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English

Etymology

First appearance in 1995 in PC Week.^[1] Abbreviated from WikiWikiWeb, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”) + English web.

Pronunciation

• enPR: wĭʹkē, wēʹkē, IPA^(key): /ˈwɪki/, /ˈwiːki/
• Rhymes: -ɪki, -iːki
• Homophones: wicky, weaky, wickie

Noun

wiki (plural wikis)

2. A collaborative website which can be directly edited merely by using a web browser, often by anyone who has access to it.

Derived terms

(Derived terms of wiki (proper nouns)):

(Other terms derived from wiki):

Translations

Verb

wiki (third-person singular simple present wikis, present participle wikiing, simple past and past participle wikied)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To research on Wikipedia or some similar wiki.

   To get an understanding of the topics, he quickly went online and wikied each one.

   • 2008 December 1, GeekDad, “Son of a Geek: Comics and Growing Up the DC Way”, in Wired News:

     I tore through his collection wikiing any plot points that I missed learning the importance of the players of the DC universe

   • 2009 June 18, Lizz Holmans, “Janus”, in uk.rec.sheds‎^[4] (Usenet):

     Her English is no better than my Portuguese, but I wikied 'influenza' in Portuguese and it came up with 'gripe'

   • 2010, Noemi Gonzalez, Journey, page 65:

     I did research on the internet and found out so. I “wikied” it.

2. (intransitive) To contribute to a wiki.

   • 2006, Deptford Tv, Deptford.TV Diaries, page 73:

     Blogging, wiki-ing, coding are all activities that generate authorial product.

   • 2007, Dan Woods with Peter Thoeny, Wikis for dummies, page 17:

     The best way to start wiki-ing is to find an existing wiki (that is, a hosted wiki) and start adding to it.

   • 2008, Robert E. Cummings with Matt Barton, Wiki writing: collaborative learning in the college classroom, page 46:

     For example, blog and wiki software can be used to support all sorts of activities that are not commonly associated with the activities of “blogging” or “wikiing.” This includes activities like sharing syllabi, publishing announcements

3. (transitive) To participate in the wiki-based production of.

   • 2009 October 19, “Cooking Consensus: Will Wiki Work in the Kitchen?”, in Time‎^[5], archived from the original on 4 June 2011:

     The history of wikied novels isn't pretty (Penguin Books never published the gobbledygook that was "A Million Penguins"), and no one has dared wiki a jazz song.

Translations

See also

• sukuma wiki

References

• “wiki”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• "wiki" in the Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English, Preview Edition (v 0.9.6), Lexico Publishing Group, 2003-2005.
• Notes:

Anagrams

• Kiwi, kiwi

Catalan

Alternative forms

• viqui

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbi.ki]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈvi.ki]

Noun

wiki m (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Chinese

Etymology

From English wiki.

Pronunciation

Verb

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) to wiki; to research on Wikipedia

Proper noun

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) Wikipedia

Alternative forms

• Wiki

Noun

wiki

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) article on Wikipedia

Choctaw

Alternative forms

• Spelling variants
  • weki (traditional)

Adjective

wīki

1. heavy

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviki/, /ˈvikʰi/, /ˈwikʰi/^[1]

Noun

wiki c (singular definite wikien, plural indefinite wikier)

1. A wiki.^[1]

Inflection

Derived terms

• wikikette
• wikikode
• Wikipedia
• Wikipediabrugerside

References

Anagrams

• kiwi

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋiki/

Noun

wiki m (plural wiki's, diminutive wikietje n)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikiën

Anagrams

• kiwi

Finnish

Etymology

From English wiki, formed from Hawaiian wikiwiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/, [ˈwik̟i]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Hyphenation^(key): wi‧ki

Noun

wiki

1. wiki (collaborative website)

Declension

Derived terms

(compounds):

Further reading

• “wiki”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[6] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-04

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wi.ki/

Noun

wiki m (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikifier
• wikiprojet
• Wikipédia
• Wiktionnaire

Anagrams

• kiwi

Hawaiian

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *witi. Note that this reconstruction is only attested in Central-Eastern Polynesian.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ki/, [ˈʋi.ti]

Verb

wiki

1. (stative) to hasten, to speed up
2. (stative) to be swift, to be speedy, to be quick

Derived terms

• wikiwiki

References

• Pukui, Mary Kawena, Elbert, Samuel H. (1986) “wiki”, in Hawaiian Dictionary, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki (plural wiki-wiki)

1. wiki

Further reading

• “wiki” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

wiki

1. Rōmaji transcription of ウィキ

Kokota

Etymology

Borrowed from English week.

Noun

wiki

1. week

   palu wiki : two weeks

References

• Bill Palmer, Kokota Grammar, page 380 →ISBN

Latvian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈviki/

Noun

wiki m (invariable)

1. wiki

Limburgish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi˦kə˧/, /ˈwi˦ki˨/

Noun

wiki m

1. wiki

Inflection

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German wīk, from Latin vicus.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvʲikʲi/

Noun

wiki pl

1. (literary, commerce) market

   Stwórtk su pśecej wiki.

   The market is always [open] on Thursdays.

   • 1998, Erwin Hannusch, chapter 1, in Niedersorbisch praktisch und verständlich, Bautzen: Domowina Verlag, →ISBN, page 20:

     Tšochu dalej su Stare wiki.

     Somewhat further on is the Old Market.

2. town square

Declension

Derived terms

• konjece wiki
• pjenjezne wiki
• wikowanišćo
• wjelike wiki

References

Further reading

• Starosta, Manfred: Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik, Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšyn, 1999., →ISBN
• Šwjela, Bogumil: Dolnoserbsko-němski słownik, Ludowe nakładnistwo Domowina, Budyšyn, 1963., p. 451.

Maori

Etymology 1

Verb

wiki

1. to form circular ripples on the surface of a fluid

Etymology 2

Transliteration of English week

Noun

wiki

1. week

Etymology 3

Transliteration of English wick

Noun

wiki

1. wick; fuse

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”).

Noun

wiki m (definite singular wikien, indefinite plural wikier, definite plural wikiene)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikifisere

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki, from Hawaiian wikiwiki (“quick”).

Noun

wiki m (definite singular wikien, indefinite plural wikiar, definite plural wikiane)

1. wiki

Derived terms

• wikifisere

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English wiki.

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki f or (less common) m (plural wikis)

1. wiki (website allowing collaborative editing of content)

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiki/ [ˈwi.ki], /ˈɡwiki/ [ˈɡwi.ki]
• Rhymes: -iki
• Syllabification: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki m or f same meaning (plural wikis)

1. wiki

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English week.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwi.ki/

Noun

wiki

1. week

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English week.^[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

wiki class IX (plural wiki class X)

1. a week

Synonyms

• juma

References

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /viːkɪ/, /vɪkɪ/, /wiːkɪ/, /wɪkɪ/

Noun

wiki c

1. wiki.

Declension

The plurals are not agreed upon, other words for the indefinite plural nominative presently in use include wikier, wikis, wikisar, wikior, wikiar, wiki etc.

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian *w'īkän, from Proto-Indo-European *(d)wi(h₁)dḱm̥ti (cognate with Latin vīgintī, Ancient Greek εἴκοσι (eíkosi), Doric ϝείκατι (weíkati), Sanskrit विंशति (viṃśati), Avestan 𐬬𐬍𐬯𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (vīsaⁱti), Ossetian инсӕй (insæj), Armenian քսան (kʻsan), Albanian (një)zet, Welsh ugain). Compare Tocharian B ikäṃ.

Numeral

wiki

1. twenty

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from English wiki.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvici/, /ˈɥici/
• Hyphenation: wi‧ki

Noun

wiki (definite accusative wikiyi, plural wikiler)

1. wiki

Declension