kaak

• ka'k, kaʻk (stricter transliterations)
• ka'ak (nonstandard)

From Arabic كعك (“biscuit, cookie”). Likely a distant cognate with cake.

• IPA^(key): /kɑːk/

kaak (uncountable)

1. Any of a variety of Middle Eastern biscuits and baked goods, usually sweet.

kaak

1. crow (any bird of the genus Corvus)

• IPA^(key): /kaːk/

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• Hyphenation: kaak
• Rhymes: -aːk

From Proto-Germanic *kekǭ, *kēkǭ, *kakǭ, *kaukǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”).

kaak m or f (plural kaken, diminutive kaakje n)

1. jaw

   De tandarts onderzocht zijn kaak en constateerde een kleine scheur.

   The dentist examined his jaw and found a small crack.

2. cheek, cone

   Ze at een ijsje en voelde de kou op haar kaakjes.

   She ate an ice cream and felt the cold on her cheeks.

3. gill

   De vis had prachtige rode kaken

   The fish had beautiful red gills.

• Negerhollands: kaak, kak, kaek
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: kak (dated)

From Middle Dutch kaeck (“scaffold”), of obscure origin with no clues outside of Germanic; the non-Indo-European structure of a potential reconstruction *gVg- (two voiced consonants) may indicate a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European substrate language. German kak is borrowed from Low German.

kaak m or f (plural kaken, diminutive kaakje n)

2. pillory

• aan de kaak stellen

Borrowed from English cake. Doublet of cake.

kaak m or f (plural kaken, diminutive kaakje n)

1. ship biscuit

• The diminutive form kaakje is far more common and has a separate, more specific meaning of a (sweet) biscuit eaten alongside coffee or tea.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kaak

1. inflection of kaken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

From Proto-Eskimo *kaɣǝ-. Cognate with Inupiaq kauk (“walrus skin for food”).

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /kaak/, [kəːk]

kaak (plural kaat)

1. walrus skin