joke

Anlam (İngilizce)

Noun

1. An amusing story.
2. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
3. The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
4. A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
5. Something that is far easier or far less challenging than expected.

Verb

1. To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
2. To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.
3. To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

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Etimoloji (İngilizce)

From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jeu, Italian gioco, Portuguese jogo, Spanish juego, Romanian joc, English Yule, Danish Jule, Norwegian Bokmål Jul, Swedish Jul, and Norwegian Nynorsk jol.