raku

See also: Raku and raků

English

Noun

raku

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Raku.

Anagrams

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈraku]

Noun

raku

  1. dative/vocative/locative singular of rak

Estonian

Noun

raku

  1. genitive singular of rakk

Japanese

Romanization

raku

  1. Rōmaji transcription of らく

Latvian

Verb

raku

  1. first-person singular past indicative of rakt

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈraku/

Noun

raku

  1. locative singular of rak

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kalo₃ or *karut (to scratch with fingernails, to claw at) (compare with Fijian kadru)[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *garut (rub against, scrape, scratch) (compare with Malay garut (to grind against one another, to scrape) and garu “to scratch”).[2][3]

Verb

raku

  1. to scratch

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 389
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kalo.3”, 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, page 237

Further reading

  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “raku”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 374
  • raku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈra.ku/
  • Rhymes: -aku
  • Syllabification: ra‧ku

Noun

raku m

  1. locative/vocative singular of rak

Rapa Nui

Verb

raku

  1. scratch

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

raku (Cyrillic spelling раку)

  1. dative/locative singular of rak

Ternate

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɾa.ku]

Verb

raku

  1. (intransitive) to fold
  2. (transitive) to fold

Conjugation

Conjugation of raku
singular plural
inclusive exclusive
1st person toraku foraku miraku
2nd person noraku niraku
3rd
person
masculine oraku iraku
yoraku (archaic)
feminine moraku
neuter iraku

References

  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh