kak

kak

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Kayapa Kallahan.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kayapa Kallahan terms

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

kak (plural kaks)

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

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

kak (uncountable)

1. (South Africa, slang) Shit.
   • 2008, Lauren Beukes, Moxyland, Jacana Media, →ISBN, pages 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?’

kak (third-person singular simple present kaks, present participle kakking, simple past and past participle kakked)

1. to poo

• kak on

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

• IPA^(key): /kak/

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

1. (vulgar) to shit

kak (uncountable)

1. (vulgar) shit

kak

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

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

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

kak

1. the sound of a cocking firearm

• IPA^(key): /kɑk/

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• Hyphenation: kak
• Rhymes: -ɑk

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

kak m (uncountable, diminutive kakje n)

1. (vulgar) shit, feces

   Synonym: poep

2. (vulgar, informal) arrogance

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

kak

1. (vulgar) shit, damn

   Synonyms: shit, kut, fuck, klote

   Kak, ik kom te laat. ― Shit, I'm running late.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kak

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

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

kak

1. cake

Modified from Proto-Slavic *kako.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: kak

kak

1. how

Clipping of kakak.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkak/ [ˈkaʔ]
• Rhymes: -ak
• Hyphenation: kak

kak (plural kak-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)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkak/

kak

1. (intransitive) to jump

• likakkak

Compare with Classical Nahuatl kaktli.

kak

1. sandal; footwear

   Synonym: kakti

• Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter.
• Lara-Martínez, R., McCallister, R. Glosario cultural náwat pipil y nicarao.

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

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] Compare Persian کاکا (“uncle”), though this itself is also from the Sanskrit word above.

kak m (nominative plural kaka)

1. uncle

• 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] (overall work in Hungarian and 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, page 22

• kakk, gak

From Russian как (kak, “how”)

kak

1. how, what

   Kak tvoja levom?

   How do you do?

• Ingvild Broch, Ernst H. Jahr (1984) Russenorsk: Et pidginspråk i Norge [Russenorsk: A pidgin language in Norway], 2 edition, Oslo: Novus Forlag

kak (Cyrillic spelling как)

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

kak

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

• (as, like): kao, poput

• IPA^(key): /ˈkak/
• Hyphenation: kak

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قاق (ḳaḳ),^[1][2] from Proto-Turkic *kak (“dry”).^[3][4][5]

kak (definite accusative kakı, plural kaklar)

1. (colloquial, dialectal) Dried fruits like apples, pears, apricots, peaches etc.

   Synonyms: kuru meyve, (dialectal) çir

2. (colloquial, dialectal) Dried meat.
3. (dialectal, figuratively) A skinny person.
4. (dialectal) A pool of rain water on mountains or between rocks.

Imperative form of kakmak.

kak

1. second-person singular imperative of kakmak

• “kak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kak⁷”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2340

kak anim (plural kakàk)

1. brant (type of goose)

   Synonym: menkixsu

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “kak”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

kak (nominative plural kaks)

1. cocoa

kak

1. obsolete spelling of kʼáakʼ