heke

• IPA^(key): /hɛ̀kɛ́ꜜ/

As for Tonal Class, Benson (1964) classifies this term into Class 3 with a disyllabic stem, together with kĩhaato, mbembe, kiugo, and so on.

• (Kiambu)

• (Limuru) IPA^(key): /hɛ̀kɛ́/

As for Tonal Class, Yukawa (1981) classifies this term into a group including hiti, icembe, igoko (pl. magoko), ihĩtia (pl. mahĩtia), itumbĩ (pl. matumbĩ), kĩeha, kĩng'ang'i, mũhikania, mũhũmũ, mũkanda, mbica, nduka, ngingo, ngũkũ, rũthanju, tombo, and so on.[1]

heke class 9/10 (plural heke)

1. testicle

   Synonyms: ndendera, nyee

• ũruu, mũthita

• “heke” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 146. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

heke

1. thigh
2. rafter

From Proto-Polynesian *feke. Cognates include Hawaiian heʻe and Maori wheke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhe.ke/
• Hyphenation: he‧ke

heke

1. octopus

• “heke”, in Diccionario etimológico Rapanui-Español, Valparaíso: Comisión para la Estructuración de la Lengua Rapanui, 2000, →ISBN
• Paulus Kieviet (2017) A grammar of Rapa Nui‎, Berlin: Language Science Press, →ISBN, page 424

Borrowed from Spanish jeque, from Old Spanish xeque, from Andalusian Arabic شَيْخ‎ (šéḵ), from Arabic شَيْخ‎ (šayḵ, “an elder in charge”). Doublet of siyak.

• Hyphenation: he‧ke
• IPA^(key): /ˈheke/, [ˈhɛ.xɛ]

heke (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜃᜒ)

1. (Islam) Moorish sheik

   Synonym: (obsolete) siyak

• “heke”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018