different between kawa vs kama

English

Noun

kawa (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of kava

Anagrams

• Waka, waka

Cebuano

Etymology

Probably from Malay kawah.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka?wa

Noun

kawa

1. A large wok.

Related terms

• kaha, kalaha

Dibabawon Manobo

Noun

kawà

1. large iron pot

French

Pronunciation

Noun

kawa m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of caoua, meaning coffee
2. (Piper methysticum) kava

   Synonym: kava

3. kava, beverage made from Piper methysticum.

   Synonym: kava

Further reading

• “kawa” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Hiligaynon

Noun

káwà

1. boiler

Japanese

Romanization

kawa

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Karao

Noun

kawa

1. middle; halfway

Kayapó

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ka?wa]

Etymology

From Proto-Northern Jê *kacû (“mortar”).

Noun

kawa

1. mortar

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

kawa

1. spider (large)

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kawa.

Adjective

kawa

1. sour

Noun

kawa

1. a ceremony to remove tapu from a new house or canoe
2. karakia (“ritual chants”) and customs for the opening of new houses, canoes and other events
3. marae protocol - customs of the marae and wharenui, particularly those related to formal activities such as p?hiri, speeches and mihimihi
4. acid
5. bitterness

Usage notes

The sense "marae protocol" seems to be a modern extension of the word.

Verb

kawa

1. to perform the kawa ceremony, open a new house

References

• “kawa” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori-English, English-Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, ?ISBN.

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka.va/

Noun

kawa f (diminutive kawka or kawcia or kawunia or kawusia)

1. coffee

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) kawiarnia, kawowiec, kawosz, kawoszka, kawiarz, kawiara, kawiarka, kawiarniczka
• (noun phrases) kawa po irlandzku, kawa po turecku, kawa po wiede?sku, kawa rozpuszczalna, kawa zbo?owa
• (adjective) kawowy

Related terms

• (nouns) kawiarenka, kawiareczka
• (adjective) kawiarniany

Further reading

• kawa in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kawa in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-kawa (infinitive kukawa)

1. delay, be late, tarry

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -kawia
  • Causative: -kawisha

Conjugation

Tagalog

Noun

kawa

1. large caldron; large boiler or kettle

Synonyms

• kaldero
• talyasi

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.