kaka

• kākā

Borrowed from Maori kākā.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːkə/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːkə
• 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

• “Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[2] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

Likely borrowed from Spanish caca, but might be independently prehistoric from Proto-Basque.

• IPA^(key): /kaka/ [ka.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Hyphenation: ka‧ka

kaka inan

1. excrement

• “kaka”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “kaka”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

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

   Synonyms: damang, tambayawan

2. tar; a solid residual byproduct of tobacco smoke

• bahay
• tapaytapay

kaka

1. thirsty

Borrowed from English kaka, from Maori kākā.

• Audio:

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kaka m (plural kaka's, diminutive kakaatje n)

1. kaka (Nestor meridionalis)

• kaka on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

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

Declension of kaka (ÕS type 16/pere, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kaka	kakad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	kaka
genitive			kakade
partitive		kakat	kakasid
illative		kakka kakasse	kakadesse
inessive		kakas	kakades
elative		kakast	kakadest
allative		kakale	kakadele
adessive		kakal	kakadel
ablative		kakalt	kakadelt
translative		kakaks	kakadeks
terminative		kakani	kakadeni
essive		kakana	kakadena
abessive		kakata	kakadeta
comitative		kakaga	kakadega

• ekskrement
• fekaal
• kaki
• pask
• roe
• sitt
• väljaheide
• julk
• äka
• ess

• kaka in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

From English kaka, from Maori kākā.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑkɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝kɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑkɑ
• Hyphenation^(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

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ka/, [ˈkɐ.kə]

kaka

1. to rinse

Back-formation from kakál.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒkɒ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ka
• Rhymes: -kɒ

kaka (plural kakák)

1. (childish) excrement

   Synonym: (diminutive) kaki

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	kaka	kakák
accusative	kakát	kakákat
dative	kakának	kakáknak
instrumental	kakával	kakákkal
causal-final	kakáért	kakákért
translative	kakává	kakákká
terminative	kakáig	kakákig
essive-formal	kakaként	kakákként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	kakában	kakákban
superessive	kakán	kakákon
adessive	kakánál	kakáknál
illative	kakába	kakákba
sublative	kakára	kakákra
allative	kakához	kakákhoz
elative	kakából	kakákból
delative	kakáról	kakákról
ablative	kakától	kakáktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	kakáé	kakáké
non-attributive possessive - plural	kakáéi	kakákéi

Possessive forms of kaka
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	kakám	kakáim
2nd person sing.	kakád	kakáid
3rd person sing.	kakája	kakái
1st person plural	kakánk	kakáink
2nd person plural	kakátok	kakáitok
3rd person plural	kakájuk	kakáik

• 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”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

From Old Norse kaka

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʰaːka/

• Audio:

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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

kaka

1. Romanization of ꦏꦏ

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkakəʔ/ [ˈkäː.xəʔ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ka

kákâ

1. older brother

• Michael L. Forman (2019) Kapampangan Dictionary‎^[3], University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, archived from the original on 29 June 2021, page 51

Various sources. Compare Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Jamaican Creole caca (“feces”) and Mende ka (“waste matter”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kà.ká/

kàká

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
• 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)
  • Geordie English: kyek
  • 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/

• Audio:

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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.

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈka/, [ka.ˈka]

kaka

1. elder sibling

Inherited 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ka/

kaka

1. cock, rooster

   Synonym: kakafowru

• kakafowru

Borrowed from Portuguese caca.

• IPA^(key): /kaˈka/, /kːa/

kaka

1. shit, crap

• k'ka

• Audio (Kenya):

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kaka (n class, plural kaka)

1. brother

• dada (“sister”)

• kaka mkwe (“brother-in-law”)
• kaka wa kambo (“stepbrother”)

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˥˩]

• Audio:

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kaka c

1. a cookie

   Jag vill ha en kaka

   I want a cookie

2. a (small, sweetened) cake

   sockerkaka

   sponge cake

3. an (unsweetened) cake

   tekaka

   teacake

4. (computing) a cookie

• kaka på kaka
• kaka söker maka
• pepparkaka
• småkaka (usually hard or crunchy)
• sockerkaka
• tekaka

• bakelse
• tårta

• kaka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kaka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kaka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• caca — obsolete, Spanish-based orthography

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaka (“elder sibling of the same sex”), from Proto-Austronesian *kaka (“elder sibling”). Compare Malay kakak.

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /kaˈkaʔ/ [kɐˈxaʔ] (“elder sibling”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -aʔ
  • IPA^(key): /ˈkaka/ [ˈkaː.xɐ] (“uncle, aunt (term of address)”, noun)
    • Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: ka‧ka

kakâ (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜃ)

1. elder sibling

   Synonym: (obsolete) kautod

2. (by extension, obsolete) someone older in age (even if not siblings)

   Synonym: mas matanda

   Alin ang kaka dito sa dalwa?

   Which of the two is the older one?

kaka (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜃ)

1. respectful term of address for an uncle or aunt older than one's parent

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈkaʔ/ [kɐˈxaʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧ka

kakâ (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜃ) (obsolete)

1. name of the Baybayin letter ᜃ, corresponding to "ka"

• “kaka”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 424.
• San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎^[4], La Noble Villa de Pila
  • page 128: “C) Caca (pc) anſi llamã eſtos [a nueſtra]. C .|. cacayaon .|. ᜃ . [yndi baba] at caca ang mayſuſulat diyan, no . b . ſino . C . es la [q̃ ſe a de poner] ay, Pronuncian la y [eſcriuen la] como ſuena . C . ſaluo ſi alatal . C . [ſe le a de ſeguir] .|. que entonces la pronunciã como .q. y en letra caſtellana ſe eſcriue con . cqi . como, cqipot, ycqina, cqinig, [y otros] los quales ſi ſe eſcriuieſen ſin .q. dirian, icina, cipot, cinig, y realmente ſon de la letra .c. [y con] .cq. ſe ande eſcriuir, y no de otra manera. C. en eſta letra la, ci, ce, ſuenan con cedilla aun que no la tengan, mas en la, ca, co, cu, ſino tienen cedilla, no ſuenan [con ella], y por no auer en la impreſion .C. gran de con cedilla, la pongo toda en la .Z. como, Zabullir, Zerçenar, Zierto, Zoçorbar, Zumo. Noteſe.”
  • page 350: “Hermano) Caca [(pc)] mayor de todos”
  • page 409: “Mayor) Caca [(pc)] [en edad]”
  • page 575: “Tio) Caca [(pc)] hermano mayor de ſu padre q̃ como el hermano le llama caca tambien el ſobrino.”
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kaka₂”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

Possibly related to Proto-Indo-European *kakka- (“to defecate”).

IPA^(key): /kaka/, [kʰaka]

kaka (definite accusative kakayı, plural kakalar)

1. poop

Inflection
Nominative	kaka
Definite accusative	kakayı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kaka	kakalar
Definite accusative	kakayı	kakaları
Dative	kakaya	kakalara
Locative	kakada	kakalarda
Ablative	kakadan	kakalardan
Genitive	kakanın	kakaların

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kaka”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

• IPA^(key): [kaːka]
• IPA^(key): [qaːqa]

kāka (definite accusative kākany, plural kākalar)

1. (Teke) father
2. (Yomut) paternal grandfather

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

   Synonyms: kànràn, dípò

   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)‎^[5] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 23–24

kaka

1. small