waka

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Waka (poetry)

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Borrowed from Japanese 和歌 (waka), from Middle Chinese 和 (ɣwa), a gloss for 倭 (ʔwa, “Japan”) + 歌 (ka, “song”).

waka (plural wakas or waka)

1. (poetry) A kind of classical Japanese poem.
   • 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 122:

     “Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.”

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Waka (canoe)

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Borrowed from Maori waka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɒkə/, /ˈwʌkə/
• Rhymes: -ɒkə, -ʌkə

waka (plural wakas or waka)

1. (New Zealand) A Maori canoe.

• waka gashira

• kawa

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Cognate with Jaqaru waka.

waka

1. cow

waka

1. body

• Robert Busenitz & Daniel Bradbury (2016). Balantak Dictionary – waka. SIL International.

From Proto-North Sarawak , from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(w)akaʀ.

waka

1. root (of plant)

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

waka

1. cow

waka

1. to fly

waka

1. root

   Synonym: vu

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈwa.ka/,

waka

1. to flash
2. (stative) sharp

waka

1. (Banawá) to break

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

waka

1. Rōmaji transcription of わか

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Cognate with Aymara waka.

waka

1. cow

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 74.

waka

1. water

• Maria Sueli de Aguiar, Elementos de descrição sintatica para uma gramatica do Katukina, page 49, 1988

waka

1. Romanization of ᠸᠠᡴᠠ

From Proto-Polynesian *waka.

• IPA^(key): /wa.ka/,

waka

1. boat, canoe
2. vehicle, conveyance
3. transport

• tūnga waka

• → English: waka

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

waka (Raguileo spelling)

1. cow

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

Corruption of English walk.

• IPA^(key): /wàka/

waka

1. to walk

   You go waka sha.

   You're going to walk.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Anthonia Ujene, “Count animals”, in Storybooks African Languages‎:

     Five Impales and six pigs dey waka go d water.

     Five impalas and six warthogs are walking to the water.

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *(w)akaʀ, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(w)akaʀ.

waka

1. root (of plant)

From English work.

waka

1. work; labor; job

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• (Greater Poland):
  • (Southern Greater Poland) IPA^(key): /ˈva.ka/

waka f

1. (Southern Greater Poland) old bitch (old female dog)

• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “waka”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 32

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wak'a

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• wak'a (Cuzco-Collao)

• IPA^(key): /ˈwa.ka/
  • (Ayacucho) IPA^(key):
  • (Cuzco-Collao) IPA^(key):

waka

1. sacred
2. (historical) sublime; horrifying

waka

1. an Andean guardian deity

   Near-synonym: willka

2. sanctuary: both natural, like a sacred rock or crevice, and artificial, like a building.
3. (historical) a votive offering

• → Spanish: huaca

Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo (2013) Tras las huellas del Inca Garcilaso: el lenguaje como hermenéutica en la comprensión del pasado [Following the footsteps of Inca Garcilaso: Language as hermeneutics in the understanding of the past], Boston: Latinoamericana Editories; CELACP; Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, →DOI

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

waka

1. (Cuzco-Collao) Alternative form of baka

waká

1. rattan

• Audio (Kenya):

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-waka (infinitive kuwaka)

1. to burn, be in flames
2. to shine

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -washa (“to set something on fire”)

waka

1. giant armadillo, Priodontes maximus

• Lizot, Jacques (2004) Diccionario enciclopédico de la lengua yãnomãmɨ‎ (in Spanish), Vicariato apostólico de Puerto Ayacucho, →ISBN