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Clipping of Catalan català or English Catalan.

ca

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Catalan.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Catalan terms

ca

1. Alternative spelling of ca., circa.

• A.C., a-c, ac., ℀, ac-, ac, a/c, AC, -ac, Ac, a.c., A/C

From Proto-Great Andamanese *ciəp.

ca

1. belt
2. band
3. sling

ca

1. to adjoin
2. to fasten

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 20 & 22 (2009)

• disa

From the contracted form of disa, dsa.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /t͡sa/

ca (dative cave)

1. some

   Synonyms: disa, çëdo

• caherë
• cath
• doca
• ndoca
• cazë
• capak
• paksa

• sa
• di

From Proto-Eskimo *cu(na)- base, “nothing, anything”

ca

1. I don’t know

   Cacaq ang’aqurtau’u? -Ca.

   What is she carrying? -I don’t know.

• Fortescue, Michael. Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates. Alaska Native Language Center, 2010
• Leer, Jeff. Classroom Grammar of Koniag Alutiiq, Kodiak Island Dialect, Volume 1, Alaska Native Language Center, 1990

From Latin quia.

ca

1. (literary, archaic except in Meridional) because

   Nun mientas, ca dir foi.

   Don't lie, because he did go.

   • c. 1650, Antón de Marirreguera, Dido y Eneas:

     Ca inda son piores q'estudiantes.

     Because they are even worse than students.

Shortening of casa from Latin casa.

ca f (plural cas)

1. (in certain contexts) house

   Taben en ca Xuan

   They were at Xuan's house

The form ca is used only before a proper noun or pronoun, usually the house's owner, and is equivalent to saying "casa de". Additionally, the form "p'en ca" would be equivalent to "pa casa de" (for X's house) and "an ca" would be equivalent to "contra casa de" (towards X's house).

Esta ye ca Antón ― This is Antón's house

Esta casa ye d'Antón ― This house is Antón's

Esta comida ye p'en ca Antón ― This food is for Antón's house

Esta comida ye pa la casa onde vive Antón ― This food is for the house where Antón resides

ca

1. (Central) pronunciation spelling of cada

ca

1. alternative form of acá

¡ca!

1. interjection of negation (no way!) or incredulity

   -¿Vas pa la sablera comigo? -¡Cá! Ye mui peligroso con esti tiempu

   Are you going to the beach with me? -No way! It's too dangerous with this weather

• “ca (conjunction)”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• “ca (noun)”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• “ca (interjection)”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “ca (conjunction)”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “ca (noun)”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
• García Arias, Xosé Lluis (2002–2004), “ca (interjection)”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (overall work in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN

From Proto-Austronesian *əsa.

ca

1. one

From Proto-Northern Jê *ga (“to roast (singular)”), from Proto-Cerrado *ga (“to roast (singular)”), from Proto-Jê [Term?], from Proto-Macro-Jê *ap .

• IPA^(key): /ka/

ca (cu-class; non-finite xàr)

1. roast on embers (singular)

   Incrô na imã tep ca.

   Roast a fish (wrapped up in banana leaves) on the embers for me.

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈka]

• Audio (Catalonia):

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Inherited from Latin canis, canem (“dog”).

ca m (plural cans)

1. dog

   Synonym: gos m

• This term is used in Catalonia or Valencia only in stock phrases, with gos (feminine gossa) being the term generally used for a dog.
• In the Balearics, ca has retained its use as the primary word for a dog. However, instead of a feminine of ca, *cana, being used for a female dog, in the Balearics, cussa, the feminine of cus (“little dog”) is used.
• Note also that those breeds of dogs that originated in the Balearics use ca and not gos to form name of the breed.

• (Balearics) cus m (“little dog”), (Balearics) cussa f (“female dog”)
• gos m (“male dog”), gossa f (“female dog”)

ca f (plural cas)

1. the letter K (lowercase k)

• The letter K is not used in native Catalan words and thus its presence in a word is a fairly reliable indicator of a recent import.

Apocopated form of casa. Compare French chez, Spanish ca, Italian ca'.

ca

1. the house (of)

   Anem a ca la Maria. ― We are going to Maria’s house.

   Aquell casalot és cal Ramon. ― That mansion is Ramon’s house.

   Parlem català a ca nostra. ― We speak Catalan at our house.

• When followed by one of the articles el, els, en, and es, the word ca contracts with them into cal, cals, can, and cas, respectively.

• cal, cals, can, cas

ca

1. To be.

• IPA^(key): /ka/

ca

1. fence

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

ca

1. to be in a location

Ca is an irregular verb; its plural form is cate.

ca

Used in affirmative statements.

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ca (plural caak)

1. milk (from cattle)

• anuɔu (“colostrum”)
• areu (“residual milk”)
• ayok (“milk foam”)
• duɛt (“milk in one's mouth”)
• gueer (“fresh milk”)
• pou (“raw, unpasteurised milk”)

• Roger Blench (2005), Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[1], page 33

• IPA^(key): /ˈka/
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ca

ca

1. (Valverdeñu) alternative form of acá (“here”)

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web), 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 71

From Proto-Central Pacific *caqa, from Proto-Oceanic *saqat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zaqat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *zaqat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zaqat.

• IPA^(key): /ða/

ca

1. bad, evil, wicked (morally wrong or reprehensible)

   Antonym: vinaka

   E ca na nona itovo.

   His/her behavior is bad.

2. harmful, destructive, injurious (causing damage)

   E ca na mate kei na dredre.

   Disease and difficulty are harmful.

3. ruined, damaged (in poor condition)

   Sa ca na itikotiko mai na gauna ni cagilaba.

   The settlement was ruined after the hurricane.

ca

1. evil, badness, wickedness (immoral or harmful quality)

   Na ca e tiko e vuravura.

   Evil exists in the world.

2. harm, damage, injury (measure of something not being intact)

   Synonym: vakacaca

   Na mate e kauta mai na ca.

   Illness brings harm.

3. calamity, disaster (event resulting in great loss)

   Era vakayalia na nodra veikau ena ca oqo.

   They lost their forest in this disaster.

ca (transitive cata) (intransitive)

1. to hate, to detest, to loathe (to dislike intensely)

   Antonym: lomana

   Au cata na lasulasu.

   I hate lies.

2. to dislike, to not like (to have a feeling of aversion or antipathy)

   Era cata na ka mamaca.

   They dislike dry things.

• Gatty, Ronald (2009), “ca”, in Fijian–English Dictionary‎^[2], Suva, Fiji: Ronald Gatty, →ISBN, page 37

ca

1. abbreviation of circa

• “ca”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Old Galician-Portuguese ca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin quam.

• IPA^(key): [kɐ]

ca

1. than

   Synonym: ca non

   As miñas irmás son máis altas ca min.

   My sisters are taller than I am.

• ca non
• có

From Old Galician-Portuguese ca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin quia.

• IPA^(key): [kɐ]

ca

1. (archaic) because, since

• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “ca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “ca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “ca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “ca”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃáː/, /t͡ʃâː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃáː], [t͡ʃâː]

cā or câ

1. splattering of boiling fat

• IPA^(key): /tsa/

ca (plural ci)

1. alternative form of ica (“this”)

Borrowed from Hokkien 炒 (chhá, “to stir fry; to sauté”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃa/ [ˈt͡ʃa]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ca

ca (plural ca-ca)

1. a kind of sautéed dish

• “ca”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

ca

1. abbreviation of circa

• calcio
• ca'
• c.a.

Inherited from a combination of Latin quam and quia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka/^°[1]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: cà

ca

1. (archaic or dialectal) that, because

• cappa

• IPA^(key): ^**/ˈka/^*[1]
• Rhymes: -a

ca m or f (invariable)

1. The name of the Latin script letter K/k.

• AC, a.C., a.c.

ca

1. brown.

ca

1. uncle, aunt.

ca

1. brown.

ca

1. (Gherdëina) hither, to this place, to here, to me/us

• via

• da oradecà
• caprò
• docà
• ca tlo

ca

1. language
2. speech

From Proto-Loloish *tsaŋ¹ (Bradley). Cognate with Nuosu ꊿ (co).

• IPA^(key): [tsʰa³³]

ca

1. (Yao'an) person; people

ca

1. nonstandard spelling of cā
2. nonstandard spelling of cǎ
3. nonstandard spelling of cà

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Proto-Vietic *r-kaː. Cognate with Vietnamese gà.

• IPA^(key): /kaː¹/

ca

1. (Mường Bi) chicken

   tàn ca ― a flock of chickens

Nguyễn Văn Khang; Bùi Chỉ; Hoàng Văn Hành (2002), Từ điển Mường - Việt (Muong - Vietnamese dictionary)‎^[3], Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Văn hoá Dân tộc Hà Nội.

Variant of che, from Latin quid, quod. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ka/

ca

1. what

ca

1. than (comparison between adjectives only)
2. that (as in 'the boy that I saw' ("O guaglio' ca aggio visto"))

ca

1. that
2. who
3. which

• IPA^(key): /kɑː/
• Rhymes: -ɑː

cā m

1. jackdaw

• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Keyworth”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 298.

Inherited from Sanskrit च (ca).

ca

1. and (copulative particle)

• (dialectal) cò

Inherited from Latin casa. Compare Italian casa, Lombard cà.

• IPA^(key): /ˈka/

ca f

1. house

• Hyphenation: ca

Inherited from Latin quam. Compare Galician ca.

ca

1. (obsolete) than

Inherited from Latin quia.

• cá (misspelling)

ca

1. (obsolete or dialectal) for, because

From ecthlipsis and crasis of com a.

ca

1. (colloquial) contraction of com +‎ a: feminine singular of co

   Synonym: coa (chiefly poetic)

   • 2020, Emilio Carlos Boschilia, “Termos e Expressões Usados nos Tempos Pioneiros [Terms and Expressions Used in Pioneer Times]” (chapter 5), in O Jeito de Falar dos “Pé Vermeio”: Léxico, Falas e Expressões Idiomáticas dos Pioneiros no Norte do Paraná [The Redfoot Way of Speaking: Lexicon, Sayings and Idioms of Northern Paraná Pioneers]‎^[4], 1st edition (lexicon), Curitiba: self-published, →ISBN, archived from the original on 12 April 2023, page 119:

     [s. v. butuca] Fulana ficô de butuca até pegá o marido ca otra.

     Jane kept watchin’ on till she caught her husband wi’ the other [woman].

ca (not comparable)

1. obsolete spelling of cá
2. misspelling of cá

• “ca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “ca” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “ca”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “ca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

From Latin casa (“house”).

• (Central Romagnol) IPA^(key): [ˈkaɐ̯]
  • (Ravenna) IPA^(key): [ˈkaɐ̯]

ca f (invariable) (Ville Unite)

1. house

   Ca brușêda ― Uninhabited house

   Mètar so ca ― To get married

   Ësar dla ca ― To be a frequent visitor

   Fat in ca ― Homemade

   Tus da ca ― Leave home

2. lineage
3. public building

• ка (ca) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

• IPA^(key): /ka/
• Rhymes: -a

Inherited from Latin quam. The expression ca și may derive from Latin quasi.

ca

1. than

   Am o carte mai bună ca aceasta. ― I have a better book than this one.

2. as

   Filmul este tot așa de interesant ca romanul. ― The movie is as interesting as the novel is.

• decât

• cam

From Latin quia.

ca

1. (obsolete) because

   Synonyms: pentru că, întrucât, fiindcă, deoarece

2. (followed by să) in order to

• che (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• tgi (Surmiran)
• cu (Puter)
• co (Vallader)

From Latin quam or quod.

ca

1. (Sutsilvan) than

• IPA^(key): /kaː/, /kɑː/

ca (third-person singular simple present cas, present participle cain, simple past and past participle ca'd)

1. call
2. summon
3. drive something
4. go on, proceed
5. knock or push

• ca canny

ca

1. (some Scots dialects) can't

   That ca be him!

   That can't be him!

• cannae

• chi (typically in West Sicily)

From Late Latin qua, from Latin quia. Compare Asturian ca, Aromanian cã, Romanian că, Neapolitan ca, Tarantino ca, Spanish que.

• IPA^(key): [ka]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ca

ca

1. because, due to the fact that, for

   Veni ca' t'àju a parrari?.

   Come, [that] I have to talk with you.

2. (subordinator) (the fact) that

ca (plural caak)

1. milk

• Dinka-English Dictionary‎^[5], 2005

• IPA^(key): /ˈka/ [ˈka]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ca
• Homophone: ka

From Vulgar Latin qua, alternative form of Latin quia.

ca

1. (obsolete) because

   Synonyms: porque, (archaic) car

   • c. 1325, Cantar de mío Cid‎^[6]:

     Sospiró mio Cid, ca mucho avié grandes cuidados

     My Cid sighed, for very great grief had he

From ¡quia!.

¡ca!

1. (Spain) Denotes incredulity or negation; oh no!

   Synonyms: ¡quia!, ¡qué va!

Clipping of casa.

ca f (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) house

• “ca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

ca

1. circa; abbreviation of cirka; alternative form of c:a

• Ac

ca (relative)

1. to whom
2. to which

ca

1. what

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧]
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [kaː˦˥]

From Proto-Tai *kaːᴬ (“crow”), from onomatopoeic origin. Cognate with Lao ກາ (kā), Northern Thai ᨠᩣ, Lü ᦂᦱ (k̇aa), Shan ၵႃ (kǎa), Tai Nüa ᥐᥣ (kaa), Tai Dam ꪀꪱ, Zhuang roegga, Tày ca.

(Classifier: tua) ca (Nôm form 𱍼)

1. common raven

   Tua ca ơi.

   The crow cries.

   nả đăm bặng nả ca

   one's face as black as a crow's face

   Vằn ngoà tua ca pắt đảy sloong tua cáy ỉ.

   Yesterday, the crow caught two little chickens.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “เพกา?”)

(Classifier: mạy) ca

1. Oroxylum indicum

   co mạy ca ― foot of a midnight horror tree

   phắc ca ― fruit from a midnight horror tree

• mác ca

Compare cà.

ca

1. Precedes a different classifier to convey contempt towards the referrent

   ca tua ma ― this goddamn dog

ca

1. Meaningless, occasionally intensifying prefix in mostly animal names as well as other nouns and adjectives, some of which have variants with cà

• Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎^[7][8] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
• Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[9] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
• Léopold Michel Cadière (1910), Dictionnaire Tày-Annamite-Français [Tày-Vietnamese-French Dictionary]‎^[10] (in French), Hanoi: Impressions d'Extrême-Orient

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kaː˧˧]

From French quart.

(classifier cái) ca

1. mug (cup)
2. mug (about 1/4 liter)

Sino-Vietnamese word from 歌 (“song”).

(classifier bài) ca • (𰙔, 歌)

1. (literary) song

ca

1. (colloquial in Southern Vietnam, somewhat literary in other dialects) to sing

   Đăng kí ca ở đâu hả em?

   Where can I sign up to sing, boy?

2. (colloquial, ironic) to praise
3. (colloquial) to scold

• (to sing): hát
• (to praise): ca ngợi, ca tụng, ca vịnh

Borrowed from French cas.

ca

1. (medicine) case

   Ca này nặng đấy!

   This case is a serious one!

   Đã có 5 ca tử vong.

   There have been five fatal cases.

• (case): trường hợp

From French quart. Compare Thai กะ (gà, “shift”).

ca

1. shift (change of workers)

   tan ca ― to finish one's shift

Borrowed from French ka.

ca

1. The name of the Latin script letter K/k.

ca • (𰙔)

1. (archaic) at, in
2. (archaic) place

• (first-person singular future): caf (literary)
• (second-person singular imperative): cei, cymer (colloquial)

• IPA^(key): /kaː/

ca

1. inflection of cael:
   1. first-person singular future colloquial
   2. second-person singular imperative literary

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-kéa (“to dawn - zone P”).

-ca (infinitive kuca)

1. to become bright
   1. to dawn
   2. to clear up (of the sky)
2. to mature (fruit, crops)

• -cesya (“to pernoctate, to stay up all night”)

• Ciyawo - English Dictionary: Dikishonale ja Ŵakulijiganya