Meanings
nounwok (plural woks)
plural woks
- cookingA large, round-bottomed cooking pan used in East Asian cooking.
The 'wok' is an efficient, all-purpose metal cooking vessel used by every housewife in China. It has two handles and is shaped like a shallow cone.
1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood, →ISBN, page 86 - EuropeAny dish prepared using such a pan.
verbwok (third-person singular simple present woks, present participle woking or wokking, simple past and past participle woked or wokked)
present singular third person woks · participle present woking · participle present wokking · participle past woked · past woked · participle past wokked · past wokked
- To prepare oriental cuisine using a wok.
Origin
- Cantonese鑊
- Cantonese鑊
- Englishwok
Borrowed from Cantonese 鑊 /镬 (wok⁶).
More words from Cantonese
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic وُوك
- وُوك (wūk)large round pan
Bulgarian уок
- уок (uok)large round pan
Chinese Cantonese 鑊 /镬
- 鑊 /镬 (wok⁶)large round pan
Chinese Mandarin 鍋 /锅, 鑊 /镬
- 鍋 /锅 (guō)large round pan
- 鑊 /镬 (huò)large round pan
- 炒鍋 /炒锅 (chǎoguō)large round pan
Czech pánev wok
- pánev woklarge round pan
Danish wok
- woklarge round pan
Dutch wok, wokken
- woklarge round pan
- wokkento use a wok
Esperanto uoko, volbopato
- uokolarge round pan
- volbopatolarge round pan
Finnish wokkipannu, vokkipannu
- wokkipannularge round pan
- vokkipannularge round pan
- wokatato use a wok
French wok
- woklarge round pan
German Wok
- Woklarge round pan
Hebrew ווק
- ווקlarge round pan
Icelandic wok-panna
- wok-pannalarge round pan
Indonesian wajan
- wajanlarge round pan
Irish wok
- woklarge round pan
Japanese 中華鍋
- 中華鍋 (Chūka-nabe)large round pan
Korean 웍
- 웍 (Wok)large round pan
Malay kuali
- kualilarge round pan
Māori pararaha
- pararahalarge round pan
Polish wok
- woklarge round pan
Portuguese wok
- woklarge round pan
Russian вок
- вок (vok)large round pan
Scottish Gaelic wok
- woklarge round pan
Spanish wok, wokiar
- woklarge round pan
- wokiarto use a wok
Swedish wok, wokpanna
- woklarge round pan
- wokpannalarge round pan
- wokato use a wok
Tagalog kawali, tulyasi
- kawalilarge round pan
- tulyasilarge round pan
- talyasilarge round pan
Thai กระทะ
- กระทะ (grà-tá)large round pan
Turkish wok tava
- wok tavalarge round pan
Vietnamese xanh, chảo
- xanhlarge round pan
- chảolarge round pan
- sanhlarge round pan
Welsh woc
- woclarge round pan
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with wok
stockblockdocclocklockshockprocbangkokocsocunlockdockknocksockmockflockbrockrocblocbaroquelockelochVOCbok
All rhymes →Sounds the same
walk (cot–caught merger)walk (cot–caught merger)
Anagrams
Cite this entry
APA
wok. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wok
MLA
“wok.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wok. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wok,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wok.
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