moka

Probably from Italian moka.

moka (plural moka or mokas)

1. A moka pot.
   • 1997, Corby Kummer, The Joy of Coffee: The Essential Guide to Buying, Brewing, and Enjoying, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 270:

     In a moka, water boils in a closed chamber with enough headroom to allow a head of steam to collect. The pressure from the steam forces the hot water to escape from the chamber and pass through the ground coffee.

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moka (uncountable)

1. A ritualized system of exchange in the Mount Hagen area of Papua New Guinea, involving reciprocal gifts of pigs that regulate social status.

• Kamo, Moak, Omak, amok, mako

From moki +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoka/
• Rhymes: -oka
• Hyphenation: mo‧ka

moka (accusative singular mokan, plural mokaj, accusative plural mokajn)

1. scornful

Back-formation from mokata.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmokɑ/, [ˈmo̞kɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -okɑ
• Syllabification^(key): mo‧ka
• Hyphenation^(key): mo‧ka

moka (colloquial)

1. blunder, gaffe, bad

   Sori, mun moka!

   Sorry, my bad!

• “moka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• amok, koma, mako

From the French spelling of the Yemeni port town of Mocha.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ka/

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moka m (plural mokas)

1. mocha (drink)
2. Variety of coffee originating from the city of Mokha in Yemen.
3. Savoy biscuit cake topped with coffee cream.

• crème de moka

• “moka”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔːka]
• Rhymes: -ɔːka

moka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative mokaði, supine mokað)

1. to dig, to delve [with accusative]

   Synonym: grafa

2. to shovel [with dative]

   Synonym: skófla

• koma

• Moka

Borrowed from Arabic المُخَا (al-muḵā), a port on the Red Sea.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ka/
• Rhymes: -ɔka
• Hyphenation: mò‧ka

moka m (uncountable)

1. alternative spelling of moca

moka f (invariable)

1. moka pot

   Hypernym: caffettiera

• moka in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• makò

From Proto-Slavic *mǭka. Cognates include regional Serbo-Croatian мука/muka (“meal”), Slovak múka, Russian мука (muka). Non-Slavic cognates include Ancient Greek μάσσω (mássō, “to knead”), German mengen (“to mix”).

• IPA^(key): /mòːka/

mọ́ka f

1. flour

• “moka”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “moka”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

moka m (plural mokas)

1. mocha

• “moka”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024