kape

See also: kapë, kápé, kåpe, капе, and ka-pé

English

Verb

kape (third-person singular simple present kapes, present participle kaping, simple past and past participle kapt)

  1. (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of keep.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Noun

kape

  1. plural of kaap

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish café.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ka‧pe
  • IPA(key): /kaˈpe/ [kaˈpe]

Noun

kapé

  1. coffee

Derived terms

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish café.

Noun

kape

  1. coffee

Dutch

Verb

kape

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of kapen

Hiligaynon

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish café.

Noun

kapé

  1. coffee

Ibaloi

Noun

kape

  1. coffee

Kankanaey

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaˈpe/ [k̠ʌˈpe]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: ka‧pe

Noun

kapé

  1. alternative spelling of kapi

Kayapa Kallahan

Noun

kape

  1. coffee

Lithuanian

Pronunciation 1

  • IPA(key): /kɐˈpʲɛ/

Noun

kapè

  1. locative singular of kapas

Pronunciation 2

  • IPA(key): /ˈkǎːpʲɛ/

Noun

kãpe

  1. vocative singular of kapas

Maori

Etymology

Cognate of Samoan ʻape “to pluck out” and ʻapeʻape “to peel the skin or a boil”, Tongan kapeʻi “to pull away a splinter, to uncover a lid”;[1][2] related to kapi “to close”, Tahitian ʻapi “to fold”, plus Tongan kofi “tongs” and Samoan iʻofi “ibid.” – altogether from Proto-Polynesian *kapi “to hold firmly between” from Proto-Oceanic *kapit “to hold stones or lid of an earth oven” ultimately Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qapit.[3] Likely also doublet of pīnohi, see there for details.

Sense of crescent and eyebrow from its singular bent shape.

Noun

kape

  1. tongs
    Synonym: pīnohi
  2. any wooden kitchen tool (spoon, stirrer etc)
  3. crescent
  4. eyebrow
    Synonym: tukemata

Verb

kape

  1. to pluck or pick out (items from an earth oven with sticks etc)
  2. to set aside something

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 125
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kape.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, pages 148-9

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “kape”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 113
  • kape” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Q'eqchi

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish café.

Noun

kape

  1. coffee

Further reading

  • Ch'ina tusleb' aatin q'eqchi'-kaxlan aatin ut kaxlan aatin-q'eqchi' (Guatemala, 1998) [2]

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

kape (Cyrillic spelling капе)

  1. inflection of kapa (cap):
    1. genitive singular
    2. nominative/vocative/accusative plural

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish café, from Italian caffè, from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa, coffee). Compare Tausug kahawa.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /kaˈpe/ [kɐˈpɛ]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Syllabification: ka‧pe

Noun

kapé (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜉᜒ)

  1. coffee (beverage)
  2. (botany) coffee (plant, beans)
  3. coffee; brown (color/colour)
    Synonyms: kayumanggi, kulay-kape
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Derived terms

  • butil ng kape
  • kapeng barako
  • kapihan
  • magkakape
  • magkape
  • pekaps

Descendants

  • Hokkien: 咖啡 (ka-pé)

References

  • kape”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Waray-Waray

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish café.

Noun

kapé

  1. coffee