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boksi

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Esperanto

Etymology

From English box, origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈboksi/
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  • Rhymes: -oksi
  • Hyphenation: bok‧si

Verb

boksi (present boksas, past boksis, future boksos, conditional boksus, volitive boksu)

  1. (intransitive, boxing) to box, punch; strike with the fists.
    • 1928, L. L. Zamenhof, La Rabistoj [The Robbers], translation of Die Räuber by Friedrich Schiller:
      Sufiĉe da kuraĝo, por boksi sub minacanta pendingo kun la diablo mem pro mizera pekulo.
      Enough courage to box under a threatening gallows with the devil himself for a wretched sinner.

Conjugation

More information present, past ...

Derived terms

  • boksado
  • boksarto
  • boksisto
  • bokso
  • boksopilko
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Finnish

Etymology

From English box.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈboksi/, [ˈbo̞ks̠i]
  • Rhymes: -oksi
  • Syllabification(key): bok‧si
  • Hyphenation(key): bok‧si

Noun

boksi (informal)

  1. box
  2. box set (related recordings placed in a box to be sold as a unit)
  3. studio, room (small apartment or room, often rented for temporary living)

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...
More information first-person singular possessor, singular ...

Synonyms

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Greenlandic

Etymology

Borrowed from Danish boks.

Noun

boksi (plural boksit)

  1. safe
  2. box

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English box.

Pronunciation

Noun

boksi class IX (plural boksi class X)

  1. box

Synonyms

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