different between weka vs waka

English

Etymology

Maori weka

Noun

weka (plural wekas)

1. The woodhen, a flightless bird of New Zealand.

Anagrams

• Wake, wake, weak

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-béeka.

Pronunciation

Verb

-weka (infinitive kuweka)

1. to put
2. to establish
3. to keep
4. to delay

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -wekea
  • Causative: -wekesha
  • Passive: -wekwa
  • Reciprocal: -wekana
  • Stative: -wekeka

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese ?? (waka), from Middle Chinese ? (?wa), a gloss for ? (?wa, “Japan”) + ? (ka, “song”).

Noun

waka (plural wakas or waka)

1. (poetry) A kind of classical Japanese poem.
   • 1962, Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America 2007, p. 122:

     “Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.”

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori waka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w?k?/, /?w?k?/

Noun

waka (plural wakas or waka)

1. (New Zealand) A Maori canoe.

Anagrams

• kawa

Aymara

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

Noun

waka

1. cow

Bintulu

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak [Term?], from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(w)aka?.

Noun

waka

1. root (of plant)

Chamicuro

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

Noun

waka

1. cow

Chickasaw

Verb

waka

1. to fly

Jamamadí

Verb

waka

1. (Banawá) to break

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Japanese

Romanization

waka

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Jaqaru

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Cognate with Aymara waka

Noun

waka

1. cow

References

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 74.

Katukina

Noun

waka

1. water

References

• Maria Sueli de Aguiar, Elementos de descrição sintatica para uma gramatica do Katukina, page 49, 1988

Manchu

Romanization

waka

1. Romanization of ????

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *waka.

Noun

waka

1. boat, canoe
2. vehicle, conveyance
3. transport

Derived terms

• t?nga waka

Descendants

• ? English: waka

Mapudungun

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

Noun

waka (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. cow

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Palu'e

Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(w)aka?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(w)aka?.

Noun

waka

1. root (of plant)

Pijin

Etymology

From English work.

Noun

waka

1. work; labor; job

Quechua

Etymology 1

Noun

waka

1. dwarf, sickly baby

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

Noun

waka

1. cow

Declension

Usage notes

Not to be confused with wak'a.

Swahili

Pronunciation

Verb

-waka (infinitive kuwaka)

1. to burn, be in flames

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -washa