kayak
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Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.
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kayak (plural kayaks)
- A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck
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kayak (third-person singular simple present kayaks, present participle kayaking, simple past and past participle kayaked)
- (intransitive) To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.
- Kayaking is an Olympic sport.
- (transitive) To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.
- On a dare, he kayaked the Harlem River in New York from Hell's Gate to Spyten Duyvil.
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From English kayak, borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ.
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- Hyphenation: ka‧yak
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kayak
- a kayak
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kayak
- to ride a kayak
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kayak
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From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”).
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kayak m (plural kayaks)
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- “kayak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology 1 edit
From Betawi kayak, from Javanese ꦏꦪ (kaya, “like, such as”), from Old Javanese kaya (“like, as, as if, it looks as if”), from Pali काय (kāya), from Sanskrit क (ka, “similarity (suffix)”).
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kayak
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From Dutch kajak, from English kayak, from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ.
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kayak (first-person possessive kayakku, second-person possessive kayakmu, third-person possessive kayaknya)
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- “kayak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
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From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”).
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kayak m (invariable)
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kayak m (plural kayaks)
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- Rhymes: -ak
- Syllabification: ka‧yak
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kayak m (plural kayaks)
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- “kayak”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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Audio (file) - Hyphenation: ka‧yak
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kayak (definite accusative kayağı, plural kayaklar)
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kayak (nominative plural kayaks)