# kinda
## English
### Etymology 1

Written form of a reduction (apocope) or pronunciation spelling of kind of.

#### Alternative forms

* kinder

#### Pronunciation

* (US) IPA: /ˈkaɪndə/
** Audio (US):(file)
* (also) IPA: /ˈkaɪnə/
* Rhymes: -aɪnə

#### Adverb

kinda (not comparable)
* (colloquial) Kind of; somewhat.
    Synonym: sorta
    I kinda hafta do this right now.
    That’s kinda funny.
** 1912 October 12, Courtney Ryley Cooper, “Somewhere Safe to Sea”, in Collier’s, volume 50, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 18:But when I spoke about it he just smiled and shook his head, and started whistling to himself kinda soft.
** 1920 April 10 – August 28, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, chapter 11, in The Little Warrior [Jill the Reckless], New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 8 October 1920, →OCLC, section 1, page 194:… He got on Forty-second Street, and he was kinda fresh from the start. At Sixty-sixth he came sasshaying right down the car and said ‘Hello, patootie!’ Well, I drew myself up …
** 2006, Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent, Same Kind of Different as Me, page 13:In those days, flour sacks was kinda purty. They might come printed up with flowers on em, or birds.
** 2010, Eric Anthony Galvez, Reversal: When a Therapist Becomes a Patient, page 37:The facial expression on my mask kinda looks like Han Solo in the carbonite …

#### Contraction

kinda (plural kindsa)
* (colloquial) Contraction of kind of.
** 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 128:Carmiesha had never once busted him in a lie, and she never had no kinda drama with him and no other chick. She damn sure couldn't say that for Dre.
** 2008, Jacob Curtis, The Song Itself: A Gnostic Remembrance, page 68:What kinda music do ya want ta play? Do ya want volume or somethin' more subtle?

##### Derived terms

* kinda sorta
* some kinda
* sorta kinda

#### Interjection

kinda
* Yes in some respects but no in other respects.
    "Are you afraid of a little bit of rain?" "Kinda, yeah."
** 2000, Ken Wells, Meely LaBauve, New York: Random House, →ISBN, page 212:Ah, I see. Meely doesn't tease you. You're best friends, is that right? / Kinda.

### Etymology 2

After the town of Kinda, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɪndə/
** Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪndə

#### Noun

kinda (plural kindas)
* A subspecies of baboon, Papio cynocephalus kindae, primarily found in Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and possibly western Tanzania.
** 2006, The National Geographic Magazine, volume 212, numbers 4-6, page 18:In the wild, when a baboon called a kinda pairs with a chacma or yellow baboon, their progeny is still a baboon — but it's a hybrid of interest to Society grantees Jane Phillips-Conroy and Clifford Jolly, who are tracking gene flow in Zambia's South Luangwa National Park.

### Anagrams

* Adkin, Dakin, Dinka, kadin

## Old Norse
### Noun

kinda
* genitive plural of kind

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

kinda class V (plural makinda class VI)
* chick (young bird)

## Vlax Romani
### Noun

kinda f
* (Lovara) kitchen

### References

* “kinda” in Lovara Romani-English Dictionary, ROMLEX – the Romani Lexicon Project, 2000.