different between kayak vs row

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English rewe, rowe, rawe, from Old English r?w, r?w, probably from Proto-Germanic *raiw?, *raigw?, *raih- (“row, streak, line”), from Proto-Indo-European *reyk- (“to carve, scratch, etch”). Cognate with dialectal Norwegian rå (“boundary line”), Middle Dutch r?e, Dutch rij (“row, line”), Old High German r?ga (“line”), rihan (“to string”), Middle High German rige (“line, row, ditch”), r?he (“row, line, corridor”), German Reihe (“row”), Middle Low German r?ge, r?ge, Old Norse rega (“string”), Middle Dutch r?ghe, Dutch rijg, rijge, German Riege (“sports team”).

Alternative forms

• rew (dialectal)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /??o?/
• Homophones: rho, roe
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

row (plural rows)

1. A line of objects, often regularly spaced, such as seats in a theatre, vegetable plants in a garden etc.
2. A horizontal line of entries in a table, etc., going from left to right, as opposed to a column going from top to bottom.

   Antonym: column

Synonyms

• (line of objects): line, sequence, series, succession, tier (of seats)
• (in a table): line

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rowen (“to row”), from Old English r?wan (“to row”), from Proto-Germanic *r?an? (“to row”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?reh?- (“to row”). Compare West Frisian roeie, Dutch roeien, Danish ro. More at rudder.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /???/
• (US) enPR: r?, IPA^(key): /?o?/
• Homophones: rho, roe
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

1. (transitive or intransitive, nautical) To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars.

   Synonym: paddle

2. (transitive) To transport in a boat propelled with oars.

3. (intransitive) To be moved by oars.

   The boat rows easily.

Derived terms

• get in the boat and row
• rowboat (see also rowing boat)

Translations

Noun

row (plural rows)

1. An act or instance of rowing.

2. (weightlifting) An exercise performed with a pulling motion of the arms towards the back.

Translations

Etymology 3

Unclear; some suggest it is a back-formation from rouse, verb.

Pronunciation

• enPR: rou, IPA^(key): /?a?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

row (plural rows)

1. A noisy argument.

   Synonyms: argument, disturbance, fight, fracas, quarrel, shouting match, slanging match

2. A continual loud noise.

   Synonyms: din, racket

Translations

Verb

row (third-person singular simple present rows, present participle rowing, simple past and past participle rowed)

1. (intransitive) to argue noisily

   Synonyms: argue, fight

Translations

Anagrams

• Wor., wor

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rov?. Cognate with Upper Sorbian row, Polish rów (“ditch”), Czech rov, Russian ??? (rov, “ditch”), Old Church Slavonic ???? (rov?, “ditch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /r?w/, [row]

Noun

row m (diminutive rowk)

1. grave

Declension

Further reading

• row 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
• row in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Manx

Etymology

From an old perfective particle ro- + va.

Verb

row

1. was, were (dependent form)

Usage notes

Part of the substantive verb bee. This is the dependent form of the past tense va used after negative and interrogative particles:

1. • Cha row aggle erbee er.
     • He was not in the least afraid.
   • Dooyrt eh dy row eh mac y ree.
     • He claimed that he was the son of the king.

Old English

Alternative forms

• r?

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *r?u, from Proto-Germanic *r?w?. Cognate with Old Norse ró (“rest”) and German Ruhe (“quietness, rest, repose”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ro?w/

Noun

r?w f

1. quiet, rest, calm

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: ro, rou, rowe, roo
  • English: roo
  • Scots: ro, ruve

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “r?w”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Scots

Noun

row (plural rows)

1. roll

Derived terms

• row-cloth: a folding cloak of warm cloth

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *rov?.

Noun

row m

1. grave

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

r?w f (plural rowa)

1. rook (bird)
2. raven

Yola

Noun

row

1. Alternative form of reoue