different between akan vs adinkra

Alak

Noun

akan

1. (Alak) woman

Alternative forms

• kan (Harak)

Further reading

• Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?n/, [??k?n]
• Rhymes: -?k?n
• Syllabification: a?kan

Etymology 1

Noun

akan

1. Genitive singular form of akka.

Etymology 2

From Akan Akan.

Alternative forms

• akani

Noun

akan

1. Akan (West African language spoken mainly in Ghana and Ivory Coast)

Declension

Anagrams

• -kaan, kana

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kan/
• Rhymes: -kan

Adverb

akan

1. will
2. about to
3. going to

Preposition

akan

1. regarding, concerning, as for

Further reading

• “akan” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Alternative forms

• kan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.kan/
• Rhymes: -kan
• Hyphenation: a?kan

Adverb

akan (Jawi spelling ????)

1. will

2. about to
3. going to

Derived terms

• akan-akan
• seakan-akan
• mengakan
• mengakankan
• keakanan

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

akan m (definite singular akanen, uncountable)

1. Akan language

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

akan m (definite singular akanen, uncountable)

1. Akan language

Portuguese

Noun

akan m (uncountable)

1. The Akan language.

Quechua

Verb

akan

1. third-person singular present indicative of akay

Spanish

Alternative forms

• acano

Noun

akan m (uncountable)

1. Akan (Niger-Congo language)
2. Akan (language group spoken in Ghana)

English

Etymology

From Akan adinkra.

Noun

adinkra (plural adinkras or adinkra)

1. Any of a set of visual symbols representing concepts or aphorisms, originally created by the Akan of Ghana and the Gyaman of Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa, often used as artistic devices.
2. (physics) A graphical representation of supersymmetric algebras, consisting of coloured finite connected simple graphs that are bipartite and n-regular.

Translations

Anagrams

• anarkid

Akan

Pronunciation

• Tone: LLLH

Noun

adinkra

1. adinkra cloth

References

• Christaller, Johann Gottlieb (1881) , “adi?k?rá”, in A Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language Called Tshi (Chwee, Tw?i)?^[1], Basel, page 84

Portuguese

Noun

adinkra m (plural adinkra or adinkras)

1. adinkra (visual symbol representing a concept or aphorism, created by the Akan)