different between oka vs okra

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

Alternative forms

• okry (Southern US vern.); ochro, ochroe (Caribbean); okro
• (obsolete): ochre, ockro, ocra, ocro, occra, occro, ochra, ocre, okero, okwa, ookroo

Etymology

From an unknown West African language, probably Igbo ??k??r?? but cf. Akan ?kr?mã and ?krakra (“broth”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???k??/, /??k??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?o?k??/
• Rhymes: -o?k??, -??k??, -?k??

Noun

okra (countable and uncountable, plural okras)

1. The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.
   • 1679, Thomas Trapham, A Discourse of the State of Health in the Island of Jamaica..., pp. 59–60:

     ...as a food easy of digestion may well be admitted likewise the young Ocra an agreeable Food as well for the species as individual, dressed variously according to pleasure...

   • 1940, Farmers' Bulletin, No. 232, p. 7:

     Select young okra, wash thoroughly, remove the stems, and wipe the okra dry.

   • 1997, Lisette Verlander & al., The Cookin' Cajun Cooking School Cookbook, p. 25:

     Wash and dry okra, remove stems, and slice in one-inch rounds. (If using frozen okra, do not wash.) Heat two tablespoons oil in a heavy saucepan other than black iron. Saute okra in oil and vinegar, stirring often until ropiness is gone.

   • 2006, Francis N. Wiltz, In the Kitchen with Papa Wiltz, p. 1:

     I hated cooking okra because it was so slimy when you first start.

2. The flowering mallow plant Abelmoschus esculentus itself, now commonly grown in the tropics and warmer parts of the temperate zones.
   • 1707, Hans Sloane, A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados..., Vol. I, p. 222:

     Ocra, this has a round green stem, which rises straight up to ten or twelve foot high.

   • 1989, Ib Libner Nonnecke, Vegetable Production, p. 610:

     Okra does not do well in tight, waterlogged soils, but will tolerate a soil pH range of from 6.0 to 7.5.

   • 2011, Leon Neel & al., The Art of Managing Longleaf: A Personal History of the Stoddard-Neel Approach, p. 36:

     We planted some truck crops like watermelons and okra, which was risky.

Hypernyms

• (edible capsules): pod vegetable
• (plant): abelmosk, mallow

Synonyms

• bhindi (Indian contexts), gumbo (esp. in stews), ladyfinger
• (edible capsules): ladies' fingers

Derived terms

• African okra, autumnal okra, bun okra, Chinese okra, musk okra, ornamental okra, West African okra, wild okra, Yorka okra, Okra mosaic virus

Translations

References

• Abelmoschus esculentus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• “okra, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2004

Anagrams

• Kora, akro-, kora

Bikol Central

Etymology

From English okra, probably from Igbo ?k?r?.

Noun

okra

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)

Cebuano

Etymology

From English okra, probably from Igbo ?k?r?.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ok?ra

Noun

okra

1. okra (Abelmoschus esculentus)
2. the pods of this plant

Anagrams

• arko, karo, orka

Chavacano

Noun

okra

1. okra

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

okra m (plural okra's, diminutive [please provide])

1. okra

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?okr?/, [?o?kr?]
• Rhymes: -okr?
• Syllabification: ok?ra

Etymology 1

From Swedish ockra, from Latin ?chra, from Ancient Greek ???? (?khra).

Adjective

okra

1. ochre (having a yellow-orange colour)

Declension

Synonyms

• okrankeltainen
• okranvärinen

Noun

okra

1. ochre (pigment)
2. ochre (color)

Usage notes

The pigment is usually called keltamulta when used as pigment for house paints, whereas artists and archaeologists seem to prefer okra.

Declension

Synonyms

• (pigment): keltamulta
• (color): okrankeltainen, okranväri, okraväri

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From English okra, from some West African language, probably Igbo ??k??r??.

Noun

okra

1. okra, Abelmoschus esculentus

Declension

Anagrams

• akro-, rako

Hungarian

Etymology

ok +? -ra

Pronunciation

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

Noun

okra

1. sublative singular of ok

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???kra/
• Rhymes: -??kra

Verb

okra (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative okraði, supine okrað)

1. (intransitive) to practice usury

Declension

Anagrams

• orka

Spanish

Noun

okra f (plural okras)

1. okra

Tagalog

Noun

okra

1. okra