aker

aker (plural akers)

1. Obsolete spelling of acre
   • 1858, Jonathan Brown Bright, The Brights of Suffolk‎^[1], Digitized edition, published 2006, page 127:

     … crope of an aker might have been worth=3 p aker ...

   • 1859, New England Historic Genealogical Society, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register‎^[2], Digitized edition, S.G. Drake, published 2009, page 295:

     That all rates that shall arise upon the Towne shall be layed upon Lands accordinge to every ones p'portion aker for aker of howse lotts and aker for aker of meddowe both alike on this side and both alike on the other side …

• aker-staf

• Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• Kera, rake, Akre, Kear, KERA, reak, Rake, arke

From Proto-Basque *akeR.

• IPA^(key): /aker/ [a.ker]

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• Rhymes: -aker, -er
• Hyphenation: a‧ker

aker anim

1. he-goat, billy goat

• akelarre

• “aker”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “aker”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• IPA^(key): /ˈaː.kər/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: aker
• Rhymes: -aːkər

From Middle Dutch aker, eker, haker, from Old Dutch *aker, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], Latin aquarium. The loan from Latin is likely very early, as evidenced by the shifted consonants in Old High German ahhāri, ahari, agari. Doublet of aquarium.

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

1. (Southern) bucket

   Synonym: emmer

2. (historical) metal well bucket

   Synonym: putemmer

3. (dated, Eastern Netherlands) kettle

• aquarium

From Middle Dutch aker, from Old Dutch *akaran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

1. (archaic) acorn

• eikel

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)

1. (obsolete) acre

• IPA^(key): /akər/

aker

1. alternative form of akʷer

• acre

From Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *akr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakər/

aker (plural akers)

1. field (piece of arable land)
2. acre (land measure of 160 rods square (though actually varying in size, both regionally and in time), usually described as 40 rods/1 furlong long and 4 rods wide.)

• English: acre, acer, aker (obsolete)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: acre
  • → Malay: ekar
  • → Malayalam: ഏക്കർ (ēkkaṟ)
  • → Tamil: ஏக்கர் (ēkkar)
  • → Telugu: ఎకరా (ekarā), ఎకరము (ekaramu)
• Scots: acre, acker, ackre, accre, aacre, awker, yicker
  • →? Scottish Gaelic: acaire, acair
• Yola: aager
• → Irish: acra
• → Welsh: acer

• “āker, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• akker, āker (late), ᛆᚴᚽᚱ (runic)

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.

aker m

1. field, cultivated land

• Swedish: åker

aker (plural akers)

1. Shetland form of awkir

• “aker, n.²”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

• akʷer, akkʷer (Bunsar, Seddat, Zerqet)

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ăʔkər (“to steal”).

• IPA^(key): /akər/

aker (Tifinagh spelling ⴰⴽⴻⵔ)

1. (transitive) to steal

   Synonyms: ṭiyyer (Ketama, Taghzut, Zerqet), sferfer (Zerqet), ceffer (Hmed)

• Gutova, Evgeniya; Byler, Jonathan (2025), “Senhaja de Srair - English Dictionary”, in Webonary‎^[3], retrieved 2025
• Gutova, Evgeniya (2021) Senhaja Berber Varieties: Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax (Thesis)‎^[4], Paris, France: HAL

aker m inan (Cyrillic spelling акер)

1. acre

aker m

1. field (wide, open space used to grow crops)