different between nikka vs tikka

English

Alternative forms

• nikkah

Etymology

Modification of nigger or nigga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?k?(?)/
• Homophones: knicker, nicker (in non-rhotic accents)

Noun

nikka (plural nikkas or nikkaz)

1. (slang) A bowdlerization of nigga used as a reclaimed sense of nigger.
   • 2004, Arar Han, John Y. Hsu, Asian American X

     Then there's the wigga (wannabe nigga, to fit everyone), who will probably have all that AzN PrldE junk, yet call everyone "nigga" or "nikka" trying to be black.

   What's crackin' my nikka?

Faroese

Etymology

From Danish nikke, from Middle Low German nicken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n??k?a/
• Rhymes: -??k?a
• Homophone: nikkað

Verb

nikka (third person singular past indicative nikkaði, third person plural past indicative nikkaðu, supine nikkað)

1. nod
2. bow

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (bow): bukka, níga

Finnish

Noun

nikka

1. hiccups

Declension

Synonyms

• hikka

Related terms

• nikotella
• nikottaa
• nikotuttaa

Anagrams

• -kkain, kakin, kanki, kikan, nakki

Japanese

Romanization

nikka

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• nikket

Verb

nikka

1. inflection of nikke:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• nikke

Etymology

From Middle Low German nicken.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²n?k??/

Verb

nikka (present tense nikkar, past tense nikka, past participle nikka, passive infinitive nikkast, present participle nikkande, imperative nikk)

1. to nod (bow one's head)
2. (in football) to head (to play the ball with one's head)

References

• “nikka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t?k.?/, /ti?.k?/
• Rhymes: -?k? or Rhymes: -i?k?

Etymology 1

From Hindi ?????? (?ikk?)/Urdu ?????? (?ikka), ultimately from Persian ???? (tikka).

Noun

tikka (countable and uncountable, plural tikkas)

1. A marinade made from various aromatic spices usually with a yoghurt base; often used in Indian cuisine prior to grilling in a tandoor.

Derived terms

• tikka masala

See also

• tandoori

Etymology 2

Noun

tikka (plural tikkas)

1. Alternative form of tika

Anagrams

• ikkat

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tikka, probably of recent imitative origin. Related to Estonian tikk, Ingrian tikka, Livvi tikku, Veps tik and Votic tikka. The sense "dart" is likely by analogy with the sharp, pointed beak of a woodpecker.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tikka

1. woodpecker (bird in the family Picidae)
2. dart (sharp-pointed missile used in the games of darts and tikanheitto)

Declension

Hyponyms

• (bird of the family Picidae): in addition to all birds ending in -tikka: afrikantikkanen, käenpiika, palokärki, poimija, tikkanen, tulikärki, tulitöyhtö, töyhtöpoimija

Derived terms

• Tikkanen
• tikkanen

Compounds

Anagrams

• Kitka, kakit, katki, kikat, kitka, takki

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tikka. Cognates include Finnish tikka and Estonian tikk.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tikka (genitive tikan, partitive tikkaa)

1. woodpecker (bird of the genus Picus)

Declension

References

• V. I. Junus (1936) I?oran Keelen Grammatikka?^[1], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 585

Karelian

Etymology

Akin to Finnish Finnish tikka

Noun

tikka

1. woodpecker

Maltese

Etymology

Probably inherited from dialectal Arabic ?????? (takka, “one, piece, morsel, bit, tad”), from Persian ???? (tekke), provided that the borrowing into Arabic happened early enough. Otherwise an independent onomatopoeia could not be ruled out; compare English tick (“checkmark; short moment”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?k.ka/

Noun

tikka f (plural tikek)

1. point, dot, spot
2. (often in negation) a bit, a little

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tikket

Verb

tikka

1. inflection of tikke:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle