weka

== English == === Etymology === From Māori weka. === Noun === weka (plural wekas) (New Zealand) Gallirallus australis, a flightless bird of New Zealand in the family Rallidae with brown plumage. Synonyms: Maori hen, woodhen 1964, Forest and Bird (issues 151-170, page 15) […] riroriros would be twittering overhead, with a shy weka peeping round a tree trunk. Wekas were very common then; they were our weather forecasters. Before rain their calls were always louder and repeated more frequently. === Anagrams === Wake, wake, weak == Dutch == === Etymology === From Māori weka. === Pronunciation === === Noun === weka m (plural wekas, diminutive wekaatje n) woodhen, weka, Gallirallus australis Hypernym: ral === Further reading === weka on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl == Māori == === Etymology === From Proto-Polynesian *weka (“rail”). Cognate with Samoan ve'a, Tongan veka. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈweka/ [ˈwɛkɐ] === Noun === weka woodhen (Gallirallus australis) ==== Descendants ==== → Dutch: weka → English: weka === Further reading === John C. Moorfield (2011), “weka”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN == Polish == === Alternative forms === wek === Etymology === Borrowed from Austrian German Wecken. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈvɛ.ka/ Rhymes: -ɛka Syllabification: we‧ka === Noun === weka f (Kraków) veka (type of pastry made of wheat flour, produced in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, similar to a French baguette but wider, bigger, and fluffier, and with a smoother surface) Synonyms: angielka, baton, bina, bułka paryska, gryzka, kawiorka, sztangielka ==== Declension ==== === Further reading === “weka”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN weka in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego == Swahili == === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-béeka. === Pronunciation === === Verb === -weka (infinitive kuweka) to put to establish to keep to delay ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== Verbal derivations: Applicative: -wekea Causative: -wekesha Passive: -wekwa Reciprocal: -wekana Stative: -wekeka Nominal derivations: uwekaji (“placing, putting”) == Ye'kwana == === Etymology === From Proto-Cariban *weka (“to defecate”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [weka] === Verb === weka (intransitive) to poop, to defecate ==== Derived terms ==== wekatojo === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “weka”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[2], Lyon