ko

Clipping of English Korean.

ko

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Korean.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Korean terms

Borrowed from Japanese 劫 (kō).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophone: Co.

ko (plural ko)

1. (go) A local shape to which the ko rule applies; a ko shape.

   Black gets an easy game by just filling the ko.

2. (go) ko fight

   Black wins the ko easily.

3. (go) a stone in a ko in atari, a ko stone

   Black recaptures the ko and white has to find another ko threat.

• O. K., OK, OK., Ok, Ok., ok

• IPA^(key): /ˈko/ [ˈkɔ]
• Hyphenation: ko

kó

1. thee, you
   • Saytun Qhuraan kee kay maqnah tarjamaty Qafar afal tani [The clear Qur'an and its explanation translated into the Afar language]‎^[1], Suurat Al-Faatica, verse 5:

     Diggah nanu Ni Rabbow koo inkittosnaah Qibaada dibuk koo caglisna, nanu ni-caagiidah inkih cato koo esserra.

     Our God, with strength we make you whole, only you we give [our] adoration, we as one ask you for help with our afairs.

• The form kóo is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “ko”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

ko

1. to lie down

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• IPA^(key): [kò]

ko

1. to say

• IPA^(key): [kó]

ko

1. to wash

• IPA^(key): [kò]

ko

1. affair, event, matter

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
• Ankataa dictionary. Ankataa.com

Cognate with Bokobaru koo

• IPA^(key): /kō/

ko

1. chicken

• koda (“hen”)
• kosa (“rooster”)

ko

1. (Sinjai) you, your, yours (casual)

• IPA^(key): /ko/ [ko]

Clipping of ako.

ko (Badlit spelling ᜃᜓ)

1. short form of ako (“1st person singular subject”)

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ku, from Proto-Austronesian *-ku.

ko (Badlit spelling ᜃᜓ)

1. (uncommon, literary) my, mine, by me (object of verb; possessive marker)

   Synonyms: nako, akò

• In colloquial Cebuano, ko is generally used and understood as a subject (direct) marked pronoun, as a clipping of ako. Its use as the object (indirect) is virtually limited to literary works such as the Bible and in some dialects where there is some influence from Tagalog, which solely uses its ko in the object (indirect) position and as a possessive pronoun.

  (general, colloquial): anak ko ― I am a child

  (literary, dialectal): anak ko ― my child

• IPA^(key): /ko/

ko

1. by me

   Sinalo ko an bola. ― The ball was caught by me.

2. of me

   An harong ko. ― My house.

3. me

   Sa taas ko. ― Above me.

From Old Norse *kōʀ (east), kýr (west), from Proto-Germanic *kōz.

• IPA^(key): /koːˀ/, [ˈkʰoˀ]

ko c (singular definite koen, plural indefinite køer)

1. cow

• kvæg
• fæ
• tyr
• okse
• stud
• kvie
• kreatur

• “ko” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ko” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

• IPA^(key): /ko/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ko

ko (accusative singular ko-on, plural ko-oj, accusative plural ko-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin script letter K/k.

• (Latin-script letter names) litero; a, bo, co, ĉo, do, e, fo, go, ĝo, ho, ĥo, i, jo, ĵo, ko, lo, mo, no, o, po, ro, so, ŝo, to, u, ŭo, vo, zo

ko

1. to laugh

• ku
• kö

Related to kuka, kun, kuin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko/, [ˈko̞]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification^(key): ko
• Hyphenation^(key): ko

ko (dialectal)

1. alternative form of kun
2. alternative form of kuin
3. synonym of koska

In some dialects, ko has become unstressed, subjecting it to vowel harmony and leading to the form kö after front-vowel words.

• IPA^(key): /ki.lo.ɔk.tɛ/

• Audio (France (Toulouse)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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ko m (invariable)

1. abbreviation of kilooctet (“kilobyte”)

ko

1. Noun class indicator for nouns (singular)

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

ko

1. (definite) the (when it follows the noun)

   ñayko ko ― the thatch

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

ko

1. (used in indicating something)

   ko ñayko ― this/that thatch

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

Cyrillic		ко

• co (pre-1950s spelling)

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قو (qo, “put! let go!”), imperative of قومق (qomaq, “to put”), from Proto-Turkic *ko-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko/

ko

1. indicates desire, may, let

   ko ayozlasın Allaa seni! ― may god bless you

   ko herzaman olsun güneş! ― may the sun always shine

   ko yaşasın halkımız! ― long live our people!

• N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “ko”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 272
• Ciachir, Mihail (1938), “co”, in Dicționar gagauzo (tiurco)–român pentru gagauzii din Basarabia (in Romanian), Chișinău, page 34

ko

1. water
2. medicine
3. relative, fellow Kotiria

• Kristine Stenzel, A Reference Grammar of Kotiria (Wanano)

• kō

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ko/

ko

1. of, belonging to first part of possessive constructions, o-type

   ko mākou hale ― our house

   ko ke kumu kaʻa ― the teacher's car

For pronunciation and definitions of ko – see 高 (“tall; high; of high level; above average; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 高).

For pronunciation and definitions of ko – see 膏 (“fat; grease; oil; fatty; oily; rich; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 膏).

ko

1. (Java, informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

• anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• coen (slang, East Java)
• ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• kamu (intimate)
• ko, kowe (informal, Java)
• kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
• lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈko/, [ˈko̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈko/, [ˈko̞]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: ko

ko

1. alternative form of ku
   • 2008, “Läkkäämmä omal viisii [We're speaking [our] own way]”, in Inkeri‎^[2], volume 4, number 69, St. Petersburg, page 12:

     Se oli ko hää ei mahtant vennäheks läätä.

     That was how she couldn't speak Russian.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 178

ko

1. The hiragana syllable こ (ko) or the katakana syllable コ (ko) in Hepburn romanization.

ko

1. why

ko

1. why

ko

1. why

From Sanskrit কথযতি (katháyati). Cognate with Assamese ক (ko), Sylheti ꠇꠅꠀ (xooa), Bengali কওয়া (koōẇa), Hindustani कहना (kahnā) / کہنا (kahnā).

ko

1. say
2. tell

   Oĩ mök koisil. ― He told me

3. speak

   kotha ko ― speak

• IPA^(key): /ˈko/ [ˈko]
• Hyphenation: ko

ko

1. alternative spelling of kayu
2. alternative spelling of ku
3. alternative spelling of kula

ko

1. like, as

ko

1. woman

Bill Palmer, The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area (→ISBN, 2017), page 531, table 95, Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages

ko (interrogative)

1. accusative of kas: what, who

   ko tu gribi apskatīt? ― what would you like to see?

ko (relative)

1. accusative of kas: that

   teksts, ko tu lasi ― the text that you're reading

2. accusative of kas: what, who

   tas ir tas, ko es domāju ― that is what I mean

3. accusative of kas: which

ko

1. sorry?
2. pardon?
3. what?

ko

1. genitive of kas

   Ko tu nori? ― What do you want?

The word ko is the non-possessive genitive.

For the possessive genitive ("whose?") of kas, see kieno.

• “ko”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2026
• Vytautas Ambrazas (2006), Lithuanian Grammar, 2nd revised edition, pages 186, 193

From Proto-Athabaskan *qaˑ. Cognate with Ahtna kaa.

ko

1. A classificatory root for contained objects
2. to dawn

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Momentaneous	koyh	konh	koɬ	koɬ
Neuter	konh	ko'	koɬ	ko'
Reversitative	kox	konh	kox	kox
Continuative	ko'	konh	ko'	ko'
Persistive	kox	kox	kox	kox
Customary	koyh	koyh	koyh	koyh

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 239

ko

1. head

• Russell G. Schuh, Maka Wordlist, p. 6

• (schwa-variety) IPA^(key): /ˈko/ [ˈko]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: ko

ko (colloquial)

1. alternative form of kau

ko

1. Placed at the beginning of nominative phrases to signify that they are declarative
   • 2006, Joanne Barker, Sovereignty Matters, page 208:

     Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Maori.

     The language is the life principle of Maori mana.

ko (Raguileo spelling)

1. water

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.
• Estudios de lengua y cultura amerindias II (1998) (spells it có)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kaw, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kaw.

ko (stem II koh)

1. to call [with another entity being called]

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “ko”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

• co (Jersey, Guernsey, Normandy)

From Old French col, from Latin collum (“neck”).

ko m (plural kos)

1. (Sark, anatomy) neck

• ku

From Proto-Tani *koː.

ko

1. child
2. son

• P. T. Abraham (2005), A Grammar of Nyishi Language‎^[3], Delhi: Farsight Publishers and Distributors

ko

1. to be other, to be another

   Synonym: ǂâa

   ǂoo ke ǃʻhoeʻin mari ng ǂoo a ko

   The man asks the other man for money

   ǂoo ke ǃauka ng ǂoo a ko.

   The man is afraid of the other man.

• Güldemann, Tom and Ernszt, Martina and Siegmund, Sven and Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena. 2010.0. A Text documentation of Nǀuu.
• Ernszt, Martina & Güldemann, Tom & Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena. (2015). "Valency in Nǁng.

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kahu, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kaSu.

• IPA^(key): /ko/
• Rhymes: -ko
• Hyphenation: ko

ko

1. you

• kwa

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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ko ?

1. (East dialect) cow

• kýr

• Wikipedia article Old Norse language

• kuo

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cow”).

kō f

1. cow

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle Low German: kô, ko, koo, kou, koe, koh, koy, ku
  • Low German: Koh
    • German Low German: Koh, Kauh, Ko, Koo, Kuh
  • Plautdietsch: Koo

Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[4] (in German), 5th edition

ko

1. masculine nominative singular of ka

• Rhymes: -o

ko

1. this

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “ko”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 47, column 2

ko

1. exclamation suggesting a personal reaction

For non-personal judgment, consider using ka.

ko

1. particle prefixed to names as a determinative

ko

1. again

• Norma Toland, Donald Toland, Reference Grammar of the Karo/Rawa Language (1991)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъto, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos, *kʷid, (compare *kʷís).

• tkȍ (Croatia)
• kdo, gdo (Kajkavian)

• IPA^(key): /kô/

kȍ ? (Cyrillic spelling ко̏)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia, interrogatively) who

   ko si ti? ― who are you?

2. (Bosnia, Serbia, relative and indefinite pronoun)

   bilo ko ― anybody, anyone

   malo ko ― very few people

   onaj ko ― he who, whoever

From kȁo.

ko (Cyrillic spelling ко)

1. contraction of kȁo

• kȁo

• “ko”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026
• “ko”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

From Proto-Slavic *jako (“how, in which way”). Cognate with Serbo-Croatian ako. First attested in the 18th century.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ/

ko

1. when (at the time that)

   pride dan, ko nimas energije - there comes a day when you have no energy

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ko

1. (colloquial) alternative form of kot

• Audio (Kenya):

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-ko

1. present stem of -wako (“to be (at an indefinite place)”)

   yuko ― he/she is (there)

• -ko: verbal affix
• -wapo (“to be (at a definite place)”)
• -wamo (“to be inside (of a definite place)”)

From Old Norse ko, from East Old Norse ko, from Proto-Germanic *kōz.

• IPA^(key): /kuː/

• Audio:

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ko c

1. cow; female cattle

   Synonym: (colloquial) kossa

   Kon säger mu

   The cow says moo

   råmande kor

   mooing cows

   mjölka en ko

   milk a cow

   Många kor bor i stall under vinterhalvåret

   Many cows live in stables during the winter

   – Det var en ko på ängen. – Jag fattar inte. – Det var kon som var på ängen. / Det var kon som var poängen.

   – There was a cow in [on] the meadow. – I don't get it. – It was the cow that was in [on] the meadow. / It was the cow that was the point / punch line. [common pun]

   • 1996, Drängarna [The Farmhands], “Kung över ängarna [King of [over] the Meadows]”, in Fint vettö [vettu] [Nice Y'know]‎^[5]:

     Jag är kung över ängarna. Springer utan keps och skor. Dansar och tar ut svängarna. Ropar glatt åt mina kor. Jag är kung över ängarna. Jag skriker högt så folk förstår: Här är en av drängarna. Solen lyser där jag går.

     I am king of the meadows. [I] run without a cap and shoes. [I] dance and take sweeping turns ["take out the turns" – also used figuratively for not holding back, letting loose, and the like]. [I] shout merrily at my cows. I am king of the meadows. I scream out loud so that people understand: Here's one of the farmhands. The sun shines where I walk. [Could also be put in the present continuous. Matches the intuition in Swedish with the [I]s. See the usage notes for -r.]

2. a female member of a number of other species, such as moose and reindeer

   Jag såg en älgko och hennes kalv när jag var i skogen

   I saw a cow moose and her calf when I was in the forest

• ko in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ko in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• ko in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• OK, ok

• co — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling
• k, q — text messaging slang
• Ko — honorific alternative case

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *-ku, from Proto-Austronesian *-ku. Compare Malay -ku.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ko/ [ko]
• Rhymes: -o
• Syllabification: ko
• Homophones: Co, Kho, Ko

ko (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓ) (postpositive)

1. my; mine

   Synonym: (prepositive) akin

   ang bahay ko ― my house

   sa taas ko ― above me (literally, “my above”)

2. I; me (indirect)

   Synonym: (prepositive) akin

   Ang bola ay sinalo ko.

   I caught the ball.

   (literally, “The ball was caught by me.”)

• “ko”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “ko”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*-ku”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Cognate with Persian کار (kâr).

ko

1. work

ko

1. egg

Bill Palmer, The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area (→ISBN, 2017), page 531, table 95, Comparative basic vocabulary in Lakes Plain Languages

From Proto-Tocharian, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷṓws (“cow”). Compare Tocharian B keu, English cow.

ko

1. cow

From Proto-Polynesian *ko. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻo and Samoan ʻo.

• IPA^(key): [ko]
• Hyphenation: ko

ko

1. Marks an equational sentence.
2. Marks the topic of the sentence.
   • 1948, Tūlāfono fakavae a Tokelau [Constitution of Tokelau]‎^[6], page 1:

     Ko kimatou, ia tagata o Tokelau, e takutino

     We, the people of Tokelau, say openly

3. Marks the succeeding noun as in apposition of the preceding noun.
4. Placed after the conjunctions pe or ka.

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[7], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 163

• IPA^(key): /ko/

ko

1. class 12 of -o: it

• -ako (“its (class 12)”)

ko

1. present perfect tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

• k°

ko

1. (text messaging) abbreviation of không

• OK

Borrowed from Spanish con (“with”).

ko

1. with
   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: I:

     Ekö! jivirgan ogrodikof, ed omotof soni, keli onemoy eli ‚Emmanuel’, kela tradutod binon: God binom ko obs.

     Look! the virgin is with child and will give birth to a son whom they will call Immanuel, a name which means „God-is-with-us”.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Akin to Ingrian ko.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈko/, [ˈko]
• Rhymes: -o
• Hyphenation: ko

ko

1. when (at what time; in the case that)
2. than (in comparisons)
3. as, because

ko

1. how (in what way)

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

From Old Frisian kū, from Proto-West Germanic *kō (“cows”).

• IPA^(key): /koː/

ko c (plural kij, diminutive koke)

1. cow

• seeko
• kowefleis

• “ko”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

• IPA^(key): /ko/

ko

1. (transitive) to carry on one's back

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[8], Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): /kɒ˧/

ko (classifier: tus)

1. a handle (of any hand tool or implement, etc.)

   ko taus ― axe handle

2. used in ko taw (“foot”) and ko tw (“tail”)

ko

1. a final completive particle

   Koj hais li ko... ― Speaking as you do...

   Txhob ua li ko. ― Don't do that.

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979), White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[9], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 85.

ko

1. him/her/it (third-person singular object pronoun)

-ko

1. Combining stem of kona.

• ò (frequently used after personal pronouns)

• IPA^(key): /kò/

kò

1. not (placed before a verb to negate it)

• tó

IPA^(key): /kō/

ko

1. (Ekiti) that

• IPA^(key): /kó/

kó

1. to pack

   Ẹ bá mi kó ẹrù yìí sẹ́yìn ọkọ̀ ― Help me pack this load into the boot

2. to collect
3. to capture

   Wọ́n kó wọn lẹ́rú ― They captured them as slaves

• ìkówójẹ (“embezzlement”)
• akódọ̀tí (“garbage collector”)
• akólẹ́tà (“courier”)
• àkójọ (“collection”)

• IPA^(key): /kò/

kò

1. to touch
2. to meet

• fẹnu kò (“to kiss”)
• gbéjà kò (“to besiege; to attack”)
• foríkorí (“to brainstorm”)

From Proto-Iranian *káwfš.

• IPA^(key): [ˈko]
• Hyphenation: ko

ko m

1. (geography) mountain