kak

kak

See also: kaak, käk, kåk, kāk-, kʼakʼ, and как

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

kak (plural kaks)

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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?’

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Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kak/

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Verb

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

1. (vulgar) to shit

Noun

kak (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) shit

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Basque

Noun

kak

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

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Cebuano

Etymology

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

Verb

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

Noun

kak

1. the sound of a cocking firearm

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑk/

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• Hyphenation: kak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

Etymology 1

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

Noun

kak m (uncountable, diminutive kakje n)

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

Synonyms

• (shit): poep

Derived terms

• kakker
• kakkerig
• kakmadam
• kouwe kak

Descendants

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kak

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

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Livonian

Etymology

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

Noun

kak

1. cake

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Lower Sorbian

Etymology

Modified from Proto-Slavic *kako.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kak/

Adverb

kak

1. how

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Malay

Etymology

Clipping of kakak.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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)

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Romani

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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]

Noun

kak m (nominative plural kaka)

1. uncle

References

1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “*kākka”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 153
2. Boretzky, Norbert; Igla, Birgit (1994), “kak¹”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 132
3. Yaron Matras (2002), “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 25

Further reading

• 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

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Serbo-Croatian

Adverb

kak (Cyrillic spelling как)

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

Conjunction

kak

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

Related terms

• (as, like): kao, poput

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Turkish

Verb

kak

1. second-person singular imperative of kakmak

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Volapük

Noun

kak (nominative plural kaks)

1. cocoa

Declension

declension of kak

	singular	plural
nominative	kak	kaks
genitive	kaka	kakas
dative	kake	kakes
accusative	kaki	kakis
vocative 1	o kak!	o kaks!
predicative 2	kaku	kakus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

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Yucatec Maya

Noun

kak

1. Obsolete spelling of kʼáakʼ