kak

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kak"

Languages (20)

Translingual • English

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Afrikaans • Basque • Cebuano • Dutch • Livonian • Lower Sorbian • Lower Tanana • Malay • Mizo • Mokilese • Pipil • Romani • Russenorsk • Serbo-Croatian • Turkish • Unami • Volapük • Yucatec Maya

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Translingual

Symbol

kak

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kayapa Kallahan.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kayapa Kallahan terms

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”). See also cack.

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?’

Verb

kak (third-person singular simple present kaks, present participle kakking, simple past and past participle kakked)

1. to poo

Derived terms

• kak on

Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kak/

• Audio:

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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

• IPA^(key): /kɑk/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: kak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

Etymology 1

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

Noun

kak m (uncountable, diminutive kakje n)

1. (vulgar) shit, feces

   Synonym: poep

2. (vulgar, informal) arrogance

Derived terms

• kakker
• kakkerig
• kakmadam
• kakstoel
• kouwe kak
• racekak

Descendants

• Berbice Creole Dutch: kaka
• Negerhollands: kaka, koka

Interjection

kak

1. (vulgar) shit, damn

   Synonyms: shit, kut, fuck, klote

   Kak, ik kom te laat. ― Shit, I'm running late.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kak

1. inflection of kakken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Livonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kakku, borrowed either from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*kakō) or Proto-Germanic *kakǭ. Cognate with Estonian kakk, Finnish kakku.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑk/, [ˈkɑkː]

Noun

kak

1. (flat, small) cake

Declension

Declension of kak (79)

	singular (ikšlu’g)	plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv)	kak	kakūd
genitive (genitīv)	kak	kakūd
partitive (partitīv)	kakkõ	kakīdi
dative (datīv)	kakkõn	kakūdõn
instrumental (instrumentāl)	kakkõks	kakūdõks
illative (illatīv)	kakkõ	kakīž
inessive (inesīv)	kaksõ	kakīs
elative (elatīv)	kakstõ	kakīst

References

• Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “kak”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎^[4] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Modified from Proto-Slavic *kako.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: kak

Adverb

kak

1. how

Lower Tanana

Etymology

In some way related to -ka' (“foot”). Compare Ahtna kaekʼ.

Root

kak

1. to track

Stem set

Aspect	Imperfective	Perfective	Future	Optative
Momentaneous	kax	kak	kwx	kax

References

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, page 234

Malay

Etymology

Clipping of kakak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkak/ [ˈkaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Hyphenation: kak

Noun

kak (plural kak-kak or kak²)

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)

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kak.

Verb

kak

1. (intransitive) to crack, split open

Further reading

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “kak”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

Mokilese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkak/

Verb

kak

1. (intransitive) to jump

Derived terms

• likakkak

Pipil

Etymology

Compare with Classical Nahuatl kaktli.

Noun

kak

1. sandal; footwear

   Synonym: kakti

Further reading

• Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
• Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

Romani

Alternative forms

• kako
• kàko (International Standard)
• káko, kákos (Pan-Vlax)

Etymology

Two etymologies have been proposed:

1. Inherited from Proto-Middle Indo-Aryan *𑀓𑀸𑀓𑁆𑀓 (*kākka), from Dravidian. Compare Hindi काका (kākā).
2. Possibly borrowed from Iranian. Compare Persian کاکا (“uncle”), though this itself is also from the Indo-Aryan word above.

Noun

kak m (nominative plural kaka)

1. uncle

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

Russenorsk

Alternative forms

• kakk, gak

Etymology

From Russian как (kak, “how”)

Adverb

kak

1. how, what

   Kak tvoja levom?

   How do you do?

References

• Ingvild Broch; Ernst H. Jahr (1984), Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

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

Related terms

• (as, like): kao, poput

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkak/
• Hyphenation: kak

Etymology 1

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاق (ḳaḳ), from Proto-Turkic *kak (“dry”).

Cognates

• Azerbaijani qax
• Bashkir ҡаҡ (qaq, “empty”)
• Chagatai قَاقْ (qāq)
• Crimean Tatar qaq
• Karachay-Balkar как (kak)
• Karakhanid قاقْ (qaq)
• Kipchak قاق
• Nogai как (kak)
• Tatar как (qak) qaq
• Turkmen kak
• Uyghur قاق (qaq)
• Uzbek qoq
• Western Yugur qʰaq

Noun

kak (definite accusative kakı, plural kaklar)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Dried fruits like apples, pears, apricots, peaches etc.

   Synonyms: kuru meyve, (dialectal) çir

2. (colloquial, dialectal) Dried meat.
3. (dialectal, figuratively) A skinny person.
4. (dialectal) A pool of rain water on mountains or between rocks.

Declension

Declension of kak

singular plural nominative kak kaklar definite accusative kakı kakları dative kaka kaklara locative kakta kaklarda ablative kaktan kaklardan genitive kakın kakların Possessive forms nominative singular plural 1st singular kakım kaklarım 2nd singular kakın kakların 3rd singular kakı kakları 1st plural kakımız kaklarımız 2nd plural kakınız kaklarınız 3rd plural kakları kakları definite accusative singular plural 1st singular kakımı kaklarımı 2nd singular kakını kaklarını 3rd singular kakını kaklarını 1st plural kakımızı kaklarımızı 2nd plural kakınızı kaklarınızı 3rd plural kaklarını kaklarını dative singular plural 1st singular kakıma kaklarıma 2nd singular kakına kaklarına 3rd singular kakına kaklarına 1st plural kakımıza kaklarımıza 2nd plural kakınıza kaklarınıza 3rd plural kaklarına kaklarına locative singular plural 1st singular kakımda kaklarımda 2nd singular kakında kaklarında 3rd singular kakında kaklarında 1st plural kakımızda kaklarımızda 2nd plural kakınızda kaklarınızda 3rd plural kaklarında kaklarında ablative singular plural 1st singular kakımdan kaklarımdan 2nd singular kakından kaklarından 3rd singular kakından kaklarından 1st plural kakımızdan kaklarımızdan 2nd plural kakınızdan kaklarınızdan 3rd plural kaklarından kaklarından genitive singular plural 1st singular kakımın kaklarımın 2nd singular kakının kaklarının 3rd singular kakının kaklarının 1st plural kakımızın kaklarımızın 2nd plural kakınızın kaklarınızın 3rd plural kaklarının kaklarının

Etymology 2

Imperative form of kakmak.

Verb

kak

1. second-person singular imperative of kakmak

Further reading

• “kak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kak⁷”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2340

Unami

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Algonquian [Term?], from Proto-Algic *ki·la·hka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːk/
• Rhymes: -aːk

Noun

kak anim (plural kakàk)

1. brant (type of goose)

   Synonym: menkixsu

References

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “kak”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

Volapük

Noun

kak (genitive kaka, plural kaks)

1. cocoa

Declension

Declension of kak

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kak	kaks
Genitive	kaka	kakas
Dative	kake	kakes
Accusative	kaki	kakis
Predicative1	kaku	kakus
Vocative	o kak	o kaks

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Yucatec Maya

Noun

kak

1. obsolete spelling of kʼáakʼ