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

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’). 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, retrieved 16 January 2022, 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
• Westrobothnian: kaku, kǫku
• 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.

kaka

1. cock, rooster

   Synonym: kaka fowru

• kaka fowru

Borrowed from Portuguese caca.

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. cookie
2. (small) cake

• kaka på kaka
• pepparkaka

• tårta

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