tako

Borrowed from Japanese 蛸 (tako).

tako (uncountable)

1. The flesh of octopus as used in sushi.

• Akto, Kato, Kota, okta

tako

1. to sew (clothing)

• 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.

Borrowed from Spanish taco (“cue”).

• Hyphenation: ta‧ko
• IPA^(key): /ˈtakoʔ/ [ˈt̪a.koʔ]

tako

1. a cue; the stick used to propel the ball in snooker, billards, etc.

Borrowed from Spanish taco (“cue”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtako/ [ˈta.ko]
• IPA^(key): /ˈtakoʔ/ [ˈta.koʔ]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ko

táko or takò (Basahan spelling ᜆᜃᜓ)

1. a cue; snooker/billard stick.
2. (slang) a punch

   Synonyms: suntok, dali, bugti

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau.

tako

1. human being; person

From Spanish taco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtako/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: ta‧ko

tako (accusative singular takon, plural takoj, accusative plural takojn)

1. taco

   Damne, la tortiljo de mia tako rompiĝis.

   Damn, my taco's tortilla broke.

Borrowed from Japanese 蛸 (tako).

tako

1. octopus (usually in reference to food)

   Ono da tako poke.

   The octopus poke is delicious.

Borrowed from English taco (“Mexican snack food”), from Spanish taco (“light lunch”, literally “stopper, plug, wad”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.ko/, [ˈt̪a.ko]
• Rhymes: -ko
• Hyphenation: ta‧ko

tako (plural tako-tako)

1. (cooking) taco: a Mexican snack food made of a small tortilla (soft- or hard-shelled) filled with ingredients such as meat, rice, beans, cheese, diced vegetables and salsa

• taco

• “tako”, 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

tako

1. Rōmaji transcription of たこ
2. Rōmaji transcription of タコ

From Malay takut.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.kɔ/
• Hyphenation: ta‧ko

tako

1. (ambitransitive, active voice only) to be afraid; to fear

From Proto-Tepiman, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *taka(po) (“yesterday”).^[1]

tako

1. yesterday

• Mathiot, Madeleine (2013), Tohono 'O'odham–English Dictionary‎^[2], volume II, archived from the original on 22 November 2019, page 224
• Saxton, Dean; Saxton, Lucille; Enos, Susie (1983), “tako”, in Dictionary: Tohono Oʼodham/Pima to English, English to Tohono Oʼodham/Pima, 2nd edition, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 56

• Rhymes: -o

tako (dependent form rako, third-person possessed form hako)

1. vagina

• Canese, Natalia Krivoshein de; Alcaraz, Feliciano Acosta (2016), “tako”, in Ñe’ẽryru [Dictionary] (overall work in Spanish), Asunción: Instituto Superior de Lenguas, →ISBN, page 103, column 1

Inherited from Old Polish tako. By surface analysis, tak(i) +‎ -o.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.kɔ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -akɔ
• Syllabification: ta‧ko

tako (not comparable)

1. only used in jako tako / siako tako

• tako in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• “tako”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish], 2022
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “tako”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 11
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “tako”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861, volume II, page 1689
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1812), “tako”, in Słownik języka polskiego, volume 3, page 595
• Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tako.

• IPA^(key): /tǎkoː/
  • IPA^(key): /tǎːko/ (Dalmatia)
• Hyphenation: ta‧ko

tàkō (Cyrillic spelling та̀ко̄)

1. so, like that, in such a way

   priđi bliže tako da te bolje vidim ― come closer so that I can see you better

   ako tako misliš ― if you think so

2. so, so much

   on je tako pametan! ― he is so smart!

   ona tako divno p(j)eva! ― she sings so beatifically!

   tako te volim ― I love you so much

3. idiomatic and figurative meanings that refer to something being a specified way

   tako je! ― that's right! (literally, “so it is!”)

   i tako dalje ― and so on

   da tako kažem ― so to speak (literally, “to say it so”)

   baš tako! ― just like that!

   tako ili nikako ― take it or leave it (literally, “so or no other way”)

• ovàkō
• onàkō

• tàkāv

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

• IPA^(key): /takóː/

takọ̑

1. (clarification of this definition is needed.) thus (as a result)

• “tako”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *ìtákò.

• Audio (Kenya):

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tako class V (plural matako class VI)

1. (usually in the plural) buttock

   Synonym: makalio

• kitako

Borrowed from Spanish taco (“cue”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtako/ [ˈt̪aː.xo]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: ta‧ko

tako (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜃᜓ)

1. (sports, billiards, pool) cue; billiard stick
2. plug; wad; wadding

   Synonyms: pasak, pamasak

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /taˈkoʔ/ [t̪ɐˈxoʔ]
• Rhymes: -oʔ
• Syllabification: ta‧ko

takô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜃᜓ)

1. act of slipping or tripping

   Synonyms: tapilok, tapyok, tisod

• akto, toka, kota, kato, Atok

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *ìtákò (“buttock”).

tako class 5 (plural matako class 6)

1. buttock

• William Y. Turner (1996), Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English - Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary‎^[3], Central Africana Limited, pages 136, 183

takô

1. billiard cue