kak

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See also: kaak, käk, kåk, kāk-, kʼakʼ, and как

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Khmer កាក់ (kak). Doublet of jiao.

Noun

kak (plural kaks)

  1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one tenth of a Cambodian riel.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Afrikaans kak (“shit”), from Dutch kak (“shit”).

Noun

kak (uncountable)

  1. (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

Etymology

From Dutch kakken (verb), from Middle Dutch cacken, and kak (noun), from Middle Dutch cac.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kak/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

kak (present kak, present participle kakkende, past participle gekak)

  1. (vulgar) to shit

Noun

kak (uncountable)

  1. (vulgar) shit

Basque

Noun

kak

  1. absolutive plural of ka
  2. inessive indefinite of ka
  3. inessive singular of ka

Cebuano

Etymology

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

kak

  1. to prepare a firearm for firing
  2. (colloquial) to reach inside one's pants to adjust the penis especially during an unwanted erection

Noun

kak

  1. the sound of a cocking firearm

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch cac, deverbal from cacken; see kakken.

Noun

kak m (uncountable, diminutive kakje n)

  1. (vulgar) shit
  2. (vulgar, informal) arrogance
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: kaka
  • Negerhollands: kaka, koka

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kak

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of kakken
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of kakken

Livonian

Etymology

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Noun

kak

  1. cake

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Modified from Proto-Slavic *kako.

Pronunciation

Adverb

kak

  1. how

Malay

Etymology

Clipping of kakak.

Pronunciation

Noun

kak

  1. older sister
  2. term of address for a female acquaintance who is older but in the same generation
  3. older sibling (rare)
  4. older brother (rare)

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Two etymologies have been proposed:

  1. Inherited from Sanskrit काक्क (kākka), from a Dravidian word.[1][2] Compare Hindi काका (kākā).[2]
  2. Possibly borrowed from Iranian.[3]

Noun

kak m (nominative plural kaka)

  1. uncle

References

  1. ^ Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “*kākka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 153
  2. ↑ 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
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Further reading

  • 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] (overall work 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

Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

kak (Cyrillic spelling как)

  1. (Kajkavian) how
  2. (Kajkavian) as, like
  3. (colloquial, Croatia) Informal form of kako.

Conjunction

kak

  1. (Kajkavian) as, like
  2. (colloquial, Croatia) Informal form of kako.

Turkish

Verb

kak

  1. second-person singular imperative of kakmak

Volapük

Noun

kak (nominative plural kaks)

  1. cocoa

Declension

declension of kak
singular plural
nominative kak kaks
genitive kaka kakas
dative kake kakes
accusative kaki kakis
vocative 1 o kak! o kaks!
predicative 2 kaku kakus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Yucatec Maya

Noun

kak

  1. Obsolete spelling of kʼáakʼ.
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