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duka

duka

English

Noun

duka (plural dukas)

  1. (Kenya) A shop, store.
    • 2012, Aidan Hartley, ‘Life at One Remove’, Literary Review 404:
      This series […] was the only interesting reading material you could find on the half-empty shelves of Nairobi dukas that called themselves bookshops but mostly sold school texts and dust-coated magazines.

Cebuano

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: du‧ka

Adjective

duka

  1. Tired; feeling the need for sleep.
  2. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy.
  3. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.

Verb

duka

  1. To induce sleep; to make someone drowsy or lethargic.

Maltese

Noun

duka m (plural duki)

  1. duke

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Swahili

Etymology

From Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān).

Noun

duka (ma class, plural maduka)

  1. shop (establishment that sells goods)

Swedish

Etymology

duk + -a

Verb

duka

  1. to set (a table; to arrange with dishes and cutlery)

Conjugation

Related terms

  • dukning