ark
nomcourant dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//ɑːk//
- Canada//ɑɹk//
A large box with a flat lid.
nom
- 1
A large box with a flat lid.
Then said he, "Your child is at home in the inner bedroom in a new cradle behind the ark."
- 2
The ship built by Noah to save his family and a collection of animals from the deluge; Noah's ark.
In the midrash about Noah it says that Noah had a stone which, when held up in the darkness of the ark, would change color when the sun was shining outside.
- 3
Something affording protection; safety, shelter, refuge.
the Ark of Bukhara
- 4
figuréThe body as a vessel.
Like her I go; I cannot stay; I leave this mortal ark behind, A weight of nerves without a mind, And leave the cliffs, and haste away […]
- 5
A spacious type of boat with a flat bottom.
Some seventy or seventy-five arks were permanently located on McLeod's Lake and between 110 and 125 people lived in them.
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The Ark of the Covenant.
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A decorated cabinet at the front of a synagogue, in which Torah scrolls are kept.
Étymologie
From Middle English arke, from Old English earc, ærc, from Latin arca (“chest, box, coffer”), from arceō (“to enclose”).
Formes
- pluriel
- arks