stroke

tv. & in. to flatter someone; to soothe and comfort someone. She “strokes” everybody to keep them on her side during the bad times.

See:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Vaiva	-	Lithuanian
Nishat	-	Arabic, Bengali
Zahari	-	Bulgarian
Sem	SEM (Dutch)	Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek, Dutch
StoŠIja	-	Croatian (Rare)
Jelani	-	Eastern African, Swahili