suki
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Philippine) IPA(key): /ˈsu.kɪʔ/
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Tagalog suki, from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”).
Noun edit
suki (plural sukis)
- (Philippines, business) a favored customer; a regular who receives preferential treatment
- 1973, William G. Davis, Social Relations in a Philippine Market: Self-interest and Subjectivity, →ISBN, page 230:
- Near the opposite end of the suki continuum, the "subjective" pole, are special suki.
- 2007, Isabel S. Panopio, Realidad Santico Rolda, Society & Culture, →ISBN, page 216:
- Frequent buyers in a particular store become the suki, so that with this kind of a relationship, the marketgoer gets an extra treat, like obtaining more tomatoes for the price of a kilo.
- 2011, Robert S. Pomeroy, Neil Andrew, Small-scale Fisheries Management, →ISBN, page 169:
- The suki relationship in the Philippines, a credit/marketing linkage, is often assumed to be exploitative of the fisher.
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Japanese 隙 (suki).
Noun edit
suki (plural sukis)
- (Japan, martial arts) An opening to the enemy; a weak spot that provides an advantage for one's opponent.
- 1959, Daisetz Teitarō Suzuki, Zen and Japanese culture, page 143:
- This gluing is "stoppage," and every stoppage means giving an advantage to the enemy, which is a suki.
- 1997, Hiroshi Ozawa, Kendo: The Definitive Guide, →ISBN, page 20:
- When you receive a strike, it is because there is a suki. Your opponent draws your attention to your weak spots, and you endeavor to ensure that you do not receive a strike in the same place again.
- 2006, Kevin L. Seiler, Donald J. Seller, Karate-do, →ISBN, page 61:
- Often, though, a suki to the chest will cause the sword to become lodged between bone and cartilage making it very difficult to quickly remove.
Bikol Central edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”).
Noun edit
sukì
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Etymology 2 edit
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sukì
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Cebuano edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”).
Noun edit
suki
Etymology 2 edit
Compare sukol.
Verb edit
suki
- to go against; to oppose; to resist
- to disobey
Finnish edit
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suki
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suki
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suki
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
suki
- inflection of suka:
Tagalog edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, “regular customer or dealer”), as per Chan-Yap (1980).[1] Compare Bikol Central suki, Cebuano suki, also Tagalog singki~Hokkien 新客 (sin-kheh), Tagalog Singson~Hokkien 曾孫/曾孙 (cheng-sun/tsing-sun), Tagalog sili~Spanish chili, Tagalog sitsirya~tsitsirya, Tagalog sinelas~tsinelas.
Noun edit
sukì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃᜒ)
- (business) regular and long-standing customer or client (who may receive special treatment due to patronage)
- (business, dialectal) regular vendor or dealer (which one buys from)
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Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
sukì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃᜒ)
- (obsolete) cross-like support or prop placed inside houses
- (obsolete) act of propping up or shoring up (something)
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Further reading edit
- “suki”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018