anka

anka

1. Rōmaji transcription of あんか

From Portuguese anca.

anka

1. hip (upper part of the leg)

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ankas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂onk-, from *h₂enk-. Cognate with Lithuanian ánka (“loop, ring”), Proto-Slavic *ǫkotь, Ancient Greek ὄγκος (ónkos), Latin uncus, Sanskrit अङ्क (aṅká).

añka f (4th declension)

1. rope used to fasten a sail to a mast

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “anka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 56

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ankas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ónkos.

ánka f (plural ánkos) stress pattern 1

1. (dialectal) loop, ring

   Synonyms: kilpa, grandis, ąsa

• “anka”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “anka”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 56

anka

1. eagle
2. (Cuzco) bird of prey

   Synonym: aqchi

-ânka (infinitive kwânka, perfective -ânse)

1. (Kirundi) hate, dislike
2. (Kirundi) reject, refuse

• -anga (Rwanda)

• umwansi (“enemy”)

From earlier Old Swedish and-kona (“duck-woman”); see and (“wild duck”) and kona (“woman”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈaŋˌka/

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anka c

1. a domesticated duck

   Ankan säger kvack

   The duck says quack

   Ankan vaggade iväg

   The duck waddled away

2. synonym of tidningsanka

• Ankeborg (“Duckburg”)
• Kalle Anka (“Donald Duck”)
• tidningsanka

• → Finnish: ankka

• and (wild duck)
• kvack
• kvacka
• vagga (“waddle”)

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

• kana

From English anchor.

anka

1. anchor

anka

1. to anchor