different between kana vs kama

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ??(??) (kana, “phonetic character”, literally “borrowed character”, from the way that kana were originally Chinese characters "borrowed" for their phonetic values).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kana (plural kana or kanas)

1. The hiragana and katakana syllabaries. These are made up of characters that represent individual syllables, which are are used to write Japanese words and particles. Kana are derived from kanji.
2. A hiragana or katakana character.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• Akan, knaa, naka

Apalaí

Noun

kana

1. fish

Atong (India)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kana/

Noun

kana (Bengali script ????)

1. blind person

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Balinese

Romanization

kana

1. Romanization of ??
2. Romanization of ???

Breton

Etymology

From Middle Breton canaff, from Proto-Brythonic *k?n?d (compare Welsh canu), from Proto-Celtic *kaneti (“to sing”) (compare Irish canadh), from Proto-Indo-European *keh?n-.

Verb

kana

1. to sing

Mutation

Chuukese

Determiner

kana

1. (possessive subject marker) those

Related terms

• ekkana

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kana, from Proto-Germanic *hanô. Cognate to Finnish kana, Livonian kan?, Votic kana, Veps kana, Old Norse hani, Gothic ???????????????? (hana), Swedish hane.

Noun

kana (genitive kana, partitive kana)

1. chicken
2. hen

Declension

Derived terms

• kanamuna

See also

• kukk

Fijian

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Pacific *kani, from Proto-Oceanic *kani, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka?n, from Proto-Austronesian *ka?n.

Verb

kana

1. to eat (consume)

Noun

kana

1. meal

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *kana, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *hanj? (“hen”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh?n- (“to sing”). Cognates include Estonian kana, English hen.

Noun

kana

1. chicken (domestic fowl of species Gallus gallus, Gallus domesticus)
2. hen (female chicken)
3. chicken (meat from this bird eaten as food)

   Synonym: broileri

4. (taxonomy) gallinaceous (when used as modifier in some compound terms)

5. (derogatory) An unintelligent, talkative woman.
6. (archaic) woman, sweetheart

   Synonyms: (archaic) vaimo, nainen

Declension

Usage notes

The word kana usually refers to a mature bird. The Finnish translation for "chicken" in the sense "young hen" is kananpoika or broileri.

Derived terms

Compounds

See also

• kaakattaa
• kotkottaa
• kynä (“feather”)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese ??(??) (kana).

Noun

kana

1. kana (Japanese syllabary)

Declension

Anagrams

• -kaan, akan

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kana, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *han?. Cognates include Finnish kana and Estonian kana.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa, Soikkola, Ylä-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /?k?n?/
• Hyphenation: ka?na

Noun

kana (genitive kanan, partitive kannaa)

1. hen

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 58
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 130
• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2], page 110
• Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachinkov (2014) Inkeroin Keel: ??????? ?? ????????? ??????^[3], ?ISBN, page 79

Japanese

Romanization

kana

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Kamba

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-nàì.

Numeral

kana

1. four

Karelian

Noun

kana

1. hen

Kikuyu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kana/

Conjunction

kana

1. or, whether

References

• “kana” in Benson, T.G. (1964). Kikuyu-English dictionary, p. 206. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Kanne, from Proto-Germanic *kann?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kana]

Noun

kana f (diminutive kanka)

1. jug, pot (e.g. for coffee or tea)

Declension

Further reading

• kana in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• kana in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kana]

Verb

kana (Lontara spelling ??, semi-transitive akkana)

1. (transitive) to say

Noun

kana (Lontara spelling ??)

1. word

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Hindi ???? (kh?n?)

Noun

kana

1. food

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese caminhar and Spanish caminar and Kabuverdianu kaminha.

Verb

kana

1. to walk
2. to go

Portuguese

Noun

kana m (uncountable)

1. kana (Japanese syllabaries)

Rayón Zoque

Noun

kana

1. salt

Derived terms

References

• Harrison, Roy; B. de Harrison, Margaret; López Juárez, Francisco; Ordoñes, Cosme (1984) Vocabulario zoque de Rayón (Serie de diccionarios y vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 28)?^[4] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 12

Romani

Adverb

kana

1. when

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish ???? (k?na), from Arabic ???????? (?inn??).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kâna/
• Hyphenation: ka?na

Noun

k?na f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. henna (Lawsonia inermis) (shrub; dye)

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (kana).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?na/
• Hyphenation: ka?na

Noun

kàna f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. kana

Declension

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-kana (infinitive kukana)

1. to deny, to reject, to say no

Conjugation

Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

kana c

1. slide (mostly as a toy)

Declension

Related terms

• iskana
• rutschkana

Verb

kana (present kanar, preterite kanade, supine kanat, imperative kana)

1. to slide (mostly of people or vehicles, relating to icy ground)

Conjugation

See also

• glida

Anagrams

• anka

Turkish

Noun

kana

1. dative singular of kan

Venda

Conjunction

kana

1. or
2. nor

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kana, from Proto-Germanic *hanô.

Noun

kana

1. chicken

Inflection

Derived terms

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Võro

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kana, from Proto-Germanic *hanô. Cognates include Estonian kana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?/

Noun

kana (genitive kana, partitive kanna)

1. chicken

Inflection

Warlpiri

Noun

kana

1. digging stick

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.