"kaa rada" meaning in All languages combined

See kaa rada on Wiktionary

Verb [Swahili]

Forms: -kaa rada [canonical], kukaa rada [infinitive]
Etymology: From -kaa (“to stay”) + rada (“radar”). Etymology templates: {{compound|sw|kaa|rada|alt1=-kaa|t1=to stay|t2=radar}} -kaa (“to stay”) + rada (“radar”) Head templates: {{sw-verb}} -kaa rada (infinitive kukaa rada) Inflection templates: {{sw-conj-see|kaa}}
  1. to stay alert, to be alert
    Sense id: en-kaa_rada-sw-verb-kemmClEb Categories (other): Swahili entries with incorrect language header

Download JSON data for kaa rada meaning in All languages combined (1.2kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "kaa",
        "3": "rada",
        "alt1": "-kaa",
        "t1": "to stay",
        "t2": "radar"
      },
      "expansion": "-kaa (“to stay”) + rada (“radar”)",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From -kaa (“to stay”) + rada (“radar”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-kaa rada",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kukaa rada",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-kaa rada (infinitive kukaa rada)",
      "name": "sw-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kaa"
      },
      "name": "sw-conj-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 16 (last accessed), University of Nairobi (in English)",
          "text": "They dubbed the App Rada, alluding to the popular street term ‘kaa rada’ (always be ready or vigilant) and also the word radar, which means a sensor or a locator.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to stay alert, to be alert"
      ],
      "id": "en-kaa_rada-sw-verb-kemmClEb",
      "links": [
        [
          "alert",
          "alert"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaa rada"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "kaa",
        "3": "rada",
        "alt1": "-kaa",
        "t1": "to stay",
        "t2": "radar"
      },
      "expansion": "-kaa (“to stay”) + rada (“radar”)",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From -kaa (“to stay”) + rada (“radar”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "-kaa rada",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kukaa rada",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "-kaa rada (infinitive kukaa rada)",
      "name": "sw-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "kaa"
      },
      "name": "sw-conj-see"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swahili compound terms",
        "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swahili lemmas",
        "Swahili multiword terms",
        "Swahili terms with quotations",
        "Swahili verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2023 November 16 (last accessed), University of Nairobi (in English)",
          "text": "They dubbed the App Rada, alluding to the popular street term ‘kaa rada’ (always be ready or vigilant) and also the word radar, which means a sensor or a locator.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to stay alert, to be alert"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "alert",
          "alert"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaa rada"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (e9e0a99 and db5a844). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.