1. Old Englishburh
  2. EnglishBirk

From the Anglo-Norman surname, from Old English burh, burg (“fortification, city”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with birk

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Sounds the same

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Cite this entry
APA

birk. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/birk

MLA

“birk.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/birk. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “birk,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/birk.

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