kama

• (US) enPR: kämə, IPA^(key): /kɑmə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə

From Japanese 鎌 (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

kama (plural kama or kamas)

1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

• Kama (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Sanskrit काम (kā́ma).

kama (uncountable)

1. (India) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
   • 1958, V. Raghavan Chapter XII: Kāma, The Third End of Man, Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary (editors), Sources of Indian Tradition, Volume 2, page 258,

     The place of kāma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).

   • 2006, Indian Erotology, article in Alan Soble (editor), Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493,

     Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and kāma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).

• kama rupa
• Kama Sutra

• preman

• Maka, maka

kama

1. room (part of a building)

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

Borrowed from Spanish cama.

• Hyphenation: ka‧ma
• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/

kama

1. bed

   Synonyms: katre, higdaan

Borrowed from Portuguese cama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.má/

kamá class 9 (plural makamá class 6)

1. bed

• bedi

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma/

-kama (infinitive kukáma)

1. to milk

• IPA^(key): [ˈkama]

kama

1. (dialect, Moravia) which way, which direction

   Synonym: (standard Czech) kudy

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kama (genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. kama (traditional Estonian, Finnish and Russian finely milled flour mixture, consisting of roasted barley, rye, oat and pea flour)

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kama (genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. (colloquial) stuff, things

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kama

1. (colloquial) Indicates indifference, not caring.

   Kas sooviksite õunad või apelsinid? Mu kaks kama.

   Do you want apples or oranges? I don't care either way

• kama in Sõnaveeb

Akin to kampe, kampsut.[1] According to SSA, ultimately of onomatopoeic origin;[2] possibly related to dialectal kamahtaa (“to thump, to thud”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmɑ/, [ˈkɑmɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧ma

kama

1. (colloquial, usually in the plural) stuff (miscellaneous items or objects; personal effects)

   Mitä ovat kaikki nuo kamat makuuhuoneesi lattialla?

   What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?

2. (slang, in the singular only) product (illegal drugs)

• (stuff): tavara, roju, rihkama

• arvokama
• lällärikama
• pintakama

kama

1. (transitive) to burn

• soa (intransitive)

From Sanskrit काम (kāma, “love”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *káHmas (“desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂-mo-s, from *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kama

1. love, especially sexual love or sensuality.
2. personification of love or desire as deity.

• “kama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

kama

1. (Banawá) to come

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

kama

1. Rōmaji transcription of かま

From Portuguese cama.

kama

1. bed

Borrowed from Hokkien 柑仔 (kam-á, “tangerine”).

kama

1. orange; tangerine

kāmā

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Lele kāmā [Gowers], […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38

kama

1. breastplate

From Spanish cama (“bed”).

kama

1. bed, cot

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

• IPA^(key): /ˈkãma/

kama

1. breast

kama

1. human
2. man
3. person

kama

1. second-person singular imperative active of kamati (“to walk”)

From Portuguese cama and Spanish cama and Kabuverdianu kama.

kama

1. bed

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

-káma (infinitive gukáma, perfective -kámye)

1. to milk

• umukamyi

From Japanese 鎌 (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kȁma f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ма)

1. kama

From Ottoman Turkish قامه‎ (kama).

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kȁma f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ма)

1. a kind of dagger

From Sanskrit काम (kā́ma).

• IPA^(key): /kâːma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kȃma m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑ма)

1. (Hinduism) one of the four main goals of the material existence

• “kama” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “kama” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• “kama” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

-kámá (infinitive kukámá)

1. to milk

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Borrowed from Arabic كَمَا‎ (kamā).

kama

1. as

   Kama ulivyosema...

   As you said...

   Synonym: mithili

2. if

   Synonym: ikiwa

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

-kama (infinitive kukama)

1. to milk

Borrowed from Spanish cama.

• Hyphenation: ka‧ma
• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/, [ˈka.mɐ]

kama

1. bed

   Synonyms: higaan, katre

From Ottoman Turkish قامه‎ (kama).

kama (definite accusative kamayı, plural kamalar)

1. wedge
2. dagger

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-kama^?

1. to brush hair

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