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Kafka

Syllables: Kaf·kaUK/ˈkæfkə/US/ˈkɑfkɑ/

Kafka proper noun: a surname from German.

Proper noun

Kafka

  1. A surname from German.
  2. Franz Kafka (1883–1924), a German-language writer from Prague.

Origin of Kafka

From German Kafka, from Czech German Kavka (“jackdaw”), from either Upper Sorbian or Lower Sorbian, which are ultimately from the Proto-Slavic *kavъka, imitating the call of a jackdaw. Compare Polish kawka, Czech kavka, Slovene kávka, all meaning “jackdaw”.

Words formed from Kafka

Questions about Kafka

What does Kafka mean?
Kafka means a surname from German.
What part of speech is Kafka?
Kafka is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Kafka?
Kafka is pronounced /ˈkæfkə/ (UK).

Words near Kafka in the dictionary

  1. kafirs
  2. Kafirstan
  3. kafis
  4. kafiz
  5. kafizes
  6. Kafka
  7. Kafkaesque
  8. Kafkaesquely
  9. Kafkaesqueness
  10. Kafkaian
  11. Kafkaish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kafka (page history and authors). 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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