seka

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ka/

-seka (infinitive kuséka)

1. laugh

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -sekera
  • Causative: -seketsa
  • Negative: -saseka
  • Reduplicative: -sekaseka
  • Repetitive: -sekanso

From French sec and Italian secco, both from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. Indo-European cognates include Welsh sych, Russian сухо́й (suxój), Lithuanian sausas, Hindi सूखा (sūkhā).

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• IPA^(key): /ˈseka/
• Rhymes: -eka
• Hyphenation: se‧ka

seka (accusative singular sekan, plural sekaj, accusative plural sekajn)

1. dry
   • 1999, Anna Löwenstein, La ŝtona urbo, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Ni portis eksteren garbojn da pajlo kaj kovris nin per feloj, sub kiuj ni restis sufiĉe varmaj kaj sekaj.

     He carried out sheaves of straw and covered us with pelts, under which we stayed warm and dry enough.

• malseka

• sekeco (“dryness”)
• sekega (“very dry”)
• seketa (“slightly dry”)
• sekigi (“to dry”, transitive verb)
• sekiĝi (“to dry off”, intransitive verb)

From Portuguese seca (“drying”), secar (“to dry”), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin siccāre, from siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. Doublet of seko.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈseka/ [ˈse.ka]
• Rhymes: -eka
• Syllabification: se‧ka

séka (active menyeka, passive diseka)

1. to wipe

Borrowed from Balinese sekaa (“villagers' club, society”), from Old Javanese sakhā (“friend”), from Sanskrit सखा (sakhā), सखि (sakhi, “friend”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /səˈka/ [səˈka]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: se‧ka

sêka (plural seka-seka)

1. (dialectal) association (clarification of this definition is needed)

• “seka” 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.

seka

1. fuzzy-haired caterpillar (with either red or black hairs)

seka

1. to laugh

• IPA^(key): /ˈs̪ʲæ̌ː.kɐ/

sẽka

1. third-person singular/plural present of sekti

seka

1. to laugh

From Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną.

seka

1. to seek

• Saterland Frisian: säike
• West Frisian: sykje

seka m

1. sprinkling

• Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 472.

-séka

1. to cut

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

-seka (infinitive guseka, perfective -setse)

1. laugh, smile

From sèstra (“sister”) +‎ -ka.

• IPA^(key): /sěːka/
• Hyphenation: se‧ka

séka f (Cyrillic spelling се́ка)

1. (informal) sis (an affectionate term for a sister or female cousin)

   Synonym: séja

• → Romanian: seca (regional)

• “seka”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

-seka (infinitive kuseka)

1. laugh (at)

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

-seka (infinitive kuseka)

1. laugh

-seka^?

1. (transitive) to establish

This verb needs an inflection-table template.