kaa

kaa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Karakalpak.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaː/ [ˈkaː]
• Hyphenation: kaa

káa

1. Full form of ká

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 237
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From English car.

kaa

1. car

• kee

Compare East Central German kein.

kaa

1. (Erzgebirgisch) no; not a(n); not one; not any

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[2], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70:

kaa (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː/, [ˈkɑ̝ː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation^(key): kaa

Shortened form of kanssa (“with”), cognate with Estonian -ga.

kaa

1. (colloquial or dialectal) Alternative form of kanssa (“with”)

   mun kavereitten kaa ― with my friends

   munkaa ― with me

   sunkaa ― with you

   senkaa ― with her/him/it/them

From the initial syllable of kaksi (“two”).

kaa (colloquial)

1. (counting) two

   Yy, kaa, koo, nee, vii

   One, two, three, four, five

Indeclinable. The inflected forms of kaksi are used instead.

• kaksi (“two”)

Analyzable as ka- ('to tie') + -a (verb forming suffix) This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

kaa (combining form ka-) (transitive)

1. to tie, tie with string or flexible bamboo strips
2. to put on, wear a turban
3. to build by tying (of a fence, barrier in streams)
4. to make friends

• katoma
• kachapa
• kajreta
• karaka

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎^[3], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 328

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʔa/ [ˈka.ʔa]
• Rhymes: -aʔa
• Syllabification: ka‧a

kaa (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜠ) (literary)

1. 1st person nominative pronoun: I; me

   Synonyms: ako, (literary) ho, (literary) hom

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 131

kaa

1. because (for the reason that)
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 3:2:

     Im se, “Ton we fram unu sin, kaa di die suun kom wen evn a-go ruul uova di worl iina evri wie!”

     He [John the Baptist] said: "Atone for your sins, because the day will soon come when Heaven will completely rule over the world!"

kaa

1. to eat

• The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, →ISBN, page 695-6

From English cannot.

kaa

1. cannot

   kaa yuuset enisaid aels — you cannot use it anywhere else

• Sebba, Mark. Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles. p140.

From Proto-Bantu *ìkádà.

• IPA^(key): /kɑː/

• Audio (Kenya):

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kaa (ma class, plural makaa)

1. coal, charcoal

   Synonym: mkaa

2. ember

From Proto-Bantu *-jìkada, extensive form of *-jìka.

• IPA^(key): /kɑː/

• Audio (Kenya):

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-kaa (infinitive kukaa)

1. to sit
2. to stay, to live
3. (clothing) to fit

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -kalia
  • Causative: -kaza, -kalisha
  • Passive: -kaliwa (“to be sat on”)
  • Stative: -kalika

• Nominal derivations:
  • kao
  • kikao
  • ukao

From Proto-Bantu *nkádá.

• IPA^(key): /kʰɑː/ (in dialects with phonemic aspiration)
• IPA^(key): /kɑː/ (in other dialects)

• Audio (Kenya):

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kaa (n class, plural kaa)

1. crab

kaa

1. bull

kaa (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Shortened from kaaz. Compare Finnish kaa.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː/, [ˈkɑː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: kaa

kaa

1. too, likewise

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “kaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

 

Possibly from Baatonum karà (“garden, fence”)

• IPA^(key): /káà/

káà

1. inner courtyard

   Synonyms: àgbàlá, ọrọ́wá, àkòdì

2. (anatomy) cavity

• káà ẹnu (“oral cavity”)
• káà imú (“nasal cavity”)

 

From English car.

• IPA^(key): /káà/

káà

1. car

   Synonyms: ọkọ̀, mọ́tò