different between muke vs muka

English

Etymology 1

Noun

muke (plural mukes)

1. Alternative form of mook
   • 1995, David Rabe, Those the River Keeps [1]

     Look, I says to myself, Phil is out there trying to live this fucking life of a muke, he has got to be sick of it, but he is not a muke, he is a serious guy.

Etymology 2

Mandarin, perhaps ?? (mùkè, “tree-lodger”).

Noun

muke (plural muke)

1. (Chinese mythology) A kind of tree spirit.
   • 2004, Richard von Glahn, The Sinister Way [2]

     According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.

Anagrams

• Kemu

Chimwiini

Noun

muke 1 (plural wake)

1. woman

Antonyms

• mubli (“man”)

Further reading

• Larry M. Hyman, Suffix ordering in Bantu, in Yearbook of Morphology 2002, edited by Geert Booij and Jaap van Marle, page 259
• An introduction to African linguistics (2000), citing Kenstowicz & Kisseberth 1979

East Futuna

Verb

muke

1. To set a goal.

Noun

muke

1. A fixed goal.

References

• Dictionnaire futunien-français, Claire Moyse-Faurie [3]

Japanese

Romanization

muke

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Malay

Noun

muke

1. (dialectal, Pontianak) face

Manchu

Romanization

muke

1. Romanization of ????

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

muke

1. Alternative form of mek

Etymology 2

Noun

muke

1. Alternative form of muk
   • 15th c. Robert Henryson, The Cock and the Jasp [4]

     Pietie it wer thow suld ly in this mydding,

     Be buryit thus amang this muke and mold,

     And thow so fair and warth sa mekill gold.

Etymology 3

Verb

muke

1. Alternative form of mukken

Nage

Noun

muke

1. Chalcophaps indica, the emerald dove.

References

• Nage Birds, Gregory L. Forth ?ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

muke (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of muka:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

muka (uncountable)

1. Prepared fibre of harakeke, used in traditional Maori weaving.

Anagrams

• Mauk, akum

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?muka]

Noun

muka n pl

1. (literary) Agony, torment, ordeal.

Usage notes

• Also used in feminine plural form muky.

Related terms

• mu?it

Further reading

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

Finnish

(index mu)

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *muka, probably derived from muu. Akin to Karelian muka, Livvi muga and Veps muga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?muk?/, [?muk?]
• Rhymes: -uk?
• Syllabification: mu?ka

Adverb

muka

1. supposedly, allegedly, as if (used to express that what follows is doubtful or untrue)

Synonyms

• mukamas

See also

• muukalainen

Anagrams

• kamu, maku

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay muka, from Sanskrit ??? (mukha).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /muka/
• Hyphenation: mu?ka
• Rhymes: -ka

Noun

muka (first-person possessive mukaku, second-person possessive mukamu, third-person possessive mukanya)

1. face

   Synonym: wajah

   1. the front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
   2. the public image; outward appearance.
   3. the frontal aspect of something.
2. person.
3. typeface.

   Synonym: pagina

4. previous event.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “muka” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Kaurna

Noun

muka

1. egg
2. anything of oval or round shape

See also

• yarla-muka (“calf muscle”)
• muka-muka (“the brain”)
• kardlumuka (“scrotum, testes”)
• kuntumuka (“the male breast”)
• ngarrumuka (“scrotum, testes, brain”)

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka; cognate with Upper Sorbian muka, Polish m?ka, Czech mouka, Russian ????? (muká), Old Church Slavonic ???? (m?ka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?muka]

Noun

muka f (diminutive mucka)

1. flour (powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains)

Declension

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (mukha).

Noun

muka (Jawi spelling ????, plural muka-muka, informal 1st possessive mukaku, impolite 2nd possessive mukamu, 3rd possessive mukanya)

1. face
2. front, facade

Further reading

• “muka” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Mwani

Noun

muka 1 (plural waka)

1. wife

Coordinate terms

• nlume

Derived terms

• mwanamuka

Oromo

Noun

muka

1. tree

Phuthi

Verb

-múka

1. to leave, to depart

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Rayón Zoque

Noun

muka

1. mushroom

References

• Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)?^[1] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 18

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka (“torture, torment”), Cognates include Czech muka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mûka/
• Hyphenation: mu?ka

Noun

m?ka f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. pain
2. torment
3. nausea
4. trouble

Declension

Derived terms

• bez muke nema nauke
• mu?nina

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka (“flour”), Cognates include Czech mouka

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??ka/
• Hyphenation: mu?ka

Noun

múka f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (regional) flour

Declension

Synonyms

• (flour): brašno

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *m?ka.

Noun

muka f (genitive singular muky, nominative plural muky, genitive plural múk, declension pattern of žena)

1. torture
2. excruciating pain

Usage notes

• This word is used almost exclusively in the plural. The singular form is used mostly in poetry.

Declension

Derived terms

• mu?i?

Further reading

• muka in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Zulu

Verb

-múka

1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of -emuka

Inflection

References

• C. M. Doke; B. W. Vilakazi (1972) , “muka”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, ?ISBN: “muka (3.9)”