yuko
English
Etymology
Noun
yuko (plural yukos)
- (judo) The score for a throw that lands the opponent on his or her side.
- 2008, Roy Inman, The Judo Handbook, page 25:
- As with yukos, kokas are not accumulative, so no amount of kokas are deemed equal to or greater than a yuko.
Anagrams
Masbatenyo
Noun
yuko
Derived terms
Swahili
Verb
yuko
- third-person singular (m class(I)) positive degree present of -wako (“he/she is (around there)”)
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- yoco — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *yukúq (“to stoop, bend down”). Compare Masbatenyo yuko. Doublet of yukos.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /juˈkoʔ/ [jʊˈxoʔ]
- Rhymes: -oʔ
- Syllabification: yu‧ko
Adjective
yukô (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜃᜓ)
Noun
yukô (Baybayin spelling ᜌᜓᜃᜓ)
- act of bending the body or lowering the head forward (as in when passing a low clearance)
- bent position of the head or body
- condescension; obeisance
- Synonyms: pagpapakumbaba, paggalang
Derived terms
See also
Further reading
- “yuko”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*yukúq”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI