kafa
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Hausa
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- کَفَا (“Ajami”)
Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kafā f (plural kafōfī, possessed form kafar̃)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]kafā̀ (grade 1)
Icelandic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse kafa (cognate with Faroese kava), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷebʰ- (“to dive, dive in”). Possibly cognate with Ancient Greek βάπτω (báptō). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Missing Germanic?
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]kafa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kafaði, supine kafað)
- to dive, to go so deep underwater that one can't be seen
Conjugation
[edit]infinitive nafnháttur | að kafa | |||||
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supine sagnbót | kafað | |||||
present participle |
kafandi | |||||
indicative |
subjunctive | |||||
present |
past |
present |
past | |||
singular | ég | kafa | kafaði | kafi | kafaði | |
þú | kafar | kafaðir | kafir | kafaðir | ||
hann, hún, það | kafar | kafaði | kafi | kafaði | ||
plural | við | köfum | köfuðum | köfum | köfuðum | |
þið | kafið | köfuðuð | kafið | köfuðuð | ||
þeir, þær, þau | kafa | köfuðu | kafi | köfuðu | ||
imperative boðháttur | ||||||
singular | þú | kafa (þú), kafaðu | ||||
plural | þið | kafið (þið), kafiði1 |
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.
Derived terms
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1. gu̯ēbh- (oder gu̯ābh-?), gu̯əbh-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 465-6
Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kàfa f (Cyrillic spelling ка̀фа)
Declension
[edit]singular | plural | |
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nominative | kafa | kafe |
genitive | kafe | kafa |
dative | kafi | kafama |
accusative | kafu | kafe |
vocative | kafo | kafe |
locative | kafi | kafama |
instrumental | kafom | kafama |
Tongan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kafa
- The cordage made from the fibers of the cocoa nut husk
References
[edit]- A Vocabulary of the Tonga Language: Arranged in Alphabetical Order: To Which Is Annexed a List of Idiomatic Phrases, by Stephen Rabone (1845), published by Wesleyan Mission Press, Neiafu
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ottoman Turkish قفا (kafa), from Arabic قَفًا (qafan, “back of the head; nape of the neck”). The original restricted meaning has been lost in modern Turkish.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kafa (definite accusative kafayı, plural kafalar)
- head
- Synonym: baş
- mind; mentality; intelligence
Declension
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Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kafa”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
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