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waka

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (waka), from Middle Chinese ? (?wa), a gloss for ? (?wa, “Japan”) + ? (ka, “song”).

Noun

waka (plural wakas or waka)

  1. (poetry) A kind of classical Japanese poem.
    • 1962, Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America 2007, p. 122:
      “Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.”
Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori waka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?w?k?/, /?w?k?/

Noun

waka (plural wakas or waka)

  1. (New Zealand) A Maori canoe.

Anagrams

  • kawa

Aymara

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

Noun

waka

  1. cow

Bintulu

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(w)aka?.

Noun

waka

  1. root (of plant)

Chamicuro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

Noun

waka

  1. cow

Chickasaw

Verb

waka

  1. to fly

Jamamadí

Verb

waka

  1. (Banawá) to break

References

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

Japanese

Romanization

waka

  1. R?maji transcription of ??

Jaqaru

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Cognate with Aymara waka

Noun

waka

  1. cow

References

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 74.

Katukina

Noun

waka

  1. water

References

  • Maria Sueli de Aguiar, Elementos de descrição sintatica para uma gramatica do Katukina, page 49, 1988

Manchu

Romanization

waka

  1. Romanization of ????

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *waka.

Noun

waka

  1. boat, canoe
  2. vehicle, conveyance
  3. transport

Derived terms

  • t?nga waka

Descendants

  • ? English: waka

Mapudungun

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

Noun

waka (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. cow

References

  • Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Palu'e

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(w)aka?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(w)aka?.

Noun

waka

  1. root (of plant)

Pijin

Etymology

From English work.

Noun

waka

  1. work; labor; job

Quechua

Etymology 1

Noun

waka

  1. dwarf, sickly baby

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

Noun

waka

  1. cow

Declension

Usage notes

Not to be confused with wak'a.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-waka (infinitive kuwaka)

  1. to burn, be in flames

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • Verbal derivations:
    • Causative: -washa

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kaka

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

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