suku

suku

1. water

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

suku

1. school

suku

1. to sew

From Proto-Finnic *suku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuku/, [ˈs̠uku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Syllabification^(key): su‧ku
• Hyphenation^(key): su‧ku

suku

1. extended family, kin (in addition to parents and children, includes cousins, uncles, aunts, grandparents and farther relatives)

   Coordinate term: perhe

2. (taxonomy) genus
3. (linguistics) gender
4. (topology) synonym of genus (“genus”)

• olla sukua ― to be related/kin to; (linguistics) to be cognate with (+ allative)
• olla omaa sukua ― to have a maiden name (of) (+ possessive suffix)

  Maija Meikäläinen on omaa sukuaan Mäkelä.

  Maija Meikäläinen has the maiden name Mäkelä.

• olla suvussa ― to run in the family
• kulkea suvussa ― to run in the family

• “suku”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (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

• kusu, kuus

• soekoe (1901–1947)

From Malay suku, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suku (“one quarter; designation for a division of society, probably a lineage”).^[1]

• The sense “clan” is a semantic loan from Minangkabau suku.
• The sense “footer” is a semantic loan from English footer.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsuku/ [ˈsu.ku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Syllabification: su‧ku

suku (plural suku-suku)

1. footer (a printed line of information)

   Synonyms: sukuan, catatan kaki

2. (typically in compounds) part

   Synonym: bagian

3. quarter (a fourth part of something)

   Synonym: seperempat

4. half rupiah
5. (arithmetic) numerator and denominator

   Hyponyms: pembilang, penyebut

6. clan (a group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief)

   Synonyms: suku sakat, klan

7. ethnicity, ethnic group

   Synonyms: etnis, suku bangsa

8. (biology, taxonomy) family (a category in the classification of organisms)

   Synonyms: famili, keluarga

9. (mathematics) term (a type of value (variable or constant) or expression)
10. (Jambi, Palembang) a traditional unit of gold weight, equal six point seven grams
11. (obsolete) synonym of kaki (“foot; leg”)

• “suku” 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.

From Proto-Finnic *suku. Cognates include Finnish suku and Estonian sugu.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈsuku/, [ˈs̠uku]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈsuku/, [ˈʃuɡ̊u]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Hyphenation: su‧ku

suku

1. family, kin
2. breed, sort

Declension of suku (type 4/koivu, k- gradation, gemination)
	singular	plural
nominative	suku	suut
genitive	suun	sukkuin, sukuloin
partitive	sukkua	sukuja, sukuloja
illative	sukkuu	sukkui, sukuloihe
inessive	suus	suuis, sukulois
elative	suust	suuist, sukuloist
allative	suulle	suuille, sukuloille
adessive	suul	suuil, sukuloil
ablative	suult	suuilt, sukuloilt
translative	suuks	suuiks, sukuloiks
essive	sukunna, sukkuun	sukuinna, sukuloinna, sukkuin, sukuloin
exessive1)	sukunt	sukuint, sukuloint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 547

suku

1. Rōmaji transcription of すく

suku

1. romanization of ꦱꦸꦏꦸ

suku

1. inflection of suka:
   1. accusative/instrumental singular
   2. genitive plural

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *suku (“one quarter; designation for a division of society, probably a lineage”).

• IPA^(key): /su.ku/
• Rhymes: -u

suku (Jawi spelling سوکو, plural suku-suku)

1. quarter, fourth, ¹⁄₄ (mathematics)

   Sekarang satu suku. ― It's a quarter past one now.

   1. (finance) a fourth part of the year; 3 months; a term or season.

      Synonyms: kuartal, trimester (Indonesian)

2. race; ethnicity

   Suku Jawa ― Javanese race

3. (Negeri Sembilan) A traditional matrilineal clan under Adat Perpatih.

• “suku” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*suku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

suku class 9 (plural suku)

1. day

From Assamese চকু (soku).

suku (plural sukukhan)

1. eye

Probably cognate to Wintu suku (“dog, horse”).

suku

1. a dog

Unclear. Possibly the same as Etymology 1, above.

suku

1. a transgender person; a female-bodied person who lives as a man, or vice versa

• two-spirit

• Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men →ISBN, 2010): The data available for Maidu suku suggest that "suku" was a complex term that was used to refer to both male and female "berdaches"; [...] female-bodied suku [...] were treated as men and initiated as such into the men's secret society, but also [...] were subjected to gang rape (or voluntary intercourse) in the dance house by all of the men present and were regarded as "prostitutes."
• Serena Nanda, Gender Diversity: Crosscultural Variations (1999, →ISBN, page 24: In addition to occupation, female gender variants might assume other characteristics of men. Cocopa warrhameh wore a masculine hairstyle and had their noses pierced, like boys (Lang 1998:283). Among the Maidu, the female suku also had her nose pierced on the occasion of her initiation into the men's secret society. Mohave hwame were tattooed like men instead of women.

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *sukud (“walking stick, cane, staff”).

• IPA^(key): /su.ku/
• Rhymes: -ku
• Homophone: sukū
• Hyphenation: su‧ku

suku

1. foot:
   1. a biological structure found in many animals that is used for locomotion and that is frequently a separate organ at the terminal part of the leg.

      Synonyms: caraṇa, dagan, kikil, pāda

   2. the base or bottom of mountain
2. leg

• > Javanese: ꦱꦸꦏꦸ (suku) (inherited)
• → Balinese: ᬲᬸᬓᬸ (suku)

• "suku" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

From Portuguese açúcar and Spanish azúcar and Kabuverdianu sukra.

suku

1. sugar

Borrowed from Dutch zoeken.

suku

1. to search, to try to find, to look (for)
   • c. 1970, Michaël Slory, “Dungru worku broko a faja gi mi: wan fresko mamanten”, in Fri-kontren-sma‎^[3], page 9:

     Mi o gwe go suku wan tra sortu libi now.

     I'll go away now, to look for a different kind of life.

suku

1. search
2. romantic or erotic proposal

Sundanese register set
lemes	sampéan, dampal
lemes ka sorangan	{{{les}}}
lemes ka batur	{{{leb}}}
loma	suku
cohag	cokor, cékér

• (foot): From Javanese ꦱꦸꦏꦸ (suku) Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *sukud (“walking stick, cane, staff”).
• (half a rupiah): From Malay. Compare Indonesian suku (“quarter, half a rupiah”).

suku (Sundanese script ᮞᮥᮊᮥ)

1. foot
2. half a rupiah (50 cent)

From Malay suku (“a quarter, fourth”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsu.ku]

suku

1. a quarter real (the coin)

From Malay syukur, from Arabic شُكْر (šukr).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsu.ku]

suku

1. thanks, gratitude

• sukur

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

Unknown.

suku

1. tribe

A Papuan word, compare Fataluku suku.

suku

1. to sew

suku

1. urine

From Proto-Finnic *suku.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈsuku/, [ˈsuku]
• Rhymes: -uku
• Hyphenation: su‧ku

suku

1. extended family, kin, lineage
2. breed

Declension of suku (type II/võrkko, k-g gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	suku	sugud
genitive	sugu	sukujõ, sukui
partitive	sukkua	sukuitõ, sukui
illative	sukkusõ, sukku	sukuisõ
inessive	suguz	sukuiz
elative	sugussõ	sukuissõ
allative	sugulõ	sukuilõ
adessive	sugullõ	sukuillõ
ablative	sugultõ	sukuiltõ
translative	sugussi	sukuissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “suku”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

• IPA^(key): [suku]

suku

1. while sitting, while seated

suku

1. urine

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “suku”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[4], Lyon, pages 264–265
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 398: “[ṣuku] 'urine' […] suku - urine”
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[5], Santa Barbara: University of California, page 217: “sucu”