different between sloke vs sloka

English

Noun

sloke (uncountable)

1. (archaic) laver (type of seaweed)

Anagrams

• Kelso, Klose, Kosel, Lesko, koels, lokes

Slovene

Noun

slóke

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

English

Noun

sloka (plural slokas)

1. Alternative form of shloka
   • 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins 2013, p. 268:

     But it's not to be yet. There's a series of slokas to be recited.

Anagrams

• Lasko, kolas, skoal

Czech

Etymology

Word adopted from Sanskrit ????? (?loka) by Josef Jungmann with influence of his brother, Antonín Jan Jungmann, who studied Sanskrit.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?sloka]

Noun

sloka f

1. stanza (unit of a poem)
2. verse (section of a song)

Declension

Synonyms

• (unit of a poem): strofa, (dated) sloha

References

Further reading

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

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *slank?-, formed by vowel gradation from Proto-Indo-European *slenk- “to cut, to twist, to wind, to meander; to crawl, to creep”. The original meaning was probably “crawler, creeper”, because of this bird's terrestrial habits and low flight. Cognates include Lithuanian slánka, slankà, slãnk?, Old Prussian slanke (“large woodcock”), Russian ?????? (slúka), Ukrainian ??????? (slúkva), Czech sluka, Polish s??ka, ?l?ka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [slùoka]

Noun

sloka f (4th declension)

1. woodcock (several bird species of the genus Scolopax, especially Scolopax rusticola)

Declension

References

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sl??ka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /slò?ka/, /sló?ka/

Noun

sl??ka f

1. snipe

Inflection

Further reading

• “sloka”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Verb

sloka (present slokar, preterite slokade, supine slokat, imperative sloka)

1. slouch

Conjugation

Anagrams

• kolas, skola