cá

• IPA^(key):

cá

1. really

cá

1. to deceive, to fool someone

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

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /kɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /ka/, /ca/, /kɔ/, /kə/

cá

1. where?

   Synonyms: cá háit, cén áit

   Cá bhfuil tú? ― Where are you?

   Cá ndeachaigh sé? ― Where did he go?

• Not used with the past tense, except for some irregular verbs. Triggers eclipsis of the following verb. Takes the dependent form of irregular verbs.

• cár (used with the past tense and in copular constructions before a consonant)
• cárb, cárbh (used in copular constructions before a vowel)

cá (triggers h-prothesis)

1. what?

   Cá haois é? ― What age is he? How old is he?

   Cá tairbhe duit é? ― What profit is it to you?

• cén (singular), cé na (plural)

• cá háit (“where?”)
• cá huair (“when?”)
• cáide (“how long? when?”)

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /kɑː/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /kaː/

cá

1. The name of the Latin-script letter k/K.

Although the letter ⟨k⟩ is not used in Irish, it has a name so it can be referred to in mathematical or scientific usage or when spelling words in other languages.

• (Latin-script letter names) litir; á, bé, cé, dé, é, eif, gé, héis, í, jé, cá, eil, eim, ein, ó, pé, cú, ear, eas, té, ú, vé, wae, ex, yé, zae
• Note: The English names are also widely used by Irish speakers.

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “cá”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “cá”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “cá”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2025

• casa

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cá f

1. house

• AEDLL
• Pallabreiru Llïonés

• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: cá

From Old Galician-Portuguese aca, from Vulgar Latin *eccum hāc. Compare archaic French çà, Spanish acá, Italian qua and Sicilian ccà.

• câ, cà, ca (obsolete)

cá (not comparable)

1. here (in this place)

   Synonym: aqui

   Antonym: lá

   Cá estou. ― Here I am.

2. hither (to this place)

   Synonym: aqui

   Vem cá. ― Come here.

3. here (at this time; at the present situation)

   Synonyms: agora, aqui, já

   De lá para cá fizemos muita coisa.

   We’ve done a lot since then.

   (literally, “from there to here.”)

From Latin kā (“kay”).

cá m (plural cás)

1. (Brazil) The name of the Latin-script letter K/k. (kay)

   Synonym: (Portugal) capa

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key):
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key):

cá

1. male (buffalos and cows)

   Synonyms: tậc, sleng, po̱

   tua vài cá ― male buffalo

   tua mò cá ― bull

2. all

   Synonyms: tằng, mất

   tằng cạ, tằng lê ― each and every

   pây cá ― to all go

   cá vằn ― all day

cá

1. oldest brother
2. elder brother

   Synonyms: lùng, pi̱, có

   Cần nẩy le̱ pi̱ cá khỏi.

   This is my elder brother.

cá (奇)

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

   Synonym: có

   Cá pay lỉn hâư mà?

   Where did you hang out from?

   Cá dú đây bấu?

   Are you in good health?

2. I/me, your father

   Cá nẳm thâng pi cón.

   I remember last year.

3. you, someone presumably older than me

   Sloong cá náo mà lo̱?

   Did you two just come?

cá

1. short for pja cá

• Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt ‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày ‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910) Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français ‎ (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Saigon) IPA^(key):
• (Quảng Nam) IPA^(key):

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From Proto-Vietic *ʔa-kaːʔ, from Proto-Austroasiatic *kaʔ. Cognate with Thavung ก้า, Khmer កា (kaa, “prefix for fish”), Pacoh aca, Bahnar ka, Mang ʔaː¹, Khasi 'kha/dohkha, Mon က (kaˀ), Car Nicobarese kāḵ.

(classifier con) cá • (𩵜, 亇, 个)

1. fish (vertebrate animal)

   Cá heo và cá voi không phải là cá.

   Dolphins and whales aren't fish.

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cá

1. (colloquial) to bet

From online sellers using words whose spelling starts with "c"/"k" to avoid the algorithm of social media sites. See cành, xu.

cá

1. (slang, Internet, text messaging) euphemistic form of k (thousand)

   bánh giá 30 cá ― cake selling for 30 thousand

• ác