kaa

Abbreviation of English Karakalpak.

kaa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Karakalpak.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Karakalpak terms

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaː/ [ˈkaː]
• Hyphenation: kaa

káa

1. Full form of ká

• E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 237
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

From English car.

kaa

1. car

• kee

Compare East Central German kein.

kaa

1. (Erzgebirgisch) no; not a(n); not one; not any

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[2], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 70:

kaa (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː/, [ˈkɑ̝ː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Syllabification^(key): kaa
• Hyphenation^(key): kaa

Shortened form of kanssa (“with”), cognate with Estonian -ga.

kaa

1. (colloquial or dialectal) alternative form of kanssa (“with”)

   mun kavereitten kaa ― with my friends

   munkaa ― with me

   sunkaa ― with you

   senkaa ― with her/him/it/them

Finnish numbers ^(edit)

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←  1	2	3  → [a], [b]
Cardinal: kaksi     Colloquial counting form: kaa     Ordinal: toinen     Colloquial ordinal: toka     Ordinal abbreviation: 2., 2:nen     Digit name: kakkonen     Adverbial: kahdesti     Multiplier: kaksinkertainen     Distributive: kaksittain     Collective: kahden, kaksin     Fractional: puolikas
Finnish Wikipedia article on 2

From the initial syllable of kaksi (“two”).

kaa (colloquial)

1. (counting) two

   Yy, kaa, koo, nee, vii

   One, two, three, four, five

Indeclinable. The inflected forms of kaksi are used instead.

• kaksi (“two”)

Analyzable as ka- ('to tie') + -a (verb forming suffix) This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

kaa (combining form ka-) (transitive)

1. to tie, tie with string or flexible bamboo strips
2. to put on, wear a turban
3. to build by tying (of a fence, barrier in streams)
4. to make friends

• katoma
• kachapa
• kajreta
• karaka

• Burling, R. (2003) The Language of the Modhupur Mandi (Garo) Vol. II: The Lexicon‎^[3], Bangladesh: University of Michigan, page 328

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʔa/ [ˈka.ʔa]
• Rhymes: -aʔa
• Syllabification: ka‧a

kaa (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜠ) (literary)

1. 1st person nominative pronoun: I; me

   Synonyms: ako, (literary) ho, (literary) hom

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 131

kaa

1. because (for the reason that)
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 3:2:

     Im se, “Ton we fram unu sin, kaa di die suun kom wen evn a-go ruul uova di worl iina evri wie!”

     He [John the Baptist] said: "Atone for your sins, because the day will soon come when Heaven will completely rule over the world!"

kaa

1. to eat

• The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2013, →ISBN, page 695-6

From English cannot.

kaa

1. cannot

   kaa yuuset enisaid aels — you cannot use it anywhere else

• Sebba, Mark. Contact Languages: Pidgins and Creoles. p140.

From Proto-Bantu *ìkádà.

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː/
• (Kimvita) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː/

• Audio (Kenya):

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kaa class V (plural makaa class VI)

1. coal, charcoal

   Synonym: mkaa

2. ember

From Proto-Bantu *-jìkada, extensive form of *-jìka.

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː/
• (Kimvita) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː/

• Audio (Kenya):

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-kaa (infinitive kukaa)

1. to sit
2. to stay, to live, to reside
3. (clothing) to fit

Conjugation of -kaa
Positive present -nakaa Subjunctive -kae Negative -kai Imperative singular kaa
Infinitives
Positive kukaa Negative kutokaa
Imperatives
Singular kaa Plural kaeni
Tensed forms
Habitual hukaa Positive past positive subject concord + -likaa Negative past negative subject concord + -kukaa
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nakaa) Singular Plural 1st person ninakaa/nakaa tunakaa 2nd person unakaa mnakaa 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anakaa wanakaa other classes positive subject concord + -nakaa
Negative present (negative subject concord + -kai) Singular Plural 1st person sikai hatukai 2nd person hukai hamkai 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hakai hawakai other classes negative subject concord + -kai
Positive future positive subject concord + -takaa Negative future negative subject concord + -takaa
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -kae) Singular Plural 1st person nikae tukae 2nd person ukae mkae 3rd person m-wa(I/II) akae wakae other classes positive subject concord + -kae
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sikae Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngekaa Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singekaa Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalikaa Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalikaa
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -akaa) Singular Plural 1st person nakaa twakaa 2nd person wakaa mwakaa 3rd person m-wa(I/II) akaa wakaa m-mi(III/IV) wakaa yakaa ji-ma(V/VI) lakaa yakaa ki-vi(VII/VIII) chakaa vyakaa n(IX/X) yakaa zakaa u(XI) wakaa see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwakaa pa(XVI) pakaa mu(XVIII) mwakaa
Perfect positive subject concord + -mekaa "Already" positive subject concord + -meshakaa "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jakaa "If/When" positive subject concord + -kikaa "If not" positive subject concord + -sipokaa Consecutive kakaa / positive subject concord + -kakaa Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kakae Object concord —
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + -kaa- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -kaaye -kaao m-mi(III/IV) -kaao -kaayo ji-ma(V/VI) -kaalo -kaayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kaacho -kaavyo n(IX/X) -kaayo -kaazo u(XI) -kaao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kaako pa(XVI) -kaapo mu(XVIII) -kaamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + -kaa) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yekaa -okaa m-mi(III/IV) -okaa -yokaa ji-ma(V/VI) -lokaa -yokaa ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chokaa -vyokaa n(IX/X) -yokaa -zokaa u(XI) -okaa see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kokaa pa(XVI) -pokaa mu(XVIII) -mokaa
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -kalia
  • Causative: -kalisha, -kaza
  • Passive: -kaliwa (“to be sat on”)
  • Stative: -kalika

• Nominal derivations:
  • kao
  • kikao
  • makazi (“residence”)
  • mkazi (“resident”)
  • ukao

From Proto-Bantu *nkádá.

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː/
• (Kimvita) IPA^(key): /ˈkʰɑː/

• Audio (Kenya):

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kaa class IX (plural kaa class X)

1. crab

kaa

1. bull

kaa (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter K/k.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Shortened from kaaz. Compare Finnish kaa.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː/, [ˈkɑː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: kaa

kaa

1. too, likewise

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “kaa”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Possibly from Baatonum karà (“garden, fence”)

• IPA^(key): /káà/

káà

1. inner courtyard

   Synonyms: àgbàlá, ọrọ́wá, àkòdì

2. (anatomy) cavity

• káà ẹnu (“oral cavity”)
• káà imú (“nasal cavity”)

From English car.

• IPA^(key): /káà/

káà

1. car

   Synonyms: ọkọ̀, mọ́tò