English

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Etymology

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Genericized trademark of Kodak.

Noun

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kodak (plural kodaks)

  1. (dated) A camera: a device for taking still photographs.
    • 1893, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Utopia, Limited:
      To diagnose / Our modest pose / The Kodaks do their best
    • 1911 June, Jack London, chapter 17, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
      Charmian and Martin brought up the rear, armed with kodaks. We dived under the avocado trees [] and came on a spot that satisfied Martin's photographic eye.
    • 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 466:
      An American girl snapped her Kodak.
  2. (dated) A still photograph.
    • 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70:
      There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; []
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 338:
      You may consult the kodaks taken at my arrest if you are curious, Archivist.

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kodak (third-person singular simple present kodaks, present participle kodaking, simple past and past participle kodaked)

  1. (transitive, dated) To photograph.
  2. (transitive, dated) To describe or characterise briefly and vividly.

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Cebuano

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English kodak, genericized trademark from Kodak.

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  • Hyphenation: ko‧dak

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kodak

  1. a camera; a device for taking still photographs

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kodak

  1. to take a photograph
  2. to have one's photograph taken

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Mauritian Creole

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Etymology

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From Kodak.

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kodak

  1. camera

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  • Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Seychellois Creole

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Etymology

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From Kodak.

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kodak

  1. camera

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  • Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Tagalog

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English kodak, genericized trademark from Kodak.

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kodak (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇᜃ᜔) (dated)

  1. (broadly) camera (device for taking photographs)
    Synonym: kamera
  2. (strictly) small portable camera (especially from Kodak)

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References

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  • kodak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
  • Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 93

Turkish

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Etymology 1

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From Ottoman Turkish قودق (koduk),[1][2] قودق (kodak, donkey colt)[3]

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kodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)

  1. (Bulgaristan Türkleri Kocaeli, Çorum, Van, Kerkük) colt

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Possibly from Middle Turkish koduk. Several etymologies may be mixed here.

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kodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)

  1. family
  2. (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) shelter[4]
  3. (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) home[4]
  4. (Aydın) follower
  5. (Çorum) a child who is tied to his/her mother's apron strings

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  1. ^ Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  2. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قودوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1482
  3. ^ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kodak¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2704
  4. 4.0 4.1 Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kodak⁵”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2704