kah

See also: KAH

Estonian

Etymology

Variant of ka.

Adverb

kah

  1. (colloquial) also, too
    Kas ta on kah insener?
    Is he also an engineer?

Min Nan

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kah (POJ, traditional 甲, simplified 甲)

  1. the first of the ten heavenly stems

Etymology 2

From Dutch akker (“field”)[1]

Noun

kah (POJ, traditional 甲, simplified 甲)

  1. principal unit of land (area) measure in Taiwan, containing 2,934 坪 (ping), equivalent to 0.97 hectares,[2] roughly 2.1 acres[1]

Preposition

kah (POJ, traditional 佮, simplified 佮)

  1. with; accompanying
Synonyms
  • (Mandarin) 和 (hé)

Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

kah (POJ, traditional 較／较, simplified 较)

  1. to proofread and correct

References
  1. Andrade, Tonio (2005), “Appendix A: Weights, Measures, and Exchange Rates”, in How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, Columbia University Press, →ISBN.
  2. “Entry #1857”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
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