ka

See also Appendix:Variations of "ka"

Translingual

Wikipedia

Symbol

ka

1. kiloyear (also ky, kyr)
2. a kiloyear ago

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English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɑː/

Etymology 1

Egyptian kȝ.

Noun

ka

1. a spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death
   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings

     Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done.

Etymology 2

From Latin fricantem frica

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Verb

ka

1. (transitive) To serve, in the phrase "Ka me, ka thee".
   • Walter Scott, Kenilworth 1821

     Ka me, ka thee, is a proverb all over the world.

References

• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Anagrams

• AK

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Acehnese

Adverb

ka

1. already

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Albanian

Alternative forms

• nga (Tosk)
• kah

Etymology 1

From older kah, from *kah ~ ngah (compare Tosk nga), from Proto-Albanian *en kaxa, from *en kʷod so ‘wherein, wherefrom’, literally ‘in which this’.

Preposition

ka (+nominative)

1. from, out, out of

   Jo, unë nuk jam ka Shqipëria.

   No, I am not from Albania.

2. who, whom

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *kaxa, from *koso, deriviative of Proto-Indo-European *ḱes- ‘to cut’ (compare Latin carēre ‘to be cut off from’, Ancient Greek keazein ‘to split’). For sense development, compare Slavic *volŭ ‘ox’, from *valiti ‘to throw down; castrate’.

Noun

ka m (indefinite plural qe)

1. ox

Verb

ka

1. he has

Usage notes

• kam - I have

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Amanab

Pronoun

ka

1. I (first person singular nominative)

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Esperanto

Noun

ka (plural ka-oj, accusative singular ka-on, accusative plural ka-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin script letter K/k.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, bo/‎be, co/‎ce, ĉo/‎ĉa, do/‎de, e, fo/‎ef, go/‎ge, ĝo/‎ĝe, ho/‎ha, ĥo/‎ĥi, i, jo/‎je, ĵo/‎ĵi, ko/‎ka, lo/‎el, mo/‎om, no/‎en, o, po/‎pa, ro/‎ar, so/‎es, ŝo/‎eŝ, to/‎ta, u, ŭo/‎eŭ, vo/‎vi, zo/‎ze ^{(Category: eo:Latin letter names)}

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Ewe

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈkɑː/, X-SAMPA: /"kA:/

Noun

ka (plural kawo)

1. cord
2. line
3. rope
4. string

Verb

ka

1. to bite
2. to break
3. to chip
4. to rummage

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Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French cas (“case”).

Noun

ka

1. case, instance

Etymology 2

Contraction of kapab, from French capable

Verb

ka

1. (auxiliary) can, be able to

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Hawaiian

Article

ka (definite)

1. the

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Ido

Alternative forms

• (before a vowel): kad

Particle

ka

1. question particle: placed at the beginning of a question to turn it into a yes/no question

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Japanese

Romanization

ka

1. See か
2. See カ

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /kaː/, X-SAMPA: /ka:/

Noun

kā (indeclinable)

1. The name of the letter K.

Coordinate terms

• (Latin’s names for the letters of its own alphabet): ā (A), bē (B), cē (C), dē (D), ē (E), ef (F), gē (G), hā (H), ī (I), kā (K), el (L), em (M), en (N), ō (O), pē (P), kū (Q), er (R), es (S), tē (T), ū (V), ix / īx / ex (X), ȳ (Y), zēta (Z)

References

• Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part III: “Summary of the Ancient Evidence”, page 32
  Clearly there is no question or doubt about the names of the vowels A, E, I, O, U. They are simply long A, long E, etc. (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū). Nor is there any uncertainty with respect to the six mutes B, C, D, G, P, T. Their names are bē, cē, dē, gē, pē, tē (each with a long E). Or about H, K, and Q: they are hā, kā, kū — each, again, with a long vowel sound.

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Latvian

Pronoun

ka

1. that

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Lojban

Cmavo

ka (rafsi kam)

1. (property abstractor) Indicates the quality or property of the following clause; -ness, -ty, -hood.

   simlu le ka rarna

   It seems to be natural (lit. seems the naturalness).

   la meiris. jinvi le du'u le ka bunre cu melbi

   Mary thinks that the color brown (lit. brownness) is beautiful.

   le ka titla cu vrusi lo sakta

   Sweetness is a flavor of sugar.

Usage notes

• This is an abstractor which applied to a selbri returns a sumti which describes the quality of that selbri. For example, for the selbri blanu (“blue”), ka blanu would mean "blueness".
• The elidable terminator for a phrase begun with ka is kei.
  • Use kei only if it has an effect on the parse structure and that effect is desirable; otherwise kei can be elided.

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Mandarin

Romanization

ka

1. Nonstandard spelling of kā.
2. Nonstandard spelling of kǎ.
3. Nonstandard spelling of kà.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Mapudungun

Adverb

ka (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. too; also

Synonyms

• kafey

Conjunction

ka (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. and

Determiner

ka (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. another; not the same

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Min Nan

Noun

ka (POJ, traditional 家, simplified 家)

1. family, household

ka (POJ, traditional 鸠, simplified 鳩)

1. turtle dove; Turtur orientalis

ka (POJ, traditional 铰, simplified 鉸)

1. scissors

Verb

ka (POJ, traditional 加, simplified 加)

1. to raise; to increase; to add; plus

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Norwegian

Pronoun

ka

1. (dialectal) what (interrogative pronoun); compare to Nynorsk kva

   Ka e da du gjere på?

   What are you doing?

Synonyms

• hva (Bokmål)
• kva (Nynorsk)

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Rapa Nui

Interjection

ka

1. exclamation suggesting a judgment on external events

Usage notes

For a personal reaction, consider using ko.

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Serbo-Croatian

Preposition

ka (Cyrillic spelling ка)

1. to
2. toward

Synonyms

• k

Adverb

ka

1. (Chakavian) as, like

Synonyms

• kao

Conjunction

ka

1. (Chakavian) as, like

Synonyms

• kao

Pronoun

ka

1. (Chakavian, Kajkavian, interrogative) which (feminine)
2. (Chakavian, Kajkavian, relative) which, that, who (feminine)
3. (Chakavian, Kajkavian, indefinite) some (feminine)

Synonyms

• koja

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Somali

Preposition

ka

1. from
2. away from
3. out of
4. about, concerning

Usage notes

• In Somali, prepositions fall before the verb and not before the noun they modify:

  ka imow -- to come from

  ka keen -- to bring s.o from

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Spanish

Noun

ka f (plural kas)

1. Name of the letter k.

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Tagalog

Pronoun

ka

1. you (second person singular)

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Tuvaluan

Particle

ka

1. future tense marker, inserted immediately before the relevant verb

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Volapük

Conjunction

ka

1. than (used for comparisons)