kayak

English

A modern kayak.

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^(key): /ˈkaɪˌæk/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪæk

Noun

kayak (plural kayaks)

1. 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

 

Translations

a type of small boat

• Aleut: iqyax̂, iĝyax̂, iyĝax̂
• Armenian: կայակ (kayak), բայդարկա (hy) (baydarka)
• Carpathian Rusyn: каяк m (kajak)
• Catalan: caiac (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 皮艇 (zh) (pítǐng), 獨木舟／独木舟 (zh) (dúmùzhōu)

• Czech: kajak (cs) m
• Danish: kajak (da) n
• Dutch: kajak (nl) m
• Esperanto: kajako
• Evenki: kajuk
• Faroese: kajakk f
• Finnish: kajakki (fi)
• French: kayak (fr) m
• Georgian: ბაიდარა (baidara)
• German: Kajak (de) n
• Greenlandic: qajaq
• Hungarian: kajak (hu)
• Icelandic: kajak (is) m
• Ido: kayako (io)
• Indonesian: kayak (id)
• Inuktitut: ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq)
• Inupiaq: qayaq
• Japanese: カヤック (ja) (kayakku)
• Kazakh: қылқайық (qylqaiyq)
• Khmer: កាយ៉ាក់ (kaayak)
• Korean: 카약 (kayak)
• Kyrgyz: байдарка (ky) (baydarka), каяк (ky) (kayak)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: kajaks m
• Maori: kōreti
• North Alaskan Inupiatun: ^{(please verify)} qayaq
• Northern Khanty: ^{(please verify)} кайэк (kajek) a "large boat"
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kajakk m

  Nynorsk: kajakk m

• Old Turkic: qajiq (qajiq)
• Persian: کایاک (kâyâk), قایق (fa) (qâyeq)
• Polish: kajak (pl) m
• Portuguese: caiaque (pt) m
• Russian: байда́рка (ru) f (bajdárka), кая́к (ru) m (kaják)
• Scottish Gaelic: caidheag m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ка̏ја̄к m

  Roman: kȁjāk (sh) m

• Slovene: kájak (sl) m
• Spanish: kayak (es) m, kayac m, cayac m
• Swedish: kajak (sv)
• Thai: เรือเล็กๆ (reua lék lék), เรือบด (reua bòt)
• Turkish: eskimo kayığı, kayık (tr), tekne (tr)
• Upper Sorbian: kajak m
• Volapük: kayak (vo)
• Yup'ik: qayaq, paitaalek

See also

• canoe
• umiak

Verb

kayak (third-person singular simple present kayaks, present participle kayaking, simple past and past participle kayaked)

1. (intransitive) To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.

   Kayaking is an Olympic sport.

2. (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

to use a kayak to travel or race

• Dutch: kajakken (nl)
• Finnish: meloa (fi), meloa kajakilla, kajakoida
• French: kayaker (fr)
• Maori: kōreti, hoe kōreti
• Swedish: paddla (sv)
• Upper Sorbian: kajakować impf

to traverse a body of water by kayak

• Finnish: meloa (fi), meloa kajakilla, kajakoida
• Maori: kōreti, hoe kōreti c
• Upper Sorbian: kajakować impf

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

1. a kayak

Verb

kayak

1. to ride a kayak

Cornish

Noun

kayak

1. kayak

References

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

French

un kayak

Alternative forms

• kayac (rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.jak/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: kayaks
• Hyphenation: kayak

Noun

kayak m (plural kayaks)

1. 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^(key): [ˈka.jaʔ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧yak

Adverb

kayak

1. (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^(key): [ˈka.jak]
• Hyphenation: ka‧yak

Noun

kayak (first-person possessive kayakku, second-person possessive kayakmu, third-person possessive kayaknya)

1. (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^(key): /kaˈjak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Hyphenation: ka‧yàk

Noun

kayak m (invariable)

1. kayak

Derived terms

• kayakista

 

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English kayak.

Noun

kayak m (plural kayaks)

1. (Jersey) kayak

Spanish

Alternative forms

• kayac, cayac

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /kaˈʝak/ [kaˈʝak]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʝak/ [kaˈʝak]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /kaˈʃak/ [kaˈʃak]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /kaˈʒak/ [kaˈʒak]

• Rhymes: -ak
• Syllabification: ka‧yak

Noun

kayak m (plural kayaks)

1. kayak

Derived terms

• kayakismo

 

Further reading

• “kayak”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28

Turkish

Etymology

From kay- +‎ -ak.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ka‧yak

Noun

kayak (definite accusative kayağı, plural kayaklar)

1. ski

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	kayak
Definite accusative	kayağı
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kayak	kayaklar
Definite accusative	kayağı	kayakları
Dative	kayağa	kayaklara
Locative	kayakta	kayaklarda
Ablative	kayaktan	kayaklardan
Genitive	kayağın	kayakların
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular kayağım kayaklarım 2nd singular kayağın kayakların 3rd singular kayağı kayakları 1st plural kayağımız kayaklarımız 2nd plural kayağınız kayaklarınız 3rd plural kayakları kayakları Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular kayağımı kayaklarımı 2nd singular kayağını kayaklarını 3rd singular kayağını kayaklarını 1st plural kayağımızı kayaklarımızı 2nd plural kayağınızı kayaklarınızı 3rd plural kayaklarını kayaklarını Dative Singular Plural 1st singular kayağıma kayaklarıma 2nd singular kayağına kayaklarına 3rd singular kayağına kayaklarına 1st plural kayağımıza kayaklarımıza 2nd plural kayağınıza kayaklarınıza 3rd plural kayaklarına kayaklarına Locative Singular Plural 1st singular kayağımda kayaklarımda 2nd singular kayağında kayaklarında 3rd singular kayağında kayaklarında 1st plural kayağımızda kayaklarımızda 2nd plural kayağınızda kayaklarınızda 3rd plural kayaklarında kayaklarında Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular kayağımdan kayaklarımdan 2nd singular kayağından kayaklarından 3rd singular kayağından kayaklarından 1st plural kayağımızdan kayaklarımızdan 2nd plural kayağınızdan kayaklarınızdan 3rd plural kayaklarından kayaklarından Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular kayağımın kayaklarımın 2nd singular kayağının kayaklarının 3rd singular kayağının kayaklarının 1st plural kayağımızın kayaklarımızın 2nd plural kayağınızın kayaklarınızın 3rd plural kayaklarının kayaklarının

Volapük

Noun

kayak (nominative plural kayaks)

1. kayak

Declension

declension of kayak

	singular	plural
nominative	kayak	kayaks
genitive	kayaka	kayakas
dative	kayake	kayakes
accusative	kayaki	kayakis
vocative 1	o kayak!	o kayaks!
predicative 2	kayaku	kayakus

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