kodak

Genericization of the trademark Kodak.

kodak (plural kodaks)

1. (dated) A camera: a device for taking still photographs.
   • 1893, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Utopia, Limited:

     To diagnose / Our modest pose / The Kodaks do their best

   • 1911 June, Jack London, chapter 17, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:

     Charmian and Martin brought up the rear, armed with kodaks. We dived under the avocado trees […] and came on a spot that satisfied Martin's photographic eye.

2. (dated) A still photograph.
   • 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70:

     There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; […]

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 338:

     You may consult the kodaks taken at my arrest if you are curious, Archivist.

kodak (third-person singular simple present kodaks, present participle kodaking, simple past and past participle kodaked)

1. (transitive, dated) To photograph.
   • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat:

     A knot of obviously American tourists were kodaking his lodge-gates.

2. (transitive, dated) To describe or characterise briefly and vividly.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kodak.

• dokka

Genericization of the trademark Kodak.

• Hyphenation: ko‧dak

kodak

1. a camera; a device for taking still photographs

kodak

1. to take a photograph
2. to have one's photograph taken

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kodak.

From Kodak.

kodak

1. camera

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

From Kodak.

kodak

1. camera

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Borrowed from English kodak, genericized trademark from Kodak.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkodak/, [ˈko.dɐk]
• Hyphenation: ko‧dak

kodak (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇᜃ᜔) (dated)

1. (broadly) camera (device for taking photographs)

   Synonym: kamera

2. (strictly) small portable camera (especially from Kodak)

• “kodak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 93

• IPA^(key): /koˈdak/

From Ottoman Turkish قودق (koduk),[1][2] قودق (kodak, “donkey colt”)[3]

kodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)

1. (Bulgaristan Türkleri Kocaeli, Çorum, Van, Kerkük) colt

Possibly from Middle Turkish koduk. Several etymologies may be mixed here.

kodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)

1. family
2. (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) shelter[4]
3. (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) home[4]
4. (Aydın) follower
5. (Çorum) a child who is tied to his/her mother's apron strings