different between roko vs roo

English

Etymology

Shortened from Hindi ?????? ???? (r?st? roko, literally “obstruct the road”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????k??/

Noun

roko (plural rokos)

1. (India) A type of protest in which transport is disrupted.
   • 2010, Times of India, 3 Aug 2010:

     Around 400 activists of various political parties were taken into custody when they tried to stage a day-long rail roko here on Monday.

Anagrams

• Koro, Kroo, koro, kroo, rook

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?roko/
• Hyphenation: ro?ko
• Rhymes: -oko
• Audio:

Noun

roko (accusative singular rokon, plural rokoj, accusative plural rokojn)

1. (geology) rock

   Hyponym: metamorfa roko

2. (music) rock music

   Synonym: rokmuziko

Derived terms

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto roko, English rock, French roc, Spanish roca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ro.ko/
• Hyphenation: ro?ko

Noun

roko (plural roki)

1. (geology) rock

Derived terms

• rokoza

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??u?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??u/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: rue, roux

Etymology 1

From Middle English roo, ro, from Old English r?, r?w (“quietness, quiet, rest”), from Proto-Germanic *r?w? (“quiet, rest”), from Proto-Indo-European *ere(w)-, *r?(w)- (“quiet”). Cognate with Scots ro, ruve (“peace, repose”), German Ruhe (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish ro (“rest, peace, tranquility”), Icelandic ró (“tranquility, quietness”).

Noun

roo (uncountable)

1. (Britain dialectal or obsolete) Peace; quietness.
2. (Britain dialectal) Rest; stillness.

Derived terms

• roolie
• unruly

Etymology 2

Aphetic form of kangaroo.

Alternative forms

• 'roo

Noun

roo (plural roos)

1. Clipping of kangaroo.

Derived terms

• roo bar

Anagrams

• oro-

Gooniyandi

Noun

roo

1. excrement, faeces, shit

Hadza

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?o/

Noun

roo m (masc. plural roobii, fem. rooko, fem. plural roobee) (Note: the form after a determiner is roo)

1. a horn, barb (mpl vowel may rise to ruubii. fem. = a short/stout horn)

Manx

Pronoun

roo

1. third-person plural of rish

   to them

   • Cha row eh ny s'lheah er loayrt roo. No sooner had he spoken to them.
   • Ta mee çheughey roo. I side with them.

Derived terms

• roosyn (emphatic)

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English r?.

Noun

roo

1. Alternative form of ro (“roe deer”)

Etymology 2

From Old English r?.

Noun

roo

1. Alternative form of ro (“serenity”)

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o.u

Verb

roo

1. first-person singular present indicative of roer

Spanish

Verb

roo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of roer.

   Synonyms: roigo, royo

Tetum

Noun

roo

1. leaf