soko

See also: Appendix:Variations of "soko"

English

Hunting the soko.

Etymology

Perhaps from Swahili sokwe (“chimpanzee, non-human hominid”).

Noun

soko (plural sokos)

1. (dated) A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.
   • 1875, Horace Waller, The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa‎^[1]:

     A soko alive was believed to be a good charm for rain; so one was caught, and the captor had the ends of two fingers and toes bitten off. The soko, or gorilla, always tries to bite off these parts, and has been known to overpower a young man and leave him without the ends of fingers and toes. […] The subjoined account of the soko — which is in all probability an entirely new species of chimpanzee, and not the gorilla, is exceedingly interesting, and no doubt Livingstone had plenty of stories from which to select. Neither Susi nor Chuma can identify the soko of Manyuema with the gorilla, as we have it stuffed in the British Museum.

   • 1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals, page 232:

     Old hunters and travellers say that they would rather steal the child of a native savage than to take one of the sokos.

Usage notes

It is unclear which species this refers to.

References

• “soko”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• sook

Fijian

Noun

soko

1. cruise
2. voyage (sailing)

Verb

soko

1. to sail

Fula

Conjunction

soko

1. (Pulaar) if

References

• M. Niang (1997), Pulaar–English English–Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsoko/ [ˈso.ko]
• Rhymes: -oko
• Syllabification: so‧ko

Etymology 1

Noun

soko (plural soko-soko)

1. alternative form of saka

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].

Noun

soko (plural soko-soko)

1. (agriculture, dialectal) pests on barangan bananas that cause blackened banana fruit and yellow leaves

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Lemolang [Term?]

Noun

soko (plural soko-soko)

1. (dialectal) downward facing horn

Further reading

• “soko”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Romanization

soko

1. Rōmaji transcription of そこ

Nalca

Noun

soko

1. land
2. earth

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀲𑁄𑀓𑁄 (Brahmi script)
• सोको (Devanagari script)
• সোকো (Bengali script)
• සොකො (Sinhalese script)
• သောကော or သေႃၵေႃ (Burmese script)
• โสโก (Thai script)
• ᩈᩮᩣᨠᩮᩣ (Tai Tham script)
• ໂສໂກ (Lao script)
• សោកោ (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄮𑄇𑄮 (Chakma script)

Noun

soko m

1. nominative singular of soka

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• sȍkol (Croatia)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sokolъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sôko/
• Hyphenation: so‧ko

Noun

sȍko m anim (Cyrillic spelling со̏ко)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) falcon
   • 1814, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Mala prostonarodna slaveno-serbska pjesnarica:

     Soko leti preko Sarajeva,
     Traži lada gdi će ladovati.

     A falcon flies over Sarajevo;
     It seeks shade where it will stay shaded.

Declension

Declension of soko

	singular	plural
nominative	soko / sokol	sokolovi
genitive	sokola	sokolova
dative	sokolu	sokolovima
accusative	sokola	sokolove
vocative	sokole	sokolovi
locative	sokolu	sokolovima
instrumental	sokolom	sokolovima

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُوق (sūq).

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

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Noun

soko class V (plural masoko class VI)

1. market (spacious site where trading takes place)

   soko la jumla ― wholesale market

   soko la nyama ― meat market

   soko la rejareja ― retail market

   soko la samaki ― fishmarket

Descendants

• → Kikuyu: thoko
• → Ma'di: soko
• → Portuguese: soco (Mozambique)
• → Rwanda-Rundi: isoko