Koch

See also: koch and köch

English

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /koʊk/, /kɑx/, /kʊk/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /kəʊk/, /kɒx/
  • Rhymes: -əʊk, -ɒx, -ʊk

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Koch

  1. A language of Meghalaya (India), Assam, Tripura, Manipur, West Bengal, Bihar, and Bangladesh.

Further reading

Etymology 2

Borrowed from German Koch (cook), an occupational surname.

Proper noun

Koch (plural Kochs)

  1. A surname from German.
    • 2019 August 23, Chris Cillizza, “How the Koch brothers fundamentally changed modern politics”, in CNN[1]:
      It was a one-stop political and policy shop, a sort of shadow Republican Party but crafted in the libertarian molds of the Kochs and entirely controlled by them.
      That wasn’t the only thing that the Koch brothers did differently.
Derived terms

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Koch is the 698th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 49,395 individuals. Koch is most common among White (95.3%) individuals.

See also

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈkox]

Proper noun

Koch m anim (female equivalent Kochová)

  1. a male surname

Declension

Further reading

  • Koch”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔx/
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)); [kɔχ]:(file)
  • Audio (southern); [kox]:(file)

Etymology 1

From Middle High German koch, from Old High German choch, from Proto-West Germanic *kok (a cook).

Noun

Koch m (strong, genitive Kochs or Koches, plural Köche, feminine Köchin)

  1. cook (one who cooks; male or unspecified gender)
Declension
Derived terms

Proper noun

Koch m or f (proper noun, strong, genitive Kochs or (with an article) Koch, plural Kochs)

  1. a surname originating as an occupation
Declension

Descendants

  • Translingual: Kochia

Etymology 2

From Middle High German koch, derived from the verb kochen (to cook).

Noun

Koch n (strong, genitive Kochs or Koches, no plural)

  1. (Austria, Bavaria) mush, porridge
Declension

Further reading

Hunsrik

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kox/

Noun

Koch m (plural Kech, feminine Kechin)

  1. cook

Further reading

  • Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Koch”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

Plautdietsch

Noun

Koch m (plural Kochen)

  1. cook

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Koch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɔx/
  • Rhymes: -ɔx
  • Syllabification: Koch

Proper noun

Koch m pers

  1. a male surname from German

Declension

Proper noun

Koch f (indeclinable)

  1. a female surname from German

Further reading

  • Koch in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • Koch”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022