tako
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 蛸 (tako).
Noun edit
tako (uncountable)
Anagrams edit
Aiwoo edit
Verb edit
tako
- to sew (clothing)
References edit
- 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.
Bikol Central edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish taco (“cue”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
táko or takò (Basahan spelling ᜆᜃᜓ)
Derived terms edit
See also edit
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish taco (“cue”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tako
Eastern Bontoc edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *tau.
Noun edit
tako
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tako (accusative singular takon, plural takoj, accusative plural takojn)
- taco
- Damne, la tortiljo de mia tako rompiĝis.
- Damn, my taco's tortilla broke.
Guaraní edit
Noun edit
tako (dependent form rako, third-person possessed form hako)
Hawaiian Creole edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 蛸 (tako).
Noun edit
tako
- octopus (usually in reference to food)
- Ono da tako poke.
- The octopus poke is delicious.
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
tako
O'odham edit
Noun edit
tako
Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tako.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
tàkō (Cyrillic spelling та̀ко̄)
- 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
- 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
- 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”)
Related terms edit
See also edit
References edit
- “tako” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene edit
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
takọ̑
- (clarification of this definition is needed) thus (as a result)
Further reading edit
- “tako”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
Swahili edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Bantu *ìtákò.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Kenya) (file)
Noun edit
tako (ma class, plural matako)
Derived terms edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish taco (“cue”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tako (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜃᜓ)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
takô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜃᜓ)
Derived terms edit
Waray-Waray edit
Noun edit
takô