seka

See also: seka-, sekä, and sęka

Esperanto

Etymology

From French sec, Spanish seco, Portuguese seco, Italian secco, from Latin siccus, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seyk-. Further similar Indo-European cognates include Welsh sych, Russian сухой (suxój), Lithuanian sausas and Hindi सूखा (sūkhā).

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • IPA(key): /ˈseka/

Adjective

seka (accusative singular sekan, plural sekaj, accusative plural sekajn)

  1. dry
    • 1999, Anna Löwenstein, La ŝtona urbo, Antwerp: Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, →ISBN, OCLC 46863861:
      Ni portis eksteren garbojn da pajlo kaj kovris nin per feloj, sub kiuj ni restis sufiĉe varmaj kaj sekaj.
      He carried out sheaves of straw and covered us with pelts, under which we stayed warm and dry enough.

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • sekeco (dryness)
  • sekega (very dry)
  • seketa (slightly dry)
  • sekigi (to dry, transitive verb)
  • sekiĝi (to dry off, intransitive verb)

Old Frisian

Verb

seka

  1. to seek

Inflection


Phuthi

Verb

-séka

  1. to cut

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From sèstra.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sěːka/
  • Hyphenation: se‧ka

Noun

séka f (Cyrillic spelling се́ка)

  1. (informal) sis (an affectionate term for a sister or female cousin)

References

  • seka” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Westrobothnian

Verb

seka

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To cut with blunt knife or other tool; cut gradually.
  2. To work slowly, be slow, sluggish in movement; postpone, delay; is said in general about everything that goes sluggishly.
    Han gekk å seka fot óm fot.
    He walked slowly, foot by foot.
    Hon seka å spann
    She spun slowly.
    Han seka å tåggä.
    He chewed slowly.
  3. To nag, early and often remind.
  • sek
  • sekalónnom
  • sekäl

Xhosa

Verb

-seka?

  1. (transitive) to establish

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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