different between kayak vs kaymak

English

Alternative forms

• kaiak, kiack, kyack, kyak, qayaq, kayack, qajaq

Etymology

Borrowed from Inuktitut ??? (qajaq, “man's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qyaq.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?ka??æk/

Noun

kayak (plural kayaks)

1. A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck

Translations

See also

• canoe
• umiak

Verb

kayak (third-person singular simple present kayaks, present participle kayaking, simple past and past participle kayaked)

1. (intransitive) To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.

2. (transitive) To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.

Derived terms

• kayaker
• kayakist

Translations

Anagrams

• yakka

Cebuano

Etymology

From English kayak, borrowed from Inuktitut ??? (qajaq, “man's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qyaq.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka?yak

Noun

kayak

1. a kayak

Noun

kayak

1. to ride a kayak

Cornish

Noun

kayak

1. kayak

References

• http://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/

French

Alternative forms

• kayac (rare)

Etymology

From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ??? (qajaq, “man's boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.jak/
• Homophone: kayaks
• Hyphenation: ka?yak

Noun

kayak m (plural kayaks)

1. kayak

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Indonesian

Etymology 1

From Betawi kayak, from Javanese ?? (kaya, “like, such as”), from Pali ??? (k?ya), from Sanskrit ? (ka, “similarity (suffix)”).

Alternative forms

• kaya
• kek

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ka.ja?]
• Hyphenation: ka?yak

Adverb

kayak

1. (colloquial) like, such as

Synonyms

• sebagai
• seperti

Etymology 2

From Dutch kajak, from English kayak, from Inuktitut ??? (qajaq, “man's boat”), from Proto-Eskimo *qyaq.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ka.jak]
• Hyphenation: ka?yak

Noun

kayak (first-person possessive kayakku, second-person possessive kayakmu, third-person possessive kayaknya)

1. (sports) kayak

Further reading

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

Italian

Alternative forms

• cayac, caiaco (rare)

Etymology

Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ??? (qajaq, “man's boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka?jak/
• Hyphenation: ka?yàk

Noun

kayak m (invariable)

1. kayak

Derived terms

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English kayak.

Noun

kayak m (plural kayaks)

1. (Jersey) kayak

Spanish

Alternative forms

• kayac, cayac

Noun

kayak m (plural kayaks)

1. kayak

Derived terms

Turkish

Etymology

From kaymak.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ka?yak

Noun

kayak (definite accusative kaya??, plural kayaklar)

1. ski

Declension

Volapük

Noun

kayak (nominative plural kayaks)

1. kayak

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• kaimak
• kajmak

Etymology

Borrowed from Turkish kaymak (“cream”).

Noun

kaymak (uncountable)

1. A creamy dairy product, similar to clotted cream, made in the Balkans, Turkey, the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, and India. It is made from the milk of water buffalos in the East or of cows in the West.

Translations

Further reading

• kaymak on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Old Turkic kañak? (kañak), kayak? (kayak, “cream layer that forms on top of milk after boiling”), from kaña-? (kaña-, “1. to boil, 2. to melt, become liquid”), from kañ? (kañ, “fountainhead, spring, source of a stream”), from Proto-Turkic. See kaynamak.

Noun

kaymak (definite accusative kayma??, plural kaymaklar)

1. kaymak
2. (figuratively) best part of something

Declension

Derived terms

• kaymakl?
• kaymaks?z
• kaymaklanmak

Related terms

• kaynak

Etymology 2

From Old Turkic kay-? (kay-, “to turn (towards a direction or a thing), look after, have interest in, pay attention to”), from Proto-Turkic *k?y-, *K?j-. Ni?anyan thinks the meaning shift towards "to slip, slide" since the 15th century is due to the idiom aya?? kaymak (“to loose one's footing”) which is the result of turning and spraining of foot.

Verb

kaymak (third-person singular simple present kayar)

1. (intransitive) to slide; to slip, skid

2. (intransitive) to shift

3. (intransitive, slang) to fuck, insult, swear

Conjugation

Antonyms

• kaymamak

Derived terms

• kayak
• kaykay
• kaygan
• kay?lmak
• kayd?rmak
• sinekkayd?

Related terms

• kayg?
• kay?k

References