See also: oké, ōke, ōkē, and øke

English

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Etymology 1

edit

Verb

edit

oke

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

Etymology 2

edit

See oka

 
English Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia

Noun

edit

oke (plural okes)

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

References

edit

Etymology 3

edit

Shortened borrowing from Afrikaans outjie.

Noun

edit

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

edit

From Middle English oke.

Noun

edit

oke (plural okes)

  1. Obsolete spelling of oak.

See also

edit

Anagrams

edit

Dutch

edit

Etymology

edit

From English OK.

Pronunciation

edit

Interjection

edit

oke

  1. OK, okay

Synonyms

edit

Esperanto

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

Etymology

edit

ok +‎ -e

Pronunciation

edit
  • Audio:(file)

Adverb

edit

oke

  1. eighthly

Igbo

edit

Etymology 1

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

óké

  1. male, man
Derived terms
edit

Etymology 2

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

óké

  1. big size.

Etymology 3

edit

From (divide).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

óke

  1. boundary, demarcation.

Etymology 4

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

oké

  1. rat (animal)

Etymology 5

edit

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

oke

  1. portion, share, division, part.

Indonesian

edit

Etymology

edit

From English OK.

Pronunciation

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

Interjection

edit

oké

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

Verb

edit

oké

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

Alternative forms

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

Further reading

edit

Japanese

edit

Romanization

edit

oke

  1. Rōmaji transcription of おけ

Mikasuki

edit

Noun

edit

oke

  1. water

Serbo-Croatian

edit

Noun

edit

oke

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

Ternate

edit

Verb

edit

oke

  1. drink

Conjugation

edit
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

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

Yoruba

edit

Alternative forms

edit

Etymology

edit

Compare Edo òké (hill).

Pronunciation

edit

Noun

edit

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

Derived terms

edit