kanak

• IPA^(key): /ka.nak/

kanak (feminine kanake, masculine plural kanaks, feminine plural kanakes)

1. (relational) Kanak

From Hawaiian kanaka (“human, man”).

• IPA^(key): /kənæk/

kanak

1. a person of Native Hawaiian descent

From Malay kanak, from Proto-Malayic *anak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anak, from Proto-Austronesian *aNak.

kanak (first-person possessive kanakku, second-person possessive kanakmu, third-person possessive kanaknya)

1. child (a daughter or son)

• anak
• kanak-kanak

From Proto-Malayic *anak, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anak, from Proto-Austronesian *aNak.

• IPA^(key): /kanaʔ/
• Rhymes: -anaʔ, -naʔ, -aʔ

kanak (plural kanak-kanak, informal 1st possessive kanakku, 2nd possessive kanakmu, 3rd possessive kanaknya)

1. child (a daughter or son)
2. (formal, used in the plural) an unnamed child

• anak
• kanak-kanak

• “kanak” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• anak

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *anak, from Proto-Austronesian *aNak.

kanak

1. Alternative form of anak

From Proto-Tocharian *kenek (whence Tocharian B kenek), probably borrowed from an Iranian language. Compare Ossetian гӕн (gæn, “flax”).

kanak

1. cotton cloth

kanak

1. heel