different between jake vs jako

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?e?k/

Adjective

jake (comparative more jake, superlative most jake)

1. (slang) Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin 2011, p. 126:

     ‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’

Noun

jake (countable and uncountable, plural jakes)

1. (US) A juvenile male turkey.
2. (New York, slang) police, a federal government officer.
   • 1998, Big L, "Ebonics (Criminal Slang)"

     A radio is a box, a razor blade is a ox / fat diamonds is rocks and jakes is cops.

3. (slang) A police officer (on foot, rather than in a patrol car)
4. (US, slang, uncountable) Jamaica ginger
5. A Discordian prank involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to a targeted individual.
   • 1993, "selvarv, the keeper of Rig", Today's impending JAKE! (on newsgroup alt.discordia)

     Hello, I'm afraid in some regards I'm too discordian for my own good and I forgot to either write down the jake-dupe's address, or include it in my repost when I suggested today as jake day....

   • 1994, "Matthew Morse", StarTrek (on newsgroup alt.discordia)

     It strikes me that organizing a jake over the net is a bad idea, because Hormel could conceivably find out about it before it happens. That's not going to stop me from participating though.

   • 1999, "Jeff X. Mink", My Christmas Card! (on newsgroup alt.discordia)

     Call me old fashioned, but this situation is really inappropriate for a jake. […] I mean that a little girl was seriously injured, […] and we, as Discordians, should have more respect for the holy tradition of the jake, and use its powers only for those situations where it can actually do some good, or at least be worth a good laugh.

Derived terms

• jake leg

Verb

jake (third-person singular simple present jakes, present participle jaking, simple past and past participle jaked)

1. (transitive) To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.

English

Etymology

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

Noun

jako (plural jakos)

1. An African grey parrot, Psittacus erithacus, commonly kept as a cage bird.
   • 1882, Rev. P. B. Power, The Home Visitor and District Companion

     Very little is known of these birds in their wild state, although they are brought to Europe in far greater numbers than any other species. We learn from Henglin that the habitat of the Jako extends from the western coast of Africa deep into the heart of that continent […]

   • 1908, Chandler Belden Beach, The Students' Reference Work

     The Jako, or gray parrot of Africa, has the capacity for speaking best developed, and the yellow-headed green parrot of Mexico stands second in the list.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jako.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jako/
• Rhymes: -ako

Adverb

jako

1. as
2. like

Related terms

• jaký
• jak
• jakoby
• see Category:Czech similes

Further reading

• jako in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• jako in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Etymology

Borrowed from German Jacke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jako/
• Hyphenation: ja?ko
• Rhymes: -ako

Noun

jako (accusative singular jakon, plural jakoj, accusative plural jakojn)

1. jacket, coat

Derived terms

• jaketo

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *jako, from *jakadak. Equivalent to jak- +? -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?ko/, [?j?ko?]
• Rhymes: -?ko
• Syllabification: ja?ko

Noun

jako

1. division, distribution, sharing, dealing (act)
2. division, distribution, sharing, dealing (result)
3. share, part
4. pitch (distance between evenly spaced objects, such as on a roller chain)

Declension

Derived terms

Anagrams

• joka, kajo, koja

Ido

Etymology

Modern and unofficial back-formation from jaketo. Also found in German Jacke, Italian giacca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ako/, /?d??ako/

Noun

jako (plural jaki)

1. jacket (long woman’s)

Ingrian

Etymology

From *jako.

Noun

jako

1. deal

Japanese

Romanization

jako

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Magdalena Peñasco Mixtec

Etymology

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

Noun

jako

1. common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis)

   Synonym: jako iñu

Derived terms

References

• Aguilar Feria, Martimiana; García Rojas, Vicente; Erickson de Hollenbach, Elena (2017) Diccionario mixteco de Magdalena Peñasco (Sa?an Ñuu Savi) (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 50)?^[1] (in Spanish), Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 53

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jako.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ja.k?/

Preposition

jako (+ Nominative)

1. as

Conjunction

jako

1. as

Further reading

• jako in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• jako in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jako. Synchronically analysable as j?k (“strong”) +? -o.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jâ?ko/
• Hyphenation: ja?ko

Adverb

j?ko (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. very, very much

2. hard, strongly, powerfully, forcefully (with a great deal of effort or force)

3. hard, severely (to the fullest extent possible)