Description:

The term 'kuri' comes form Old Common and means both 'smile' and 'crescent'. Perhaps not liking this particular metaphorical blending, early Common speakers picked up the word 'lajk' from the English 'like' (from Internet argot), and it developed the connotation of 'smile' by the middle period, which in this case displaced 'kuri' from the meaning of 'smile'. In modern High Common, using the word 'kuri' for 'smile' sounds very stilted, and typically has the connotation of a fake smile. In the modern language, the meanings around arched paths and shapes in a more abstract and general sense dominate.

Noun:

A curve or crescent. Can also be used to mean a smile, but in the modern language strongly implies a fake smile.

Other senses are like an arc path or an architectural or natural arch.

The compound 'zoakuri' is a word for rainbow. It doesn't have a sensible meaning in a verbal context other than a pali verb meaning 'be a rainbow'.

Verb:

Can be used in a very similar way to 'lajk' as a verb, but not very much currency in modern High Common except in the sense of a fake smile, or pretending to like something. Can also be used as a noxaj verb of motion meaning to follow a curved path. As a disintentive pali verb it has a sense of following an arc shape or being an arc or curve.

Modifier:

The modifier form universally means crescent-shaped or curved. In some varieties of slang it can also have the sense of fake or ungenuine, as in a person who smiles a lot but doesn't mean it.