wiki

See also: Wiki

English

WOTD – 31 December 2006

Etymology

1995.[1] Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

Pronunciation

enPR: wĭʹkē, wēʹkē, IPA^(key): /ˈwɪki/, /ˈwiːki/
Audio (US) (file)
Audio (AU) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪki, -iːki
Homophones: wicky, weaky, wickie

Noun

wiki (plural wikis)

A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone with access to it.

Hyponyms

private wiki
protected wiki
public wiki

Derived terms

Derived terms of wiki (proper nouns)

MediaWiki
Wikidata
WikiLeaks
Wikimedia
Wikinews
Wikipedia
Wikipedist
Wikiportal
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikispecies
Wikiversity
Wikivoyage
Wiktionarian
Wiktionary

Other terms derived from wiki

interwiki
wikify
wikiholic
wikilink
wikiness
wiki walk

Translations

collaborative website

Afrikaans: wiki
Arabic: وِيكِي‎ (ar) m (wikī)
Armenian: վիքի (vikʿi)
Assamese: ৱিকি (wiki)
Azerbaijani: viki
Belarusian: ві́кі f (víki)
Bengali: উইকি (bn) (uiki)
Bulgarian: уики f (uiki)
Burmese: ဝီကီ (wiki)
Catalan: wiki (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 維基 (wai⁴ gei¹)
Hakka: 維基 (vì-kî)
Mandarin: 維基／维基 (zh) (wéijī)
Min Dong: 維基 (mì-gĭ)
Min Nan: 維基 (zh-min-nan) (ûi-ki)
Wu: 維基 (3vi ji)
Chuvash: вики (vik̬i)
Danish: wiki (da) c
Dutch: wiki (nl) m
Esperanto: vikio (eo)
Estonian: viki
Finnish: wiki (fi)
French: wiki (fr) m
Georgian: ვიკი (ka) (viḳi)
German: Wiki (de) n
Greek: βίκι (el) n (víki)
Hebrew: וִיקִי‎ (he) m (wiki)
Hindi: विकि (viki)
Hungarian: wiki (hu)
Ingush: вики (viki)
Interlingua: wiki
Inuktitut: ᐅᐃᑭ (oiki)
Irish: vicí (ga) m
Italian: wiki (it) m
Japanese: ウィキ (ja) (wiki)
Kalmyk: бики (biki)
Kazakh: уики (uiki)
Khmer: វិគី (km) (vikii)
Korean: 위키 (ko) (wiki)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: wîkî (ku) f
Latin: vici (la) n
Latvian: viki m
Lithuanian: viki m
Luxembourgish: Wiki n
Macedonian: вики n (viki)
Malay: wiki
Malayalam: വിക്കി (vikki)
Marathi: विकी (vikī)
Mongolian: вики (viki)
Nahuatl: huiqui
Nepali: विकि (ne) (viki)
Norman: ouitchi m, wiki m
Norwegian: wiki (no)
Persian: ویکی‎ (fa) (viki)
Polish: wiki (pl) m
Pontic Greek: βικι (viki)
Portuguese: wiki (pt) m
Punjabi: ਵਿਕਿ (viki)
Quechua: wiki
Romanian: wiki (ro) n
Russian: ви́ки (ru) f (víki)
Rusyn: вікі (viki)
Sanskrit: विकिः (vikiḥ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вики
Roman: viki
Shan: ဝီႇၶီႇ (wìi khìi)
Sinhalese: විකි (wiki)
Spanish: wiki (es) m
Swedish: wiki (sv) c
Tajik: вики (viki)
Tamil: விக்கி (vikki)
Telugu: వికీ (vikī)
Thai: วิกิ (wí-gì)
Turkish: viki (tr)
Ukrainian: ві́кі (uk) f (víki)
Vietnamese: wiki (vi)
Volapük: vük
Võro: viki
Welsh: wici (cy) m
Yiddish: וויקי‎ (viki)

Verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

(transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.
To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.
- 2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News:
  I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe
- 2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds, Usenet‎:
  Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'
- 2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, page 65:
  I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.
(intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.
- 2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73:
  Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.
- 2007, Dan Woods, Wikis for dummies, page 17:
  The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.
- 2008, Robert E. Cummings; Matt Barton, Wiki writing: collaborative learning in the college classroom, page 46:
  For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi, publishing announcements
(transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.
- 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time‎:
  The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.

Translations

research on a wiki

Chinese:
Mandarin: 上 Wiki, 上維基／上维基
Dutch: wikiën
Finnish: hakea wikistä, wikittää
French: please add this translation if you can
Limburgish: wikieë
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: wiki (tl)

contribute to a wiki

Chinese:
Mandarin: 寫維基／写维基, 寫 Wiki／写 Wiki
Dutch: wikiën
Esperanto: vikiumi
Finnish: muokata wikiä
French: please add this translation if you can
Japanese: ウィキする (wiki-suru), ウィキる (wiki-ru)
Limburgish: bewikieë
Romanian: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: wiki (tl)

References

“wiki”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
"wiki" in the Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6), Lexico Publishing Group, 2003-2005.
Notes:

Cunningham, Ward (2005), “Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki”, in Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc.‎, retrieved 28 February 2010

Anagrams

Kiwi, kiwi

Catalan

Alternative forms

viqui

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ki/

(Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ki/

Noun

wiki m (plural wikis)

wiki

Choctaw

Alternative forms

Spelling variants
- weki (traditional)

Adjective

wīki

heavy

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈviki/, /ˈvikʰi/, /ˈwikʰi/[1]

Noun

wiki c (singular definite wikien, plural indefinite wikier)

A wiki.[1]

Inflection

Declension of wiki

common gender	Singular		Plural
common gender	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	wiki	wikien	wikier	wikierne
genitive	wikis	wikiens	wikiers	wikiernes

Derived terms

wikikette
wikikode
Wikipedia
Wikipediabrugerside

References

“wiki” in Den Danske Ordbog.

Anagrams

kiwi

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʋiki/
Audio (file)

Noun

wiki m (plural wiki's, diminutive wikietje n)

wiki

Derived terms

wikiën

Anagrams

kiwi

Finnish

Etymology

From English wiki, formed from Hawaiian wikiwiki.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/, [ˈwiki]
Rhymes: -iki
Syllabification^(key): wi‧ki

Noun

wiki

wiki (collaborative website)

Declension

Inflection of wiki (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		wiki	wikit
genitive		wikin	wikien
partitive		wikiä	wikejä
illative		wikiin	wikeihin
		singular	plural
nominative		wiki	wikit
accusative	nom.	wiki	wikit
accusative	gen.	wikin	wikit
genitive		wikin	wikien
partitive		wikiä	wikejä
inessive		wikissä	wikeissä
elative		wikistä	wikeistä
illative		wikiin	wikeihin
adessive		wikillä	wikeillä
ablative		wikiltä	wikeiltä
allative		wikille	wikeille
essive		wikinä	wikeinä
translative		wikiksi	wikeiksi
instructive		—	wikein
abessive		wikittä	wikeittä
comitative		—	wikeineen

Possessive forms of wiki (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	wikini	wikimme
2nd person	wikisi	wikinne
3rd person	wikinsä

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wi.ki/
Audio (file)

Noun

wiki m (plural wikis)

wiki

Derived terms

wikifier
Wikipédia
Wiktionnaire

Anagrams

kiwi

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *witi (note: only attested in Central-Eastern Polynesian).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈviki]

Verb

wiki

(stative) hasten, speed up.
(stative) be swift, speedy, quick.

Derived terms

wikiwiki

References

“wiki” in the Hawaiian Dictionary, Revised and Enlarged Edition, University of Hawaii Press, 1986

POLLEX entry

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

Hyphenation: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki (first-person possessive wikiku, second-person possessive wikimu, third-person possessive wikinya)

wiki

Japanese

Romanization

wiki

Rōmaji transcription of ウィキ

Kokota

Etymology

Borrowed from English week.

Noun

wiki

week
palu wiki : two weeks

References

Bill Palmer, Kokota Grammar, page 380 →ISBN

Limburgish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwi˦kə˧/, /ˈwi˦ki˨/

Noun

wiki m

wiki

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Lower Sorbian

1. wiki

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German wīk, from Latin vicus.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvʲikʲi/

Noun

wiki pl (plural only)

(literary, commerce) market
Stwórtk su pśecej wiki.
The market is always [open] on Thursdays.
- 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:
  Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.
  Somewhat further on is the Old Market.
town square

Declension

Declension of wiki

	plural (plurale tantum)
Nominative	wiki
Genitive	wikow
Dative	wikam
Accusative	wiki
Instrumental	wikami
Locative	wikach

Derived terms

konjece wiki
pjenjezne wiki
wikowanišćo
wjelike wiki

References

Bartels, Hauke (2009). "Lower Sorbian vocabulary". In Haspelmath, Martin; Tadmor, Uri. World Loanword Database. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library. Retrieved 2011-04-13.

Maori

Verb

wiki

to form circular ripples on the surface of a fluid

Etymology 2

Transliteration of English week

Noun

wiki

week

Etymology 3

Transliteration of English wick

Noun

wiki

wick; fuse

Norwegian

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”).

Noun

wiki m

A wiki.

Inflection

Inflection of wiki

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	wiki	wikien	wikier	wikiene
Nynorsk m	wiki	wikien	wikiar	wikiane

Derived terms

wikifisere

Portuguese

Noun

wiki f or (less common) m (plural wikis)

wiki (website allowing collaborative editing of content)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/ [ˈwi.ki], /ˈɡwiki/ [ˈɡwi.ki]
Rhymes: -iki
Syllabification: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki m or f (plural wikis)

wiki

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English week.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ki/

Noun

wiki

week

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English week.

Pronunciation

Audio (Kenya) (file)

Noun

wiki (n class, plural wiki)

a week

Synonyms

juma

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /viːkɪ/, /vɪkɪ/, /wiːkɪ/, /wɪkɪ/

Noun

wiki c

wiki.

Declension

Declension of wiki
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	wiki	wikin	wikier	wikierna
Genitive	wikis	wikins	wikiers	wikiernas

The plurals are not agreed upon, other words for the indefinite plural nominative presently in use include wikier, wikis, wikisar, wikior, wikiar, wiki etc.

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *w'īkän, from Proto-Indo-European *(d)wi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (cognate with Latin vīgintī, Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi), Doric ϝείκατι (weíkati), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (vīsaⁱti), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Armenian քսան (kʿsan), Albanian (një)zet, Welsh ugain). Compare Tocharian B ikäṃ.

Numeral

wiki

twenty

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvici/
Hyphenation: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki (definite accusative wikiyi, plural wikiler)

wiki

Declension

Inflection

Nominative

wiki

Definite accusative

wikiyi

Singular

Plural

Nominative

wiki

wikiler

Definite accusative

wikiyi

wikileri

Dative

wikiye

wikilere

Locative

wikide

wikilerde

Ablative

wikiden

wikilerden

Genitive

wikinin

wikilerin

Possessive forms
Nominative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	wikim	wikilerim
2nd singular	wikin	wikilerin
3rd singular	wikisi	wikileri
1st plural	wikimiz	wikilerimiz
2nd plural	wikiniz	wikileriniz
3rd plural	wikileri	wikileri
Definite accusative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	wikimi	wikilerimi
2nd singular	wikini	wikilerini
3rd singular	wikisini	wikilerini
1st plural	wikimizi	wikilerimizi
2nd plural	wikinizi	wikilerinizi
3rd plural	wikilerini	wikilerini
Dative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	wikime	wikilerime
2nd singular	wikine	wikilerine
3rd singular	wikisine	wikilerine
1st plural	wikimize	wikilerimize
2nd plural	wikinize	wikilerinize
3rd plural	wikilerine	wikilerine
Locative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	wikimde	wikilerimde
2nd singular	wikinde	wikilerinde
3rd singular	wikisinde	wikilerinde
1st plural	wikimizde	wikilerimizde
2nd plural	wikinizde	wikilerinizde
3rd plural	wikilerinde	wikilerinde
Ablative
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	wikimden	wikilerimden
2nd singular	wikinden	wikilerinden
3rd singular	wikisinden	wikilerinden
1st plural	wikimizden	wikilerimizden
2nd plural	wikinizden	wikilerinizden
3rd plural	wikilerinden	wikilerinden
Genitive
	Singular	Plural
1st singular	wikimin	wikilerimin
2nd singular	wikinin	wikilerinin
3rd singular	wikisinin	wikilerinin
1st plural	wikimizin	wikilerimizin
2nd plural	wikinizin	wikilerinizin
3rd plural	wikilerinin	wikilerinin

[W._Cunningham,_Correspondence_on_the_Etymology_of_Wiki-1] Cunningham, Ward (2005), “Correspondence on the Etymology of Wiki”, in Cunningham & Cunningham, Inc.‎, retrieved 28 February 2010

[DDO-2] “wiki” in Den Danske Ordbog.

[3] POLLEX entry

[4] Bartels, Hauke (2009). "Lower Sorbian vocabulary". In Haspelmath, Martin; Tadmor, Uri. World Loanword Database. Munich: Max Planck Digital Library. Retrieved 2011-04-13.

wiki

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Catalan

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Choctaw

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Danish

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Dutch

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Finnish

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French

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Hawaiian

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Indonesian

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Japanese

Romanization

Kokota

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Limburgish

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Lower Sorbian

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Maori

Verb

Etymology 2

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Etymology 3