maka

From Hawaiian maka. Doublet of mata-mata (“police officer”), from Malay mata-mata (“eyes”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑkə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːkə

maka (plural makas)

1. (chiefly Hawaii) eye

   Getting my makas checked so I can actually SEE! Maybe life will be clear with a new set of "eyes".

   I felt the warm water, my makas looked into the sky. Thank you for my love of my islands.

   • 1989, Newspaper Guild Convention, Proceedings ... Annual Convention, page 177:

     He may be weak in his makas, his eyes, but he has been blessed by an excess in his mana'o, his mind.

   • 2000, Fred Wei-han Ho, Legacy to Liberation, →ISBN:

     da rain an da makas yeh, da eyes, da makas dat luk da mowntans an spak da new hi'way runnin tru da vallee da eyes dat see nottin' but one beeg town ...

   • 2007, Victor Rodger, Sons, →ISBN, page 77:

     Open your makas, man!

• Kama, kama

maka

1. to give.

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ka/, [ˈmɐ.kə]

From Proto-Polynesian *mata. Cognates include Maori mata and Tahitian mata.

maka

1. (anatomy) eye (organ)
2. face
3. bud
4. beloved one
5. mesh of a net

• waimaka (“tears”)

• → English: maka

From Proto-Polynesian *mata. Cognates include Maori mata and Tokelauan mata.

maka

1. (stative) raw (undercooked)

• Rhymes: -aːka

maka

1. inflection of maki:
   1. indefinite accusative
   2. indefinite dative singular
   3. indefinite genitive

maka

1. indefinite genitive of mök

From Malay maka.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaka/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ka
• Rhymes: -ka, -a

maka

1. so
2. therefore

The most often used phrase to mean "therefore" is "maka dari itu".

• “maka” 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.

maka

1. (Banawá) snake

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

maka

1. Rōmaji transcription of まか

maka m

1. genitive singular of maks

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaka/

maka

1. inflection of mak:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative dual

Borrowing from English mug.

maka

1. throw, fling, cast, pass (with the hands)
2. place, put, put in

   Makaia ai ngā purapura ki roto i te awa kia kuhu tahi me ngā wātakirihi, hei te wā e hauhakea ai he huaranga kau i ngā pūtake o ngā wātakirihi e kohia ana.

   Place the tubers in the stream to join with the watercress, and at the time of harvest, transplant the roots of the watercress you are collecting.

maka

1. fish hook

   Nā, ka mea kia tukua ngā aho o ngā tukana, ka motokia tōna ihu e Māui; taratīa ana te toto. Ka rere, ka taratī te karukaru, ka pōtaea ki runga ki tōna maka hei mounu.

   Now, when his older brothers let out their lines, Māui punched his nose and blood spurted out. The blood flowed, spurting out and he smeared it on his his fish-hook as bait.

maka

1. mug

   He maka e 2 kapa, e 4 kapa.

   Mugs, twopence or four pence.

See maki (“match, partner”)

maka f (genitive mǫku)

1. female mate

• maki m

• Icelandic: maka f
• Swedish: maka c

maka

1. accusative/dative/genitive singular of maki

• “maka”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Nahuan *maka, from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *makaC. Compare Classical Nahuatl maca (“to give”).

• (Izalco) IPA^(key): /ˈmaka/
• (Witzapan) IPA^(key): /ˈmaɣa/

-maka

1. (transitive) to give

   Musta nimetzmaka ne seuk tumin.

   Tomorrow I will give you the rest of the money.

2. (transitive, informal) to punish; to hit

   Kimakak ne tekwani wan kimimiluj.

   She/he hit the jaguar and knocked it down.

• (shortened) -ma

maka

1. Negative imperative marker

   Maka shimutalukan kalijtik

   Don't run inside (the house)

• (shortened) mā

Compare Jamaican Creole macca, Jamaican Creole macka.

maka

1. thorn, barb, spine, spike

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːˌka/

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From Old Swedish maka, oblique form of maki, from Old Norse maki, from Proto-Germanic *makô. Doublet of make.

maka c

1. spouse; wife; married woman

• fru
• hustru

• make
• man

• kaka söker maka

From Middle Low German maken, from Old Saxon makōn, see also German machen.

maka (present makar, preterite makade, supine makat, imperative maka)

1. To move (slightly) a big, heavy or otherwise difficult-to-move object.
2. To move oneself slightly, for example to make room for someone in a sofa or allow someone to reach objects behind oneself

   Kan du maka (på) dig lite så att jag får plats?

   Could you move over a bit to make space for me?

• masa

• maka in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• maka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• maka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• maka in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

• IPA^(key): /ma.ka/

maka

1. rock; stone.

From Tibetan རྨ་ཁ (rma kha).

• IPA^(key): [mɑkʰɑ]

maka

1. wound

• Juha Janhunen, Marja Peltomaa, Erika Sandman, Xiawu Dongzhou (2008) Wutun (LINCOM's Descriptive Grammar Series), volume 466, LINCOM Europa, →ISBN

maka

1. stomach, belly

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