# raka
## Balinese
### Romanization

raka
* Romanization of ᬭᬓ

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈraka]

### Noun

raka
* genitive/accusative singular of rak

## Faroese
### Verb

raka (third person singular past indicative rakti, third person plural past indicative rakað, supine rakað)
* to hit, to strike

#### Conjugation
### Verb

raka (third person singular past indicative rakaði, third person plural past indicative rakað, supine rakað)
* to shave

#### Conjugation
## Garo
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

raka
* to be bright, to be hard

### Etymology 2

From raka (“to be hard”), symbolising how the alphabet represents a hard sound.

#### Noun

raka
* the name of an alphabet in Garo, symbolised by a dot or apostrophe representing the glottal stop.

## Gothic
### Romanization

raka
* Romanization of 𐍂𐌰𐌺𐌰

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraːka/
    Rhymes: -aːka

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

raka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative rakaði, supine rakað)
* to rake
* to shave

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

raka
* indefinite accusative singular of raki
* indefinite dative singular of raki
* indefinite genitive singular of raki

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

raka
* indefinite genitive plural of rök

## Javanese
### Romanization

raka
* Romanization of ꦫꦏ

## Karelian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian рак (rak).

### Noun

raka (genitive rakan, partitive [please provide])
* (pathology) cancer
    häńeĺĺä oĺi raka, rakan tuattši hiän kuoĺi. ― He died because he had cancer.

### References

* Pertti Virtaranta, Raija Koponen (2009) “raka”, in Marja Torikka, editor, Karjalan kielen sanakirja‎, Helsinki: Kotus, →ISSN

## Latvian
### Verb

raka
* third-person singular/plural past indicative of rakt

## Lower Sorbian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈraka/

### Noun

raka
* genitive singular of rak
* accusative singular of rak
* nominative dual of rak

## Maori
### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *laka₁ (compare with Tahitian raʻa, Samoan laʻa and laʻalaʻa, and Tongan laka “to step, to march, to move forward, to proceed”) from Proto-Oceanic *laka (compare with Fijian laka) from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *laŋkaq (compare with Malay langkah)

### Verb

raka
* to step on something
    Synonym: hikoi

### Noun

raka
* step, walk, trek
    Synonym: hīkoi

### Derived terms

* whakaraka

### References

* ↑ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “laka.1”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
* ↑ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (2016) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volumes 5: People, body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 394

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English lock.

### Noun

raka
* lock

### References

* Williams, Herbert William (1917) “raka”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 373
* “raka” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Alternative forms

* rake (all senses)
* råkkå (to rake or shave, Trøndelag dialect)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /²rɑːkɑ/

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Norse raka. Similar to Swedish raka (“to rake or shave”). Akin to English rake.

#### Verb

raka (present tense rakar, past tense raka, past participle raka, passive infinitive rakast, present participle rakande, imperative raka/rak)
* to rake (use a rake on leaves, a lawn, etc.)
* to shave

### Etymology 2

From Middle Low German [Term?].

#### Verb

raka
* to concern (mainly used in the negative sense)
    Det rakar deg ikkje.It does not concern you / It is none of your business.

### References

* “raka” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Javanese
### Etymology

Affixed ra- +‎ aka (“elder sibling”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ra.ka/

### Noun

raka
* elder sibling

#### Alternative forms

* rāka

#### Descendants

* Javanese: ꦫꦏ (raka)
* → Balinese: ᬭᬓ (raka)

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *raką.

### Verb

raka
* to scrape

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: raka
* → Middle English: raken, rakyn
** English: rake
** Yola: raak

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “raka”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
* Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Dutch raken.

### Verb

raka
* to hit

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈra.ka/
* Rhymes: -aka
* Syllabification: ra‧ka

### Noun

raka m
* genitive/accusative singular of rak

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

raka (Cyrillic spelling рака)
* genitive/accusative singular of rak

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

raka
* inflection of rak:
** definite singular
** plural

### Noun

raka c
* a (long) straight section of a road
    Antonyms: kurva, krök
* a rake; a garden tool

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | raka | rakas |
| singular | definite | rakan | rakans |
| plural | indefinite | rakor | rakors |
| plural | definite | rakorna | rakornas |

### Verb

raka (present rakar, preterite rakade, supine rakat, imperative raka)
* (transitive) to shave
    Han rakade sig innan han gick till jobbet.He shaved before going to work.
* to rake; to use a garden rake on (leaves etc.)

#### Derived terms

* rakapparat
* raklödder
* rakning
* rakvatten
* renraka

#### See also

* kratta
* rafsa
* räfsa

## Ternate
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɾa.ka]

#### Noun

raka
* husband

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɾa.ka]

#### Verb

raka
* (stative) to be funny

##### Conjugation
### References

* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh