tikka

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɪk.ə/, /tiː.kə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkə or Rhymes: -iːkə

Borrowed from Hindustani टिक्का (ṭikkā, “piece”) / ٹِکّہ (ṭikka), ultimately from Classical Persian تکه (tikka).

tikka (countable and uncountable, plural tikkas)

1. A marinade made from various aromatic spices usually with a yoghurt base; often used in Indian cuisine prior to grilling in a tandoor.

• tikka masala

• tandoori

tikka (plural tikkas)

1. Alternative form of tilak (“Hindu caste mark on forehead”).

• ikkat

From Proto-Finnic *tikka, probably of recent imitative origin. Related to Estonian tikk, Ingrian tikka, Livvi tikku, Veps tik and Votic tikkõ. The sense dart is likely by analogy with the sharp, pointed beak of a woodpecker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtikːɑ/, [ˈt̪ikːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ikːɑ
• Syllabification^(key): tik‧ka
• Hyphenation^(key): tik‧ka

tikka

1. woodpecker (bird in the family Picidae)
2. dart (sharp-pointed missile used in the games of darts and tikanheitto)

• (bird of the family Picidae): in addition to all birds ending in -tikka: afrikantikkanen, käenpiika, palokärki, poimija, tikkanen, tulikärki, tulitöyhtö, töyhtöpoimija

• “tikka”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

• Kitka, kakit, katki, kikat, kitka, takki

From Proto-Finnic *tikka. Cognates include Finnish tikka and Estonian tikk.

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈtikːɑ/, [ˈtʲikː]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈtikːɑ/, [ˈtikːɑ]
• Rhymes: -ikː, -ikːɑ
• Hyphenation: tik‧ka

tikka

1. woodpecker (bird of the genus Picus)

• Fedor Tumansky (1790) “тикка”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 683
• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎^[2], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 59
• Ruben E. Nirvi (1971) Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 585

From Proto-Finnic *tikka. Cognates include Finnish tikka and Estonian tikk.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʲikːɑ/
• Hyphenation: tik‧ka

tikka (genitive tikan, partitive tikkua)

1. woodpecker

• (North Karelian) kärki, (South Karelian) tikku

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “t'ikka”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN
• P. M. Zaykov et al. (2015) “дятел”, in Venäjä-Viena Šanakirja [Russian-Viena Karelian Dictionary], →ISBN

Probably inherited from dialectal Arabic تَكّة (takka, “one, piece, morsel, bit, tad”), from Persian تکه (tekke), provided that the borrowing into Arabic happened early enough. Otherwise an independent onomatopoeia could not be ruled out; compare English tick (“checkmark; short moment”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪk.ka/

tikka f (plural tikek, paucal tikkiet)

1. point, dot, spot
2. (often in negation) a bit, a little

   Ma nafdahx tikka. ― I don’t trust him one bit.

• tikket

tikka

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