soko

See also: Soko, ŝoko, sōko, sōkō, sökö, and šoko

English

Noun

soko (plural sokos)

(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

sook

Fijian

Noun

soko

cruise
voyage (sailing)

Verb

soko

to sail

Japanese

Romanization

soko

Rōmaji transcription of そこ

Nalca

Noun

soko

land
earth

Pali

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

nominative singular of soka

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

(Croatia) sȍkol

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sokolъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sôko/
Hyphenation: so‧ko

Noun

sȍko m (Cyrillic spelling со̏ко)

(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)

market (spacious site where trading takes place)

Descendants

→ Kikuyu: thoko
→ Ma'di: soko
→ Portuguese: soco (Mozambique)
→ Rwanda-Rundi: isoko