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• 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.

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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/,

oka inan

1. nausea, indigestion
2. vomit

• oka egin

• “oka”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “oka”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

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):

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. (ordinal number) eighth

• IPA^(key): /ˈokɑ/,
• Rhymes: -okɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): oka

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

oka

1. thorn, prickle

• oas
• piikki

• “oka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Spanish oca, from Quechua uqa.

oka

1. oca

• kao

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

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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

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ok, *rok, from Proto-Tupian *ekʷ.^[1][2]

Cognate with Sateré-Mawé sok, Guaraní óga.

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Hyphenation: o‧ka

oka (possessable, IIc class pluriform, absolute oka, R1 roka, R2 soka)

1. house

   Tatá osapy oré roka.

   The fire burned our house.

   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

     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. den, burrow

   Synonym: kûara

3. (figurative) refuge, hiding place

• Nheengatu: uka
• → Brazilian Portuguese: oca

• Thesaurus:oka

• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎ (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “oka”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 358–359

• 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

Borrowed 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):

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

• Nominal derivations:
  • mwokaji (“baker”)
  • uokaji (“baking”)