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kafa

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See also: káfa and kâfa

Gullah

Etymology 1

From Hausa karfa and Fon kafo.

Alternative forms

  • 'kafa, kafuh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑ.fɑ/, /kɑ.fə/

Noun

kafa

  1. (religion) charm, a physical magical object

Etymology 2

From Hausa shingkafa, kafa.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɑ.fɑ/, /ɡɑ.fɑ/

Noun

kafa

  1. (cooking) rice
    also see: kala

References

  • Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)
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Hausa

Alternative forms

  • کَفَا (Ajami)

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ká.fáː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [kə́.ɸáː]

Noun

kafā f (plural kafōfī, possessed form kafar̃)

  1. leg

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ká.fàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [kə́.ɸàː]

Verb

kafā̀ (grade 1)

  1. to erect, to put up
  2. to stick something into
  3. to form, to establish
  4. to proclaim, to issue a law

Icelandic

Etymology

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

Verb

kafa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative kafaði, supine kafað)

  1. to dive, to go so deep underwater that one can't be seen
    Hann kafaði 20 metra undir yfirborðið.
    He dived 20 meters under the surface.

Conjugation

More information infinitive nafnháttur, supine sagnbót ...
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Derived terms

See also

  • kafagras

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǎfa/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧fa

Noun

kàfa f (Cyrillic spelling ка̀фа)

  1. (regional, Serbia) coffee
    Synonyms: (Croatia) kava; (Bosnia) kahva

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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Tongan

Pronunciation

Noun

kafa

  1. The cordage made from the fibers of the cocoa nut husk

References

Turkish

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /kɑfɑ/
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Noun

kafa (definite accusative kafayı, plural kafalar)

  1. head
    Synonym: baş
  2. mind; mentality; intelligence

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

Derived terms

References

  • 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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