soko

See also: Soko, ŝoko, sōko, sōkō, sökö, and šoko

English

Noun

soko (plural sokos)

1. (dated) A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.
   • 1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals, page 232:

     Old hunters and travellers say that they would rather steal the child of a native savage than to take one of the sokos.

Usage notes

It is unclear which species this refers to

References

• “soko”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sook

Fijian

Noun

soko

1. cruise
2. voyage (sailing)

Verb

soko

1. to sail

Fula

Conjunction

soko

1. (Pulaar) if

References

• M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

Japanese

Romanization

soko

1. Rōmaji transcription of そこ

Nalca

Noun

soko

1. land
2. earth

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀲𑁄𑀓𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• सोको (Devanagari script)
• সোকো (Bengali script)
• සොකො (Sinhalese script)
• သောကော or သေႃၵေႃ (Burmese script)
• โสโก (Thai script)
• ᩈᩮᩣᨠᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂສໂກ (Lao script)
• សោកោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄮𑄇𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

soko m

1. nominative singular of soka

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• sȍkol (Croatia)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sokolъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sôko/
• Hyphenation: so‧ko

Noun

sȍko m (Cyrillic spelling со̏ко)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) falcon
   • 1814, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Mala prostonarodna slaveno-serbska pjesnarica:

     Soko leti preko Sarajeva,
     Traži lada gdi će ladovati.

     A falcon flies over Sarajevo;
     It seeks shade where it will stay shaded.

Declension

Declension of soko

	singular	plural
nominative	soko / sokol	sokolovi
genitive	sokola	sokolova
dative	sokolu	sokolovima
accusative	sokola	sokolove
vocative	sokole	sokolovi
locative	sokolu	sokolovima
instrumental	sokolom	sokolovima

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُوق (sūq).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

soko (ma class, plural masoko)

1. market (spacious site where trading takes place)

Descendants

• → Kikuyu: thoko
• → Ma'di: soko
• → Portuguese: soco (Mozambique)
• → Rwanda-Rundi: isoko