reka

From Old Norse vreka (the v had disappeared already in later Old West Norse).

reka (third person singular past indicative rak, third person plural past indicative róku, supine rikið)

1. to drive, to drift

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛːka/
• Rhymes: -ɛːka

From Old Norse vreka (the v had disappeared already in later Old West Norse), from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną.

reka (strong verb, third-person singular past indicative rak, third-person plural past indicative ráku, supine rekið)

1. to drive (forward or away)
2. to run (a farm, business, etc.)
3. to coerce, to drive (someone to do something)
4. to hammer, to hit (iron)
5. (impersonal) to cause to drift [with accusative ‘something’] (idiomatically translated as "drift" with the accusative object as the subject)

   Bátinn rak út á haf.

   The boat drifted out to sea.

From Old Norse reka.

reka f (genitive singular reku, nominative plural rekur)

1. shovel

   Synonym: skófla

From Malay reka from Sanskrit रेखा (rekhā, “outline, drawing”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈreka/ [ˈre.ka]
• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: re‧ka

reka (active mereka, passive direka)

1. to compile, arrange

   Synonyms: susun, atur

2. to design, plan

   Synonyms: rancang, rencanakan

3. to trick, invent, fabricate

   Synonyms: buat-buat, karang

4. (rare) to think, guess

   Synonyms: kira, tebak

reka

1. synonym of rekaan

• “reka” 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 Sanskrit रेखा (rekhā, “outline, drawing”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛka]
• Hyphenation: ré‧ka
• Rhymes: -a

reka (Jawi spelling ريک)

1. create, invent

   Synonym: cipta

2. arrange, measure.

   Synonyms: susun, atur, tata

3. compose

   Synonym: karang

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

From Proto-Polynesian *leka (compare Hawaiian leʻa, Tahitian ʻārearea, Tongan neka and nekaneka).^[1][2]

reka

1. nice, pleasant
2. sweet (of taste)
3. tasty

reka

1. sweetness

• parareka
• rekareka
• whakareka

• “reka” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

• reken m

reka f

1. definite feminine singular of reke

reka f

1. definite singular of reke

From Proto-Germanic *rekǭ, *rakō (“rake”), whence also Old Saxon reka, Old High German recho. Also related to Old English raca, racu.

reka f

1. shovel

• Icelandic: reka
• Norwegian: reka, reke

From earlier vreka, from Proto-Germanic *wrekaną.

reka

1. (Old West Norse) to drive

See vreka.

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “reka”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

• rijéka (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *rěka, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to flow”).

• IPA^(key): /rěːka/

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• Hyphenation: re‧ka

réka f (Cyrillic spelling ре́ка, relational adjective rȇčnī, diminutive rèčica, augmentative rèčina)

1. a river

• Rijéka

From Proto-Slavic *rěka.

• IPA^(key): /rèːka/

rẹ́ka f

1. (geography) river

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	réka
gen. sing.	réke
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	réka	réki	réke
genitive (rodȋlnik)	réke	rék	rék
dative (dajȃlnik)	réki	rékama	rékam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	réko	réki	réke
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	réki	rékah	rékah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	réko	rékama	rékami

reka

1. inflection of rek:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

• “reka”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2025

reka

1. to buy

Clipping of rekognosera. Attested since the 1960s.

reka (present rekar, preterite rekade, supine rekat, imperative reka)

1. (colloquial) reconnoiter

Clipping of rekommendera. Attested since the 1950s.

reka (present rekar, preterite rekade, supine rekat, imperative reka)

1. (colloquial, rare) recommend

• reka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• reka in Svensk ordbok (SO)

• ekar, rake

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾe.ka]

reka

1. (stative) to be apart

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ́.kà/

go rêka (perfect rekile)

1. to buy