different between dika vs pika

English

Etymology

Native West African name.

Noun

dika (uncountable)

1. A West African food made from the almond-like seeds of Irvingia gabonensis.

Anagrams

• kadi, kaid

Esperanto

Etymology

From German dick.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dika/
• Hyphenation: di?ka
• Rhymes: -ika

Adjective

dika (accusative singular dikan, plural dikaj, accusative plural dikajn)

1. thick

2. fat

Antonyms

• maldika

Ido

Etymology

From Esperanto dika, from English thick, German dick, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þekuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tegus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?di.ka/

Adjective

dika

1. thick

Antonyms

• dina

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Perhaps Latin (bene)dicti? (“blessing”), from the language of Church liturgy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??ka/
• Hyphenation: di?ka

Noun

díka f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. pride
2. fame, glory, honor
3. (obsolete) darling

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?ka/
• Hyphenation: di?ka

Noun

dìka f (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. Alternative form of dìkka

Declension

Etymology 3

From a Bantu language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dîka/
• Hyphenation: di?ka

Noun

d?ka f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. dika (African food made from the almond-like seeds of the Irvingia gabonensis syn. Irvingia barteri)

Declension

References

• “dika” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “dika” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “dika” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

English

Alternative forms

• pica (archaic)

Etymology

From French, from an Evenki word which Peter Simon Pallas transcribes as piika or peeka, but which cannot be found in modern dictionaries.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?pa?k?/
• Rhymes: -a?k?

Noun

pika (plural pikas)

1. Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia.

Derived terms

• black-lipped pika
• plateau pika

Translations

Anagrams

• Paik, Paki, kipa, paki

Basque

Etymology

From Latin pica.

Noun

pika anim

1. magpie

Alternative forms

• mika

Breton

Verb

pika

1. prick

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?ka]
• Rhymes: -?ka
• Hyphenation: pi?ka

Etymology 1

Noun

pika f

1. Obsolete form of píka (“pike”).

Declension

Derived terms

• piky
• od piky

Etymology 2

Noun

pika f

1. American pika, Ochotona princeps^{WP WSp Commons} (species within the family Ochotonidae)

Declension

Hypernyms

• (genera Vulpes and Urocyon): živo?ichové – regnum; strunatci – phylum; ?ty?nožci – superclassis; savci – class; zajícovití – order; piš?uchovití – family; piš?ucha – genus

Further reading

• pika in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pika/
• Hyphenation: pi?ka
• Rhymes: -ika

Adjective

pika (accusative singular pikan, plural pikaj, accusative plural pikajn)

1. (card games) of the suit of spades (?).

Related terms

• piko

Estonian

Adjective

pika

1. genitive singular of pikk

Finnish

Etymology

From English pika; see it for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pik?/, [?pik?]
• Rhymes: -ik?
• Syllabification: pi?ka

Noun

pika

1. pika
2. (in the plural) the taxonomic family Ochotonidae

Declension

Synonyms

• piiskujänis

Anagrams

• kapi, kipa

French

Noun

pika m (plural pikas)

1. pika

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese picar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu pika.

Verb

pika

1. to split
2. to stab

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pik?]
• Hyphenation: pi?ka
• Rhymes: -k?

Noun

pika (plural pikák)

1. lance

Declension

Derived terms

• pikás

Further reading

• pika in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese picar.

Verb

pika

1. to chop
2. to shred

Latvian

Noun

pika f (4th declension)

1. lump
2. snowball
3. pat
4. clod
5. clump
6. chunk
7. cob
8. clot

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• piken m

Noun

pika f

1. definite feminine singular of pike

Pamosu

Noun

pika

1. ear

Further reading

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
• Yong Lam Liaw, Pamosu Organised Phonology Data (2002)

Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?p?k?]

Noun

pika

1. pain

Polish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?i.ka/

Noun

pika f

1. pike (a very long thrusting spear formerly used extensively by infantry)

Declension

Related terms

• pikinier
• pikinierski

See also

• gizarma
• glewia
• halabarda
• kontarion
• kopia
• korseka
• lanca
• m?ot lucere?ski
• partyzana
• rohatyna
• runka
• spisa friulska
• szponton

Noun

pika m inan

1. genitive singular of pik
2. (nonstandard, colloquial) accusative singular of pik (a spade in card games)

Further reading

• pika in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-jìp?ka (“to cook, to boil”).

Pronunciation

Verb

-pika (infinitive kupika)

1. To cook

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -pikia
  • Causative: -pikisha
  • Passive: -pikwa
  • Reciprocal: -pikana
  • Stative: -pikika

Waray-Waray

Noun

piká

1. fist blow