oke

oke

See also: Appendix:Variations of "oke"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Okpe.

Symbol

oke

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Okpe (Southwestern Edo).

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Okpe (Southwestern Edo) terms

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -əʊk
  • Homophone: oak

Etymology 1

Verb

oke

  1. (obsolete) simple past of ache
  2. (obsolete) simple past of ake

Etymology 2

See oka

Noun

oke (plural okes)

  1. (historical units of measurement) Alternative form of oka.

References

Etymology 3

Shortened borrowing from Afrikaans outjie.

Noun

oke (plural okes)

  1. (South Africa, slang) Man; guy; bloke.
    • 1998, Leon Schuster, Leon Schuster's Lekker, Thick South African Joke Book, page 106:
      An oke meets up with his ex-wife at a party. After a few dops, he puts his arm around her and suggests they go to bed. 'Over my dead body,' she snarls at him. He downs his drink and says, 'I see you haven't changed.'
    • 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex:
      I had initiated an African ritual by giving the pipe to him. And you can never stay befuck with an oke you smoke nchangu with.
    • 2009, Kevin Richardson, Part of the Pride: My Life Among the Big Cats of Africa, published 2016, page 39:
      When that oke talked, I listened.

Etymology 4

    Inherited from Middle English oke.

    Noun

    oke (plural okes)

    1. Obsolete spelling of oak.

    See also

    Anagrams

    Dutch

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /oːˈkeː/

    Interjection

    oke

    1. alternative spelling of oké

    Esperanto

    Esperanto numbers (edit)
     ←  7 8 9  → 
        Cardinal: ok
        Ordinal: oka
        Adverbial: oke
        Multiplier: okobla, okopa
        Fractional: okona, okono

    Etymology

    ok +‎ -e

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈoke/
    • Audio:(file)
    • Rhymes: -oke
    • Syllabification: o‧ke

    Adverb

    oke

    1. eighthly

    Further reading

    Igbo

    Etymology 1

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /óké/

    Noun

    óké

    1. male, man
    Derived terms
    Terms derived from óké

    Etymology 2

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /óké/

    Noun

    óké

    1. big size.

    Etymology 3

    From (divide).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ókè/

    Noun

    óke

    1. boundary, demarcation.

    Etymology 4

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /òké/

    Noun

    oké

    1. rat (animal)

    Etymology 5

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /òkè/

    Noun

    oke

    1. portion, share, division, part.

    Indonesian

    Etymology

    From English OK.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɔke/
    • Hyphenation: oké

    Interjection

    oké

    1. (colloquial) OK (acceptance, acknowledgement)
      Synonyms: baik, sip

    Verb

    oké

    1. (colloquial) OK (acceptance, acknoledgement)
      Synonyms: haah, hooh, iya, ya

    Alternative forms

    • okeh
    • ogheu
    • owghey
    • ngokhey
    • ngghokey
    • woke
    • wokek
    • yongkray
    • yongkru

    Further reading

    Isoko

    Noun

    oke

    1. dated spelling of ụkị

    Japanese

    Romanization

    oke

    1. Rōmaji transcription of おけ

    Middle English

    Noun

    oke

    1. (Late Middle English) alternative form of ok (oak)

    Mikasuki

    Noun

    oke

    1. water

    Serbo-Croatian

    Noun

    oke (Cyrillic spelling оке)

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

    Ternate

    Verb

    oke

    1. drink

    Conjugation

    Conjugation of oke
    singular plural
    inclusive exclusive
    1st person tooke fooke mioke
    2nd person nooke nioke
    3rd
    person
    masculine ooke ioke
    yooke (archaic)
    feminine mooke
    neuter ioke

    References

    • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001). A Descriptive Study of the Language of Ternate, the Northern Moluccas, Indonesia. University of Pittsburgh.

    Yoruba

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    Compare Edo òké (hill).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ò.kè/

    Noun

    òkè

    1. mountain, hill
      Synonym: òkìtì
      mo gun òkè náà dé oríI climbed the mountain to the top
    2. north
      Synonyms: àríwá, àwúsí
      Antonyms: odò, gúúsù, àwúsẹ̀
    3. topmost, top
    4. interior, uplands beyond Yorubaland
    5. high

    Derived terms

    • aṣọ òkè (type of Yoruba clothing)
    • lókè (high)
    • ohùn òkè (high tone)
    • sókè (up)
    • Òkè
    • òkè atẹ́júpẹrẹsẹ (plateau)
    • Òkè Ọya (Northern Nigeria)
    • Òkè Ọ̀dàn (a town in Yorubaland)
    • òkè ìdí (waist)
    • Òkè-Ògùn (A Yoruba subethnic group and region)