English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Tswana kgokoñ.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

kokoon (plural kokoons)

  1. (archaic) A gnu; a brindled gnu.
    • 1845, John George Cochrane [editor], The Foreign Quarterly Review:
      Mixed squads of kokoons and zebras are practising their wild gambols over the level plain, kicking, frolicking, butting, and pursuing each other with untiring perseverence

Etymology 2 edit

Sinhalese [script needed] (kokuṅ).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /kəˈkuːn/, /koʊˈkuːn/

Noun edit

kokoon (plural kokoons)

  1. (uncommon) A tree of the genus Kokoona.
    Synonym: kokoona
    • 1872, Yearbook of Pharmacy: Comprising Abstracts of Papers Relating to Pharmacy, Materia Medica and Chemistry Contributed to British and Foreign Journal...with the Transactions of the British Pharmaceutical Conference, page 32:
      The inner yellow bark of the kokoon tree of Ceylon (Kokoona Zeylanica, Thw.) is employed there as a febrifuge and stimulatory, and as a dye.
    • 2007 October 23, Colin Tudge, The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter, Crown, →ISBN, page 169:
      The kokoon tree from Sri Lanka (Kokoona zeylanica) yields a useful oil.
    • 2012 October 16, Olavi Huikari, The Miracle of Trees, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 54:
      CELASTRALES - spindle trees, khat trees, kokoons.

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Finnish edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkokoːn/, [ˈko̞ko̞ːn]
  • Rhymes: -okoːn
  • Syllabification(key): ko‧koon

Noun edit

kokoon

  1. illative singular of koko

Adverb edit

kokoon

  1. together (to one place)
    Paljonko rahaa olemme saaneet kokoon?
    How much money have we scraped together?

Inflection edit

→○ illative kokoon
inessive koossa
○→ elative

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Further reading edit

Italian edit

Noun edit

kokoon (invariable)

  1. gnu