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A river in central Russia, the largest right tributary of the Volga.
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A small village and suburb of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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An ancient town in Bithynia, in modern Turkey.
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The capital city of Akoko South-West, Ondo, Nigeria.
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An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States.
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A common family/surname among Marathi Chitpawan Brahmins of Western India. Also spelt as Oke and Oak.
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A former Turkish, Egyptian, Hungarian, and Romanian unit of weight, usually of a little more than a kilogram.
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Usage: historical
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A unit of volume in Egypt (and formerly Turkey) corresponding to about 1.2 litres.
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A kind of pungent, semi-soft cheese, originally made by Trappist monks in Oka, Quebec.
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Usage: Canada, uncountable
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South American wood sorrel cultivated for its edible tubers
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: oca, Oxalis tuberosa, Oxalis crenata
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Broader terms: oxalis, sorrel, wood sorrel
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a Turkish liquid unit equal to 1.3 pints
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a Turkish unit of weight equal to about 2.75 pounds
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Broader terms: weight unit, weight
History
From Russian Ока́ (Oká). Probably cognate with Sanskrit ओघ (ogha, “stream, flood, torrent of water”).
From French, from Mohawk [Term?] (“a kind of pike [fish]”) . The cheese is named for the village.
From Italian oca, from French oque, from Ottoman Turkish اوقه (okka). Doublet of ounce, inch, uncia, ouguiya, and awqiyyah.
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