ka
/kɑː/
ka noun: the aspect of a person’s soul or being that sustains their existence, roughly the life-force, sometimes pictured as a double of the person.
Noun (1)
ka (plural kas)
- The aspect of a person’s soul or being that sustains their existence, roughly the life-force, sometimes pictured as a double of the person.
- Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done.1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings
- Hence Dorian's portrait is like the ka or double of the deceased in Egyptian tombs, heaped with toys and furniture.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae
- Antonyms:
- ha
Verb
ka
- To serve or help; used only in the phrase "Ka me, ka thee" or variants thereof.
- Now nature stood ever on this point, Kæ mee Ile kæ thee, and ever ready to bee even alwaies on recompences and vicissitude of things, and to give as good as one brings.1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.5
- Ka me, ka thee, is a proverb all over the world.1821 January 8, [Walter Scott], Kenilworth; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; and John Ballantyne, […]; London: Hurst, Robinson...
Noun (2)
ka (plural kas)
- The name of the Cyrillic script letter К / к.
Noun (3) capitalized: KA
KA (plural KAs)
Proper noun (1) capitalized: KA
KA
Proper noun (2) capitalized: KA
the KA
- Initialism of King's Arms, a pub in Oxford.
ka meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Telugu and Malayalam
ka in Tamil
- கா
ka in Telugu
- కా
ka in Malayalam
- കാ, കാ എന്നതിലേക്ക്
More languagesFewer languages
- ka in Kannada
- ಕಾ
- ka in Punjabi
- ਕਾ
- ka in Gujarati
- કા
- ka in Odia
- କା
Examples of ka in a sentence
- ZS (Zelena Stranka, Party of Zagorje) competed in the City of Zagreb, Zagrebačka, and Krapinsko-zagorska counties.
- All his attacks were overhead strikes, a piece of cake to any aikidōka.
- I am grateful that she shares her firsthand accounts and perspectives as a Kanien’kehá:ka woman.
Antonyms of ka
Forms of ka
| plural | kas |
|---|---|
| plural | KAs |
Origin of ka
Borrowed from Egyptian kꜣ.
Origin uncertain.
Words formed from ka
Phrases with ka
Words that rhyme with ka
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- Moskva
- Nansha
- rah
- shikar
- ah
- aha
- alhamdulillah
- Amapá
- Benoit
- Bogotá
- fa
- galah
- goombah
- huzzah
- inshallah
- Jah
- la
- lah-di-dah
- ma
- moire
- mudra
- ménage à trois
- na
- omertà
- ooh la la
- pa
- schwa
- shah
- Shangri-La
- sis boom bah
- ta
- wah
- Xisha
- 'za
- allah
- ar
- arthra
- Aymara
- baa
- bah
- Bogota
- boyar
- bra
- cha
- cha cha cha
- chamar
- che sara sara
- chicken paw
Questions about ka
- What does ka mean?
- Ka means the aspect of a person’s soul or being that sustains their existence, roughly the life-force, sometimes pictured as a double of the person.
- What is ka in Tamil?
- Ka in Tamil is கா. See Ka meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ka?
- Ka can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce ka?
- Ka is pronounced /kɑː/.
- What is the plural of ka?
- The plural of ka is kas.
Words near ka in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: ka (page history and authors); KA (page history and authors); ka (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ka (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ka (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ka (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ka (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ka (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ka (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ka (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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