aks

Old English axian (“ask”); see ax for more.

• IPA^(key): /æks/

aks (third-person singular simple present aks or akses, present participle aksing, simple past and past participle aksed)

1. (dialectal, now chiefly West Africa and African American Vernacular) To ask.
   • 2004, Larry Dean Hamilton, A Gathering of Angels, page 132:

     Another thing, kid, don't aks me no more questions tonight.

• ASK, Ask, KAs, KSA, SKA, ask, kas, ska

From Old Norse ax.

• IPA^(key): /aks/

aks n (singular definite akset, plural indefinite aks)

1. ear (fruiting body of a grain plant)
2. spike (ear of grain)

From English ask.

aks

1. ask

• IPA^(key): [ʔaks]

aks

1. water

aks

1. (transitive, intransitive) drink
2. (intransitive) be wet

• John Asher Dunn, Sm'algyax: A Reference Dictionary and Grammar (1995, →ISBN

Borrowed from French axe.

aks (definite accusative aksi, plural aksler)

1. axis

• dingil
• eksen

• aks in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu

From Old Norse ax, from Proto-Germanic *ahsą.

aks n

1. An ear (of corn.)
2. A barb (of hook.)
3. A tooth (of key.)

From Dutch actie, German Aktie, from Latin āctiō (“action.”)

aks n

1. (finance) A share.