spoke

See also: spöke

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spəʊk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊk
• Hyphenation: spoke

Etymology 1

From Middle English spoke, from Old English spāca, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ.

Noun

spoke (plural spokes)

1. A support structure that connects the axle or the hub of a wheel to the rim.
2. (nautical) A projecting handle of a steering wheel.
3. A rung of a ladder.
4. A device for fastening the wheel of a vehicle to prevent it from turning when going downhill.
5. One of the outlying points in a hub-and-spoke model of transportation.

Derived terms

• hub-and-spoke
• put a spoke in someone's wheel
• spoke-bone
• spoke key
• spoke-shave
• spoke wrench

 

Translations

part of a wheel

• Arabic: سِلْك‎ (ar) m (silk) شُعَاع‎ m (šuʕāʕ)

  Moroccan Arabic: سلْك‎ m (səlk) (metallic)

• Armenian: անվաճաղ (hy) (anvačaġ), ճաղ (hy) (čaġ)
• Azerbaijani: dəndənə, dəndə
• Belarusian: спі́ца f (spíca)
• Bulgarian: спи́ца f (spíca)
• Burmese: စပုတ်တိုင် (ca.puttuing), အကန့် (my) (a.kan.) (of a cartwheel)
• Catalan: radi (ca) m, raig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輻條／辐条 (zh) (fútiáo), 輻／辐 (zh) (fú)

• Czech: paprsek (cs) m
• Danish: ege c
• Dutch: spaak (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: spoko (eo)
• Estonian: kodar
• Finnish: puola (fi) (rod), pinna (fi) (tension spoke)
• French: rayon (fr) m
• Galician: radio (gl) m
• German: Speiche (de) f
• Greek: ακτίνα (el) f (aktína)

  Ancient: κνήμη f (knḗmē)

• Hebrew: חִשּׁוּר‎ (he) m (ḥishúr)
• Hindi: बोला m (bolā)
• Hungarian: küllő (hu)
• Icelandic: spæll m
• Italian: raggio (it), (colloquial) razzo (it) m
• Japanese: スポーク (supōku), 輻 (ja) (や, ya)
• Kazakh: кегей (kegei), шабақ (şabaq)
• Khmer: កាំ (km) (kam)
• Korean: 바퀴살 (ko) (bakwisal), 살 (ko) (sal)
• Kyrgyz: чабак (ky) (çabak)
• Lao: ດິ້ວກົງລົດ (lo) (diu kong lot)
• Latvian: spieķis m
• Luxembourgish: Speech f
• Macedonian: спица f (spica)
• Maori: tītoko
• Norman: rai m
• Norwegian: trinn

  Bokmål: eike m or f

  Nynorsk: eike f

• Ottoman Turkish: پرمق‎ (parmak)
• Persian: پره‎ (fa) (pare, parre)
• Plautdietsch: Spieekj f
• Polish: szprycha (pl) f
• Portuguese: raio (pt) m
• Romanian: spiță (ro) f
• Russian: спи́ца (ru) f (spíca)
• Scottish Gaelic: bas f, spòg f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: спи̏ца f

  Roman: spȉca (sh) f

• Slovak: spica (sk) f, špica f
• Slovene: napera f
• Spanish: rayo (es) m, radio (es) m
• Swedish: eker (sv) c
• Tajik: парра (parra)
• Thai: ซี่ล้อ, ซี่ (th) (sîi)
• Tocharian B: puwe
• Turkish: tel (tr), parmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: спи́ця f (spýcja), шпи́ця f (špýcja)
• Uyghur: شادا‎ (shada), گۈگۈسۈن‎ (gügüsün)
• Uzbek: kegay (uz)
• Vietnamese: nan hoa (vi)
• Walloon: rai (wa) (wooden), reyon (wa) m (metallic)

Verb

spoke (third-person singular simple present spokes, present participle spoking, simple past and past participle spoked)

1. (transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

Further reading

• spoke on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Verb

spoke

1. simple past of speak
2. (archaic or nonstandard) past participle of speak
   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], page 366, column 2:

     Cleo. Hye thee againe, / I haue ſpoke already, and it is provided.

   • 1741, The London Magazine, and Monthly Chronologer‎^[1], volume 10, C. Ackers, page 435:

     Thoſe who have ſpoke in its Favour have allowed, that it is defective, with regard to the preſent Circumſtances of Europe, […]

   • 2014 May 1, John Barker, Futures: A Novel‎^[2], PM Press, page 131:

     I should have spoke to him there and then, seen he was in the mood to do something stupid.

Anagrams

• kepos, pokes, posek

Afrikaans

Noun

spoke

1. plural of spook

Dutch

Verb

spoke

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of spoken

Middle English

Alternative forms

• spak, spake, spok, spook

Etymology

From Old English spāca, from Proto-West Germanic *spaikā, from Proto-Germanic *spaikǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔːk(ə)/
• (early) IPA^(key): /ˈspɑːk(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈspaːk/

Noun

spoke (plural spokes or spoken)

1. a spoke (support radiating from the middle of a wheel)
2. a sharp spike or projection on the edge of a wheel

Descendants

• English: spoke
• Scots: spaik

References

• “spōk(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-12.