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kafa
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Gullah
Etymology 1
From Hausa karfa and Fon kafo.
Alternative forms
- 'kafa, kafuh
Pronunciation
Noun
kafa
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
- kafuh, gafa, gafuh
Pronunciation
Noun
kafa
References
- Lorenzo Dow Turner, Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect (1969)
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Hausa
Alternative forms
- کَفَا (“Ajami”)
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Noun
kafā f (plural kafōfī, possessed form kafar̃)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Verb
kafā̀ (grade 1)
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)
- to dive, to go so deep underwater that one can't be seen
Conjugation
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
- 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
Etymology
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قهوه (kahve), from Arabic قَهْوَة (qahwa).
Pronunciation
Noun
kàfa f (Cyrillic spelling ка̀фа)
Declension
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Tongan
Pronunciation
Noun
kafa
- The cordage made from the fibers of the cocoa nut husk
References
- 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
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
Noun
kafa (definite accusative kafayı, plural kafalar)
- head
- Synonym: baş
- mind; mentality; intelligence
Declension
Derived terms
- kafadar
- kafalı
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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