kak

Borrowed from Khmer កាក់ (kak). Doublet of jiao.

kak (plural kaks)

1. A subdivision of currency, equal to one tenth of a Cambodian riel.

Borrowed from Afrikaans kak (“shit”), from Dutch kak (“shit”).

kak (uncountable)

1. (South Africa, slang) Shit.
   • 2008, Lauren Beukes, Moxyland, Jacana Media, →ISBN, page 102–103:

     ‘You a cop? You with the guy inside?’ the shoppie says, bending his knees to talk to me confidentially. ‘Cos it was legitimate, okay? Bitch started pulling down the merchandise, falling around. Dronkie. She's been in here before, causing kak. Stealing shit. And how long is your friend gonna be in there anyway?’

From Dutch kakken (verb), from Middle Dutch cacken, and kak (noun), from Middle Dutch cac.

• IPA^(key): /kak/

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kak (present kak, present participle kakkende, past participle gekak)

1. (vulgar) to shit

kak (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) shit

kak

1. absolutive plural of ka
2. inessive indefinite of ka
3. inessive singular of ka

From English cock, from Middle English cok, from Old English coc, cocc (“cock, male bird”), from Proto-Germanic *kukkaz (“cock”), probably of onomatopoeic origin.

kak

1. to prepare a firearm for firing
2. (colloquial) to reach inside one's pants to adjust the penis especially during an unwanted erection

kak

1. the sound of a cocking firearm

• IPA^(key): /kɑk/

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• Hyphenation: kak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

From Middle Dutch cac, deverbal from cacken; see kakken.

kak m (uncountable, diminutive kakje n)

1. (vulgar) shit
2. (vulgar, informal) arrogance

• (shit): poep

• kakker
• kakkerig
• kakmadam
• kouwe kak

• Berbice Creole Dutch: kaka
• Negerhollands: kaka, koka

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kak

1. first-person singular present indicative of kakken
2. imperative of kakken

From Proto-Finnic *kakku, borrowed either from Proto-Norse [script needed] (*kakō) or Proto-Germanic *kakǭ. Cognate with Estonian kakk, Finnish kakku.

kak

1. cake

Modified from Proto-Slavic *kako.

• IPA^(key): /kak/

kak

1. how

Clipping of kakak.

• IPA^(key): /kaʔ/
• Rhymes: -kaʔ, -aʔ

kak

1. older sister
2. term of address for a female acquaintance who is older but in the same generation
3. older sibling (rare)
4. older brother (rare)

• kako
• kàko (International Standard)
• káko, kákos (Pan-Vlax)

Two etymologies have been proposed:

1. Inherited from Sanskrit काक्क (kākka), from a Dravidian word.[1][2] Compare Hindi काका (kākā).[2]
2. Possibly borrowed from Iranian.[3]

kak m (nominative plural kaka)

1. uncle

• Marcel Courthiade (2009), “o kak, -es m. -a, -en = o kàk/o, -os m. -e, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (in Hungarian; English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 184
• Yūsuke Sumi (2018), “kak”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, OCLC 1267332830, page 22

kak (Cyrillic spelling как)

1. (Kajkavian) how
2. (Kajkavian) as, like
3. (colloquial, Croatia) Informal form of kako.

kak

1. (Kajkavian) as, like
2. (colloquial, Croatia) Informal form of kako.

• (as, like): kao, poput

kak

1. second-person singular imperative of kakmak

kak (nominative plural kaks)

1. cocoa

kak

1. Obsolete spelling of kʼáakʼ