different between kava vs kaka

English

Etymology

From Tongan kava, in turn from Proto-Polynesian *kawa.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??.v?/
• Rhymes: -??v?

Noun

kava (countable and uncountable, plural kavas)

1. A plant from the South Pacific, Piper methysticum.
2. An intoxicating beverage made from the kava plant.

Translations

Alternative forms

• ava
• yava

Esperanto

Etymology

From kavo (“cave, cavity, hollow, pit”) +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kava/
• Hyphenation: ka?va

Adjective

kava (accusative singular kavan, plural kavaj, accusative plural kavajn)

1. hollow, concave

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??a?va/
• Rhymes: -?a?va
• Homophone: kavað

Verb

kava (third person singular past indicative kavaði, third person plural past indicative kavaðu, supine kavað)

1. to snow
2. to dive

Conjugation

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kava

1. A spokeshave.

Declension

Synonyms

• kavahöylä

Anagrams

• vaka

Ido

Adjective

kava

1. sunken, hollow

Derived terms

• kavajo

Italian

Noun

kava f (plural kave)

1. kava

   Synonym: cava

Japanese

Romanization

kava

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Lithuanian

Noun

kava f

1. coffee

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

kava

1. simple past and past participle of kave

Alternative forms

• kavet
• kavde (simple past)
• kavd (past participle)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kafa.

Alternative forms

• kave (e infinitive)

Verb

kava (present tense kavar, past tense kava, past participle kava, passive infinitive kavast, present participle kavande, imperative kav)

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Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

kava n

1. definite plural of kav

References

• “kava” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic ???????? (qahwa).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kàva f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. coffee

Declension

Synonyms

• kafa
• kahva

Slovene

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kahve) (Turkish kahve), from Arabic ???????? (qahwa).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kà??a/

Noun

káva f

1. coffee (beverage)

Inflection

Tongan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kawa

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.va/

Adjective

kava

1. bitter

Noun

kava

1. kava

Descendants

• ? English: kava
• ? Italian: kava
• ? Japanese: ??? (kava)

English

Alternative forms

• k?k?

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori k?k?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k??k?/
• Homophone: carker

Noun

kaka (plural kakas)

1. Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.

Synonyms

• Nestor

Derived terms

• Chatham Islands Kaka, Nestor sp. (extinct)
• mountain kaka
• night kaka
• Norfolk Island Kaka, Nestor productus (extinct)
• North Island Kaka, Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis
• South Island Kaka, Nestor meridionalis meridionalis

Translations

Amis

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *kaka.

Noun

kaka

1. elder brother
2. elder sister

References

• 2017, Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis (?????????) (in Mandarin Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples.

Basque

Etymology

From Spanish caca or from Proto-Basque *kaka.

Noun

kaka inan

1. excrement

Declension

Further reading

• “kaka” in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus
• “kaka” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia, euskaltzaindia.eus

Brunei Malay

Etymology

Cognate with Malay kakak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaka/
• Hyphenation: ka?ka

Noun

kaka

1. older sister

Cebuano

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka?ka

Noun

kaka

1. a spider; any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey
2. tar; a solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke

Synonyms

• (a spider): damang, tambayawan

Related terms

• bahay
• tapaytapay

Chuukese

Adjective

kaka

1. thirsty

Estonian

Etymology

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

Noun

kaka (genitive kaka, partitive kakat)

1. (somewhat childish) poo

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• ekskrement
• fekaal
• kaki
• pask
• roe
• sitt
• väljaheide
• julk
• äka
• ess

Finnish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kaka

1. kaka (a parrot of the genus Nestor)

Usage notes

In addition to kakas, also kea belongs to genus Nestor.

Declension

Hyponyms

• papukaija

See also

• kakka (do not confuse with)

Anagrams

• akka

Hausa

Etymology 1

An areal word; compare Kanuri kàgá.

Noun

k??k? m or f (plural k??kànn?, possessed form k??kan)

1. grandfather, grandmother

Etymology 2

Noun

k??k? f (possessed form k??kar?)

1. harvest season

Hungarian

Etymology

Back-formation from kakál.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kaka (plural kakák)

1. (childish) excrement

Declension

Synonyms

• kaki (diminutive)

References

• Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, ?ISBN   (See also its second, revised, expanded edition published in 2021: ?ISBN)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

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

Noun

kaka f (genitive singular köku, nominative plural kökur)

1. a cake
2. a cookie

Declension

Derived terms

• eggjakaka
• flatkaka
• formkaka
• kransakaka
• legkaka
• pönnukaka
• rjómakaka
• sandkaka
• skara eld að sinni köku, skara eld að eigin köku
• skúffukaka
• smákaka
• súkkulaðikaka

Jamamadí

Noun

kaka

1. (Banawá) toucan

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

kaka

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Krio

Etymology

From Portuguese caca.

Noun

kaka

1. feces

See also

• shit

Latvian

Noun

kaka f (4th declension)

1. poo (childish)

Usage notes

Unlike in English, this word is strictly countable.

Declension

Lithuanian

Noun

kaka f

1. poo (childish)

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kaka/

Determiner

kaka

1. nominative feminine singular of kaki

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French caca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaka/

Noun

kaka

1. poo, excrement

   Synonyms: bezwin, exkreman, tata

Verb

kaka (medial form kaka)

1. to poo, defecate

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• kaken

Noun

kaka m or f

1. definite feminine singular of kake

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

kaka f

1. definite singular of kake

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kak?.

Noun

kaka f (genitive k?ku, plural k?kur)

1. cake

Declension

Descendants

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kak?.

Noun

kaka f

1. cake

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: kaka

Phuthi

Etymology

From Afrikaans kak.

Verb

-káka

1. to defecate

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Portuguese

Interjection

kaka

1. Alternative form of ka

Quechua

Noun

kaka

1. maternal uncle
2. father-in-law of a man

Declension

See also

• aqu
• kisma
• kiwach
• kiwachi

Sakizaya

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *kaka.

Noun

kaka

1. elder sibling

Serbo-Croatian

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Maybe borrowed from Hungarian”)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

káka f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (uncountable, informal, often childish) poo, poop (feces)

Declension

Sotho

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans kak.

Verb

kaka

1. to excrete, to defecate

   Synonym: nya

Sranan Tongo

Etymology 1

From English cock.

Noun

kaka

1. cock, rooster

   Synonym: kaka fowru

Derived terms

• kaka fowru

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Portuguese caca.

Noun

kaka

1. shit, crap

Alternative forms

• k'ka

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

kaka (n class, plural kaka)

1. brother

Coordinate terms

• dada (“sister”)

Swazi

Etymology

Borrowed from Afrikaans kak.

Verb

-káka

1. to defecate

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish kaka, from Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kak? (“cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gog (“ball-shaped object”).

Pronunciation

Noun

kaka c

1. cookie
2. (small) cake

Declension

Derived terms

• kaka på kaka
• pepparkaka

See also

• tårta

Turkmen

Noun

kaka (definite accusative kakany, plural kakalar)

1. father

Declension

Wik-Mungkan

Noun

kaka

1. excrement, faeces, shit

Synonyms

• kun

Yami

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaka, from Proto-Austronesian *kaka; cognate with Malay kakak.

Noun

kaka

1. older sibling

Yosondúa Mixtec

Etymology 1

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

Noun

kaka (present jika)

1. go, walk

Etymology 2

From Proto-Mixtec *kákà.

Noun

kaka

1. quicklime

References

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)?^[1] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 23–24

Zia

Adjective

kaka

1. small