raku

See also: Raku and raků

English

Noun

raku

1. Alternative letter-case form of Raku.

Anagrams

• Kaur, Kura, urka, Ruka, Karu

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈraku]

Noun

raku

1. dative/vocative/locative singular of rak

Estonian

Noun

raku

1. genitive singular of rakk

Japanese

Romanization

raku

1. Rōmaji transcription of らく

Latvian

Verb

raku

1. first-person singular past indicative of rakt

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈraku/

Noun

raku

1. locative singular of rak

Māori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *kalo, from Proto-Central Pacific *kalo, from Proto-Oceanic *karut (“to scratch with fingernails, to claw at”), from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *garut, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *garut, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *garut (“rub against, scrape, scratch”). Cognates include Rapa Nui kakaro, karokaro and Tongan kalo. Doublet of karo.

Verb

raku

1. to scratch
2. to strum

Derived terms

• rakuraku
• raraku

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917), “raku”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 374
• John C. Moorfield (2011), “raku”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ku/
• Rhymes: -aku
• Syllabification: ra‧ku

Noun

raku m

1. locative/vocative singular of rak

Rapa Nui

Verb

raku

1. scratch

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

raku (Cyrillic spelling раку)

1. dative/locative singular of rak

Ternate

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾa.ku]

Verb

raku

1. (intransitive) to fold
2. (transitive) to fold

Conjugation

Conjugation of raku

		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		toraku	foraku	miraku
2nd person		noraku	niraku
3rd person	masculine	oraku	iraku yoraku (archaic)
	feminine	moraku
	neuter	iraku

References

• Rika Hayami-Allen (2001), A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh