kodak
English
editEtymology
editGenericized trademark of Kodak.
Noun
editkodak (plural kodaks)
- (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.
- (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.
Verb
editkodak (third-person singular simple present kodaks, present participle kodaking, simple past and past participle kodaked)
- (transitive, dated) To photograph.
- 1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat:
- A knot of obviously American tourists were kodaking his lodge-gates.
- (transitive, dated) To describe or characterise briefly and vividly.
Quotations
edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:kodak.
Anagrams
editCebuano
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English kodak, genericized trademark from Kodak.
Pronunciation
edit- Hyphenation: ko‧dak
Noun
editkodak
- a camera; a device for taking still photographs
Verb
editkodak
- to take a photograph
- to have one's photograph taken
Quotations
edit- For quotations using this term, see Citations:kodak.
Mauritian Creole
editEtymology
editFrom Kodak.
Noun
editkodak
References
edit- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Seychellois Creole
editEtymology
editFrom Kodak.
Noun
editkodak
References
edit- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
Tagalog
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English kodak, genericized trademark from Kodak.
Pronunciation
edit- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈkodak/ [ˈkoː.d̪ɐk̚]
- Rhymes: -odak
- Syllabification: ko‧dak
Noun
editkodak (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇᜃ᜔) (dated)
- (broadly) camera (device for taking photographs)
- Synonym: kamera
- (strictly) small portable camera (especially from Kodak)
Derived terms
editReferences
editTurkish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Ottoman Turkish قودق (koduk),[1][2] قودق (kodak, “donkey colt”)[3]
Noun
editkodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)
Etymology 2
editPossibly from Middle Turkish koduk. Several etymologies may be mixed here.
Noun
editkodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)
- family
- (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) shelter[4]
- (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) home[4]
- (Aydın) follower
- (Çorum) a child who is tied to his/her mother's apron strings
References
edit- ^ Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قودوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1482
- ^ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kodak¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2704
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kodak⁵”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2704
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