kama

• (US) enPR: kämə, IPA^(key): /kɑmə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːmə

From Japanese 鎌 (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

kama (plural kama)

1. A sickle-like weapon, originally used as a tool for cutting weeds.

• Kama (weapon) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Sanskrit काम (kā́ma).

kama (uncountable)

1. (Hinduism) The act or process of wishing; longing, desire (with or without sexual connotations); one of the goals of life in Hindu tradition.
   • 1958, V. Raghavan, “Chapter XII: Kāma, The Third End of Man”, in Stephen N Hay, William Theodore De Bary, editors, Sources of Indian Tradition, volume 2, page 258:

     The place of kāma or the pursuit of love and pleasure in the balanced Hindu scheme of life derives from the importance attached to the life of the married householder (grhastha).

   • 2006, “Indian Erotology”, in Alan Soble, editor, Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Volume 1: A-L, page 493:

     Ancient Indian thought divides the principal aims of human existence into dharma (religion, morality, social obligations), artha (economics, politics, power), and kāma (erotic pleasure, sexual interaction, sexual gratification).

• kama rupa
• Kama Sutra

• preman

• Maka, maka

kama

1. room (part of a building)

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

Borrowed from Spanish cama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkama/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

káma (Basahan spelling ᜃᜋ)

1. bed

   Synonyms: katre, higdaan

Borrowed from Portuguese cama.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.má/

kamá class 9 (plural makamá class 6)

1. bed

   Synonym: bedi

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ma/

-kama (infinitive kukáma)

1. to milk

• IPA^(key):

kama

1. (dialect, Moravia) which way, which direction

   Synonym: (standard Czech) kudy

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kama (genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. kama (traditional Estonian, Finnish and Russian finely milled flour mixture, consisting of roasted barley, rye, oat and pea flour)

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kama (genitive kama, partitive kama)

1. (colloquial) stuff, things

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kama (not comparable)

1. (colloquial) Indicates indifference, not caring.

   Kas sooviksite õunu või apelsine? Mul kama kaks.

   Do you want apples or oranges? I don't care either way.

• kama in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

Akin to kampe, kampsut.^[1] According to SSA, ultimately of onomatopoeic origin;^[2] possibly related to dialectal kamahtaa (“to thump, to thud”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmɑ/,
• Rhymes: -ɑmɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧ma

kama

1. (colloquial, usually in the plural) stuff (miscellaneous items or objects; personal effects)

   Mitä ovat kaikki nuo kamat makuuhuoneesi lattialla?

   What is all that stuff on your bedroom floor?

2. (slang, in the singular only) product (illegal drugs)

• (stuff): tavara, roju, rihkama

• “kama”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

kama

1. (transitive) to burn

• soa (intransitive)

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From Sanskrit काम (kāma, “love”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *káHmas (“desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóh₂-mo-s, from *keh₂- (“to desire, wish”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.ma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kama

1. love, especially sexual love or sensuality.
2. personification of love or desire as deity.

• “kama” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

kama

1. (Banawá) to come

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

kama

1. Rōmaji transcription of かま

From Portuguese cama.

kama

1. bed

Borrowed from Hokkien 柑仔 (kam-á, “tangerine”).

kama

1. orange; tangerine

kama

1. to milk

kāmā

1. water

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 201, →ISBN:

  we should carefully distinguish the following Ch. roots from AA *m-ˀ "water" :

  (1) Ch. *h-m "water" : Lele kāmā ,

• Etudes berbères et chamito-sémitiques: mélanges offerts à Karl-G. Prasse (2000, →ISBN, page 38

kama

1. to milk

kama

1. breastplate

Borrowed from Spanish cama (“bed”).

kama

1. bed, cot

• A Maranao Dictionary, by Howard P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya

kama

1. first person dual exclusive pronoun; the two of us, but not you

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kam, from Proto-Tupian *ᵑkam.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní káma.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkã.ma/
• Rhymes: -ãma
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kama (possessable)

1. breast (milk-producing organ)
2. breast; chest (front of the human thorax)

   Synonym: poti'a

3. (of animals) teat; udder

• Nheengatu: kama

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kama”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 213, column 1

kama

1. human
2. man
3. person

kama

1. second-person singular imperative active of kamati (“to walk”)

From Portuguese cama and Spanish cama and Kabuverdianu kama.

kama

1. bed

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

-káma (infinitive gukáma, perfective -kámye)

1. to milk

• umukamyi

From Japanese 鎌 (kama, “sickle, scythe”).

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kȁma f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ма)

1. kama

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قامه (kama).

• IPA^(key): /kâma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kȁma f (Cyrillic spelling ка̏ма)

1. a kind of dagger

From Sanskrit काम (kā́ma).

• IPA^(key): /kâːma/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ma

kȃma m (Cyrillic spelling ка̑ма)

1. (Hinduism) one of the four main goals of the material existence

• “kama”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• “kama”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024
• “kama”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

-kámá (infinitive kukámá)

1. to milk

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Borrowed from Arabic كَمَا (kamā).

kama

1. as

   Synonym: mithili

   Kama ulivyosema. ― As you said.

2. if

   Synonym: ikiwa

kama

1. like, as
   • 1973, Mohammed S. Abdulla, Duniani kuna watu, page 3:

     […] lakini alipofika katikati, alisimama ghafla, kama mtu mwenye wasiwasi na shaka juu ya hilo linalompeleka darini kwa baba yake wakati ule.

     but when he reached the middle, he stopped suddenly, like a person worried and doubtful about that which had him going to his father's attic at that time.

From Proto-Bantu *-káma.

-kama (infinitive kukama)

1. to milk

Borrowed from Spanish cama, from Late Latin cama.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkama/
• Rhymes: -ama
• Syllabification: ka‧ma

kama (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜋ)

1. bed

   Synonyms: higaan, katre

• “kama”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• amak, akma, Maka, maka-

From Ottoman Turkish قامه (kama).

kama (definite accusative kamayı, plural kamalar)

1. wedge
2. dagger

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-kama^?

1. to brush hair

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