seka

See also: Appendix:Variations of "seka"

Chichewa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ka/

Verb

-seka (infinitive kuséka)

1. laugh

Esperanto

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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.

Antonyms

• malseka

Derived terms

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

Indonesian

Etymology 1

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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛka/
• Hyphenation: sè‧ka
• Rhymes: -ka, -a

Verb

sèka (base-imperative seka, active menyeka, ordinary passive diseka)

1. infinitive, imperative and colloquial of menyeka (“to wipe”)

Derived terms

• berseka
• menyeka
• menyekai
• menyekakan
• penyeka
• sekaan

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈka/
• Hyphenation: sê‧ka
• Rhymes: -ka, -a

Noun

sêka (plural seka-seka)

1. (dialect) association

Further reading

• “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.

Karao

Noun

seka

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

Kituba

Verb

seka

1. to laugh

Luba-Kasai

Verb

seka

1. to laugh

Old Frisian

Etymology

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

Verb

seka

1. to seek

Inflection

Conjugation of sēka (weak class 1)

infinitive	sēka
indicative	present	past
1st person singular	sēke	sēkde
2nd person singular	sēkest, sēkst	sēkdest
3rd person singular	sēketh, sēkth	sēkde
plural	sēkath	sēkden
subjunctive	present	past
singular	sēke	sēkde
plural	sēke, sēken	sēkde, sēkden
imperative	present
singular	sēke
plural	sēkath
participle	present	past
	sēkande	esēked, sēked

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: säike
• West Frisian: sykje

Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts

• 𑀲𑁂𑀓 (Brahmi script)
• सेक (Devanagari script)
• সেক (Bengali script)
• සෙක (Sinhalese script)
• သေက or သေၵ (Burmese script)
• เสก or เสกะ (Thai script)
• ᩈᩮᨠ (Tai Tham script)
• ເສກ or ເສກະ (Lao script)
• សេក (Khmer script)
• 𑄥𑄬𑄇 (Chakma script)

Noun

seka m

1. sprinkling

Declension

Declension table of "seka" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	seko	sekā
Accusative (second)	sekaṃ	seke
Instrumental (third)	sekena	sekehi or sekebhi
Dative (fourth)	sekassa or sekāya or sekatthaṃ	sekānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	sekasmā or sekamhā or sekā	sekehi or sekebhi
Genitive (sixth)	sekassa	sekānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	sekasmiṃ or sekamhi or seke	sekesu
Vocative (calling)	seka	sekā

References

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

Phuthi

Verb

-séka

1. to cut

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

Verb

-seka (infinitive guseka, perfective -setse)

1. laugh, smile

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sèstra (“sister”) +‎ -ka.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

séka f (Cyrillic spelling се́ка)

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

   Synonym: séja

Descendants

• → Romanian: seca (regional)

References

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

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

Verb

-seka (infinitive kuseka)

1. laugh (at)

Tumbuka

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

Verb

-seka (infinitive kuseka)

1. laugh

Xhosa

Verb

-seka^?

1. (transitive) to establish

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.