different between oka vs koa

English

Alternative forms

• oke, okka

Etymology

From Italian oca, from French oque, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (okka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?/

Noun

oka (plural okas)

1. (historical) A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.
   • 1888, W.M.F. Petrie, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. XXIV, s.v. "Weights and Measures":

     Dram (49·5 grains), 100=chequi, 4=oka (2·8286 ?); dram (49·5 grains), 180=rotl, 100=kintal or kantar (127·29 ?).

2. A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.

Meronyms

• (subdivisions of the unit of weight): dirhem or dram; ounce; cheki; rottol or rotl
• (superdivisions of the unit of weight): batman; kantar or quintal

Translations

Anagrams

• A-OK, AOK, Kao, OAK, koa, oak

Ainu

Etymology

Contraction of okay.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ò??ká]

Pronoun

oka (Kana spelling ??)

1. (Saru dialect) they (third-person plural pronoun)

Usage notes

This word is not actually a proper pronoun, but is often used when it is absolutely necessary to point directly to a third person in conversation. The proper third-person pronoun in Ainu would be the lack of any personal pronoun at all, i.e., it has a null value.

See also

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.ka/

Noun

oka inan

1. nausea, indigestion
2. vomit

Declension

Related terms

• oka egin

Further reading

• “oka” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “oka” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Bilba

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(w)aka?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(w)aka?.

Noun

oka

1. root (of plant)

Choctaw

Noun

oka

1. water

References

• Cyrus Byington, John Reed Swanton, Henry Sale Halbert, A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language (1915)

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?oka]

Noun

oka

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

Esperanto

Etymology

ok +? -a

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?oka/
• Hyphenation: o?ka

Adjective

oka (accusative singular okan, plural okaj, accusative plural okajn)

1. eighth

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *oka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ok?/, [?o?k?]
• Rhymes: -ok?
• Syllabification: o?ka

Noun

oka

1. thorn, prickle

Declension

Synonyms

• oas
• piikki

Hungarian

Etymology

ok (“cause, reason, motive”) +? -a (possessive suffix)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ok?]
• Hyphenation: oka

Noun

oka

1. third-person singular single-possession possessive of ok

Declension

Japanese

Romanization

oka

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Laboya

Noun

oka

1. cage

References

• Rina, A. Dj.; Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) , “oka”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 75

Maori

Noun

oka

1. yam

See also

• uhi
• uwhi

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /-??ka/

Noun

oka

1. typical Brazilian indigenous housing
   • XVI century, Anchieta, Auto de S. Lourenço (São Paulo, 1948):

     E-îor-í i-mo-sykyîé-bo, t-o-ikó umé oka r-upi oré anga mo-ngué-bo.

     Come to scare them away, so that they may be no longer in our houses corrupting our souls.

2. any house.

Descendants

• Portuguese: oca, carioca

References

• LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ka/

Noun

oka n

1. inflection of oko:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural (some meanings)

Rapa Nui

Verb

oka

1. stab

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (okka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka/
• Hyphenation: o?ka

Noun

òka f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. an oka, a former Turkish unit of weight, usually a little more than a kilogram

Declension

Noun

oka

1. genitive singular of oko

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?oka]

Noun

oka

1. genitive singular of oko

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jòka.

Pronunciation

Verb

-oka (infinitive kuoka)

1. to bake
2. to roast
3. to fire pottery

Inflection

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hawaiian koa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k???/

Noun

koa (plural koas or koa)

1. Acacia koa, a species of large tree in the family Fabaceae which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree.
   • 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 59:

     As you get higher, native vegetation takes over, so a prospect might be framed by the dangling leaves of the beautiful koa tree, each leaf a gently curved, trembling sickle.

   • 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, p. 122:

     At her funeral, Likelike's body was placed in a polished koa coffin, adorned with sprays of gardenia […].

See also

• koa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• A-OK, AOK, Kao, OAK, Oka, oak, oka

Ajië

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [koa]

Noun

koa

1. rain

References

• Leenhardt, M. (1935) Vocabulaire et grammaire de la langue Houaïlou, Institut d'ethnologie. Cited in: "Houaïlou" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
• Leenhardt, M. (1946) Langues et dialectes de l'Austro-Mèlanèsie. Cited in: "Ajiø" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Bola

Noun

koa

1. grasshopper

References

• Brent Wiebe, Bola (Bola-Bakovi) Language Organized Phonology Data, p. 3

Garo

Verb

koa

1. to stitch

Hawaiian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *toa (compare Maori toa), from Proto-Oceanic *toRas, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *teRas (compare Indonesian teras (“heart, pith (of wood)”)).

Noun

koa

1. warrior
2. koa (tree)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *toqa (compare Maori toa (“brave”)).

Verb

koa

1. (stative) to be brave, military

Derived terms

• Kekoa

Indonesian

Etymology

From Chinese, probably Hokkien ? (kòa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?koa]
• Hyphenation: koa

Noun

koa (first-person possessive koaku, second-person possessive koamu, third-person possessive koanya)

1. (gaming) a Chinese card game.

Alternative forms

• kua

Further reading

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