spoke

See also: spöke

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: spōk, IPA^(key): /spəʊk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊk
• Hyphenation: spoke

Etymology 1

From Middle English spoke, spok, spook, 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

Translations

part of a wheel

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can

  Moroccan Arabic: سلْك m (səlk) (metallic)

• Armenian: անվաճաղ (hy) (anvačaġ), ճաղ (hy) (čaġ)
• Azerbaijani: dəndənə
• Belarusian: спі́ца f (spíca)
• Bulgarian: спи́ца f (spíca)
• Catalan: radi (ca) m, raig (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輻條／辐条 (zh) (fútiáo), 辐条 (zh) (fútiáo)

• 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
• German: Speiche (de) f
• Greek: ακτίνα (el) f (aktína)
• Hebrew: חִשּׁוּר (he) m (ḥishúr)
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: küllő (hu)
• Icelandic: spæll m
• Italian: raggio (it), (colloquial) razzo (it) m
• Japanese: スポーク (supōku)
• Korean: 바퀴살 (ko) (bakwisal)
• Kyrgyz: чабак (ky) (cabak)
• Lao: ດິ້ວກົງລົດ (lo) (diu kong lot)
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• 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

• Persian: پره (fa) (pare)
• 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
• Slovene: napera f
• Spanish: rayo (es) m, radio (es) m
• Swedish: eker (sv) c
• Thai: ซี่ล้อ, ซี่ (th) (sîi)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can
• Ukrainian: спи́ця f (spýcja), шпи́ця f (špýcja)
• Uzbek: kegay (uz)
• Vietnamese: nan hoa (vi)
• Walloon: rai (wa) (wooden), reyon (wa) m (metallic)

Verb

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

Further reading

• spoke on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

Verb

spoke

1. simple past of speak

Anagrams

• kepos, pokes, posek

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Afrikaans

Noun

spoke

1. plural of spook

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Dutch

Verb

spoke

1. (deprecated template usage) (archaic) singular present subjunctive of spoken

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• spook, spok, spak, spake

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Northern ME, Early ME) IPA^(key): /spɑːk(ə)/
• IPA^(key): /ˈspɔːk(ə)/

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.