kanta

Borrowed from Spanish canta, from cantar.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈta/ [kan̪ˈta]
• IPA^(key): /kanˈtaʔ/ [kan̪ˈtaʔ]
• Hyphenation: kan‧ta

kantá or kantâ (Basahan spelling ᜃᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. a song

   Synonyms: awit, kansiyon

Borrowed from Spanish canta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanta/ [ˈkan̪.t̪ɐ]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: kan‧ta

kánta (Badlit spelling ᜃᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. song

   Synonym: awit

kánta (Badlit spelling ᜃᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. to sing

   Synonym: awit

2. (slang) to fellate; to perform oral sex (on a man)

   Synonym: tsupa

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kanta.

From Proto-Finnic *kanta, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kanta. Cognates include Estonian kand, Erzya кандо (kando, “log, load”), Moksha канда (kanda), Northern Khanty ҳонт (ḥont) and Northern Mansi [script needed] (χānta).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑntɑ/, [ˈkɑ̝n̪t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑntɑ
• Syllabification^(key): kan‧ta
• Hyphenation^(key): kan‧ta

kanta

1. base (supporting component of a structure or object)

   lampun kanta ― base of a light bulb

   pilarin kanta ― base of a column

   lehden kanta ― base of a leaf

2. heel (rear part of the foot) (used especially in compounds)

   Synonym: kantapää

   kantaluu ― heel bone

3. heel (part of a sole of a shoe, especially a low one)

   Synonym: korko (“(high) heel”)

   olla kannoilla ― to heel

   karistaa kannoiltaan ― to lose (cause someone to be unable to follow or pursue any longer)

4. stem, top (slender supporting member of a fruit, berry, etc.)
5. heel (end-piece of a loaf of bread)

   Synonyms: kantapala, kannikka

6. (usually in the plural) footboard (back of the runner on a sleigh, etc.)

   Synonym: kannas

7. head (blunt end of a fastener)

   naulan kanta ― nailhead

   tasakantaruuvi ― flathead screw

8. stub, counterfoil (piece of certain paper items, designed to be torn off and kept for record)

   lipun kanta ― ticket stub

   sekin kanta ― cheque counterfoil

9. position, opinion, point of view, account, stance, stand (attitude, opinion, or set of beliefs)

   Synonyms: mielipide, näkemys

   pysyä kannassaan ― to stand one's ground

   En ota tuohon kantaa. ― I don't take a position on that.

   Olen kanssasi eri kannalla asevalvonnasta.

   I don’t agree with your stance on gun control.

10. (electronics) base (controlling terminal of a transistor)
11. (microbiology) strain (particular variety of microbe, organism etc.)
12. (biology) population (collection of a particular species living in a given area)

    Suomen hirvikanta ― moose population of Finland

13. (mathematics) base, radix (in a positional numeral system, the number of unique digits, including the digit zero, used to represent numbers)

    Synonym: kantaluku

14. (mathematics) base (number raised to the power of an exponent)

    Synonym: kantaluku

15. (geometry) base (lowest side or face)
16. (linear algebra) basis
17. (topology) base, basis
18. (linguistics) root (word from which another word is derived)
19. (linguistics, as modifier) proto- (of common ancestor, often hypothetical)

    Kaikki indoeurooppalaiset kielet polveutuvat kantaindoeuroopasta.

    All Indo-European languages are descended from Proto-Indo-European.

• (opinion): kannella (“to file a complaint, to complain”), perustella (“to argue”), kantaja (“plaintiff”)

• “kanta”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (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

• ankat, kanat, katan, takan, tanka

From Portuguese cantar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu kanta.

kanta

1. to sing

By surface analysis, kan +‎ ta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanta/ [ˈkɐn.ta]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: kan‧ta

kanta (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜨ᜴ᜦ)

1. our (inclusive)

   Synonym: kantam

kanta (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜨ᜴ᜦ)

1. ours (inclusive)

   Synonym: kantam

2. to us; of us; by us (inclusive)

   Synonym: kantam

   sa kanta ― to us (inclusive)

   sa kanta (pag) balay ― in our (inclusive) house

   kanta garamiton ― we (inclusive) are using (literally, “are used by us (inclusive).”)

Borrowed from Spanish cantar.

• IPA^(key): /kanˈta/ [kɐnˈta]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: kan‧ta

kantá (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜨ᜴ᜦ)

1. any song (other than those considered traditionally Hanunoo like ambahan or urukay)
2. singing

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 140

• IPA^(key): /kán.táː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kán.táː]

kantā f (possessed form kantar̃)

1. callus

Borrowed from English counter.

• IPA^(key): /kán.tàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [kán.tàː]

kantā̀ f (plural kantōcī, possessed form kantàr̃)

1. counter, shelf

From Spanish cantar.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkanta/ [ˈkɐn.ta]
• Hyphenation: kan‧ta

kanta (plural kankanta, Kur-itan spelling ᜃᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. song

Inherited from Malay kanta (“lens”), from Sanskrit कान्त (kānta, “stone”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkanta/ [ˈkan̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: kan‧ta

kanta (plural kanta-kanta)

1. (obsolete) lens

   Synonym: lensa

• “kanta” 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.

From Proto-Finnic *kanta. Cognates include Finnish kanta and Estonian kand.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑntɑ/, [ˈkɑnt]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑntɑ/, [ˈkɑnd̥ɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑnt, -ɑntɑ
• Hyphenation: kan‧ta

kanta

1. heel
2. poll, butt (part of an axe or scythe)

Declension of kanta (type 3/kana, nt-nn gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kanta	kannat
genitive	kannan	kantoin
partitive	kantaa	kantoja
illative	kantaa	kantoi
inessive	kannaas	kannois
elative	kannast	kannoist
allative	kannalle	kannoille
adessive	kannaal	kannoil
ablative	kannalt	kannoilt
translative	kannaks	kannoiks
essive	kantanna, kantaan	kantoinna, kantoin
exessive1)	kantant	kantoint
1) obsolete *) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka? or -kä? to the genitive.

• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 130

From Portuguese cantar.

kanta

1. to sing

Regional variants of kanta

North Karelian (Viena)	kanta
South Karelian (Tver)	kanda

From Proto-Finnic *kanta. Cognates include Finnish kanta and Veps kand.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑntɑ/
• Hyphenation: kan‧ta

kanta (genitive kannan, partitive kantua)

1. (North Karelian) heel (of a shoe)

Viena Karelian declension of kanta (type 4/kala, nt-nn gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kanta	kannat
genitive	kannan	kantojen
partitive	kantua	kantoja
illative	kantah	kantoih
inessive	kannašša	kannoissa
elative	kannašta	kannoista
adessive	kannalla	kannoilla
ablative	kannalta	kannoilta
translative	kannakši	kannoiksi
essive	kantana	kantoina
comitative	—	kannoineh
abessive	kannatta	kannoitta

Possessive forms of kanta
1st person	kantani
2nd person	kantaš
3rd person	kantah
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

• P. Zaykov, L. Rugoyeva (1999) “kanta”, in Карельско-Русский словарь (Северно-Карельские диалекты) [Karelian-Russian dictionary (North Karelian dialects)], Petrozavodsk, →ISBN

kanta

1. third-person singular present indicative of kantar

kanta

1. potato

From Proto-Finnic *kantadak.

kanta

1. carry

Borrowed from Sanskrit कान्त (kānta, “stone”).

• (Baku, Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): /ˈkanta/ [ˈkan̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -anta, -ta, -a
• Hyphenation: kan‧ta

kanta (Jawi spelling کنتا, plural kanta-kanta)

1. lens

   Synonym: lensa

• > Indonesian: kanta (inherited)

• “kanta” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Borrowed from Sicilian cantari and/or Italian cantare, from Latin cantare.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkan.ta/

kanta (imperfect jkanta, past participle kantat, verbal noun kantar)

1. to sing

   Synonym: għanna

   Inkantalek. ― I sing to you.

Inherited from Sanskrit कान्त (kānta, “desired”). Doublet of kāmita.^[1]

kanta

1. lovely
2. enjoyable
3. pleasant

kanta m

1. husband^[1]

kanta

1. past participle of kamati^[2] (only in compounds)

kanta

1. imperative active second-person singular of kantati (“to cut”)

kanta

1. imperative active second-person singular of kantati (“to spin”)

From Portuguese cantar and Spanish cantar and Kabuverdianu kanta.

kanta

1. to sing

Borrowed from Spanish canta.

kanta

1. song

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish چانطه (çanta, “leather bag, small suitcase”) (Turkish çanta), from Persian چنته.

• IPA^(key): /kǎːnta/
• Hyphenation: kan‧ta

kánta f (Cyrillic spelling ка́нта)

1. can
2. pail

   kante za smeće ― garbage pail

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

kanta (present kantar, preterite kantade, supine kantat, imperative kanta)

1. to be placed as a border, limit or rim

• kantning

• vägen till helvetet kantas av goda föresatser

• kanat, tanka

Borrowed from Spanish canta, from Latin cantāre.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kanˈta/ [kɐn̪ˈt̪a]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: kan‧ta

kantá (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. song; chant

   Synonyms: awit, awitin

2. act of singing
3. (slang) snitching; telling of the truth to the authorities

   Synonyms: sumbong, suplong

• “kanta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, R. David, San Miguel, Rachel (1993) Tagalog Slang Dictionary, Manila: De La Salle University Press, →ISBN, page 72

• katan, antak

From Proto-Finnic *kantadak, from Proto-Uralic *kanta-.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑntɑː/, [ˈkɑntɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑntɑː
• Hyphenation: kan‧ta

kanta

1. (transitive) to carry (along)
2. (transitive) to carry, bear
3. (transitive, usually atelic) to wear (clothing)
4. (transitive, usually atelic) to be pregnant (with), be expecting
5. (transitive) to litter, calve, bear, give birth to (of an animal)

Conjugation of kanta (type III-3/anta, nt-nn gradation)
Indicative
Present			Perfect
	positive	negative		positive	negative
1st singular	kannõn	en kannõ	1st singular	õõn kantõnnu	en õõ kantõnnu
2nd singular	kannõd	ed kannõ	2nd singular	õõd kantõnnu	ed õõ kantõnnu
3rd singular	kannõb	eb kannõ	3rd singular	on kantõnnu	eb õõ kantõnnu
1st plural	kannõmmõ	emmä kannõ	1st plural	õõmmõ kantõnnu	emmä õõ kantõnnu
2nd plural	kannõttõ	että kannõ	2nd plural	õõttõ kantõnnu	että õõ kantõnnu
3rd plural	kannõta	eväd kannõ	3rd plural	õlla kannõttu	eväd õõ kannõttu
impersonal	kannõta	eväd kannõ	impersonal	õlla kannõttu	eväd õõ kannõttu
Imperfect			Pluperfect
	positive	negative		positive	negative
1st singular	kannin	en kantõnnu	1st singular	õlin kantõnnu	—
2nd singular	kannid	ed kantõnnu	2nd singular	õlid kantõnnu	—
3rd singular	kanti	eb kantõnnu	3rd singular	õli kantõnnu	—
1st plural	kannimmõ	emmä kantõnnu	1st plural	õlimmõ kantõnnu	—
2nd plural	kannittõ	että kantõnnu	2nd plural	õlittõ kantõnnu	—
3rd plural	kannõtti	eväd kannõttu	3rd plural	õlti kannõttu	—
impersonal	kannõtti	eväd kannõttu	impersonal	õlti kannõttu	—
Conditional
Present			Perfect
	positive	negative		positive	negative
1st singular	kantaizin	en kantaizʹ	1st singular	õllõizin kantõnnu	en õllõizʹ kantõnnu
2nd singular	kantaizid	ed kantaizʹ	2nd singular	õllõizid kantõnnu	ed õllõizʹ kantõnnu
3rd singular	kantaizʹ	eb kantaizʹ	3rd singular	õllõizʹ kantõnnu	eb õllõizʹ kantõnnu
1st plural	kantaizimmõ	emmä kantaizʹ	1st plural	õllõizimmõ kantõnnu	emmä õllõizʹ kantõnnu
2nd plural	kantaizittõ	että kantaizʹ	2nd plural	õllõizittõ kantõnnu	että õllõizʹ kantõnnu
3rd plural	kannõttaizʹ	eväd kannõttaizʹ	3rd plural	õltaizʹ kannõttu	eväd õltaizʹ kannõttu
impersonal	kannõttaizʹ	eväd kannõttaizʹ	impersonal	õltaizʹ kannõttu	eväd õltaizʹ kannõttu
Imperative
Present
	positive	negative
1st singular	—	—
2nd singular	kannõ	elä kannõ
3rd singular	kantõgo1)	elko kantõgo1)
1st plural	—	—
2nd plural	kantõga	elka kantõga
3rd plural	kantõgod1)	—
impersonal	—	—
Nominal forms
Infinitives			Participles
				active	passive
1st		kanta	present	kantõjõ2)	—
2nd	illative	kantõma	past	kantõnnu	kannõttu
	inessive	kantõmõz	1) using la is more common 2) also used as the agent noun
	elative	kantõmõssõ
	abessive	kantõmõttõ

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