different between kama vs cama

English

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: käm?, IPA^(key): /k?m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?

Etymology 1

From Japanese ? (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

Noun

kama (plural kama or kamas)

1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

See also

• Kama (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Sanskrit ??? (k??ma).

Noun

kama (uncountable)

1. (India) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
   • 1958, V. Raghavan Chapter XII: K?ma, The Third End of Man, Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary (editors), Sources of Indian Tradition, Volume 2, page 258,

     The place of k?ma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).

   • 2006, Indian Erotology, article in Alan Soble (editor), Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493,

     Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and k?ma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).

Derived terms

• kama rupa
• Kama Sutra

See also

• preman

Anagrams

• maka

Acehnese

Noun

kama

1. room (part of a building)

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Bikol Central

Etymology

From Spanish cama (“bed”).

Noun

kama

1. bed

Chichewa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Portuguese cama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.má/

Noun

kamá 9 (plural makamá 6)

1. bed

Synonyms

• bedi

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Verb

-kama (infinitive kukáma)

1. to milk

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kama]

Adverb

kama

1. (dialect, Moravia) which way, which direction

Synonyms

• (standard Czech) kudy

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

kama (genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. finely milled flour mixture (Estonian/Finnish food, talkkuna in Finnish)
2. kama

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Finnish

Etymology

Unknown; possibly related to dialectal kamahtaa ("to thump, to thud").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?m?/, [?k?m?]
• Rhymes: -?m?
• Syllabification: ka?ma

Noun

kama

1. (colloquial, usually in the plural) stuff (miscellaneous items or objects; personal effects)

2. (slang, singular only) product (illegal drugs)

Declension

Synonyms

• (stuff): tavara, roju

Compounds

• arvokama
• lällärikama
• pintakama

Garo

Verb

kama

1. (transitive) to burn

Related terms

• soa (intransitive)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Sanskrit ??? (k?ma, “love”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *káHmas (“desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóh?-mo-s, from *keh?- (“to desire, wish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

kama

1. love, especially sexual love or sensuality.
2. personification of love or desire as deity.

Related terms

Further reading

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

Jamamadí

Verb

kama

1. (Banawá) to come

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

kama

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese cama.

Noun

kama

1. bed

Kavalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Hokkien ?? (kam-á, “tangerine”).

Noun

kama

1. orange; tangerine

Lele (Chad)

Noun

k?m?

1. water

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 201:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-? "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Lele k?m? [Gowers], […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, ?ISBN, page 38

Maranao

Etymology 1

Noun

kama

1. breastplate

Etymology 2

From Spanish cama (“bed”)

Noun

kama

1. bed, cot

References

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kãma/

Noun

kama

1. breast

Ontong Java

Noun

kama

1. human
2. man
3. person

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese cama and Spanish cama and Kabuverdianu kama.

Noun

kama

1. bed

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Verb

-káma (infinitive gukáma, perfective -kámye)

1. to milk

Derived terms

• umukamyi

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Japanese ? (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

k?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. kama

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (kama).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

k?ma f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. a kind of dagger

Declension

Etymology 3

From Sanskrit ??? (k??ma).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâ?ma/
• Hyphenation: ka?ma

Noun

k?ma m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (Hinduism) one of the four main goals of the material existence

Declension

References

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

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Verb

-kámá (infinitive kukámá)

1. to milk

Swahili

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (kam?).

Conjunction

kama

1. as

   Synonym: mithili

2. if

   Synonym: ikiwa

Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

Verb

-kama (infinitive kukama)

1. to milk

Conjugation

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish cama (“bed”), from Late Latin, probably of Celtic or Iberian origin. Compare also camba.

Noun

kama

1. bed

   Synonyms: higaan, katre

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (kama).

Noun

kama (definite accusative kamay?, plural kamalar)

1. wedge
2. dagger

Xhosa

Etymology

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

Verb

-kama^?

1. to brush hair

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

English

Etymology

Blend of camel +? llama.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??m?/
• Rhymes: -??m?
• Homophone: comma (accents with the father-bother merger), karma (nonrhotic accents)

Noun

cama (plural camas)

1. A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.

Anagrams

• AACM, ACMA, MCAA, maca

Asturian

Etymology

From Late Latin cama.

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. bed (piece of furniture)

Catalan

Etymology

From Late Latin gamba (“horse's hock”), from Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?, “bend”). Doublet of gamba.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ka.m?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Noun

cama f (plural cames)

1. leg

   Synonym: gamba

French

Pronunciation

Verb

cama

1. third-person singular past historic of camer

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician / Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama (6th century, Isidorus of Seville), probably from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?m?]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed
   • 1484, X. Ferro Couselo (ed.), A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI. 2 vols. Vigo: Galaxia, page 127:

     Iten, mando mays á dita Contança Gonçales, miña muller, a quarta parte da adega dos Vrancos, por quanto eu e ela conpramos a metade da dita adega a Meen Suares Galinato, e mándolle mays a cuba en que teño o viño branco e mays outras duas cubas que son dentro ena dita adega aa maao esquerda, vasyas, que teñen cada una doze moyos de lagar, e mays lle mando una cama de roupa con quatro cabeçaás e un colchón e un almadraque e con suas sabaas e media duzia d'almofadas e con hua manta de picote, e se ouver em casa un par de colchas, que aja ela una delas.

     Item, I devise said Constanza González, my wife, a fourth of the wine cellar of Os Brancos, since we both bought a half of it from Men Suarez Galiñato; and I also bequeath a cask in which I have the white wine, and also two other casks that are inside that wine cellar, on the left, empty, each one having twelve modii; and also bequeath to her a clothed bed with four pillows and a mattress and a mat, and with its sheets and half a dozen cushions and a blanket of coarse linen, and if there is in the house a pair of quilts, she should have one of them

   Synonym: leito

2. platform of a cart
3. garden plot

References

• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “cama” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “cama” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “cama” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “cama” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kam??/

Adjective

cama

1. nominative/vocative/dative/strong genitive plural of cam

Mutation

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Ancient Greek ????? (khamaí) (close to the ground) as Isidorus said: "Cama est brevis [lectus] et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt" (Cama is a little [bed] close to the ground; the Greeks call ????? to small things). Other etymologies can include Celtic (Gaulish) or Iberian origin.

Noun

cama f (genitive camae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) bed
   • ca. 600, Isidorus Hispalensis [Isidore of Seville], Etymologiae, 19, 22, 29 & 20, 11, 2. In: Isidori Hispalensis episcopi etymologiarum sive originum libri XX. Recognovit brevique adnotatione critica instruxit W. M. Linday. Tomus II libros XI–XX continens, Oxonium, 1911:

     Camisias vocari quod in his dormimus in camis, id est in stratis nostris.

     Cama est brevis et circa terram; Graeci enim ????? breve dicunt.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Portuguese: cama
  • ? Chichewa: kama
  • ? Kabuverdianu: kama
• Spanish: cama
  • ? Bikol Central: kama
  • ? Maranao: kama
  • ? Tagalog: kama

Further reading

• cama in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cama in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Old Irish

Adjective

cama

1. Alternative spelling of camma

Mutation

Old Portuguese

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.ma/

Noun

cama f

1. bed

Descendants

• Galician: cama
• Portuguese: cama

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin camba, itself from From Ancient Greek ????? (kamp?). Eventually lost, likely due to homophony with cama (“bed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kama]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. leg, thigh

References

• Fulk, Randal C. 1980. Old Spanish ''tiesta'' and ''cama''. Romance Notes 20. 441–447.

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese cama, from Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?k?.m?/, [?k??.m?]
• Hyphenation: ca?ma
• Rhymes: -ama

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

2. bed (furniture for sleeping on)

   Synonyms: leito, ninho

Derived terms

• saco-cama

See also

• quarto

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin cama, first attested in Isidore. Likely a borrowing from an Iberian substrate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kama/, [?ka.ma]

Noun

cama f (plural camas)

1. bed

   Synonym: (less common) lecho

Derived terms

Further reading

• “cama” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.