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English
Etymology
From Hindi एक्का (ekkā).
Pronunciation
Noun
ekka (plural ekkas)
- (India) A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.
1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Thrown Away”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 19:He said that he was ‘going to shoot big game’, and left at half-past ten o'clock in an ekka.
2007, J.A. Hammerton, Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today and Story of Their Past (in 14 Volumes), page 2779:Throughout India the ekka is the ordinary vehicle in which the natives travel, and until recent times was the only one available to Europeans.
Anagrams
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Pronunciation
Noun
ekka
- accusative singular of ekki
- dative singular of ekki
- genitive singular of ekki
Skolt Sami
Noun
ekka
- illative singular of eeʹǩǩ
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland