Definitions for Oka

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Oka o·ka

Spelling: [oh-kuh]

IPA: /ˈoʊ kə/

Oka is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in Oka (ako).

Definitions for Oka

noun

1. Also called old oka. a former measure of weight in Turkey and neighboring countries, equal to about 2.75 pounds (1.25 kilograms). Also called new oka. a modern measure of weight in Turkey and neighboring countries, standarized as equal to the kilogram.
2. a form unit of liquid measure, equal to about 1.33 U.S. liquid quarts (1.26 liters).
3. oca.
4. a river in the central Russian Federation in Europe, flowing NE to the Volga at Nizhni Novgorod. 950 miles (1530 km) long.
5. a wood sorrel, Oxalis tuberosa, of the Andes, cultivated in South America for its edible tubers.
6. a tuber of this plant.

Origin of Oka

1615-25; Italian occa Turkish okka Arabic (compare ūquiyya) Greek ounkíā; cognate with Latin uncia; see ounce¹

Examples for Oka

I just have to keep him interested until he gets going of his own accord, because he shall beat oka Sayye.

Then screened by the bushes, she could have reached out and touched oka Sayye.

I never wanted anything in all this world worse than I want to see you graduate ahead of oka Sayye.

The emperor arrived at the harbor of oka in the Land of Tsukushi.

He must carry on this contest in a perfectly open, fair, and aboveboard way, and he simply must not antagonize oka Sayye.

After a night's rest I recrossed the oka and drove to the town.

Nothing had happened that in any way equipped him for his battle with oka Sayye.

She told him where she thought what remained of oka Sayye could be found.

All oka Sayye knows how to do is to learn the lesson in his book perfectly, and he is 100 per cent.

In class I came right up against oka Sayye on the solution of a theorem in trigonometry.