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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]moko (plural mokos)
- A tattoo (image made in the skin) in Maori culture, traditionally done with chisels.
- 2014, Peter Wells, Journey to a Hanging:
- He decides to overtrace the moko on Te Rau's face.
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[edit]Akan
[edit]Noun
[edit]moko
- A spice in Ghana.
Basque
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Noun
[edit]moko inan
Esperanto
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Noun
[edit]moko (accusative singular mokon, plural mokoj, accusative plural mokojn)
- ridicule
- 1927, Edmond Privat, Historio de la lingvo esperanto:
- Antaŭvidante nur mokojn kaj persekutojn, mi decidis kaŝi antaŭ ĉiuj mian laboron.
- Expecting only ridicule and persecution, I decided to conceal from everyone my work.
- 2007, Jorge Camacho, Beletra Almanako 1 (BA1 - Literaturo en Esperanto), Mondial, →ISBN, page 169:
- Svarmas la kritikoj kaj la mokoj al la supozata strangeco de la esperantistoj, eĉ, kio estas des pli surpriza, fare de la esperantistoj mem.
- The criticisms and the mockeries swarm towards the presumed strangeness of the esperantists, even, as is all the more surprising, from the esperantists themselves.
- 1982, Peter G. Forster, The Esperanto Movement, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 381:
- Kaj nin ne timigas la noktaj fantomoj / Nek batoj de l'sorto, nek mokoj de l'homoj / Ĉar klara kaj rekta kaj tre difinita / Ĝi estas, la voj' elektita.
- And we are not frightened by the nocturnal phantoms / Nor the beatings of fate, nor the mockery of humans / For clear, straight and well-defined / Is the chosen route.
Fijian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Oceanic *mogko (compare with Maori moko, Hawaiian moʻo)[1][2]
Noun
[edit]moko
References
[edit]- Gatty, Ronald (2009) “moko”, in Fijian-English Dictionary, Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 173
Gilbertese
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Maori
[edit]Etymology 1
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Noun
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Etymology 2
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *moko (compare with Hawaiian moʻo)[1] from Proto-Oceanic *mogko (compare with Fijian moko)[2][3]
Noun
[edit]moko
References
[edit]- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 249-50
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “moko.1a”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2011) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 4: Animals, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 260-1
Slovene
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Tocharian B
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Tokelauan
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Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Polynesian *moko. Cognates include Hawaiian moʻo and Samoan moʻo.
Pronunciation
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[edit]moko
References
[edit]- R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary[2], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 238
Tongan
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Yanomamö
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[edit]moko
- girl, young woman (after puberty), adolescent
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