koku
Appearance
See also: kok-ú
English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]koku (plural kokus or koku)
- A unit of measure in feudal Japan, the amount of rice needed to feed one person for a year.
Etymology 2
[edit]Borrowed from Malay koku, clipping of kokurikulum (“cocurriculum”).
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]koku
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]koku
Latvian
[edit]Noun
[edit]koku m
- inflection of koks:
Malay
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of kokurikulum (“cocurriculum”).
Noun
[edit]koku
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish قوقو (koku). Related to kokmak.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]koku (definite accusative kokuyu, plural kokular)
- smell, odor/odour
- stench, stink, pungency
- (figurative) inkling, sign, indication
Declension
[edit]Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | koku | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | kokuyu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | koku | kokular | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | kokuyu | kokuları | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | kokuya | kokulara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | kokuda | kokularda | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | kokudan | kokulardan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | kokunun | kokuların | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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