duka

Etymology

From Swahili duka.

Noun

duka (plural dukas)

1. (Kenya) A shop, store.
   • 2012, Aidan Hartley, ‘Life at One Remove’, Literary Review 404:

     This series […] was the only interesting reading material you could find on the half-empty shelves of Nairobi dukas that called themselves bookshops but mostly sold school texts and dust-coated magazines.

Anagrams

• kuda

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: du‧ka

Adjective

duka

1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
2. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
3. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.

Verb

duka

1. To induce sleep; to make someone drowsy or lethargic.

Noun

duka m (plural duki)

1. duke

Etymology

From Arabic دُكَّان‎ (dukkān).

Noun

duka class 5 (plural maduka)

1. (Nsimbwa) shop

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دُكَّان‎ (dukkān).

Noun

duka (ma class, plural maduka)

1. shop (establishment that sells goods)

Etymology

duk +‎ -a

Verb

duka

1. to set (a table; to arrange with dishes and cutlery)