nikka

• nikkah

Modification of nigger or nigga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪkə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkə
• Homophones: knicker, nicker (non-rhotic)

nikka (plural nikkas or nikkaz)

1. (slang) A bowdlerization of nigga used as a reclaimed sense of nigger.
   • 2004, Arar Han, John Y. Hsu, Asian American X

     Then there's the wigga (wannabe nigga, to fit everyone), who will probably have all that AzN PrldE junk, yet call everyone "nigga" or "nikka" trying to be black.

   What's crackin' my nikka?

From Danish nikke, from Middle Low German nicken.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnɪʰkːa/
• Rhymes: -ɪʰkːa
• Homophone: nikkað

nikka (third person singular past indicative nikkaði, third person plural past indicative nikkaðu, supine nikkað)

1. nod
2. bow

• (bow): bukka, níga

From Proto-Finnic *nikka, of onomatopoeic origin.

• IPA^(key): /ˈnikːɑ/, [ˈnikːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ikːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): nik‧ka
• Hyphenation^(key): nik‧ka

nikka

1. synonym of hikka (“hiccups”)

• nikottaa

• -kkain, kakin, kanki, kikan, nakki

Borrowed from Danish nikke.

nikka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative nikkaði, supine nikkað)

1. to make a slight movement with the head to greet someone or to point to something
2. to nod

   Synonym: kinka kolli

3. (soccer) to head, to strike a soccer ball with the head

   Hann sendi áfram á Steingrím Jóhannesson sem nikkaði boltanum með kollinum framhjá varnarmanni Fylkis[1] ― He passed to Steingrímur Jóhannesson who headed the ball past the Fylkir defender.

Clipping of harmónikka.

nikka f (genitive singular nikku, nominative plural nikkur)

1. accordion

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “nikka”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “nikka” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

nikka

1. Rōmaji transcription of にっか

• nikket

nikka

1. inflection of nikke:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

• nikke

From Middle Low German nicken.

• IPA^(key): /²nɪkːɑ/

nikka (present tense nikkar, past tense nikka, past participle nikka, passive infinitive nikkast, present participle nikkande, imperative nikka/nikk)

1. to nod (bow one's head)
2. (soccer) to head (to play the ball with one's head)

• “nikka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.