Huk

Clipping of Hukbalahap, from Tagalog Hukbalahap, an abbreviation of Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon (“People's Army Against the Japanese”). The initial word itself where the abbreviation comes from is from Tagalog hukbo (“army”), which itself is derived from Hokkien 服務 / 服务 (ho̍k-bū, “service”).

Huk (plural Huks)

1. (Philippines, US, historical) A member of the Hukbalahap.
   • 1963, William J. Pomeroy, The Forest, a Personal Record of the Huk Guerrilla Struggle in the Philippines, page 31:

     But sooner or later, there will be decisions to make: I cannot go to your country for I am known as a Huk; you could not stay in mine if your sympathies for us are discovered.

   • 2009 April 22, Vina A. Lanzona, Amazons of the Huk Rebellion: Gender, Sex, and Revolution in the Philippines, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 31:

     Whether portrayed as masculine warriors, female seducers, or wayward mothers, Huk Amazons were regarded as extraordinary and unconventional Filipinas: communist guerrillas trained to fight as soldiers against the government and women who lived in the forests, fraternized with men, and had children outside marriage.

• HKU, khu, kuh

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦuk]

Huk m anim (female equivalent Huková)

1. a male surname

• “Huk”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

• IPA^(key): (13^th CE) /ˈɣuk/
• IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /ˈɦuk/

Huk m pers

1. a male given name

• Jan Gebauer (1903–1916) “Huk”, in Slovník staročeský (in Czech), Prague: Česká grafická společnost "unie", Česká akademie císaře Františka Josefa pro vědy, slovesnost a umění

From Polish huk (“loud noise”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxuk/
• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: Huk
• Homophone: huk

Huk m pers

1. a male surname

Huk f (indeclinable)

1. a female surname

• “Huk”, in Internetowy słownik nazwisk w Polsce [Internet dictionary of surnames in Poland], 2022

• IPA^(key): [ɦuk]

Huk m pers (female equivalent Huková)

1. a male surname

• “Huk”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

Borrowed from English Huk, a clipping of Hukbalahap, an abbreviation of Hukbong Bayan Laban sa Hapon (“People's Army Against the Japanese”). The initial word itself where the abbreviation comes from is hukbo (“army”), derived from Hokkien 服務 / 服务 (ho̍k-bū, “service”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈhuk/ [ˈhuk̚]
• Rhymes: -uk
• Syllabification: Huk

Huk (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜃ᜔)

1. (historical) member of the Hukbalahap
   • 1996, Renato Constantino, Ang bagong lumipas: 1940-1965, University of Philippines Press, →ISBN:

     Pinayuhan din ni Whitney si MacArthur na magpalabas ng proklamasyong nag-uutos sa mga Huk na isuko ang kanilang armas sa "pinakamalapit na komandante ng US military..."48

     Whitney also advised MacArthur to release a proclamation ordering the Huks to surrender their arms to "the nearest US military commander..."

• Hukbalahap