Birk (plural er-noun or Birks)
A surname.
A male given name
birk (plural birks)
(Northern English) A birch tree.
A Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus, syn. Leuciscus phoxinus).
birk (plural birks)
(British, slang) Alternative spelling of berk
Source: Wiktionary
Birk, n. Etym: [See Birch, n.]
Definition: A birch tree. [Prov. Eng.] "The silver birk." Tennyson.
Birk, n. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A small European minnow (Leuciscus phoxinus).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 June 2025
(noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc.
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
