See also: sukí and sukī

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Tagalog suki, from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, regular customer or dealer).

Noun

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suki (plural sukis)

  1. (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

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Borrowed from Japanese (すき) (suki).

Noun

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suki (plural sukis)

  1. (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

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  • Hyphenation: su‧ki
  • IPA(key): /ˈsukiʔ/ [ˈsu.kiʔ]

Etymology 1

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From Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, regular customer or dealer).

Noun

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sukì

  1. a favored customer, a regular who receives preferential treatment
  2. a favorite seller or vendor
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Noun

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sukì

  1. swerve; veer; turn
    Synonyms: siko, kurba, liko
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Cebuano

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Etymology 1

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From Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, regular customer or dealer).

Noun

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suki

  1. a favored customer, a regular who receives preferential treatment
  2. a favorite seller or vendor

Etymology 2

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Compare sukol.

Verb

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suki

  1. to go against; to oppose; to resist
  2. to disobey

Finnish

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Verb

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suki

  1. third-person singular past indicative of sukia

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Noun

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suki

  1. plural of suko

Japanese

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Romanization

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suki

  1. Rōmaji transcription of すき

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈsu.ki/
  • Rhymes: -uki
  • Syllabification: su‧ki

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suki

  1. inflection of suka:
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Hokkien 主客 (chú-kheh, regular customer or dealer), as per Chan-Yap (1980).[1] Cognates to Ilocano suki, Pangasinan suki, Bikol Central suki, Cebuano suki, and Tausug sukiꞌ.

Noun

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sukì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃᜒ) (business)

  1. regular and long-standing customer or client (who may receive special treatment due to patronage)
  2. (dialectal) regular vendor or dealer (which one buys from)
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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sukì (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜃᜒ) (obsolete)

  1. cross-like support or prop placed inside houses
  2. act of propping up or shoring up (something)
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  1. ^ Chan-Yap, Gloria (1980) “Hokkien Chinese borrowings in Tagalog”, in Pacific Linguistics, volume B, number 71 (PDF), Canberra, A.C.T. 2600.: The Australian National University, page 145

Further reading

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  • suki”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

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