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teke.

billy goat, buck, billy, he-goat, an adult male of the species Capra hircus

4 characters2 syllables approx.Türkçe language

Meaning & usage

noun/teˈce/

  1. billy goat, buck, billy, he-goat, an adult male of the species Capra hircus

  2. prawn, any small aquatic crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata

Where this word comes from

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish تكه (teke, “billy goat”), from Proto-Turkic *teke (“billy goat”). Cognates Cognate with Azerbaijani təkə, Bashkir тәкә (täkä), Kazakh теке (teke), Kyrgyz теке (teke), Southern Altai теке (teke), Tatar тәкә (täkä), Tuvan те (te), Uyghur تېكە (tëke) and Uzbek taka.

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