kama

• (US) enPR: kämə, IPA^(key): /kɑmə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə

From Japanese 鎌 (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

kama (plural kama)

1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

• Kama (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Sanskrit काम (kā́ma).

kama (uncountable)

1. (Hinduism) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
   • 1958, V. Raghavan, “Chapter XII: Kāma, The Third End of Man”, in Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary, editors, Sources of Indian Tradition, volume 2, page 258:

     The place of kāma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).

   • 2006, “Indian Erotology”, in Alan Soble, editor, Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493:

     Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and kāma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).

• kama rupa
• Kama Sutra

• preman

• Maka, maka

kama

1. room (part of a building)

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Borrowed from Spanish cama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/ [ˈka.ma]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

káma (Basahan spelling ᜃᜋ)

1. bed

   Synonyms: katre, higdaan

Borrowed from Portuguese cama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.má/

kamá class 9 (plural makamá class 6)

1. bed

   Synonym: bedi

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma/

-kama (infinitive kukáma)

1. to milk

• IPA^(key): [ˈkama]

kama

1. (dialect, Moravia) which way, which direction

   Synonym: (standard Czech) kudy

Borrowed from dialectal Russian комы (komy) (compare standard Russian ком (kom, “lump, clod”)).

kama (genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. kama (traditional Estonian, Finnish and Russian finely milled flour mixture, consisting of roasted barley, rye, oat and pea flour)

Declension of kama (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kama	kamad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	kama
genitive			kamade
partitive		kama	kamasid
illative		kamma kamasse	kamadesse
inessive		kamas	kamades
elative		kamast	kamadest
allative		kamale	kamadele
adessive		kamal	kamadel
ablative		kamalt	kamadelt
translative		kamaks	kamadeks
terminative		kamani	kamadeni
essive		kamana	kamadena
abessive		kamata	kamadeta
comitative		kamaga	kamadega

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kama (genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. (colloquial) stuff, things

Declension of kama (ÕS type 17/elu, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kama	kamad
accusative	nom.
	gen.	kama
genitive			kamade
partitive		kama	kamasid
illative		kamma kamasse	kamadesse
inessive		kamas	kamades
elative		kamast	kamadest
allative		kamale	kamadele
adessive		kamal	kamadel
ablative		kamalt	kamadelt
translative		kamaks	kamadeks
terminative		kamani	kamadeni
essive		kamana	kamadena
abessive		kamata	kamadeta
comitative		kamaga	kamadega

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kama (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Indicates indifference, not caring.

   Kas sooviksite õunu või apelsine? Mul kama kaks.

   Do you want apples or oranges? I don't care either way.

• kama in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Akin to kampe, kampsut.^[1] According to SSA, ultimately of onomatopoeic origin;^[2] possibly related to dialectal kamahtaa (“to thump, to thud”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝mɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑmɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ka‧ma
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧ma

kama

1. (colloquial, usually in the plural) stuff (miscellaneous items or objects; personal effects)

   Mitä ovat kaikki nuo kamat makuuhuoneesi lattialla?

   What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?

2. (slang, in the singular only) product (illegal drugs)

• (stuff): tavara, roju, rihkama

• “kama”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

kama

1. (transitive) to burn

• soa (intransitive)

From Proto-Polynesian *tama (“child”).

kama

1. child

• hoʻokama (“adopt”, verb)
• hoʻokamakama (“prostitute”, verb)
• kama ʻole (“childless”, adjective)
• kamaʻāina (“native-born”)

• kama in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

From Sanskrit काम (kāma, “love”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *káHmas (“desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂-mo-s, from *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkama/ [ˈka.ma]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: ka‧ma

kama

1. (archaic) love, especially sexual love or sensuality
2. (archaic) personification of love or desire as deity

• “kama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

kama

1. (Banawá) to come

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

kama

1. Rōmaji transcription of かま

From Portuguese cama.

kama

1. bed

Borrowed from Hokkien 柑仔 (kam-á, “tangerine”).

kama

1. orange; tangerine

kama

1. to milk

kāmā

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  […] we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" [GT]:

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" [GT]: […] Lele kāmā [Gowers], […]

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38

kama

1. to milk

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kay ~ kay-maʔ, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *ŋa-y ~ *ka

• IPA^(key): [kə məə]

kama (first person)

1. I

• Samson Lotven, Sui Hnem Par, James C. Wamsley, Kelly Berkson (2019) “Hnaring Lutuv Swadesh List”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎^[4], volume 1, number 1

kama

1. breastplate

Borrowed from Spanish cama (“bed”).

kama

1. bed, cot

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

kama

1. first person dual exclusive pronoun; the two of us, but not you

kama

1. cook

• Westerlund, T. (2007). A grammatical sketch of Ngarla: A language of Western Australia. Uppsala University.

• IPA^(key): /kəmə/

kama

1. when

   Synonym: ǃûu

   Kama ng âi nǁa ng ǀoba ke âi.

   When I eat, my baby eats.

kama

1. to be unlucky

• IPA^(key): /kəmɑ/

kama

1. to lower, to set of the sun or the moon

   ǁʻûi ke kama

   The sun sets

• Sands, Bonny & Jones, Kerry & Esau, Katrina & Collins, Chris & Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Job, Sylvanus & Miller, Amanda & Steyn, Betta & Zaanen, Menno & Namaseb, Levi & Berg, Dietloff & Mantzel, Dotty & Damarah, Willem & Snyman, Claudia & Wyk, David & Brugman, Johanna & Exter, Mats & Vaalbooi, Antjie & Westhuizen, Mietjie. (2022). Nǀuuki Namagowab Afrikaans English ǂXoakiǂxanisi/Mîdi di ǂKhanis/Woordeboek/Dictionary

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kam, from Proto-Tupian *ᵑkam.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní káma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkã.ma/
• Rhymes: -ãma
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kama (possessable)

1. breast (milk-producing organ)
2. breast; chest (front of the human thorax)

   Synonym: poti'a

3. (of animals) teat; udder

• Nheengatu: kama

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kama”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 213, column 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

kama

1. human
2. man
3. person

kama

1. second-person singular imperative active of kamati (“to walk”)

From Portuguese cama and Spanish cama and Kabuverdianu kama.

kama

1. bed

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

-káma (infinitive gukáma, perfective -kámye)

1. to milk

• umukamyi

Borrowed from Japanese 鎌 (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kȁma f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ма)

1. kama

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قامه (kama).

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kȁma f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ма)

1. a kind of dagger

Borrowed from Sanskrit काम (kā́ma).

• IPA^(key): /kâːma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kȃma m inan (Cyrillic spelling ка̑ма)

1. (Hinduism) one of the four main goals of the material existence

• “kama”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “kama”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025
• “kama”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

-kámá (infinitive kukámá)

1. to milk

Other scripts
Ajami	كَمَ

• Audio (Kenya):

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Borrowed from Arabic كَمَا (kamā).

kama

1. as

   Synonym: mithili

   Kama ulivyosema. ― As you said.

2. if

   Synonym: ikiwa

kama

1. like, as
   • 18th century, Abdallah bin Ali bin Nasir, Al-Inkishafi‎^[5], stanza 14:

     نِكَمَ كِسِمَ كِسِگُ وُمْبِّ ، كِنْيِ مْتَپَاءَ مَانَ وَغُمْبِ

     Ni-kama kisima kisicho ombe, chenye mta-paa mwana wa-ng'ombe,

     It is like a shallow well where charges a young bull;

   • 1973, Mohammed S. Abdulla, Duniani kuna watu, page 3:

     […] lakini alipofika katikati, alisimama ghafla, kama mtu mwenye wasiwasi na shaka juu ya hilo linalompeleka darini kwa baba yake wakati ule.

     […] but when he reached the middle, he stopped suddenly, like a person worried and doubtful about that which had him going to his father's attic at that time.

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

-kama (infinitive kukama)

1. to milk

Conjugation of -kama
Positive present -nakama Subjunctive -kame Negative -kami Imperative singular kama
Infinitives
Positive kukama Negative kutokama
Imperatives
Singular kama Plural kameni
Tensed forms
Habitual hukama Positive past positive subject concord + -likama Negative past negative subject concord + -kukama
Positive present (positive subject concord + -nakama) Singular Plural 1st person ninakama/nakama tunakama 2nd person unakama mnakama 3rd person m-wa(I/II) anakama wanakama other classes positive subject concord + -nakama
Negative present (negative subject concord + -kami) Singular Plural 1st person sikami hatukami 2nd person hukami hamkami 3rd person m-wa(I/II) hakami hawakami other classes negative subject concord + -kami
Positive future positive subject concord + -takama Negative future negative subject concord + -takama
Positive subjunctive (positive subject concord + -kame) Singular Plural 1st person nikame tukame 2nd person ukame mkame 3rd person m-wa(I/II) akame wakame other classes positive subject concord + -kame
Negative subjunctive positive subject concord + -sikame Positive present conditional positive subject concord + -ngekama Negative present conditional positive subject concord + -singekama Positive past conditional positive subject concord + -ngalikama Negative past conditional positive subject concord + -singalikama
Gnomic (positive subject concord + -akama) Singular Plural 1st person nakama twakama 2nd person wakama mwakama 3rd person m-wa(I/II) akama wakama m-mi(III/IV) wakama yakama ji-ma(V/VI) lakama yakama ki-vi(VII/VIII) chakama vyakama n(IX/X) yakama zakama u(XI) wakama see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) kwakama pa(XVI) pakama mu(XVIII) mwakama
Perfect positive subject concord + -mekama "Already" positive subject concord + -meshakama "Not yet" negative subject concord + -jakama "If/When" positive subject concord + -kikama "If not" positive subject concord + -sipokama Consecutive kakama / positive subject concord + -kakama Consecutive subjunctive positive subject concord + -kakame
Object concord (indicative positive) Singular Plural 1st person -nikama -tukama 2nd person -kukama -wakama/-kukameni/-wakameni 3rd person m-wa(I/II) -mkama -wakama m-mi(III/IV) -ukama -ikama ji-ma(V/VI) -likama -yakama ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kikama -vikama n(IX/X) -ikama -zikama u(XI) -ukama see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kukama pa(XVI) -pakama mu(XVIII) -mukama Reflexive -jikama
Relative forms General positive (positive subject concord + (object concord) + -kama- + relative marker) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -kamaye -kamao m-mi(III/IV) -kamao -kamayo ji-ma(V/VI) -kamalo -kamayo ki-vi(VII/VIII) -kamacho -kamavyo n(IX/X) -kamayo -kamazo u(XI) -kamao see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kamako pa(XVI) -kamapo mu(XVIII) -kamamo Other forms (subject concord + tense marker + relative marker + (object concord) + -kama) Singular Plural m-wa(I/II) -yekama -okama m-mi(III/IV) -okama -yokama ji-ma(V/VI) -lokama -yokama ki-vi(VII/VIII) -chokama -vyokama n(IX/X) -yokama -zokama u(XI) -okama see n(X) or ma(VI) class ku(XV/XVII) -kokama pa(XVI) -pokama mu(XVIII) -mokama
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information.

• Verbal derivations:
  • Other formations: -kamata

Borrowed from Spanish cama, from Late Latin cama.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkama/ [ˈkaː.mɐ]
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: ka‧ma

kama (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋ)

1. bed

   Synonyms: higaan, katre

• “kama”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• amak, akma, Maka, maka-

-kama (infinitive kukama)

1. to squeeze
   1. (by extension) to milk a cow

• lukama

• Wm. Y. Turner, Tumbuka/Tonga-English and English-Tumbuka/Tonga Dictionary, 1996

From Ottoman Turkish قامه (kama).

kama (definite accusative kamayı, plural kamalar)

1. wedge
2. dagger

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

-kama^?

1. to brush hair

This verb needs an inflection-table template.