Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

soko

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables: soko
IPA

8

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

3

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.

Dated

Example Sentences

"A soko alive was believed to be a good charm for rain; so one was caught, and the captor had the ends of two fingers and toes bitten off. The soko, or gorilla, always tries to bite off these parts, and has been known to overpower a young man and leave him without the ends of fingers and toes. […] The subjoined account of the soko — which is in all probability an entirely new species of chimpanzee, and not the gorilla, is exceedingly interesting, and no doubt Livingstone had plenty of stories from which to select. Neither Susi nor Chuma can identify the soko of Manyuema with the gorilla, as we have it stuffed in the British Museum."
"Old hunters and travellers say that they would rather steal the child of a native savage than to take one of the sokos."

Etymology

Perhaps from Swahili sokwe (“chimpanzee, non-human hominid”).

Origin

Source language: Swahili

Word Breakdown

Root: sokwe

Usage

Dated

Inflected Forms

sokos (plural)

Questions

What does soko mean?: A species of African ape, supposedly a variety of the chimpanzee.
Where does soko come from?: It is traced to Swahili.

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