أكو

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• IPA^(key): /ʔakku/

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أكو • (ʔakku) m

1. parrot

• Pommerol, Patrice Jullien de (1999) Dictionnaire Arabe Tchadien-Français (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN, page 81

From Arabic يكون (“he/it is”).

• IPA^(key): /a.kuː/

أكو (aku)

1. there is

   اكو واحد گِدّامَك

   aku wāḥid giddāmak

   there is someone in front of you

• ماكو (māku, “there isn't”)
• شكو (šaku, “what's there”)
• شكو ماكو (šaku māku, “what's up”)

أكو

1. Jawi spelling of aku‎‎

• Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill