duka

English

Etymology

From Swahili duka.

Noun

duka (plural dukas)

  1. (Kenya) A shop, store.
    • 2012, Aidan Hartley, ‘Life at One Remove’, Literary Review 404:
      This series [] was the only interesting reading material you could find on the half-empty shelves of Nairobi dukas that called themselves bookshops but mostly sold school texts and dust-coated magazines.

Anagrams


Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: du‧ka

Adjective

duka

  1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
  2. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
  3. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.

Verb

duka

  1. To induce sleep; to make someone drowsy or lethargic.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay duka, from Pali dukkha, from Sanskrit दुःख (duḥkha).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /du.ka/
  • Hyphenation: du‧ka

Adjective

duka

  1. sad

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • berduka
  • duka cita
  • duka nestapa
  • duka ria
  • kedukaan
  • mendukai
  • mendukakan

Further reading


Maltese

Noun

duka m (plural duki)

  1. duke

Mwani

Etymology

From Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān).

Noun

duka class 5 (plural maduka)

  1. (Nsimbwa) shop

Synonyms


Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān).

Noun

duka (ma class, plural maduka)

  1. shop (establishment that sells goods)

Descendants


Swedish

Etymology

duk + -a

Verb

duka

  1. to set (a table; to arrange with dishes and cutlery)

Conjugation

  • dukning
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