oka

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Anagrams 2 Choctaw 2.1 Noun 3 Esperanto 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Adjective 4 Finnish 4.1 Pronunciation 4.2 Noun 4.2.1 Declension 4.2.2 Synonyms 5 Maori 5.1 Noun 5.2 See also 6 Swahili 6.1 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Italian oca < French oque < Turkish okka < Arabic وقية wuqīye, probably through Syriac from Greek ουγκιά < Latin uncia ‘ounce, twelfth part’ < unus ‘one’.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /'ɒkə/

[edit] Noun

oka (plural okas)

1. a unit of weight in Egypt (and formerly Turkey): 37 grams (one twelfth ratl) in Egypt, 320 grams in Aleppo, 213.39 grams in Beirut, 240 grams in Jerusalem.
2. a unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of ako
• koa
• oak

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[edit] Choctaw

[edit] Noun

oka

1. water

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[edit] Esperanto

[edit] Etymology

From the number ok

[edit] Adjective

oka (plural okaj, accusative singular okan, accusative plural okajn)

1. (ordinal number) eighth

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[edit] Finnish

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈokɑ]
• Rhymes: -okɑ
• Hyphenation: o‧ka

[edit] Noun

oka

1. thorn

[edit] Declension

Declension of oka (type koira) singular plural nominative oka oat genitive oan okien okain1 partitive okaa okia accusative oka oan oat inessive oassa oissa elative oasta oista illative okaan okiin adessive oalla oilla ablative oalta oilta allative oalle oille essive okana okina translative oaksi oiksi instructive – oin abessive oatta oitta comitative – okineen 1) Rare.

[edit] Synonyms

• oas
• piikki

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[edit] Maori

[edit] Noun

oka

1. yam

[edit] See also

• uhi
• uwhi

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[edit] Swahili

[edit] Verb

oka

1. to bake