ka
/kɑː/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.83 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
2
Letters
1
Syllables
2
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
verb
To serve or help; used only in the phrase "Ka me, ka thee" or variants thereof.
Obsolete; Transitive verb
name
Abbreviation of Karnataka: a state of India.
name
Initialism of King's Arms, a pub in Oxford.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Hence Dorian's portrait is like the ka or double of the deceased in Egyptian tombs, heaped with toys and furniture."
- "‘You could bind the ka of a man to his body for five thousand years,’ said Jaquel."
- "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."
- "Ka me, ka thee, is a proverb all over the world."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
kas (plural)
the KA (canonical)