different between uke vs guitar

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

Alternative forms

• guittar (obsolete)
• gittar (eye dialect)

Etymology

From Spanish guitarra, from Arabic ?????????? (q???ra), from Latin cithara, from Ancient Greek ?????? (kithára). Doublet of cithara, cither, and zither.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???t??(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???t??/
• (Southern American English) IPA^(key): /???.t??/
• IPA^(key): /?i?t??/
• IPA^(key): /???t??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

  Hyphenation: gui?tar

• Rhymes: -??

Noun

guitar (plural guitars)

1. (music) A stringed musical instrument, of European origin, usually with a fretted fingerboard and six strings, played with the fingers or a plectrum (guitar pick).

2. (music) Any type of musical instrument of the lute family, characterized by a flat back, along with a neck whose upper surface is in the same plane as the soundboard, with strings along the neck and parallel to the soundboard.

Synonyms

• axe (slang)
• gat (New Zealand slang)

Hypernyms

• chordophone
• lute
• stringed instrument

Hyponyms

• acoustic guitar
• electric guitar

Derived terms

Descendants

Translations

References

• 2000. The Acoustic Guitar Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Buy and Maintain an Acoustic Guitar. Larry Sandberg. Pg. 4.

Verb

guitar (third-person singular simple present guitars, present participle guitaring, simple past and past participle guitared)

1. (rare) To play the guitar.

See also

• Appendix:Glossary of chordophones

Anagrams

• Ugarit

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?itar/, [???it????]

Noun

guitar c (singular definite guitaren, plural indefinite guitarer)

1. guitar

Inflection