seka

Chichewa

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈse.ka/

Verb

-seka (infinitive kuséka)

1. laugh

Esperanto

Etymology

From French sec and Italian secco, both from Latin siccus, from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. Indo-European cognates include Welsh sych, Russian сухо́й (suxój), Lithuanian sausas, Hindi सूखा (sūkhā).

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -eka
• Hyphenation: se‧ka

Adjective

seka (accusative singular sekan, plural sekaj, accusative plural sekajn)

1. dry
   • 1999, Anna Löwenstein, La ŝtona urbo, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, →ISBN, →OCLC:

     Ni portis eksteren garbojn da pajlo kaj kovris nin per feloj, sub kiuj ni restis sufiĉe varmaj kaj sekaj.

     He carried out sheaves of straw and covered us with pelts, under which we stayed warm and dry enough.

Antonyms

• malseka

Derived terms

• sekeco (“dryness”)
• sekega (“very dry”)
• seketa (“slightly dry”)
• sekigi (“to dry”, transitive verb)
• sekiĝi (“to dry off”, intransitive verb)

Indonesian

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Wikipedia ^id

Etymology 1

From Portuguese seca (“drying”), secar (“to dry”), from Old Galician-Portuguese, from Latin siccāre, present active infinitive of siccō, from siccus (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. Doublet of seko.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛka/
• Hyphenation: sè‧ka
• Rhymes: -ka, -a

Verb

sèka (base-imperative seka, active menyeka, ordinary passive diseka)

1. infinitive, imperative and colloquial of menyeka (“to wipe”)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Balinese ᬲᭂᬓᬵ (seka), ᬲᭂᬓᬳ (sekaha, “villagers' club, society”), from Old Javanese sakhā (“friend”), from Sanskrit सखा (sakhā), सखि (sakhi, “friend”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈka/
• Hyphenation: sê‧ka
• Rhymes: -ka, -a

Noun

sêka (first-person possessive sekaku, second-person possessive sekamu, third-person possessive sekanya)

1. (dialect) association

Further reading

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

Karao

Noun

seka

1. fuzzy-haired caterpillar (with either red or black hairs)

Kituba

Verb

seka

1. to laugh

Luba-Kasai

Verb

seka

1. to laugh

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną.

Verb

seka

1. to seek

Inflection

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: säike
• West Frisian: sykje

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

seka m

1. sprinkling

Declension

References

• Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 472.

Phuthi

Verb

-séka

1. to cut

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Rwanda-Rundi

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

Verb

-seka (infinitive guseka, perfective -setse)

1. laugh, smile

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sèstra (“sister”) +‎ -ka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sěːka/
• Hyphenation: se‧ka

Noun

séka f (Cyrillic spelling се́ка)

1. (informal) sis (an affectionate term for a sister or female cousin)

   Synonym: séja

Descendants

• → Romanian: seca (regional)

References

• “seka” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

Verb

-seka (infinitive kuseka)

1. laugh (at)

Tumbuka

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-cèka.

Verb

-seka (infinitive kuseka)

1. laugh

Xhosa

Verb

-seka^?

1. (transitive) to establish

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.