different between uke vs ake

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ju?k/

Noun

uke (plural ukes)

1. (informal) Clipping of ukulele.

Etymology 2

From Japanese ?? (uke), derived from the verb ??? (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?u?ke/

Noun

uke (plural ukes or uke)

1. (judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
2. (Japanese fiction) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.
   • 2008, Tan Bee Kee, "Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-Language Yaoi Fanfiction", in Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre (eds. Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry & Dru Pagliassotti), McFarland & Company (2008), ?ISBN, page 142:

     Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

   • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, Volume 1, Yen Press (2012), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

   • 2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, "Afterword", in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing (2010), ?ISBN, unnumbered page:

     Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:uke.

Antonyms

• seme

Anagrams

• Kue

Japanese

Romanization

uke

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wik?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Noun

uke f or m (definite singular uka or uken, indefinite plural uker, definite plural ukene)

1. a week

Derived terms

• arbeidsuke
• ukeavis
• ukelang
• ukentlig

See also

• veke (Nynorsk)

References

• “uke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Swahili

Etymology

From u- +? mke.

Pronunciation

Noun

uke (u class, no plural)

1. womanhood

   Antonym: uume

2. (euphemistic) vulva, vagina

   Synonym: kuma

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English aken, from Old English acan (“to ache”), from Proto-Germanic *akan? (“to ache”). More at ache.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?k/

Homophone: ache

Verb

ake (third-person singular simple present akes, present participle aking, simple past aked or oke, past participle aked or aken)

1. Archaic spelling of ache.
   • ... for let our finger ake, / And it endues our other heathfull members — Othello (Quarto 1), Shakespeare, 1622

Noun

ake (plural akes)

1. Archaic spelling of ache.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???ke?/

Adverb

ake (not comparable)

1. (New Zealand) forever

Anagrams

• eka-, kea

Bantik

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• ABVD

Galela

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig, Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku, volume 2 (1995), page 6:

  Tabaru Galela

  [?akere] 'water' [?ake] 'water'

• Robinson Ipol, Yosafat Etha, Deidre Shelden, Galela conversations (1989): ake

Gothic

Romanization

ak?

1. Romanization of ????????????

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *qate, from Proto-Oceanic *qate, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qatay, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCay.

Noun

ake

1. (anatomy) liver (organ of the body)

Derived terms

• akem?m?

Verb

ake

1. to yearn for, desire

Japanese

Romanization

ake

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ac.

Conjunction

ake

1. Alternative form of ac
   • approx. 1225, Hali Meidenhad (Holy Maidenhood)

     Not of low on earth, ake of the high in heaven.

   • approx. 1225, Homilies in Lambeth

     Those men.. have the name of Christians, ake though they are Christ's unwins (enemies).

   • approx. 1300, The Fox and the Wolf

     He was still, ne spake no-more, ake he worth athirst well sore.

   • circa 1350, Midland Prose Psalter

     Blessed be the man that.. ne set nowt in false judgement. Ake his will was in the will of our Lord.

   • circa 1390, Walter Hilton, On the Mixed Life

     This thought is good.. ake if a man may not lightly have salvation ne devotion in it, I hold it not speedful.

   • approx. 1450, South English Legendary: Temporale

     It ... rotted fast; ake that flesh and that blood rotteth never-more.

Etymology 2

From Old English e?e.

Noun

ake

1. Alternative form of ache (“aching”)

Ratahan

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• J. N. Sneddon, The Languages of Minahasa, North Celebes (1970)
• J. N. Sneddon, Proto-Sangiric & the Sangiric Languages (1984), page 61

Swahili

Pronunciation

Adjective

-ake (declinable)

1. his/her/its (third-person singular possessive adjective)
2. their (third-person plural inanimate possessive adjective)

Inflection

See also

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ake]

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• Yuiti Wada, Correspondance of Consonants in North Halmahera Languages (1980)
• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh, page 28

Tidore

Noun

ake

1. water

References

• Possessive clauses in East Nusantara, the case of Tidore, in The Expression of Possession (2009, ?ISBN
• Donald A. Burquest, Wyn D. Laidig, Descriptive studies in languages of Maluku, volume 2 (1995), page 52