Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- abbr. cathode.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- n. kiloyear (also ky, kyr)
- n. a kiloyear ago
- n. a spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death
- v. transitive To serve, in the phrase "Ka me, ka thee".
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Ancient Egyptian Religion) A spiritual aspect of the individual, living within the body during life, and surviving the body after death. It was believed to be one of two spirits inhabiting the body, the other being the
ba , which deserts teh body at death.
WordNet 3.0
- n. unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
Etymologies
- From Latin fricantem frica (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Dhobi's donkey is a familiar sight as one meets him on the road still toiling as in the time of Issachar between two bundles of clothes each larger than himself, and he has also become proverbial, '_Dhobi ka gadha neh ghar ka neh ghat ka_,”
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
“The Nearika (Neali'ka is a dialectal variation), however, was in part the inspiration for the later yarn paintings, what the Huichols call nearikas.”
“Ajwain ka paratha are a favorite of mine - the seeds add such a lovely flavour when roasted.”
“In HT 16.1-2, the phrase ka-ku-pa • di-na-u, especially if approached from the assumption that Minoan is related to Etruscan, seems to show a noun followed by a participial adjective in -(a)u (nb. the Etruscan participle ending -u as in tur-u 'given') in much the same way as adjectives are placed after commodity terms in Mycenaean.”
“But that image of him asking random Chinese people to explain "ka-ching" is hilarious.”
“Not to be confused with the qubbah is the word ka'bah, for a cube-shaped walled structure which . . . served as a shelter for the sacred stones.”
“In death, though, a life force or spirit known as ka was immortal, and a soul known as ba, which was linked to personal attributes, fled the body after death.”
“He was born over there in ka Bobi, ka Ntlhemo ....”
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
“Note 60: When pressed for particulars, Lili stated that she was born in "ka Mulalela," i.e. the "place" of her father, the chieftaincy now known as Tlhongana.”
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
“Tercina and Talita Ntimane, sisters from a coastal village in ka Ntimane (Manhiça) who married prominent church men in Facazisse and Makuvulane (respectively) in the early 1950s, seemed surprised when I asked them whether they had ever cut tinhlanga.”
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ka’.
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Substancestry
Mysterious and theoretical substances and "stuff" of legend. More emphasis on the ancient, mystical, mythical, folklore, mathematical, and scientific. I won't be listing too many "sci-fi" or comed...
ylem, ichor, aether, ectoplasm, impossible object, quark star, eucharist, pixie dust, eitr, elixir of life, philosopher's stone, alkahest and 126 more...
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happenstance
happenstance
newton, oops, klutz, chance meeting, fluke, fortuity, happenchance, eureka, happenstance, ka, kismet, serendipitous and 11 more...
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Egyptology
Things about ancient Egypt
osiris, horus, isis, nephthys, atum, geb, nut, shu, tefnut, set, anubis, wepwawet and 7 more...
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Annoying words that are surprisingly ...
Those foreign, abbreviated, hyphenated, or capitalized words that make you want to scream "aa" and throw the board at your opponent.
aa, za, qat, amu, tranq, memsahib, ka, jefe, biz, fem, qi, zaire and 3 more...
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Letters
See also The Phonetic alphabet by oroboros.
aye, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, eff, gee, aitch, eye, jay, kay and 452 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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Dr. Jamieson's Birds
A rich list of Scottish bird (nick)names and related terms cited in Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
stone-chatter, clocharet, bowger, coulter-neb, branchers, brissel-cock, turkey-cock, brongie, bubblyjock, polliecock, bullfit, bullfrench and 220 more...
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Fictional beasties
elf, gnome, dwarf, sprite, troll, fairy, nymph, imp, brownie, sasquatch, yeti, wookiee and 574 more...
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Words I like as names
It's exactly what it sounds like. And yeah, for real people as much as characters. Big surprise.
corbeau, alameda, hanabi, milk, promise, edelweiss, delphinium, jubilate, jubilance, jocoserious, arrow, angeles and 141 more...
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Acceptable two-letter Scrabble words
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 89 more...
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Field Mass
for the same
fanon, armet, wether, filibuster, shadoof, shabrack, mai, sainfoin, sand-crack, panoply, guerdon, flunky and 234 more...
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I Live a (SOWPODS) Hardscrabble Life
aa, ad, ae, ah, ai, am, an, ar, as, at, aw, ax and 168 more...
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arby's words
me default
shirty, kerfuffle, tenterhooks, susurrus, palimpsest, crimson, rufous, cicatrix, crepuscular, carapace, quaff, exanimate and 239 more...
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2 Letter Scrabble Words
All playable 2 letter Scrabble words from OSPD4
aa, ab, ad, ae, ag, ah, ai, al, am, an, ar, as and 87 more...
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legitimate scrabble words
favorite scrabble words to use on the oblivious
qua, id, el, la, ti, qat, ka, aah, aal, ae, aha, cel and 13 more...
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one
for the ones that roll off the tongue and reverberate in my mind
gazette, meridem, ante, mustard, fabricate, china, ceramic, kitties, strapper, droog, horrorshow, milk and 88 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for ka.
ruzuzu "1. The jackdaw.
2. See ca.
3. A variant of ko, for quoth (often for quoth he)."
--Century Dictionary Jan 4, 2011
apepch7 ka is an Ancient Egyptian word for the 'double', vitality or life force, represented by a pair of raised arms (possibly to embrace). Jun 2, 2008
arby I love this word. I don't know if it's the word itself or the concept that gets me. It's like karma or kismet but untainted by years of stupid hippies misusing it. May 9, 2007
arby Ka is the force in Stephen King's Dark Tower series that leads all living (and unliving) creatures. It is the will of Gan, the approximate equivalent of destiny, or fate, in the fictional language High Speech. It is the force that causes a destiny to happen, but is not necessarily impossible to surpass. Ka can be considered to be a guide, a destination, but is certainly not a plan - at least, not one that is known to mortals. Ka is not necessarily a force of good or evil; it manipulates both sides, and seems to have no definite morality of its own.
The official Dark Tower site describes ka as the following: "Ka... signifies life-force, consciousness, duty and destiny. In the vulgate, or low speech, it also means a place to which an individual must go." May 9, 2007