# aker
## English
### Noun

aker (plural akers)
* Obsolete spelling of acre.
** 1858, Jonathan Brown Bright, The Brights of Suffolk‎, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 127:… crope of an aker might have been worth=3 p aker ...
** 1859, New England Historic Genealogical Society, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register‎, Digitized edition, S.G. Drake, published 2009, page 295:That all rates that shall arise upon the Towne shall be layed upon Lands accordinge to every ones p'portion aker for aker of howse lotts and aker for aker of meddowe both alike on this side and both alike on the other side …

#### Derived terms

* aker-staf

#### References

* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

### Anagrams

* Kera, rake, Akre, Kear, KERA, reak, Rake, arke

## Basque
### Etymology

From Proto-Basque *akeR.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* IPA: /aker/, [a.ke̞r]

### Noun

aker anim
* he-goat, billy goat

#### Related terms

* akelarre

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaː.kər/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: a‧ker
* Rhymes: -aːkər

### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch aker, eker, haker, from Old Dutch *aker, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], Latin aquarium. The loan from Latin is likely very early, as evidenced by the shifted consonants in Old High German ahhāri, ahari, agari. Doublet of aquarium.

#### Noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)
* (Southern) bucket
    Synonym: emmer
* (historical) metal well bucket
    Synonym: putemmer
* (dated, Eastern Netherlands) kettle

##### Related terms

* aquarium

### Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch aker, from Old Dutch *akaran, from Proto-Germanic *akraną.

#### Noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)
* (archaic) acorn

##### Synonyms

* eikel

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

aker m (plural akers, diminutive akertje n)
* (obsolete) acre

## Kabyle
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Verb

aker (intensive aorist yettaker, aorist yaker, preterite yuker, negative preterite yukir, verbal noun tukerḍa)
* to steal
    Ur ukireɣ ara yiwet n tɣawsa!I didn't steal a single thing!

#### Derived terms

* ttwaker

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

* acre

### Etymology

From Old English æcer, from Proto-West Germanic *akr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaːkər/, /ˈakər/

### Noun

aker (plural akers)
* field (piece of arable land)
* acre (land measure of 160 rods square (though actually varying in size, both regionally and in time), usually described as 40 rods/1 furlong long and 4 rods wide.)

#### Descendants

* English: acre, aker (archaic), acer (-er form, chiefly UK)
** → Norwegian Bokmål: acre
** → Malay: ekar
** → Telugu: ఎకరా (ekarā), ఎకరము (ekaramu)
* Scots: acre, acker, ackre, accre, aacre, awker, yicker
** →? Scottish Gaelic: acaire, acair
* Yola: aager
* → Irish: acra
* → Welsh: acer

#### References

* “āker, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* akker, āker (late), ᛆᚴᚽᚱ (runic)

### Etymology

From Old Norse akr, from Proto-Germanic *akraz.

### Noun

aker m
* field, cultivated land

#### Descendants

* Swedish: åker

## Scots
### Noun

aker (plural akers)
* Shetland form of awkir

### References

* “aker, n.$^2$”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

aker m (Cyrillic spelling акер)
* acre

## Vilamovian
### Noun

aker m
* field (wide, open space used to grow crops)