oka

• oke, okka

From Italian oca, from French oque, from Ottoman Turkish اوقه‎ (okka). Doublet of ounce, inch, uncia, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɒkə/

oka (plural okas)

1. (historical) A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.
   • 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia‎, volume XXX, Rottolo, page 632:

     At Constantinople, the cantaro, or quintal, contains 44 okes, or 100 rottoli; and the cantaro weighs about 123¾ lbs. avoirdupois, the oke 2lbs. 13 oz., and the rottolo 19⁴⁄₅ oz., and the chequee 11¼ oz. avoirdupois... At Smyrna, the cantaro, or kintal, contains 45 okes, or 100 rottoli. The batman is 6 okes, or 2400 drachms; and the oke is 400 drachms, and the rottolo = 180 drachms. The cantaro of 45 okes weighs 123 lbs. 4 oz. avoirdupois; and, therefore, the oke is = 2 lbs. 11 oz. 13 drs. avoirdupois...

   • 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures":

     Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ℔); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ℔).

2. A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.

• (subdivisions of the unit of weight): dirhem or dram; ounce; cheki; rottol or rotl
• (superdivisions of the unit of weight): batman; kantar or quintal

• A-OK, AOK, Kao, OAK, koa, oak

Contraction of okay.

• IPA^(key): [ò̞ꜛká]

oka (Kana spelling オカ)

1. (Saru dialect) they (third-person plural pronoun)

This word is not actually a proper pronoun, but is often used when it is absolutely necessary to point directly to a third person in conversation. The proper third-person pronoun in Ainu would be the lack of any personal pronoun at all, i.e., it has a null value.

• IPA^(key): /oka/, [o̞.ka]

oka inan

1. nausea, indigestion
2. vomit

• oka egin

• "oka" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “oka” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(w)akaʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(w)akaʀ.

oka

1. root (of plant)

oka

1. water

• Cyrus Byington, John Reed Swanton, Henry Sale Halbert, A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language (1915)

• IPA^(key): [ˈoka]

oka

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

ok +‎ -a

• IPA^(key): /ˈoka/

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• Hyphenation: o‧ka

oka (accusative singular okan, plural okaj, accusative plural okajn)

1. eighth

• IPA^(key): /ˈokɑ/, [ˈo̞kɑ]
• Rhymes: -okɑ
• Syllabification^(key): o‧ka

From Proto-Finnic *oka, a variant of *ogas (whence oas).

oka

1. thorn, prickle

• oas
• piikki

From Spanish oca, from Quechua uqa.

oka

1. oca

• kao

ok (“cause, reason, motive”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix)

• IPA^(key): [ˈokɒ]

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• Hyphenation: oka

oka

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of ok

   a halál oka ― the cause of death

oka

1. Rōmaji transcription of おか

oka

1. cage

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011), “oka”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 75

oka

1. yam

• uhi
• uwhi

• IPA^(key): /-ˈɔka/

oka

1. typical Brazilian indigenous housing
   • XVI century, Anchieta, Auto de S. Lourenço (São Paulo, 1948):

     Eîori i mosykyîébo, t'oîkó umé oka rupi oré 'anga monguébo.

     Come to scare them away, so that they may be no longer in our houses corrupting our souls.

2. any house.

   Tatá osapy oré roka.

   The fire burned our house.

• Portuguese: oca, carioca, toca (perhaps)

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ.ka/

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• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Syllabification: o‧ka

oka n

1. inflection of oko:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural (some meanings)

oka

1. stab

From Ottoman Turkish اوقه‎ (okka).

• IPA^(key): /ǒka/
• Hyphenation: o‧ka

òka f (Cyrillic spelling о̀ка)

1. an oka, a former Turkish unit of weight, usually a little more than a kilogram

oka

1. genitive singular of oko

• IPA^(key): [ˈoka]

oka

1. genitive singular of oko

From Proto-Bantu *-jòka.

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-oka (infinitive kuoka)

1. to bake
2. to roast
3. to fire pottery