kaak

• ka'k, kaʻk (stricter transliterations)
• ka'ak (nonstandard)

From Arabic كعك (“biscuit, cookie”). Likely a distant cognate with cake.

• IPA^(key): /kɑːk/

kaak (uncountable)

1. Any of a variety of Middle Eastern biscuits and baked goods, usually sweet.

kaak

1. crow (any bird of the genus Corvus)

• IPA^(key): /kaːk/

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• Hyphenation: kaak
• Rhymes: -aːk

From Proto-Germanic *kekǭ, *kēkǭ, *kakǭ, *kaukǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”).

kaak m or f (plural kaken, diminutive kaakje n)

1. jaw

   De kaakchirurg onderzocht zijn kaak en constateerde een kleine scheur. ― The jaw surgeon examined his jaw and found a small crack.

2. cheek, cone

   Ze at een ijsje en voelde de kou op haar kaakjes. ― She ate an ice cream and felt the cold on her cheeks.

3. gill

   De vis had prachtige rode kaken ― The fish had beautiful red gills.

• Negerhollands: kaak, kak, kaek
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: kak (dated)

From Middle Dutch kaeck (“scaffold”), of obscure origin with no clues outside of Germanic; the non-Indo-European structure of a potential reconstruction *gVg- (two voiced consonants) may indicate a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European substrate language. German kak is borrowed from Low German.

kaak m or f (plural kaken, diminutive kaakje n)

2. pillory

• aan de kaak stellen

Borrowed from English cake. Doublet of cake.

kaak m or f (plural kaken, diminutive kaakje n)

1. ship biscuit

• The diminutive form kaakje is far more common and has a separate, more specific meaning of a (sweet) biscuit eaten alongside coffee or tea.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kaak

1. inflection of kaken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

From Proto-Eskimo *kaɣǝ-. Cognate with Inupiaq kauk (“walrus skin for food”).

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /kaak/, [kəːk]

kaak (plural kaat)

1. walrus skin