soko

Perhaps from Swahili sokwe (“chimpanzee, non-human hominid”).

soko (plural sokos)

1. (dated) A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.
   • 1875, Horace Waller, The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa‎^[1]:

     A soko alive was believed to be a good charm for rain; so one was caught, and the captor had the ends of two fingers and toes bitten off. The soko, or gorilla, always tries to bite off these parts, and has been known to overpower a young man and leave him without the ends of fingers and toes. […] The subjoined account of the soko — which is in all probability an entirely new species of chimpanzee, and not the gorilla, is exceedingly interesting, and no doubt Livingstone had plenty of stories from which to select. Neither Susi nor Chuma can identify the soko of Manyuema with the gorilla, as we have it stuffed in the British Museum.

   • 1918, Royal Dixon, The Human Side of Animals, page 232:

     Old hunters and travellers say that they would rather steal the child of a native savage than to take one of the sokos.

It is unclear which species this refers to.

• “soko”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• sook

soko

1. cruise
2. voyage (sailing)

soko

1. to sail

soko

1. (Pulaar) if

• M. Niang, Pulaar-English English-Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books, 1997.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsoko/ [ˈso.ko]
• Rhymes: -oko
• Syllabification: so‧ko

soko (plural soko-soko)

1. alternative form of saka

Borrowed from Gorontalo [Term?].

soko (plural soko-soko)

1. (agriculture, dialectal) pests on barangan bananas that cause blackened banana fruit and yellow leaves

Borrowed from Lemolang [Term?]

soko (plural soko-soko)

1. (dialectal) downward facing horn

• “soko”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

soko

1. Rōmaji transcription of そこ

soko

1. land
2. earth

soko m

1. nominative singular of soka

• sȍkol (Croatia)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sokolъ.

• IPA^(key): /sôko/
• Hyphenation: so‧ko

sȍko m anim (Cyrillic spelling со̏ко)

1. (Bosnia, Serbia) falcon
   • 1814, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, Mala prostonarodna slaveno-serbska pjesnarica:

     Soko leti preko Sarajeva,
     Traži lada gdi će ladovati.

     A falcon flies over Sarajevo;
     It seeks shade where it will stay shaded.

Borrowed from Arabic سُوق (sūq).^[1]

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soko class V (plural masoko class VI)

1. market (spacious site where trading takes place)

• → Kikuyu: thoko
• → Ma'di: soko
• → Portuguese: soco (Mozambique)
• → Rwanda-Rundi: isoko