raku

raku

1. Alternative letter-case form of Raku

• Kaur, Kura, urka, Ruka, Karu

• IPA^(key): [ˈraku]

raku

1. dative/vocative/locative singular of rak

raku

1. genitive singular of rakk

raku

1. Rōmaji transcription of らく

raku

1. first-person singular past indicative of rakt

• IPA^(key): /ˈraku/

raku

1. locative singular of rak

From Proto-Oceanic *kalo₃ or *karut (“to scratch with fingernails, to claw at”) (compare with Fijian kadru)^[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *garut (“rub against, scrape, scratch”) (compare with Malay garut (“to grind against one another, to scrape”) and garu “to scratch”).^[2][3]

raku

1. to scratch

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “raku”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 374
• “raku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ku/
• Rhymes: -aku
• Syllabification: ra‧ku

raku m

1. locative/vocative singular of rak

raku

1. scratch

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾa.ku]

raku

1. (intransitive) to fold
2. (transitive) to fold

Conjugation of raku
	Singular	Plural
	Inclusive	Exclusive
1st	toraku	foraku	miraku
2nd	noraku	niraku
3rd	Masculine	oraku	iraku, yoraku†
Feminine	moraku
Neuter	iraku
† - archaic

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh