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duka

duka noun: a shop, store.

Noun

duka (plural dukas)

  1. (Kenya) A shop, store.
    • This series […] was the only interesting reading material you could find on the half-empty shelves of Nairobi dukas that called themselves bookshops but mostly sold school texts and dust-coated magazines.2012, Aidan Hartley, “Life at One Remove”, in Literary Review, section 404

Proper noun capitalized: Duka

Duka (plural Dukas)

  1. A surname.

Forms of duka

Noun
pluraldukas
Proper noun
pluralDukas

Origin of duka

From Swahili duka, from Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān), from Aramaic דּוּכָּנָא (dukkānā, “dais”), from Akkadian 𒆠𒍇 (/⁠takkannu, dakkannu, dukkannu⁠/, “dais, platform, bench; niche, bedroom, private chambers or quarters”), ultimately from Sumerian 𒆠𒍇 (/⁠daggan⁠/, “chamber, doorway or its frame, niche in a wall”).

Questions about duka

What does duka mean?
Duka means a shop, store.
What part of speech is duka?
Duka can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of duka?
The plural of duka is dukas.

Words near duka in the dictionary

  1. Dujomir
  2. Dujour
  3. Dujours
  4. Duk-Duk
  5. Duk-Duks
  6. duka
  7. Dukagjin
  8. Dukakis
  9. Dukart
  10. Dukarts
  11. dukas

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