seka

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ka/

-seka (infinitive kuséka)

1. laugh

From French sec and Italian secco, both from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. Indo-European cognates include Welsh sych, Russian сухо́й (suxój), Lithuanian sausas, Hindi सूखा (sūkhā).

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• IPA^(key): [ˈseka]
• Rhymes: -eka
• Hyphenation: se‧ka

seka (accusative singular sekan, plural sekaj, accusative plural sekajn)

1. dry
   • 1999, Anna Löwenstein, La ŝtona urbo, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, →ISBN, OCLC 46863861:

     Ni portis eksteren garbojn da pajlo kaj kovris nin per feloj, sub kiuj ni restis sufiĉe varmaj kaj sekaj.

     He carried out sheaves of straw and covered us with pelts, under which we stayed warm and dry enough.

• malseka

• sekeco (“dryness”)
• sekega (“very dry”)
• seketa (“slightly dry”)
• sekigi (“to dry”, transitive verb)
• sekiĝi (“to dry off”, intransitive verb)

From Portuguese seca (“drying”), secar (“to dry”), from Old Portuguese, from Latin siccāre, present active infinitive of siccō, from siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛka/
• Hyphenation: sè‧ka
• Rhymes: -ka, -a

sèka (base-imperative seka, active menyeka, ordinary passive diseka)

1. infinitive, imperative and colloquial of menyeka (“to wipe”)

From Balinese ᬲᭂᬓᬵ (seka), ᬲᭂᬓᬳ (sekaha), ᬲᬓᬵ (saka, “villagers' club, society”), from Old Javanese sakhā (“friend”), from Sanskrit सखा (sakhā), सखि (sakhi, “friend”).

• IPA^(key): /səˈka/
• Hyphenation: sê‧ka
• Rhymes: -ka, -a

sêka (first-person possessive sekaku, second-person possessive sekamu, third-person possessive sekanya)

1. (dialect) association

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

seka

1. fuzzy-haired caterpillar (with either red or black hairs)

From Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną.

seka

1. to seek

• Saterland Frisian: säike
• West Frisian: sykje

seka m

1. sprinkling

• Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 472.

-séka

1. to cut

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

-seka (infinitive guseka, perfective -setse)

1. laugh, smile

From sèstra.

• IPA^(key): /sěːka/
• Hyphenation: se‧ka

séka f (Cyrillic spelling се́ка)

1. (informal) sis (an affectionate term for a sister or female cousin)

• → Romanian: seca (regional)

• “seka” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

-seka (infinitive kuseka)

1. laugh (at)

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

-seka (infinitive kuseka)

1. laugh

seka

1. (transitive, intransitive) To cut with blunt knife or other tool; cut gradually.
2. To work slowly, be slow, sluggish in movement; postpone, delay; is said in general about everything that goes sluggishly.

   Han gekk å seka fot óm fot.

   He walked slowly, foot by foot.

   Hon seka å spann

   She spun slowly.

   Han seka å tåggä.

   He chewed slowly.

3. To nag, early and often remind.

• sek
• sekalónnom
• sekäl

-seka^?

1. (transitive) to establish

This verb needs an inflection-table template.