kaka

• kākā

Borrowed from Maori kākā.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːkə/
• Homophone: carker

kaka (plural kakas)

1. Any of four taxa of birds in the genus Nestor in the parrot family confined to New Zealand and adjacent islands.

• Nestor

• Chatham Islands Kaka, Nestor sp. (extinct)
• mountain kaka
• night kaka
• Norfolk Island Kaka, Nestor productus (extinct)
• North Island Kaka, Nestor meridionalis septentrionalis
• South Island Kaka, Nestor meridionalis meridionalis

From Proto-Austronesian *kaka.

kaka

1. elder brother
2. elder sister

• 2021, Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis (阿美語中部方言辭典) (in Mandarin Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples.

From Spanish caca or from Proto-Basque *kaka.

kaka inan

1. excrement

• "kaka" in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], euskaltzaindia.eus
• “kaka” in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], euskaltzaindia.eus

Cognate with Malay kakak.

• IPA^(key): /kaka/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ka

kaka

1. older sister

• Hyphenation: ka‧ka

kaka

1. a spider; any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey
2. tar; a solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke

• (a spider): damang, tambayawan

• bahay
• tapaytapay

kaka

1. thirsty

Borrowed from English kaka, from Maori kākā.

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kaka m (plural kaka's, diminutive kakaatje n)

1. The kaka, Nestor meridionalis

• kaka on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Cognate to Finnish kakka. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

kaka (genitive kaka, partitive kakat)

1. (somewhat childish) poo

• ekskrement
• fekaal
• kaki
• pask
• roe
• sitt
• väljaheide
• julk
• äka
• ess

• kaka in Sõnaveeb

From English kaka, from Maori kākā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑkɑ/, [ˈkɑkɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑkɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧ka

kaka

1. kaka (a parrot of the genus Nestor)

In addition to kakas, also kea belongs to genus Nestor.

• papukaija

• kakka (do not confuse with)

• akka

• IPA^(key): /kàː.káː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kàː.káː]

An areal word; compare Kanuri kàgá.

kā̀kā m or f (plural kā̀kànnī, possessed form kā̀kan)

1. grandfather, grandmother

kā̀kā f (possessed form kā̀kar̃)

1. harvest season

Back-formation from kakál.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒkɒ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ka
• Rhymes: -kɒ

kaka (plural kakák)

1. (childish) excrement

   Synonym: (diminutive) kaki

• kaka in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

• kaka in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old Norse kaka

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaːka/ (

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• Rhymes: -aːka

kaka f (genitive singular köku, nominative plural kökur)

1. a cake
2. a cookie

   Hver stal kökunni úr krúsinni í gær?

   Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar last night?

• eggjakaka
• flatkaka
• formkaka
• kransakaka
• legkaka
• pönnukaka
• rjómakaka
• sandkaka
• skara eld að sinni köku, skara eld að eigin köku
• skúffukaka
• smákaka
• súkkulaðikaka

kaka

1. (Banawá) toucan

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

kaka

1. Rōmaji transcription of かか

• caca (Súlat Bacúlud, Ámung Sámson)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaka (“elder sibling of the same sex”), from Proto-Austronesian *kaka (“elder sibling”). Compare Tagalog kaka.

• Hyphenation: ka‧ka
• IPA^(key): /ˈkakəʔ/, [ˈkäː.xəʔ]

kákâ

1. older brother

• Michael L. Forman (2019) Kapampangan Dictionary‎, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 2021-06-29, page 51

From Portuguese caca.

kaka

1. feces

• shit

kaka f (4th declension)

1. (childish) poo

Unlike in English, this word is strictly countable.

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kākā, from Proto-Indo-European *kakka-.

kaka f

1. poo (childish)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaka/

kaka

1. nominative feminine singular of kaki

From French caca.

• IPA^(key): /kaka/

kaka

1. poo, excrement

   Synonyms: bezwin, exkreman, tata

kaka (medial form kaka)

1. to poo, defecate

• kaken

kaka m or f

1. definite feminine singular of kake

kaka f

1. definite singular of kake

From Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.

kaka f (genitive kǫku, plural kǫkur)

1. cake

• Icelandic: kaka
• Faroese: køka, kaka
• Norwegian Nynorsk: kake
• Old Swedish: kaka
  • Swedish: kaka
• Old Danish: kakæ
  • Danish: kage
    • → Greenlandic: kaagi
    • Norwegian Bokmål: kake
• Scanian: kâga
• Gutnish: kake
• → Middle English: cake, kake, caake, cayk
  • English: cake (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: cake
  • Yola: caake, kaake
• → Irish: cáca

From Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ.

kaka f

1. cake

• Swedish: kaka

• kaka in Knut Fredrik Söderwall, Ordbok öfver svenska medeltids-språket, del 1: A-L

From Afrikaans kak.

-káka

1. to defecate

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ka/

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• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ka‧ka

kaka

1. third-person singular present of kakać

kaka

1. Alternative form of ka

kaka

1. maternal uncle
2. father-in-law of a man

• aqu
• kisma
• kiwach
• kiwachi

From Proto-Austronesian *kaka.

kaka

1. elder sibling

From Proto-Slavic *kaka

• IPA^(key): /kǎːka/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ka

káka f (Cyrillic spelling ка́ка)

1. (uncountable, informal, often childish) poo, poop (feces)

Borrowed from Afrikaans kak.

kaka

1. to excrete, to defecate

   Synonym: nya

From English cock.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ka/

kaka

1. cock, rooster

   Synonym: kaka fowru

• kaka fowru

Borrowed from Portuguese caca.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈka/, /kːa/

kaka

1. shit, crap

• k'ka

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kaka (n class, plural kaka)

1. brother

   kaka mkwe ― brother-in-law

   kaka wa kambo ― step brother

• dada (“sister”)

Borrowed from Afrikaans kak.

-káka

1. to defecate

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Old Swedish kaka, from Old Norse kaka, from Proto-Germanic *kakǭ (“cake”), from Proto-Indo-European *gog- (“ball-shaped object”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ̂ːka/, [kɑː˧˩ka˥˩]

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kaka c

1. a cookie
2. a (small, sweetened) cake

   sockerkaka

   sponge cake

3. an (unsweetened) cake

   tekaka

   teacake

4. (computing) a cookie

• kaka på kaka
• pepparkaka
• småkaka (usually hard or crunchy)

• tårta

• kaka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kaka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kaka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaka (“elder sibling of the same sex”), from Proto-Austronesian *kaka (“elder sibling”). Compare Malay kakak.

• Hyphenation: ka‧ka
• IPA^(key): /kaˈkaʔ/, [kɐˈxaʔ]

kakâ

1. elder sibling

• Hyphenation: ka‧ka
• IPA^(key): /ˈkaka/, [ˈka.xɐ]

káka

1. respectful term of address for an uncle or aunt older than one's parent

• Robert Blust; Stephen Trussel (2010-) Austronesian Comparative Dictionary‎
• “kaka”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018

kaka (definite accusative kakany, plural kakalar)

1. father

Possibly from Proto-Oceanic *kaka (“elder sibling, older sibling”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaka, from Proto-Austronesian *kaka, though the etymology suffers from semantic problems. Compare also Muduapa kaka (“person”).

• IPA^(key): /kaka/

kaka

1. baby

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 368

kaka

1. excrement, faeces, shit

• kun

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaka, from Proto-Austronesian *kaka; cognate with Malay kakak.

kaka

1. older sibling

• IPA^(key): /kà.kà/

kàkà

1. rather than, instead of

   kàkà kí eku máà jẹ sèsé, a fi ṣe àwàdànù ― Rather than have a rat not eat beans, it will spill them away (proverb on bad consequences)

• Always followed by kí

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

kaka (present jika)

1. go, walk

From Proto-Mixtec *kákà.

kaka

1. quicklime

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 23–24

kaka

1. small