# waka
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 和歌 (waka), from Middle Chinese 和 (ɣwa), a gloss for 倭 (ʔwa, “Japan”) + 歌 (ka, “song”).

#### Noun

waka (plural wakas or waka)
* (poetry) A kind of classical Japanese poem.
** 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 122:“Hey, look. There's one of those Jap waka poems on the back of this cigarette package.”

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori waka.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwɒkə/, /ˈwʌkə/
* Rhymes: -ɒkə, -ʌkə

#### Noun

waka (plural wakas or waka)
* (New Zealand) A Maori canoe.

##### Derived terms

* waka-jumper
* waka-jumping

### See also

* waka gashira

### Anagrams

* kawa

## Aymara
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Cognate with Jaqaru waka.

### Noun

waka
* cow

## Balantak
### Noun

waka
* body

### References

* Robert Busenitz & Daniel Bradbury (2016). Balantak Dictionary – waka. SIL International.

## Bintulu
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wakaʀ.

### Noun

waka
* root (of plant)

### References

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wakaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Chamicuro
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

### Noun

waka
* cow

## Chickasaw
### Verb

waka
* to fly

## Fijian
### Noun

waka
* root
    Synonym: vu

## Hawaiian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwa.ka/, [ˈʋɐ.kə]

### Verb

waka
* to flash
* (stative) sharp

## Jamamadí
### Verb

waka
* (Banawá) to break

### References

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

## Japanese
### Romanization

waka
* Rōmaji transcription of わか

## Jaqaru
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca. Cognate with Aymara waka.

### Noun

waka
* cow

### References

Martha James Hardman. (1996) Jaqaru: Outline of phonological and morphological structure, page 74.

## Katukina
### Noun

waka
* water

### References

* Maria Sueli de Aguiar, Elementos de descrição sintatica para uma gramatica do Katukina, page 49, 1988

## Manchu
### Romanization

waka
* Romanization of ᠸᠠᡴᠠ

## Maori
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *waka.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wa.ka/, [wɐ.kɐ]

### Noun

waka
* boat, canoe
* vehicle, conveyance
* transport

#### Derived terms

* tūnga waka

#### Descendants

* → English: waka

## Mapudungun
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

### Noun

waka (Raguileo spelling)
* cow

### References

* Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

## Nigerian Pidgin
### Etymology

Corruption of English walk.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wàka/

### Verb

waka
* to walk
    You go waka sha.You're going to walk.
** (Can we date this quote?), Anthonia Ujene, “Count animals”, in Storybooks African Languages‎:Five Impales and six pigs dey waka go d water.Five impalas and six warthogs are walking to the water.

## Palu'e
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *wakaʀ.

### Noun

waka
* root (of plant)

### References

* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*wakaR”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

## Pijin
### Etymology

From English work.

### Noun

waka
* work; labor; job

## Polish
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* (Greater Poland):
** (Southern Greater Poland) IPA: /ˈva.ka/

### Noun

waka f
* (Southern Greater Poland) old bitch (old female dog)

### Further reading

* Oskar Kolberg (1877) “waka”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 32

## Quechua
### Etymology 1
#### Alternative forms

* wak'a (Cuzco-Collao)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwa.ka/
** (Ayacucho) IPA: [ˈwa.ka]
** (Cuzco-Collao) IPA: [ˈwa.kʼa]

#### Adjective

waka
* sacred
* (historical) sublime; horrifying

#### Noun

waka
* an Andean guardian deity
    Near-synonym: willka
* sanctuary: both natural, like a sacred rock or crevice, and artificial, like a building.
* (historical) a votive offering

##### Descendants

* → Spanish: huaca

##### References

Cerrón-Palomino, Rodolfo (2013) Tras las huellas del Inca Garcilaso: el lenguaje como hermenéutica en la comprensión del pasado [Following the footsteps of Inca Garcilaso: Language as hermeneutics in the understanding of the past], Boston: Latinoamericana Editories; CELACP; Revista de Crítica Literaria Latinoamericana, →DOI

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish vaca.

#### Noun

waka
* (Cuzco-Collao) Alternative form of baka

##### Declension
## Remontado Agta
### Noun

waká
* rattan

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-waka (infinitive kuwaka)
* to burn, be in flames
* to shine

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -waka :
| Positive present | -nawaka |
| Subjunctive | -wake |
| Negative | -waki |
| Imperative singular | waka |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kuwaka |
| Negative | kutowaka |
Imperatives :
| Singular | waka |
| Plural | wakeni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | huwaka |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -liwaka |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kuwaka |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tawaka |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tawaka |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -siwake |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngewaka |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singewaka |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngaliwaka |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singaliwaka |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mewaka |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshawaka |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jawaka |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kiwaka |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipowaka |
| Consecutive | kawaka / positive subject concord + -kawaka |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kawake |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Causative: -washa (“to set something on fire”)

## Yanomamö
### Noun

waka
* giant armadillo, Priodontes maximus

### References

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