kak
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Khmer កាក់ (kak). Doublet of jiao.
Noun edit
kak (plural kaks)
- A subdivision of currency, equal to one tenth of a Cambodian riel.
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Afrikaans kak (“shit”), from Dutch kak (“shit”).
Noun edit
kak (uncountable)
- (South Africa, slang) Shit.
- 2008, Lauren Beukes, Moxyland, Jacana Media, →ISBN, pages 102–103:
- ‘You a cop? You with the guy inside?’ the shoppie says, bending his knees to talk to me confidentially. ‘Cos it was legitimate, okay? Bitch started pulling down the merchandise, falling around. Dronkie. She's been in here before, causing kak. Stealing shit. And how long is your friend gonna be in there anyway?’
Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch kakken (verb), from Middle Dutch cacken, and kak (noun), from Middle Dutch cac.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
kak (present kak, present participle kakkende, past participle gekak)
Noun edit
kak (uncountable)
Basque edit
Noun edit
kak
- absolutive plural of ka
- inessive indefinite of ka
- inessive singular of ka
Cebuano edit
Etymology edit
From English cock, from Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.
Verb edit
kak
- to prepare a firearm for firing
- (colloquial) to reach inside one's pants to adjust the penis especially during an unwanted erection
Noun edit
kak
- the sound of a cocking firearm
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch cac, deverbal from cacken; see kakken.
Noun edit
kak m (uncountable, diminutive kakje n)
Synonyms edit
- (shit): poep
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
kak
- inflection of kakken:
Livonian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Finnic *kakku, borrowed either from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*kakō) or Proto-Germanic *kakǭ. Cognate with Estonian kakk, Finnish kakku.
Noun edit
kak
Lower Sorbian edit
Etymology edit
Modified from Proto-Slavic *kako.
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
kak
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
kak
Mokilese edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
kak
- (intransitive) to jump
Derived terms edit
Romani edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Two etymologies have been proposed:
- Inherited from Sanskrit काक्क (kākka), from a Dravidian word.[1][2] Compare Hindi काका (kākā).[2]
- Possibly borrowed from Iranian.[3] Compare Persian کاکا (“uncle”), though this itself is also from the Sanskrit word above.
Noun edit
kak m (nominative plural kaka)
References edit
- ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*kākka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 153
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “kak¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 132
- ^ Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25
Further reading edit
- Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o kak, -es m. -a, -en = o kàk/o, -os m. -e, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 184
- Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “kak”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス ロマ(ジプシー)語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 22
Russenorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
kak
References edit
- Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag
Serbo-Croatian edit
Adverb edit
kak (Cyrillic spelling как)
Conjunction edit
kak
Related terms edit
Turkish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاق (ḳaḳ),[1][2] from Proto-Turkic *kak (“dry”).[3][4][5]
Noun edit
kak (definite accusative kakı, plural kaklar)
- (colloquial, dialectal) Dried fruits like apples, pears, apricots, peaches etc.
- Synonyms: kuru meyve, (dialectal) çir
- (colloquial, dialectal) Dried meat.
- (dialectal, figuratively) A skinny person.
- (dialectal) A pool of rain water on mountains or between rocks.
Declension edit
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Nominative | kak | kaklar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | kakı | kakları | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | kaka | kaklara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | kakta | kaklarda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | kaktan | kaklardan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | kakın | kakların | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Etymology 2 edit
Imperative form of kakmak.
Verb edit
kak
References edit
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قاق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1419
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قاق”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[3], Constantinople: Mihran, page 931
- ^ Starostin, Sergei, Dybo, Anna, Mudrak, Oleg (2003) “*KAk”, in Etymological dictionary of the Altaic languages (Handbuch der Orientalistik; VIII.8), Leiden, New York, Köln: E.J. Brill
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kak”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- ^ Clauson, Gerard (1972) “kak/ka:k”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 608
Further reading edit
- “kak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kak⁷”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2340
Volapük edit
Noun edit
kak (nominative plural kaks)
Declension edit
Yucatec Maya edit
Noun edit
kak