spoke

See also spöke

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: spōk, IPA: /spəʊk/, X-SAMPA: /sp@Uk/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊk

Etymology 1

Old English spaca

Noun

Wikipedia spoke (plural spokes)

1. A piece that fits between the axle and the round outside, or rim, of a wheel.

Translations

part of a wheel

• Armenian: անվաճաղ (hy) (anvač̣aġ), ճաղ (hy) (č̣aġ)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 輻條 (cmn), 辐条 (cmn) (fútiáo)

• Czech: paprsek (cs) m
• Dutch: spaak (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: spoko (eo)
• Finnish: puola (fi) (rod), pinna (fi) (tension spoke)
• French: rayon (fr) m
• German: Speiche (de)
• Greek: ακτίνα (el) (aktína) f
• Hebrew: זק (he) m
• Hungarian: küllő (hu)

• Icelandic: spæll (is) m
• Italian: raggio (it), (colloquial) razzo (it) m
• Japanese: スポーク (ja) (supōku)
• Jèrriais: rai m
• Latvian: spieķis (lv) m
• Macedonian: спица (mk) (spíca) f
• Polish: szprycha (pl) f
• Russian: спица (ru) (spíca) f
• Scottish Gaelic: bas (gd) f, spòg (gd) f
• Spanish: rayo (es) m
• Swedish: eker (sv)

Verb

spoke (third-person singular simple present spokes, present participle spokeing, simple past and past participle spokeed)

1. (transitive) To furnish (a wheel) with spokes.

Etymology 2

Verb

spoke

1. Simple past of speak.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: idea · reached · appeared · #461: spoke · strange · force · character

Anagrams

• pokes

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Dutch

Verb

spoke

1. singular present subjunctive of spoken