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English
Etymology
Genericized trademark of Kodak.
Noun
kodak (plural kodaks)
- (dated) A camera: a device for taking still photographs.
1893, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Utopia, Limited:To diagnose / Our modest pose / The Kodaks do their best
2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 466:An American girl snapped her Kodak.
- (dated) A still photograph.
1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70:There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; […]
Verb
kodak (third-person singular simple present kodaks, present participle kodaking, simple past and past participle kodaked)
- (transitive, dated) To photograph.
- (transitive, dated) To describe or characterise briefly and vividly.
Quotations
Anagrams
Cebuano
Etymology
Borrowed from English kodak, genericized trademark from Kodak.
Pronunciation
Noun
kodak
- a camera; a device for taking still photographs
Verb
kodak
- to take a photograph
- to have one's photograph taken
Quotations
Mauritian Creole
Etymology
From Kodak.
Noun
kodak
- camera
References
- Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français
Seychellois Creole
Etymology
From Kodak.
Noun
kodak
- camera
References
- Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français
Tagalog
Etymology
Borrowed from English kodak, genericized trademark from Kodak.
Pronunciation
Noun
kodak (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇᜃ᜔) (dated)
- (broadly) camera (device for taking photographs)
- Synonym: kamera
- (strictly) small portable camera (especially from Kodak)
Derived terms
References
- “kodak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
- Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 93
Turkish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Ottoman Turkish قودق (koduk),[1][2] قودق (kodak, “donkey colt”)[3]
Noun
kodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)
- (Bulgaristan Türkleri Kocaeli, Çorum, Van, Kerkük) colt
Etymology 2
Possibly from Middle Turkish koduk. Several etymologies may be mixed here.
Noun
kodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)
- family
- (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) shelter[4]
- (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) home[4]
- (Aydın) follower
- (Çorum) a child who is tied to his/her mother's apron strings
References
- ^ Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قودوق”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1482
- ^ Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kodak¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2704
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kodak⁵”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 3, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2704