suki

English

Pronunciation

• (Philippine) IPA^(key): /ˈsu.kɪʔ/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Tagalog suki, from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”).

Noun

suki (plural sukis)

1. (Philippines, business) a favored customer; a regular who receives preferential treatment
   • 1973, William G. Davis, Social Relations in a Philippine Market: Self-interest and Subjectivity, →ISBN, page 230:

     Near the opposite end of the suki continuum, the "subjective" pole, are special suki.

   • 2007, Isabel S. Panopio, Realidad Santico Rolda, Society & Culture, →ISBN, page 216:

     Frequent buyers in a particular store become the suki, so that with this kind of a relationship, the marketgoer gets an extra treat, like obtaining more tomatoes for the price of a kilo.

   • 2011, Robert S. Pomeroy, Neil Andrew, Small-scale Fisheries Management, →ISBN, page 169:

     The suki relationship in the Philippines, a credit/marketing linkage, is often assumed to be exploitative of the fisher.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 隙(すき) (suki).

Noun

suki (plural sukis)

1. (Japan, martial arts) An opening to the enemy; a weak spot that provides an advantage for one's opponent.
   • 1959, Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki, Zen and Japanese culture, page 143:

     This gluing is "stoppage," and every stoppage means giving an advantage to the enemy, which is a suki.

   • 1997, Hiroshi Ozawa, Kendo: The Definitive Guide, →ISBN, page 20:

     When you receive a strike, it is because there is a suki. Your opponent draws your attention to your weak spots, and you endeavor to ensure that you do not receive a strike in the same place again.

   • 2006, Kevin L. Seiler, Donald J. Seller, Karate-do, →ISBN, page 61:

     Often, though, a suki to the chest will cause the sword to become lodged between bone and cartilage making it very difficult to quickly remove.

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: su‧ki
• IPA^(key): /ˈsukiʔ/,

Etymology 1

From Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”).

Noun

sukì

1. a favored customer, a regular who receives preferential treatment
2. a favorite seller or vendor

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

sukì

1. swerve; veer; turn

   Synonyms: siko, kurba, liko

Derived terms

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”).

Noun

suki

1. a favored customer, a regular who receives preferential treatment
2. a favorite seller or vendor

Etymology 2

Compare sukol.

Verb

suki

1. to go against; to oppose; to resist
2. to disobey

Finnish

Verb

suki

1. third-person singular past indicative of sukia

Anagrams

• isku, kisu, kusi, uksi

Ido

Noun

suki

1. plural of suko

Japanese

Romanization

suki

1. Rōmaji transcription of すき

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsu.ki/
• Rhymes: -uki
• Syllabification: su‧ki

Noun

suki

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

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsukiʔ/,
• Rhymes: -ukiʔ
• Syllabification: su‧ki

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”), as per Chan-Yap (1980). Cognates to Ilocano suki, Pangasinan suki, Bikol Central suki, Cebuano suki, and Tausug sukiꞌ. Compare Tagalog singki~Hokkien 新客 (sin-kheh), Tagalog Singson~Hokkien 曾孫／曾孙 (cheng-sun/tsing-sun), Tagalog sili~Spanish chili, Tagalog sitsirya~tsitsirya, Tagalog sinelas~tsinelas.

Noun

sukì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃᜒ) (business)

1. regular and long-standing customer or client (who may receive special treatment due to patronage)
2. (dialectal) regular vendor or dealer (which one buys from)

Alternative forms

• suke
• suque, suqui — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

See also

• parokyano

Etymology 2

Noun

sukì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃᜒ) (obsolete)

1. cross-like support or prop placed inside houses
2. act of propping up or shoring up (something)

Alternative forms

• soqui, suqui — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

Derived terms

See also

• suhay

References

Further reading

• “suki”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018