soko
English
Noun
soko (plural sokos)
- (dated) An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be 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.
- 1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals (page 232)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for soko in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
soko
Nalca
Noun
soko
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.
- A falcon flies over Sarajevo;
- Soko leti preko Sarajeva,
- 1814, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Mala prostonarodna slaveno-serbska pjesnarica:
Declension
Declension of soko
Swahili
Etymology
Noun
soko (ma class, plural masoko)
- market (spacious site where trading takes place)
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