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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

Fijian

Noun

soko

  1. cruise
  2. voyage (sailing)

Verb

soko

  1. to sail

Japanese

Romanization

soko

  1. Rōmaji transcription of そこ

Nalca

Noun

soko

  1. land
  2. earth

Pali

Alternative forms
Alternative forms
  • 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

Etymology

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)(file)

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
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