boka

boka (plural bokas)

1. Alternative form of buka (“kangaroo-skin cloak”).

• Boak, boak, koba

boka

1. inflection of bokë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

bok +‎ -a

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boka (transitive)

1. to want, demand

bōka

1. romanization of 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰

From Portuguese boca. Cognate with Kabuverdianu bóka.

boka

1. mouth

• IPA^(key): /bóː.káː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [bóː.káː]

bōkā m (feminine bōkanyā̀, plural bōkā̀ye, possessed form bōkan)

1. herbalist, traditional healer
2. wizard

• bokanci

• Newman, Paul (2007) A Hausa-English Dictionary (Yale Language Series), New Haven, London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 22.

Borrowed from a Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries).^[1] Doublet of baka.

• IPA^(key): [ˈbokɒ]

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• Hyphenation: bo‧ka
• Rhymes: -kɒ

boka (plural bokák)

1. ankle

• boka in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• boka in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Inherited from Portuguese boca.

boka

1. mouth

boka f (Hebrew spelling בוקה)

1. (anatomy) mouth

Uncertain. North Halmaheran displays a variety of terms for the grasshopper.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbo.ka/

boka

1. grasshopper, locust

• M. J. van Baarda (1904) Het Lòda'sch, in vergelijking met het Galėla'sch dialect op Halmaheira

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɔ.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Syllabification: bo‧ka

boka

1. inflection of bok:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

• boken m

boka f

1. definite feminine singular of bok

• bokja (dialectal)
• bokjå (dialectal)
• boki (i-ending)
• bokji (i-ending eye spelling)

boka f

1. definite singular of bok

From Proto-West Germanic *bōku.

bōka f

1. A beech (Fagus)

   is bocan skinan hedro fon himiles tunglun

   His beeches were shining serenely at the stars in the sky (Heliand, verse 600)

• Middle Low German: bôke
  • Low German: Böök, Böke
  • Dutch Low Saxon: beuk
    • → Dutch: beuk

From Portuguese boca and Spanish boca and Kabuverdianu bóka.

boka

1. mouth
2. bay

Borrowed from Italian bocca.

• IPA^(key): /bôka/
• Hyphenation: bo‧ka

bȍka f (Cyrillic spelling бо̏ка)

1. (regional) river mouth
2. (regional) bay, gulf

• ȗšće, záljev, drȁga

• “boka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

bok +‎ -a

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuːˌka/

boka (present bokar, preterite bokade, supine bokat, imperative boka)

1. to book, to reserve

   Antonym: avboka

• bokföra
• bokning
• omboka
• överboka

• boka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• boka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• boka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)