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ka¹
- /kɑː/
Sounds like car, carr, Carr, Karr (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɑː
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Egyptian kꜣ.
noun kas
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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.
Opposite: ha
ka²
- /kɑː/
Sounds like car, carr, Carr, Karr (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɑː
Where it comes from
Origin uncertain.
verb
- 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.
ka³
- /kɑː/
Sounds like car, carr, Carr, Karr (non-rhotic) · Rhymes with -ɑː
noun kas
- The name of the Cyrillic script letter К / к.
KA⁴
noun KAs
- Initialism of known associate
proper noun
- Abbreviation of Karnataka: a state of India.
proper noun the KA
- Initialism of King's Arms, a pub in Oxford.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: ptah, mandir, mela, tet, serai, oo, wei, heh, thana, bagh, ba, tila, chek, loo, lani, goda
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