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hoki

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See also: hōki, høki, ħoki, and Hōki

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori hoki (blue grenadier).

Noun

hoki (plural hoki)

  1. The blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake.
    • 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
      Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.

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Estonian

Noun

hoki (genitive hoki, partitive hokit)

  1. hockey (the sport)

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhoki/, [ˈho̞k̟i]
  • Rhymes: -oki
  • Syllabification(key): ho‧ki
  • Hyphenation(key): ho‧ki

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Maori hoki (blue grenadier).

Noun

hoki

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  1. blue grenadier (Macruronus novaezelandiae), a merluccid hake
    Synonym: sinihoki
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from English hockey.

Noun

hoki (colloquial, humorous)

  1. ice hockey
    Synonyms: jääkiekko, (colloquial) lätkä
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Etymology 3

Verb

hoki

  1. third-person singular past indicative of hokea

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Hawaiian

Etymology

Borrowed from English horse. The sense of "infertile" is probably derived from the fact that mules are an infertile crossbreed of horses and asses.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈho.ki/, [ˈho.ti]

Noun

hoki

  1. mule
  2. ass

Verb

hoki

  1. (neologism) infertile, barren

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Hungarian

 Jégkorong on Hungarian Wikipedia

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhoki]
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ki
  • Rhymes: -ki

Noun

hoki (usually uncountable, plural hokik)

  1. (sports, informal) hockey
    Synonyms: jégkorong, jéghoki
  2. (slang) jacking off (male masturbation)

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Derived terms

  • hokis
  • hokizik
Compound words
  • görhoki
  • gyephoki
  • hokibajnokság
  • hokibot
  • hokicsapat
  • hokijátékos
  • hokikapu
  • hokikorcsolya
  • hokiliga
  • hokimeccs
  • hokimérkőzés
  • hokipálya
  • hokiszövetség
  • hokiütő
  • jéghoki
  • vízihoki

Further reading

  • hoki in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English hockey.

Pronunciation

Noun

hoki

  1. hockey

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English hockey.

Noun

hoki (plural hoki-hoki)

  1. hockey (the sport)

Hyponyms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hokkien 福氣福气 (hok-khì).

Noun

hoki (plural hoki-hoki)

  1. fortune; fate
    Synonyms: nasib, peruntungan

Derived terms

  • berhoki
  • kehokian
  • pehoki

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Japanese

Romanization

hoki

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ほき
  2. Rōmaji transcription of ホキ

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from English hockey.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhoki/ [ˈho.ki]
  • Rhymes: -oki
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ki

Noun

hoki (Jawi spelling هوکي, uncountable)

  1. (sports) hockey

Manchu

Romanization

hoki

  1. romanization of ᡥᠣᡴᡳ

Maori

Rapa Nui

Swahili

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