kafa
Hausa
editAlternative forms
edit- کَفَا (“Ajami”)
Etymology 1
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkafā f (plural kafōfī, possessed form kafar̃)
Etymology 2
editPronunciation
editVerb
editkafā̀ (grade 1)
Icelandic
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editVerb
editkafa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kafaði, supine kafað)
- to dive, to go so deep underwater that one can't be seen
Conjugation
editkafa — 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. |
Derived terms
editDerived terms
See also
editSerbo-Croatian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkàfa f (Cyrillic spelling ка̀фа)
Declension
editTongan
editPronunciation
editNoun
editkafa
- 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
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editkafa (definite accusative kafayı, plural kafalar)
- head
- Synonym: baş
- mind; mentality; intelligence
Declension
editInflection | ||
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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
editReferences
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
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