julbock
Swedish
en julbock ― a straw goatCategory:Swedish terms with collocations#JULBOCK
Gävlebocken är en julbock. ― The Gävle goat is a straw goat.Category:Swedish terms with usage examples#JULBOCK
Etymology
Compound of jul (“Christmas, Yule”) + bock (“goat, buck”)Category:Swedish compound terms#JULBOCK. Compare Norwegian Nynorsk jolebukk, Norwegian Bokmål julebukk, Danish julebuk.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²jʉːlˌbɔk/Category:Swedish terms with IPA pronunciation#JULBOCK
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Noun
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- a goat, typically made of straw, serving as a Christmas decoration
- Synonym: halmbock
- (historicalCategory:Swedish terms with historical senses#JULBOCK) a person dressed up as a goat who distributes gifts during Christmas celebrations (similar to Santa Claus)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | julbock | julbocks |
| definite | julbocken | julbockens | |
| plural | indefinite | julbockar | julbockars |
| definite | julbockarna | julbockarnas |
Descendants
- Finnish: joulupukki
References
- “julbock”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “julbock”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “julbock”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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