# kayak
## English
### Alternative forms

* kaiak, kiack, kyack, kyak, qayaq, kayack, qajaq

### Etymology

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈkaɪˌæk/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪæk

### Noun

kayak (plural kayaks)
* A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck

#### Derived terms

* kayak cross
* kayak polo
* kayak roll
* kayak slalom
* kayak sprint

#### See also

* canoe
* umiak

### Verb

kayak (third-person singular simple present kayaks, present participle kayaking, simple past and past participle kayaked)
* (intransitive) To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.
    Kayaking is an Olympic sport.
* (transitive) To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.
    On a dare, he kayaked the Harlem River in New York from Hell's Gate to Spyten Duyvil.

#### Derived terms

* kayaker
* kayaking
* kayakist

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* yakka

## Cebuano
### Etymology

From English kayak, borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ka‧yak

### Noun

kayak
* a kayak

### Verb

kayak
* to ride a kayak

## Cornish
### Noun

kayak
* kayak

### References

* http://www.cornishdictionary.org.uk/

## French
### Alternative forms

* kayac (rare)

### Etymology

From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ka.jak/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: kayaks
* Hyphenation: kayak

### Noun

kayak m (plural kayaks)
* kayak

#### Derived terms

* canoë-kayak
* canoé-kayak
* kayak de mer
* kayak de neige
* kayak de rivière
* kayak sur neige
* kayaker
* kayakeur
* kayakiste

### Further reading

* “kayak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Indonesian
### Etymology 1

From Betawi kayak, from Javanese ꦏꦪ (kaya, “like, such as”), from Old Javanese kaya (“like, as, as if, it looks as if”), from Pali काय (kāya), from Sanskrit क (ka, “similarity (suffix)”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈka.jaʔ]
* Hyphenation: ka‧yak

#### Adverb

kayak
* (colloquial) like, such as

##### Alternative forms

* kaya
* kek

##### Synonyms

* sebagai
* seperti

### Etymology 2

From Dutch kajak, from English kayak, from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈka.jak]
* Hyphenation: ka‧yak

#### Noun

kayak (plural kayak-kayak)
* (sports) kayak

### Further reading

* “kayak” 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.

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* cayac, caiaco (rare)

### Etymology

From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈjak/
* Rhymes: -ak
* Hyphenation: ka‧yàk

### Noun

kayak m (invariable)
* kayak

#### Derived terms

* kayakista

## Norman
### Etymology

Borrowed from English kayak.

### Noun

kayak m (plural kayaks)
* (Jersey) kayak

## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* kayac, cayac

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kaˈʝak/ [kaˈʝak]
* IPA: (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʝak/ [kaˈʝak]
* IPA: (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈʃak/ [kaˈʃak]
* IPA: (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʒak/ [kaˈʒak]
* Rhymes: -ak
* Syllabification: ka‧yak

### Noun

kayak m (plural kayaks)
* kayak

#### Derived terms

* kayakismo

### Further reading

* “kayak”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Turkish
### Etymology

From kay- +‎ -ak.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ka‧yak

### Noun

kayak (definite accusative kayağı, plural kayaklar)
* ski

#### Declension
## Volapük
### Noun

kayak (nominative plural kayaks)
* kayak

#### Declension

* $^1$ status as a case is disputed
* $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only