kafa
Hausa edit
Alternative forms edit
- کَفَا (Ajami)
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kafā f (plural kafōfī, possessed form kafar̃)
- leg
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
kafā̀ (grade 1)
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse kafa (cognate with Faroese kava), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷebʰ- (“to dive, dive in”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Missing Old Norse and Germanic?
Cognate with Ancient Greek βάπτω (báptō).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
kafa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kafaði, supine kafað)
- to dive, to go so deep underwater that one can't be seen
Conjugation edit
kafa — active voice (germynd)
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að kafa | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
kafað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
kafandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég kafa | við köfum | present (nútíð) |
ég kafi | við köfum |
þú kafar | þið kafið | þú kafir | þið kafið | ||
hann, hún, það kafar | þeir, þær, þau kafa | hann, hún, það kafi | þeir, þær, þau kafi | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég kafaði | við köfuðum | past (þátíð) |
ég kafaði | við köfuðum |
þú kafaðir | þið köfuðuð | þú kafaðir | þið köfuðuð | ||
hann, hún, það kafaði | þeir, þær, þau köfuðu | hann, hún, það kafaði | þeir, þær, þau köfuðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
kafa (þú) | kafið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
kafaðu | kafiði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
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Derived terms
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Serbo-Croatian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kàfa f (Cyrillic spelling ка̀фа)
Declension edit
Tongan edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kafa
- The cordage made from the fibers of the cocoa nut husk
References edit
- A Vocabulary of the Tonga Language: Arranged in Alphabetical Order: To Which Is Annexed a List of Idiomatic Phrases, by Stephen Rabone (1845), published by Wesleyan Mission Press, Neiafu
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish قفا (kafa), from Arabic قَفًا (qafan, “back of the head; nape of the neck”). The original restricted meaning has been lost in modern Turkish.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kafa (definite accusative kafayı, plural kafalar)
- head
- Synonym: baş
- mind; mentality; intelligence
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | kafa | |
Definite accusative | kafayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | kafa | kafalar |
Definite accusative | kafayı | kafaları |
Dative | kafaya | kafalara |
Locative | kafada | kafalarda |
Ablative | kafadan | kafalardan |
Genitive | kafanın | kafaların |
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kafa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN