tuko

tuko

1. gecko

Onomatopoeic, after the animal's call.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈkoʔ/, [tuˈkoʔ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧ko

tukô (Basahan spelling ᜆᜓᜃᜓ)

1. gecko

Onomatopoeic, after the animal's call.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈkoʔ/, [t̪ʊˈkoʔ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧ko

tukô

1. tokay gecko (Gekko gecko)
2. sound made by a tokay gecko
3. (slang) penis

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tuko.

• kuot, kuto, tuok, ukot, utok

Borrowed from German Tuch and Yiddish טוך (tukh), both ultimately from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“cloth, rag”). Compare Dutch doek, English duck, Japanese ズック (zukku), Old Norse dúkr.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtuko]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -uko
• Hyphenation: tu‧ko

tuko (accusative singular tukon, plural tukoj, accusative plural tukojn)

1. cloth

tuko

1. gecko

tuko

1. gecko

• IPA^(key): /ˈtu.kɔ/
• Rhymes: -ukɔ
• Syllabification: tu‧ko

tuko f

1. vocative singular of tuka

tuko

1. to pray

tuko

1. first-person plural positive degree present of -wako (“we are (around there)”)

Most likely onomatopoeic, imitative of its mating call approximated as "tuk-o". Compare Bikol Central tuko, Cebuano tuko, Ilocano tekka, Malay tokek, and Tausug tukki'.

• IPA^(key): /tuˈkoʔ/, [tʊˈxoʔ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧ko

tukô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜃᜓ)

1. gecko (especially the tokay gecko)

• IPA^(key): /tuˈkoʔ/, [tʊˈxoʔ]
• Hyphenation: tu‧ko

tukô (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜃᜓ)

1. (medicine) measles

   Synonym: tigdas

2. (medicine, dialectal) chicken pox; varicella

   Synonym: bulutong-tubig

• IPA^(key): /tuˈko/, [tʊˈxo]
• Hyphenation: tu‧ko

tukó (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜓᜃᜓ)

1. act of cleaning tiny apertures with something pointed (to facilitate functioning)

   Synonyms: sundot, kikig

• pagtuko

• “tuko”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• IPA^(key): [ˈtu.ko]

tuko

1. (transitive) to bend

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

tuko

1. (anatomy) upper lip