Dictionaries › Swedish

orka

Pronunciation: /ˈɔrˌka/

“orka” is a Swedish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to have strength, will, or stamina enough
  2. to be bothered to
  3. to have room for (be able to eat)
  4. to have strength, will, or stamina enough to deal with

interjection

  1. Expresses unwillingness to do or deal with something (taxing).

Etymology

From Old Swedish orka, from Old Norse orka, from Proto-Germanic *wurkijaną (English work), from Proto-Indo-European *wṛǵ-·.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “orka” there

More Swedish words

About this dictionary

The Swedish dictionary on Glottosphere has 55,583 entries with a page. Browse the Swedish dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.