soko

soko (plural sokos)

1. (dated) A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.
   • 1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals, page 232:

     Old hunters and travellers say that they would rather steal the child of a native savage than to take one of the sokos.

It is unclear which species this refers to

• “soko”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• sook

soko

1. cruise
2. voyage (sailing)

soko

1. to sail

soko

1. (Pulaar) if

• M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsoko/ [ˈso.ko]
• Rhymes: -oko
• Syllabification: so‧ko

soko (plural soko-soko)

1. alternative form of saka

Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].

soko (plural soko-soko)

1. (agriculture, dialectal) pests on barangan bananas that cause blackened banana fruit and yellow leaves

Borrowed from Lemolang [Term?]

soko (plural soko-soko)

1. (dialectal) downward facing horn

• “soko” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

soko

1. Rōmaji transcription of そこ

soko

1. land
2. earth

soko m

1. nominative singular of soka

• sȍkol (Croatia)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sokolъ.

• IPA^(key): /sôko/
• Hyphenation: so‧ko

sȍko m anim (Cyrillic spelling со̏ко)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) falcon
   • 1814, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Mala prostonarodna slaveno-serbska pjesnarica:

     Soko leti preko Sarajeva,
     Traži lada gdi će ladovati.

     A falcon flies over Sarajevo;
     It seeks shade where it will stay shaded.

Borrowed from Arabic سُوق (sūq).^[1]

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soko class V (plural masoko class VI)

1. market (spacious site where trading takes place)

• → Kikuyu: thoko
• → Ma'di: soko
• → Portuguese: soco (Mozambique)
• → Rwanda-Rundi: isoko