kayak
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]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
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[edit]Cebuano
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From English kayak, borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Hyphenation: ka‧yak
Noun
[edit]kayak
- a kayak
Verb
[edit]kayak
- to ride a kayak
Cornish
[edit]Noun
[edit]kayak
References
[edit]French
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kayak m (plural kayaks)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kayak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]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
[edit]Adverb
[edit]kayak
Alternative forms
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[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Dutch kajak, from English kayak, from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kayak (first-person possessive kayakku, second-person possessive kayakmu, third-person possessive kayaknya)
Further reading
[edit]- “kayak” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kayak m (invariable)
Derived terms
[edit]Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]kayak m (plural kayaks)
Spanish
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[edit]Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ak
- Syllabification: ka‧yak
Noun
[edit]kayak m (plural kayaks)
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “kayak”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: ka‧yak
Noun
[edit]kayak (definite accusative kayağı, plural kayaklar)
Declension
[edit]Volapük
[edit]Noun
[edit]kayak (nominative plural kayaks)
Declension
[edit]- English terms borrowed from Inuktitut
- English terms derived from Inuktitut
- English terms derived from Proto-Eskimo
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Rhymes:English/aɪæk
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- en:Watercraft
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- ceb:Watercraft
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- fr:Sports
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- Indonesian terms borrowed from Betawi
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- Indonesian terms borrowed from Dutch
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- Indonesian nouns
- id:Sports
- Italian terms derived from Inuktitut
- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Italian/ak
- Rhymes:Italian/ak/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
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- it:Sports
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- Norman terms borrowed from English
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- Jersey Norman
- nrf:Watercraft
- Spanish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Spanish/ak
- Rhymes:Spanish/ak/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
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- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish terms spelled with K
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- Turkish terms suffixed with -ak
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- Volapük palindromes
- vo:Watercraft