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raku

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See also: Raku and raků

English

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Noun

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raku

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Raku

Anagrams

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Czech

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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raku

  1. dative/vocative/locative singular of rak

Estonian

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Noun

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raku

  1. genitive singular of rakk

Japanese

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Romanization

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raku

  1. Rōmaji transcription of らく

Latvian

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Verb

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raku

  1. first-person singular past indicative of rakt

Lower Sorbian

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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raku

  1. locative singular of rak

Maori

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Etymology

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From Proto-Oceanic *kalo₃ or *karut (to scratch with fingernails, to claw at) (compare with Fijian kadru)[1] from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *garut (rub against, scrape, scratch) (compare with Malay garut (to grind against one another, to scrape) and garu “to scratch”).[2][3]

Verb

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raku

  1. to scratch

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary[1], Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, page 389
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “kalo.3”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online
  3. ^ Ross, Malcolm D., Pawley, Andrew, Osmond, Meredith (1998) The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic, volume 1: Material Culture, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, page 237

Further reading

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  • Williams, Herbert William (1917) “raku”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 374
  • raku” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Polish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈra.ku/
  • Rhymes: -aku
  • Syllabification: ra‧ku

Noun

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raku m

  1. locative/vocative singular of rak

Rapa Nui

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Verb

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raku

  1. scratch

Ternate

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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raku

  1. (intransitive) to fold
  2. (transitive) to fold

Conjugation

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Conjugation of raku
Singular Plural
Inclusive Exclusive
1st toraku foraku miraku
2nd noraku niraku
3rd Masculine oraku iraku, yoraku
Feminine moraku
Neuter iraku
- archaic

References

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  • Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh