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English
Noun
raku
- Alternative letter-case form of Raku.
Anagrams
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
raku
- dative/vocative/locative singular of rak
Estonian
Noun
raku
- genitive singular of rakk
Japanese
Romanization
raku
- Rōmaji transcription of らく
Latvian
Verb
raku
- first-person singular past indicative of rakt
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
Noun
raku
- locative singular of rak
Maori
Etymology
From Proto-Oceanic *kalo₃ or *karut (“to scratch with fingernails, to claw at”) (compare with Fijian kadru) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *garut (“rub against, scrape, scratch”) (compare with Malay garut (“to grind against one another, to scrape”) and garu “to scratch”).
Verb
raku
- to scratch
Derived terms
References
- ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 389
- ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kalo.3”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559
- ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 237
Further reading
- Williams, Herbert William (1917) “raku”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 374
- “raku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈra.ku/
- Rhymes: -aku
- Syllabification: ra‧ku
Noun
raku m
- locative/vocative singular of rak
Rapa Nui
Verb
raku
- scratch
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
raku (Cyrillic spelling раку)
- dative/locative singular of rak
Ternate
Pronunciation
Verb
raku
- (intransitive) to fold
- (transitive) to fold
Conjugation
References
- Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh