different between store vs duka

English

Etymology

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin instaur?.

Pronunciation

• (General American) enPR: stôr, IPA^(key): /st??/
• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: stô, IPA^(key): /st??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: st?r, IPA^(key): /sto(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /sto?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophone: stower (in some accents)

Noun

store (plural stores)

1. A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

2. A supply held in storage.
   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, II:13:

     But there was an infinite store of mercy in those eyes, for him too a word of pardon even though he had erred and sinned and wandered.

   • By late summer a sufficient store of stone had accumulated, and then the building began […] , under the superintendence of the pigs.
3. (mainly North American) A place where items may be purchased; a shop.
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 75,

     In 1866 Colonel J. F. Meline noted that the rebozo had almost disappeared in Santa Fe and that hoop skirts, on sale in the stores, were being widely used.

4. (computing, dated) Memory.

5. A great quantity or number; abundance.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 37:

     I make my love engrafted to this store.

   • 1645, John Milton, L'Allegro

     With store of Ladies, whose bright eies / Rain influence, and judge the prise / Of Wit, or Arms, while both contend / To win her Grace, whom all commend.

Synonyms

• (supply held in storage): stock, supply
• (place from which items may be purchased): boutique, shop (UK); see also Thesaurus:retail store
• (in computing): memory

Derived terms

Related terms

• storage

Descendants

• Tok Pisin: stua
  • ? Rotokas: sitoa
• ? Afrikaans: stoor

Translations

Verb

store (third-person singular simple present stores, present participle storing, simple past and past participle stored)

1. (transitive) To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

2. Contain.

   The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

3. Have the capacity and capability to contain.

   They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

4. (transitive, computing) To write (something) into memory or registers.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• store at OneLook Dictionary Search
• store on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• store in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Resto, estro-, resto, roset, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Danish

Adjective

store

1. definite of stor
2. plural of stor

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

store

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of storen

Anagrams

• roest, roste, stoer

French

Etymology

Latin storea (“mat”), via regional Italian stora (modern Italian stuoia).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??/

Noun

store m (plural stores)

1. blind, shade (for a window)

Descendants

• ? Catalan: estor
• ? Galician: estor
• ? German: Store
• ? Portuguese: estore

Further reading

• “store” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

References

Anagrams

• resto, rotes, sorte, tores, torse

Latvian

Noun

store f (5th declension)

1. sturgeon

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman stor, estour, ultimately from Latin instaurare.

Alternative forms

• stor, stoure, storre, stour, stoor, stoore

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st??r/

Noun

store (uncountable)

2. supplies, provisions
3. livestock, farm animals
4. (stored) possessions, savings
5. collection, storage
6. storehouse, storeroom
7. value, importance

Descendants

• English: store
  • Tok Pisin: stua
    • ? Rotokas: sitoa
  • ? Afrikaans: stoor
• Scots: store

References

• “st?r(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 2

From Old English st?r and Old Norse stórr, from Proto-Germanic *st?raz; some forms are also influenced by Middle Dutch stuur.

Alternative forms

• stoor, stour, stur, sture, storre, stowre, stoore, stoure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?r/, /stu?r/, /st??r/

Adjective

store

2. strong, powerful, intense
3. violent, threatening, imposing
4. stern, sharp, harsh
5. numerous, large in number
6. large, big, great
7. coarse, rough

Descendants

• English: stoor, stour (archaic)
• Scots: stour, stoure, sture, stoor, stoar

References

• “st??r(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Adverb

store

1. violently, threateningly, imposingly
2. sternly, sharply, harshly

References

• “st??re, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Etymology 3

From Old English st?r; possibly from a Celtic language.

Alternative forms

• stor, stoure

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sto?r/

Noun

store

2. incense, frankincense, storax

References

• “st??r(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-03.

Norwegian Bokmål

Adjective

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

store

1. definite singular of stor
2. plural of stor

Swedish

Adjective

store

1. absolute definite natural masculine form of stor.

Anagrams

• orets, rotes, teros

English

Etymology

From Swahili duka, from Arabic ???????? (dukk?n), from Aramaic ??????????? (dukk?n?, “dais”), from Akkadian ???????? (/takkannu, dakkannu, dukkannu/, “dais, platform, bench; niche, bedroom, private chambers or quarters”), ultimately from Sumerian ???????? (/daggan/, “chamber, doorway or its frame, niche in a wall”)..

Noun

duka (plural dukas)

1. (Kenya) A shop, store.
   • 2012, Aidan Hartley, ‘Life at One Remove’, Literary Review 404:

     This series […] was the only interesting reading material you could find on the half-empty shelves of Nairobi dukas that called themselves bookshops but mostly sold school texts and dust-coated magazines.

Anagrams

• kuda

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: du?ka

Adjective

duka

1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
2. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
3. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.

Verb

duka

1. To induce sleep; to make someone drowsy or lethargic.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay duka, from Pali dukkha, from Sanskrit ???? (du?kha).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du.ka/
• Hyphenation: du?ka
• Rhymes: -ka

Adjective

duka

1. sad

Synonyms

• sedih

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Maltese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

Noun

duka m (plural duki, feminine dukessa)

1. duke

Manchu

Romanization

duka

1. Romanization of ????

Mwani

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (dukk?n), from Aramaic ??????????? (dukk?n?, “dais”), from Akkadian ???????? (/takkannu, dakkannu, dukkannu/, “dais, platform, bench; niche, bedroom, private chambers or quarters”), ultimately from Sumerian ???????? (/daggan/, “chamber, doorway or its frame, niche in a wall”)..

Noun

duka 5 (plural maduka)

1. (Nsimbwa) shop

Synonyms

• lozya

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?du.ka/

Verb

duka

1. third-person singular present of duka?

Sakizaya

Noun

duka

1. wound; cut

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ???????? (dukk?n), from Aramaic ??????????? (dukk?n?, “dais”), from Akkadian ???????? (/takkannu, dakkannu, dukkannu/, “dais, platform, bench; niche, bedroom, private chambers or quarters”), ultimately from Sumerian ???????? (/daggan/, “chamber, doorway or its frame, niche in a wall”)..

Pronunciation

Noun

duka (ma class, plural maduka)

1. shop (establishment that sells goods)

Descendants

• Kikuyu: nduka

Sundanese

Verb

duka

1. in the state of ignorance
2. not knowing

Swedish

Etymology

duk +? -a

Verb

duka (present dukar, preterite dukade, supine dukat, imperative duka)

1. to set (a table; to arrange with dishes and cutlery)

Conjugation

Related terms

• dukning