joke

Etymology
From, from , from , from ultimate root (of which distant cognates include 🇨🇬 (🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬) and 🇨🇬). Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.

Noun

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

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:joke

Collocations
Adjectives often applied to "joke": old, bad, inside, poor, silly, funny, lame, hilarious, stupid, offensive.

Translations

 * Arabic: طُرْفَة, نُكْتَة, نَادِرَة, لَطِيفَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: نكتة
 * Gulf Arabic: نكتة
 * Hijazi Arabic: نُكْتة
 * Moroccan Arabic: نكتة
 * South Levantine Arabic: نكتة
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: txiste
 * Belarusian: жарт, анекдо́т, до́сціп
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: фіґель, анекдо́т, смішо́к
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: забар, бегаш
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 笑話
 * Hakka: 笑話
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲥⲁϫⲓ ⲛ̀ⲥⲱⲃⲓ
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, vits, joke
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ŝerco, amuzaĵo
 * Estonian: nali, anekdoot
 * Faroese: skemtisøga, krønika
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ხუმრობა, ანეკდოტი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκῶμμα, χλεύη
 * Guaraní: pukarã
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, लतीफ़ा
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: candaan
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ហាសវត្ថុ
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: نوکتە
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Latin:, nūgae
 * Latvian:
 * Macedonian: шега
 * Malay: jenaka, seloroh
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: vits
 * Oromo: qoosaa
 * Ottoman Turkish: شقا, اویون, لطیفه
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Spos
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Balkan Romani: pherǎs
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: fealla-dhà
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ша́ла
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: vtip
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: biro
 * Tajik: аския,
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: ཀྱལ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: degişme
 * Ukrainian: жарт, ,
 * Urdu: لطیفہ
 * Uyghur: لەتىپە, شاڭخو
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: chuyện tiếu lâm
 * Waray-Waray: ti-aw
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: וויץ


 * Albanian:, mbrrakulli
 * Arabic: نُكْتَة, هَزْل
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Basque: txantxa
 * Belarusian: жарт
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chechen: бегаш, забар
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Coptic: ⲥⲁϫⲓ ⲛ̀ⲥⲱⲃⲓ
 * Czech:, , , žertík
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto: amuzaĵo
 * Estonian: nali
 * Faroese: skemt
 * Finnish:, , , , , sutkaus
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ხუმრობა
 * German:, , ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: σκῶμμα, χλεύη
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: मज़ाक़
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:, spaug
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Interlingua: burla
 * Irish: cleas
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: txakóta, txokóta
 * Kazakh: әзіл, қалжың, ажуа, ойын
 * Khmer: ពាក្យនិយាយលេង, ល្បែងលេងសើច
 * Korean: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ເລື່ອງຕະຫຼົກ
 * Latin:, facetia
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Macedonian: шега
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: spøk
 * Ottoman Turkish: شقا, اویون, لطیفه
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Balkan Romani: pherǎs
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Sanskrit: विनोदकणिका, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cleas, fealla-dhà
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ша́ла
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: vtip, žart
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: biro
 * Tajik: шӯхӣ, ҳазл
 * Thai:, เรื่องตลก
 * Tibetan: བསྟན་ཤིག་སློང
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: oýun
 * Ukrainian: жарт
 * Urdu: مذاق
 * Uyghur: چاقچاق, مايداڭ, ھەزىل
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese:, lời nói đùa, câu nói đùa
 * Volapük:, cogil
 * Yiddish: וויץ, שפּאַס


 * Azerbaijani: məzə
 * Hungarian:
 * Polish:


 * Czech:, klaun
 * Dutch: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: დასაცინი, სასაცილო,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Balkan Romani: devruś
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:,  ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:, gaguhan, panggagago

Verb

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

Translations

 * Afrikaans: grap
 * Arabic: مَزَحَ
 * Hijazi Arabic: مزح, نَكَّت
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: zarafat etmək
 * Belarusian: жартава́ць
 * Bulgarian: шегувам се
 * Burmese:
 * Cherokee: ᎦᏪᏟᎭ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: spøge
 * Dutch:, grappenmaken
 * Esperanto: ŝerci
 * Estonian: naljatama
 * Faroese: skemta
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ხუმრობა, ოხუნჯობა, ლაზღანდარობა
 * German:, Witze machen, Spaß machen,
 * Greek: ατειεύομαι
 * Ancient: σκώπτω
 * Hebrew:, התבדח
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: grínast,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 冗談を言う, ,
 * Korean:, 롱담하다
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: گالتە کردن
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: jokot
 * Neapolitan: pazzià
 * Norwegian:, tulle bort, kødde
 * Old English: gamenian
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, contar piada,
 * Romani:
 * Balkan Romani: kerel pherǎs, asavel, marel pherǎs, marel muj
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: шалити
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: babbiàri
 * Slovak: žartovať
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: biro
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:

Etymology 1
Borrowed from.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Etymology
From.