kero

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Abbreviation of kerosene.

kero (uncountable)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) Kerosene.
   • 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 129:

     ‘Need a bit more kero,’ he'd say. ‘How about trotting down to town for it?’

   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 293:

     The hessian hut glowed yellow with the light of a kero lamp.

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• qero

kero (plural keros)

1. A type of wooden drinking vessel produced by the Incas.

• Kore, kore, oker, roke

kero

1. to dance

• “Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[1] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

From French cœur. Doublet of koro.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkero]

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• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: ke‧ro

kero (accusative singular keron, plural keroj, accusative plural kerojn)

1. (card games) the suit of hearts, marked with the symbol ♥

• keroj (“hearts (card game)”)

Suits in Esperanto · emblemoj (layout · text)
kero	karoo, rombo	piko	trefo

• IPA^(key): /ˈkero/, [ˈk̟e̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation^(key): ke‧ro

Borrowing from Sami, compare Northern Sami čearru, from Proto-Samic *čearō.

kero (archaic)

1. A round, treeless top of a fell; now mostly in place names and compounds.

• “kero”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Proto-Finnic *keroi.

kero (dialectal, obsolete)

1. throat

   Synonym: kurkku

• kore

From Proto-Finnic *kiro. Cognates include Finnish kiro.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkero/, [ˈke̞ro̞]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkero/, [ˈke̞ro̞]
• Rhymes: -ero
• Hyphenation: ke‧ro

kero

1. curse

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 157

kero

1. Rōmaji transcription of けろ
2. Rōmaji transcription of ケロ

kero (Latin spelling)

1. first-person singular present indicative of kerer

• quero

kero m (plural keros)

1. kero (Inca wooden drinking vessel)

From -kera (“to annoy”) +‎ -o.

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kero (n class, plural kero)

1. annoyance, nuisance