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Wikipedia

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of English kiloannum.

Symbol

ka

2. kyr: kiloannum(s): kiloyear(s)

   Holonyms: Ma < Ga

4. kya: kiloannum(s) ago: kiloyear(s) ago: thousand(s) of years ago

Etymology 2

Clipping of Georgian ქართული ენა (kartuli ena).

Symbol

ka

2. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Georgian.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Georgian terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Egyptian kꜣ.

Noun

ka (plural kas)

1. A spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death.

   Antonym: ha

   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:

     Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Hence Dorian's portrait is like the ka or double of the deceased in Egyptian tombs, heaped with toys and furniture.

   • 2011, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (Tenth Anniversary Edition), William Morrow 2013, p. 179:

     ‘You could bind the ka of a man to his body for five thousand years,’ said Jaquel.

Etymology 2

Origin uncertain.

Verb

ka

1. (transitive, obsolete) To serve or help; used only in the phrase "Ka me, ka thee" or variants thereof.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.5:

     Now nature stood ever on this point, Kæ mee Ile kæ thee, and ever ready to bee even alwaies on recompences and vicissitude of things, and to give as good as one brings.

   • 1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:

     Ka me, ka thee, is a proverb all over the world.

References

• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

Etymology 3

Noun

ka (plural kas)

1. The name of the Cyrillic script letter К / к.

See also

• gwo ka
• ish ka bibble
• ka-boom
• ka-ching
• ka pai

Anagrams

• AK, Ak

Acehnese

Adverb

ka

1. already

Achang

Pronunciation

• (Myanmar) /ka˧/

Particle

ka

1. Nominative particle?

Usage notes

Overridden by the topic particle gas.

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka/ [ˈkʌ]
• Hyphenation: ka

Pronoun

ká

1. he, him

Usage notes

• The form káa is used when the pronoun isn't followed by a clitic.

See also

Afar personal pronouns

		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
				m	f
subject	singular	anú	atú	úsuk	ís
	plural	nanú	isín	úsun
object	singular	yó	kó	ká	tét
	plural	né	sín	kén

References

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “ka”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Ainu

Etymology

Likely a loan word from Nivkh ӿа (ha) (bearing the same meaning), given that the traps were of the same type and that sable hunting was taken up on Sakhalin for export to Qing China, to whom the Nivkh were nearer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ka]

Noun

ka

1. sable trap

References

• Bugaeva, Anna. Handbook of the Ainu Language, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501502859