koko

Cf. Burmese ကုက္ကို (kukkui).

koko

1. The tree Albizia lebbeck.

   Synonyms: lebbek, East Indian walnut, woman's tongue tree

   Hypernym: siris

koko

1. (Malaysia, school slang) Alternative form of koku

• kook

koko

1. be narrow

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

koko

1. hard, not soft
2. hard, difficult
3. (of fruit) firm, ripe
4. stuck, immobile, immovable

• koko obo

• Chris and Phil Carr, Bamu Dictionary (2012)

From Spanish coco.

koko

1. coconut

From French coq and English cock.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoko]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oko
• Hyphenation: ko‧ko

koko (accusative singular kokon, plural kokoj, accusative plural kokojn)

1. chicken
2. fowl
3. (dated) cock

• birdo (“bird”)

• gekokoj (“chickens”)
• kokiĉo (“rooster, cock”) (neologism)
• kokido (“chick”)
• kokino (“hen”)
• virkoko (“rooster, cock”) (idiomatic)

• kokaĵo (“chicken meat”)

From Proto-Finnic *koko (compare Estonian kogu), possibly from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kokᴈ (compare Eastern Mari кугу (kugu, “big”)).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoko/, [ˈko̞ko̞]
• Rhymes: -oko
• Hyphenation^(key): ko‧ko

koko (not comparable, indeclinable, only used attributively)

1. whole, entire

   Synonym: kokonainen

   Koko päivä meni hukkaan.

   The whole day was wasted.

   Valvoimme koko yön.

   We stayed up all night.

   Älä valvo koko yötä!

   Don't stay up all night.

Indeclinable

koko

1. size, dimensions

   Mikä sinun kokosi on?

   What is your size?

2. (dialectal outside expressions) heap, pile

   kerätä kokoon ― to gather in a pile; (figuratively) to gather, collect

Nonstandard:

• “koko”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• IPA^(key): /kóː.kó/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kʷóː.kʷó]

kōko m (possessed form kōkon)

1. a porridge made from soaked durra flour

Borrowed from English cocoa.

• IPA^(key): /kòː.kóː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kʷòː.kʷóː]

kṑkō m (possessed form kṑkon)

1. cocoa

From Proto-Polynesian *toto (compare with Tahitian toto, Maori toto)^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.ko/

koko

1. blood

From Hokkien 哥哥 (ko-ko, “older brother”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoko]
• Hyphenation: ko‧ko

koko (plural koko-koko, first-person possessive kokoku, second-person possessive kokomu, third-person possessive kokonya)

1. (colloquial) older brother.

   Synonyms: abang, kakak

2. (colloquial) short for baju koko.

From Proto-Finnic *koko. Cognates include Finnish koko and Estonian kogu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkoko/, [ˈko̞ko̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkoko/, [ˈko̞ɡ̊o̞]
• Rhymes: -oko
• Hyphenation: ko‧ko

koko (invariable)

1. whole, entire
   • 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 53:

     Koko mailman tööläisin käyttäjä.

     The leader of the workers of the entire world.

koko

1. heap, pile

• (heap): mytty, ropja, runni

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 101
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 181

koko

1. Rōmaji transcription of ここ

From Proto-Cariban *koko; compare Apalaí koko, Trió koko, Wayana koko, and likely Ye'kwana koijai and ko'momü from the same stem.

• (Venezuela, West Suriname) IPA^(key): [koːko]
• (East Suriname) IPA^(key): [koʔko]

koko

1. by night, at night

• Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary‎^[3], Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 297
• Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “koko”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 221; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes‎^[4], Paris, 1956, page 215

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoːko]

koko

1. neck

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “koko”, in Lamboya word list‎^[5], Leiden: LexiRumah

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔkɔ]

koko (Lontara spelling ᨀᨚᨀᨚ)

1. garden, plantation

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

koko

1. scoop, ladle

   Synonyms: kapu, tīkoko

2. shovel
3. spoon

koko (passive kokoa or kokongia or kokotia)

1. to ladle, to scoop up

   Synonym: kapu

2. to shovel

• kō

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “koko”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 153
• “koko” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [koːɡo], (enunciated) [ko ko]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /kewkew/
• Bender phonemes: {kȩwkȩw}

koko

1. mahi-mahi; common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus)

Borrowed from English cocoa, from Spanish cacao, from Classical Nahuatl cacahuatl.

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [koːɡo, kɔːɡɔ, kʷoːɡʷo, kʷɔːɡʷɔ]; (enunciated) [ko ko, kɔ kɔ, kʷo kʷo, kʷɔ kʷɔ]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /kewkew, kɛwkɛw, kʷewkʷew, kʷɛwkʷɛw/
• Bender phonemes: {kȩwkȩw, kewkew, kʷȩwkʷȩw, kʷewkʷew}

koko

1. cocoa; chocolate

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Cognates include Minica Huitoto koko and Nüpode Huitoto koko.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɔkɔ]
• Hyphenation: ko‧ko

koko

1. we two (masculine)

• Shirley Burtch (1983) Diccionario Huitoto Murui (Tomo I) (Linguistica Peruana No. 20)‎^[6] (in Spanish), Yarinacocha, Peru: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 46
• Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak (2017) A grammar of Murui (Bue): a Witotoan language of Northwest Amazonia.‎^[7], Townsville: James Cook University press (PhD thesis), page 157

From Proto-Philippine *kukuh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kukuh, from Proto-Austronesian *kuSkuS.

• IPA^(key): /kuˈko/, [kʊˈko]
• Hyphenation: ku‧ko

kokó

1. fingernail; toenail; nail

• Audio (Kenya):

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koko

1. wild
2. eccentric

koko (ma class, plural makoko)

1. wilderness
2. nut, pit
3. testicle

koko (comparative mer koko, superlative mest koko)

1. (colloquial) crazy

Uninflected.

• koko in Svensk ordbok (SO)

From Proto-Cariban *koko; compare Apalaí koko, Kari'na koko, Wayana koko, and likely Ye'kwana koijai and ko'momü from the same stem.

koko

1. by night

From Proto-Finnic *koko.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkoko/, [ˈkoko]
• Rhymes: -oko
• Hyphenation: ko‧ko

koko

1. (not inflected) (the) whole, entire

koko

1. very, entirely, completely

koko

1. heap, pile

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “koko”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Possibly cognate with Ternate oko (“chin”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.ko/

koko

1. chin

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[8], Pacific linguistics

koko (definite form koko bi)

1. coconut

koko

1. (anatomy) fingernail; toenail

• IPA^(key): /kò.kò/

kòkò

1. Alternative form of ìkòkò

• kòkò irin

 

From English cocoa.

• IPA^(key): /kò.kó/

kòkó

1. cocoa

• Ilé kòkó

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.kò/

kókò

1. cocoyam

   Synonym: lámbó

Cognates include Nupe kókó.

IPA^(key): /kó.kó/

kókó

1. point
2. subject, essence, theme
3. lump
4. (cytology, physics, chemistry) nucleus

 

• IPA^(key): /kó.kó/

kókó

1. knot