# tuku
## Finnish
### Etymology

Possibly from Swedish tacka (“ewe”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtuku/, [ˈt̪uku]
* Rhymes: -uku
* Syllabification: tu‧ku

### Interjection

tuku
* (often repeated) Used to call sheep (to move towards the speaker).

### Further reading

* “tuku”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* kutu, kuut

## Javanese
### Romanization

tuku
* Romanization of ꦠꦸꦏꦸ

## Kanakanabu
### Noun

tuku
* hoe

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tuku (“to let go, to release”) (compare with Tokelauan tuku, Samoan tuʻu, Tahitian tuʻu and Hawaiian kuʻu).

### Verb

tuku
* to slacken, to let go
* to release
* to permit, allow
* to give up

### Noun

tuku
* offering
* presentation, submission

### Derived terms

* kōtukutuku

### References

* ↑ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 549-50
* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “tukud”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

### Further reading

* “tuku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtuku/
* Rhymes: -uku
* Syllabification: tu‧ku

### Noun

tuku m inan
* genitive/locative/vocative singular of tuk

## Quechua
### Noun

tuku
* A great horned owl (Bubo virginianus); an owl, generally

#### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Verb

tuku (Cyrillic spelling туку)
* third-person plural present of tući

## Sumerian
### Romanization

tuku
* Romanization of 𒌇 (tuku)

## Tausug
### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /tuku/ [t̪ʊˈk̠u]
* Rhymes: -u
* Syllabification: tu‧ku

### Noun

tuku (Sulat Sūg spelling تُكُ)
* pole (used to support something)

## Ternate
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtu.ku]

### Verb

tuku
* (stative) to be slanting, sloping

#### Conjugation
### References

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

## Tetum
### Etymology

Sense of "hour" influenced by Indonesian pukul (“hour, o'clock”)

### Noun

tuku
* hour

### Verb

tuku
* to beat, to strike

## Tokelauan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *tuku. Cognates include Hawaiian kuʻu and Samoan tuʻu.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtu.ku]
* Hyphenation: tu‧ku

### Noun

tuku
* A rope on a traditional canoe.

### Verb

tuku
* (transitive) to put
* (transitive) to leave
* (transitive) to stop
* (transitive) to allow
* (transitive) to presume
* (transitive) to blame
* (transitive, of canoes) to move

### Verb

tuku (plural tatuku)
* (transitive, of trees) to cut down
* (transitive, of blinds) to let down

#### Derived terms

* tukufakatahi

### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 405

## Tuvaluan
### Verb

tuku
* To give

## Yámana
### Noun

tuku
* husband, wife, marriage