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English
A modern kayak .
Etymology
Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ ( qayaq , “ hunter's boat ” ) (Inuvialuktun ), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ . Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq .
Pronunciation
Noun
kayak (plural kayaks )
A type of small boat , covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck
Derived terms
Translations
a type of small boat
Aleut: iqyax̂ , iĝyax̂ , iyĝax̂
Armenian: կայակ ( kayak ) , բայդարկա (hy) ( baydarka )
Carpathian Rusyn: каяк m ( kajak )
Catalan: caiac (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 皮艇 (zh) ( pítǐng ) , 獨木舟 / 独木舟 (zh) ( dúmùzhōu )
Czech: kajak (cs) m
Danish: kajak (da) n
Dutch: kajak (nl) m
Esperanto: kajako
Evenki: kajuk
Faroese: kajakk f
Finnish: kajakki (fi)
French: kayak (fr) m
Georgian: ბაიდარა ( baidara )
German: Kajak (de) n
Greenlandic: qajaq
Hungarian: kajak (hu)
Icelandic: kajak (is) m
Ido: kayako (io)
Indonesian: kayak (id)
Inuktitut: ᖃᔭᖅ ( qayaq )
Inupiaq: qayaq
Japanese: カヤック (ja) ( kayakku )
Kazakh: қылқайық ( qylqaiyq )
Khmer: កាយ៉ាក់ ( kaayak )
Korean: 카약 ( kayak )
Kyrgyz: байдарка (ky) ( baydarka ) , каяк (ky) ( kayak )
Lao: please add this translation if you can
Latvian: kajaks m
Maori: kōreti
North Alaskan Inupiatun: (please verify ) qayaq
Northern Khanty: (please verify ) кайэк ( kajek ) a "large boat"
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kajakk m
Nynorsk: kajakk m
Old Turkic: qajiq ( qajiq )
Persian: کایاک ( kâyâk ) , قایق (fa) ( qâyeq )
Polish: kajak (pl) m
Portuguese: caiaque (pt) m
Russian: байда́рка (ru) f ( bajdárka ) , кая́к (ru) m ( kaják )
Scottish Gaelic: caidheag m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ка̏ја̄к m
Roman: kȁjāk (sh) m
Slovene: kájak (sl) m
Spanish: kayak (es) m , kayac m , cayac m
Swedish: kajak (sv)
Thai: เรือเล็กๆ ( reua lék lék ) , เรือบด ( reua bòt )
Turkish: eskimo kayığı , kayık (tr) , tekne (tr)
Upper Sorbian: kajak m
Volapük: kayak (vo)
Yup'ik: qayaq , paitaalek
See also
Verb
kayak (third-person singular simple present kayaks , present participle kayaking , simple past and past participle kayaked )
( intransitive ) To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.
Kayaking is an Olympic sport.
( transitive ) To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.
On a dare, he kayaked the Harlem River in New York from Hell's Gate to Spyten Duyvil.
Derived terms
Translations
to use a kayak to travel or race
to traverse a body of water by kayak
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
From English kayak , borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ ( qayaq , “ man's boat ” ) (Inuvialuktun ), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ .
Pronunciation
Noun
kayak
a kayak
Verb
kayak
to ride a kayak
Cornish
Noun
kayak
kayak
References
French
un kayak
Etymology
From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun ) ᖃᔭᖅ ( qayaq , “ man's boat ” ) .
Pronunciation
Noun
kayak m (plural kayaks )
kayak
Derived terms
Further reading
Indonesian
Etymology 1
From Betawi kayak , from Javanese ꦏꦪ ( kaya , “ like, such as ” ) , from Old Javanese kaya ( “ like, as, as if, it looks as if ” ) , from Pali काय ( kāya ) , from Sanskrit क ( ka , “ similarity (suffix) ” ) .
Pronunciation
Adverb
kayak
( colloquial ) like , such as
Synonyms
Etymology 2
From Dutch kajak , from English kayak , from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ ( qayaq , “ man's boat ” ) , from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ .
Pronunciation
Noun
kayak
( sports ) kayak
Further reading
Italian
Etymology
From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun ) ᖃᔭᖅ ( qayaq , “ man's boat ” ) .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /kaˈjak/
Rhymes: -ak
Hyphenation: ka‧yàk
Noun
kayak m (invariable )
kayak
Derived terms
Norman
Etymology
Borrowed from English kayak .
Noun
kayak m (plural kayaks )
( Jersey ) kayak
Spanish
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : ( everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay ) /kaˈʝak/
IPA (key ) : ( Buenos Aires and environs ) /kaˈʃak/
IPA (key ) : ( elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay ) /kaˈʒak/
Rhymes: -ak
Syllabification: ka‧yak
Noun
kayak m (plural kayaks )
kayak
Derived terms
Further reading
Turkish
Etymology
From kay- + -ak .
Pronunciation
Noun
kayak (definite accusative kayağı , plural kayaklar )
ski
Declension
Volapük
Noun
kayak (nominative plural kayaks )
kayak
Declension
declension of kayak
1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only