pataka

From Maori pātaka.

pataka (plural pataka or patakas)

1. (New Zealand) A Maori storehouse for food, typically raised above the ground. [from 19th c.]
   • 1972, James K. Baxter, ‘Autumn Testament’, Selected Poems, Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023, p. 281:

     The brown grass that Barry cut for us / With the new sickle, is lying in heaps / Between the house and the door of the pataka / Where we stuck our mattresses.

Borrowed from Hindi पटाका (paṭākā), पटाखा (paṭākhā).

• phataka, patakha

pataka (plural patakas)

1. (India) A firecracker; a small paper packet of coloured potash and pieces of kankar, exploding when thrown against a hard surface.

• IPA^(key): [paˈtaka]
• Hyphenation: pa‧ta‧ka

From Javanese ꦥꦠꦏ (pataka), from Old Javanese patāka (“flag, pennon, banner, sign, emblem”), from Sanskrit पताका (patākā, “banner, flag”).

pataka (plural pataka-pataka)

1. guidon: pennant, banner

   Synonyms: bendera, panji

2. colors

From Sundanese [Term?]. Compare to Old Javanese pataka (“a part of the roof”) and Sanskrit पाटक (pāṭaka, “shore, long span”).

pataka (plural pataka-pataka)

1. (dialectal) dome of mosque (West Java)

• “pataka” 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.

pataka

1. romanization of ꦥꦠꦏ

From Aymara pataka.

• IPA^(key): /paˈtaka/

pataka (Raguileo spelling)

1. one hundred

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

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• IPA^(key): /pa.ta.ka/
• Rhymes: -ka
• Homophones: pataka, pātaka, patāka
• Hyphenation: pa‧ta‧ka

pataka

1. a part of the roof; ridge

• "pataka" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

pȃtākā (Cyrillic spelling па̑та̄ка̄)

1. genitive plural of patak