koi

From Japanese 鯉 (koi).

• IPA^(key): /kɔɪ/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪ
• Homophone: coy

koi (plural koi)

1. Ornamental domesticated varieties of the common carp (Cyprinus carpio), of Japan and eastern Asia with red-gold or white coloring.
   • 1985 September 2, Joe Klein, quoting Douglas S. Cramer, “The Real Star of ‘Dynasty’”, in New York, page 34:

     We sense that while it might be wonderful for Krystle and Alexis to have a catfight in a koi pond, it would be inappropriate for Joan to smack Linda with a koi.

• (Cyprinus carpio): koi carp

• oik

From English cougar.

koi

1. cougar
2. mountain lion
3. puma.

From Proto-Finnic *koi, from Proto-Uralic *koje. Cognate with Finnish koi.

koi (genitive koi, partitive koid)

1. (insects) clothes moth (Tineola)
2. some other species of moth, such as the apple fruit moth (Argyresthia conjugella, õunakoi)

• koiliblikas
• riidekoi

• õunakoi
• ihnuskoi
• raamatukoi
• koirohi

• liblikas
• röövik
• tõuk

From Low German koje (“tight room, bed on a ship”).

koi (genitive koi, partitive koid)

1. berth (a bed on a ship or boat), bunk bed

• koiku

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoi̯/, [ˈko̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi
• Syllabification^(key): koi

From Proto-Finnic *koi, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *koje. Cognate with Estonian koi, Erzya ки (ki).

koi

1. (insects) short form of vaatekoi Tineola bisselliella, common clothes moth, often only a moth
2. (insects) any of the moths in the family Tineidae
3. (pathology, archaic) cancer; see etymology section of syöpä (“cancer”)

• (clothes moth): koiperhonen
• (cancer): syöpä

• koiska

• perhonen
• toukka

From Proto-Finnic *koi, from Proto-Uralic *koje.

koi

1. (archaic) dawn

• (dawn): aamunkoi, aamunkoitto, sarastus

• koittaa
• kointähti

Ultimately from Japanese 鯉 (koi).

koi

1. koi carp

• koikarppi, koi-karppi, koristekarppi

• Häkkinen, Kaisa (2004) Nykysuomen etymologinen sanakirja [Modern Finnish Etymological Dictionary] (in Finnish), Juva: WSOY, →ISBN

• oik.

koi

1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Alternative spelling of quoi

From Proto-Finnic *koi. Cognates include Finnish koi and Estonian koi.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkoi̯/, [ˈko̞i̯]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkoi̯/, [ˈko̞i̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Hyphenation: koi

koi

1. moth

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 183

From Chinese 開／开. Related to nqoi.

koi 

1. (transitive) to open

koi

1. Rōmaji transcription of こい

koi

1. moth

koi

1. bed

• (Temerloh, Pahang) IPA^(key): /koi̯/

koi

1. me, I

• aku
• beta
• saya

koi

1. sharp

koi

1. spike

Borrowed from Japanese 濃い (koi, “dark”).

koi

1. gray, darkish color

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.i/
• Rhymes: -ɔi
• Syllabification: ko‧i

koi

1. third-person singular present of koić

koi

1. Romanization of ᚕᚑᚔ

From Ternate koi (“banana”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.i/

koi

1. banana

   Synonym: bele

• Leontine Visser, Clemens Voorhoeve (1987) Sahu-Indonesian-English Dictionary, Brill

Possibly related to Tabaru koyu (“banana”), synonym of the more common Tabaru bole.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.i/

koi (Jawi کوي‎)

1. banana

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

From *kori, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kerit. Compare Yogad kerrit.

koi

1. to scratch

koi

1. continuous action marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

From Proto-Finnic *koi.

• (Luuditsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkoi̯/, [ˈkoi̯]
• Rhymes: -oi̯
• Hyphenation: koi

koi

1. moth, clothes moth

• V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012), “koi”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2 edition, Tallinn