oke

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See also: oké, ōke, ōkē, and øke

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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oke

  1. (obsolete) simple past of ache
  2. (obsolete) simple past of ake

Etymology 2

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See oka

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Noun

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oke (plural okes)

  1. (historical units of measurement) Alternative form of oka.

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Etymology 3

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Shortened borrowing from Afrikaans outjie.

Noun

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oke (plural okes)

  1. (South Africa, slang) Man; guy; bloke.
    • 1998, Leon Schuster, Leon Schuster's Lekker, Thick South African Joke Book, page 106:
      An oke meets up with his ex-wife at a party. After a few dops, he puts his arm around her and suggests they go to bed. 'Over my dead body,' she snarls at him. He downs his drink and says, 'I see you haven't changed.'
    • 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex:
      I had initiated an African ritual by giving the pipe to him. And you can never stay befuck with an oke you smoke nchangu with.
    • 2009, Kevin Richardson, Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa, published 2016, page 39:
      When that oke talked, I listened.

Etymology 4

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From Middle English oke.

Noun

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oke (plural okes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of oak.

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Anagrams

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From English OK.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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oke

  1. OK, okay

Synonyms

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Esperanto

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Esperanto numbers (edit)
 ←  7 8 9  → 
    Cardinal: ok
    Ordinal: oka
    Adverbial: oke
    Multiplier: okobla, okopa
    Fractional: okona, okono

Etymology

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ok +‎ -e

Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)

Adverb

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oke

  1. eighthly

Igbo

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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óké

  1. male, man
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Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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óké

  1. big size.

Etymology 3

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From (divide).

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Noun

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óke

  1. boundary, demarcation.

Etymology 4

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Noun

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oké

  1. rat (animal)

Etymology 5

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Noun

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oke

  1. portion, share, division, part.

Indonesian

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Etymology

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From English OK.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɔke/
  • Hyphenation: oké

Interjection

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oké

  1. (colloquial) OK (acceptance, acknowledgement)
    Synonyms: baik, sip

Verb

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oké

  1. (colloquial) OK (acceptance, acknoledgement)
    Synonyms: iya, ya, hooh

Alternative forms

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  • okeh
  • woke
  • ngokhey
  • ngghokey
  • oghey
  • owghey
  • yongkray
  • yongkru

Further reading

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Japanese

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Romanization

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oke

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おけ

Mikasuki

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Noun

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oke

  1. water

Serbo-Croatian

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Noun

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oke

  1. inflection of oka:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Ternate

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Verb

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oke

  1. drink

Conjugation

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Conjugation of oke
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st tooke fooke mioke
2nd nooke nioke
3rd Masculine ooke ioke, yooke
Feminine mooke
Neuter ioke
- archaic

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh.

Yoruba

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Compare Edo òké (hill).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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òkè

  1. mountain, hill
    Synonym: òkìtì
    mo gun òkè náà dé oríI climbed the mountain to the top
  2. north
    Synonyms: àríwá, àwúsí
    Antonyms: odò, gúúsù, àwúsẹ̀
  3. topmost, top
  4. interior, uplands beyond Yorubaland
  5. high

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