uke

See also: Appendix:Variations of "uke"

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /juːk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -uːk

Noun

uke (plural ukes)

1. (informal) Clipping of ukulele.

Derived terms

• banjouke, banjo uke

Etymology 2

From Japanese 受け (uke), the 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 受(う)ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈuːke/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -uːke

Noun

uke (plural ukes or uke)

1. (judo, martial arts) The training partner against whom tori performs a move.
2. (Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.

   Antonym: seme

   • 2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

     Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

   • 2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek‎^[1], volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012, →ISBN:

     You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

   • 2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King‎^[2], Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN, page 137:

     Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

Anagrams

• Kue

Japanese

Romanization

uke

1. Rōmaji transcription of うけ

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish uge, from Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wikǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Noun

uke f or m (definite singular uka or uken, indefinite plural uker, definite plural ukene)

1. a week

Derived terms

• arbeidsuke
• ukeavis
• ukelang
• ukentlig

See also

• veke (Nynorsk)

References

• “uke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Swahili

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Bantu *bʊ̀-

Proto-Sabaki *wu-

Swahili u-

Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀káí ~ *mʊ̀ké

Swahili mke

Swahili uke

From u- + mke.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Noun

uke class XI (no plural)

1. womanhood

   Antonym: uume

2. (euphemistic) vulva, vagina

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:uke