"kaukau" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Hawaiian Creole]

Etymology: Related to chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English. Head templates: {{head|hwc|noun}} kaukau
  1. food
    Sense id: en-kaukau-hwc-noun-wfAmWC~m

Verb [Hawaiian Creole]

Etymology: Related to chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English. Head templates: {{head|hwc|verb}} kaukau
  1. to eat
    Sense id: en-kaukau-hwc-verb-Unr3wQmn Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 30 70 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 31 69

Noun [Sursurunga]

Etymology: Borrowed from Tok Pisin kaukau. Etymology templates: {{bor|sgz|tpi|kaukau}} Tok Pisin kaukau Head templates: {{head|sgz|noun}} kaukau
  1. sweet potato
    Sense id: en-kaukau-sgz-noun-EaM2Blat Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Sursurunga entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Swahili]

Audio: Sw-ke-kaukau.flac Forms: kaukau class IX [canonical], kaukau class X [plural]
Head templates: {{sw-noun|n}} kaukau class IX (plural kaukau class X)
  1. potato crisp, potato chip Categories (topical): Foods
    Sense id: en-kaukau-sw-noun-SugTH7rC Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Swahili entries with incorrect language header

Noun [Tok Pisin]

Head templates: {{head|tpi|noun}} kaukau
  1. potato or sweet potato Categories (lifeform): Vegetables
    Sense id: en-kaukau-tpi-noun-Kj3QDR83 Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header

Verb [Tokelauan]

IPA: [ˈka.u ˈka.u]
Etymology: From Proto-Polynesian *kau-kau. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻauʻau and Samoan 'au'au. Etymology templates: {{inh|tkl|poz-pol-pro|*kau-kau}} Proto-Polynesian *kau-kau, {{cog|haw|ʻauʻau}} Hawaiian ʻauʻau, {{cog|sm|'au'au}} Samoan 'au'au Head templates: {{head|tkl|verb}} kaukau
  1. (intransitive) to swim Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-kaukau-tkl-verb-cne7kYg8 Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Tokelauan entries with incorrect language header

Verb [Tongan]

Head templates: {{head|to|verb}} kaukau
  1. to wash
    Sense id: en-kaukau-to-verb-NX5TZKx8 Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries, Tongan entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "Related to chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hwc",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hawaiian Creole",
  "lang_code": "hwc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "food"
      ],
      "id": "en-kaukau-hwc-noun-wfAmWC~m",
      "links": [
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Related to chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hwc",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hawaiian Creole",
  "lang_code": "hwc",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "30 70",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "31 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Horses don't eat cows' food, cows eat cows' food!",
          "text": "Horse no kaukau cow kaukau, cow kaukau cow kaukau!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to eat"
      ],
      "id": "en-kaukau-hwc-verb-Unr3wQmn",
      "links": [
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sgz",
        "2": "tpi",
        "3": "kaukau"
      },
      "expansion": "Tok Pisin kaukau",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Tok Pisin kaukau.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sgz",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Sursurunga",
  "lang_code": "sgz",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Sursurunga entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sweet potato"
      ],
      "id": "en-kaukau-sgz-noun-EaM2Blat",
      "links": [
        [
          "sweet potato",
          "sweet potato"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kaukau class IX",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kaukau class X",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau class IX (plural kaukau class X)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "sw",
          "name": "Foods",
          "orig": "sw:Foods",
          "parents": [
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
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      ],
      "id": "en-kaukau-sw-noun-SugTH7rC",
      "links": [
        [
          "potato crisp",
          "potato crisp"
        ],
        [
          "potato chip",
          "potato chip"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-kaukau.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/11/Sw-ke-kaukau.flac/Sw-ke-kaukau.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/11/Sw-ke-kaukau.flac/Sw-ke-kaukau.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
  "descendants": [
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      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sgz",
            "2": "kaukau",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Sursurunga: kaukau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Sursurunga: kaukau"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tok Pisin",
  "lang_code": "tpi",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tok Pisin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "tpi",
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            "Plants",
            "Eating",
            "Food and drink",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Life",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "After doing this, the two of them planted taro and bananas, and vegetables, pineapple, corn, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes as well.",
          "ref": "1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics, →ISBN, page 433:",
          "text": "Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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      "id": "en-kaukau-tpi-noun-Kj3QDR83",
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          "potato"
        ],
        [
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          "sweet potato"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

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      "args": {
        "1": "tkl",
        "2": "poz-pol-pro",
        "3": "*kau-kau"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Polynesian *kau-kau",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "ʻauʻau"
      },
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      "name": "cog"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "sm",
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      },
      "expansion": "Samoan 'au'au",
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    }
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  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Polynesian *kau-kau. Cognates include Hawaiian ʻauʻau and Samoan 'au'au.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tkl",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "ka‧u‧ka‧u"
  ],
  "lang": "Tokelauan",
  "lang_code": "tkl",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Tokelauan entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to swim"
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "swim",
          "swim"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) to swim"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈka.u ˈka.u]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "to",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tongan",
  "lang_code": "to",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 6 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "to wash"
      ],
      "id": "en-kaukau-to-verb-NX5TZKx8",
      "links": [
        [
          "wash",
          "wash"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 6 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Related to chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hwc",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hawaiian Creole",
  "lang_code": "hwc",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "food"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "food",
          "food"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 6 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Related to chow-chow, from Chinese Pidgin English.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "hwc",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Hawaiian Creole",
  "lang_code": "hwc",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Hawaiian Creole terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Horses don't eat cows' food, cows eat cows' food!",
          "text": "Horse no kaukau cow kaukau, cow kaukau cow kaukau!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to eat"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "eat",
          "eat"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sgz",
        "2": "tpi",
        "3": "kaukau"
      },
      "expansion": "Tok Pisin kaukau",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Tok Pisin kaukau.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sgz",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
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        "Pages with 6 entries",
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        "Sursurunga terms borrowed from Tok Pisin",
        "Sursurunga terms derived from Tok Pisin"
      ],
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        "sweet potato"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sweet potato",
          "sweet potato"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "kaukau class IX",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "kaukau class X",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau class IX (plural kaukau class X)",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Swahili class IX nouns",
        "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swahili lemmas",
        "Swahili nouns",
        "sw:Foods"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "potato crisp, potato chip"
      ],
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        [
          "potato crisp",
          "potato crisp"
        ],
        [
          "potato chip",
          "potato chip"
        ]
      ]
    }
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      "audio": "Sw-ke-kaukau.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/11/Sw-ke-kaukau.flac/Sw-ke-kaukau.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/11/Sw-ke-kaukau.flac/Sw-ke-kaukau.flac.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "sgz",
            "2": "kaukau",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Sursurunga: kaukau",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Sursurunga: kaukau"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tpi",
        "2": "noun"
      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
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        "Tok Pisin lemmas",
        "Tok Pisin nouns",
        "Tok Pisin terms with quotations",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "After doing this, the two of them planted taro and bananas, and vegetables, pineapple, corn, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes as well.",
          "ref": "1995, John Verhaar, Toward a reference grammar of Tok Pisin: an experiment in corpus linguistics, →ISBN, page 433:",
          "text": "Mekim olsem pinis, orait tupela i planim taro na banana, na kumu, painap, kon, tomato, na kaukau tu.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "potato or sweet potato"
      ],
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        [
          "potato",
          "potato"
        ],
        [
          "sweet potato",
          "sweet potato"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "tkl",
        "2": "poz-pol-pro",
        "3": "*kau-kau"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Polynesian *kau-kau",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "haw",
        "2": "ʻauʻau"
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    },
    {
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    }
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      "name": "head"
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 6 entries",
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        "Tokelauan intransitive verbs",
        "Tokelauan lemmas",
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        "Tokelauan terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian",
        "Tokelauan terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Tokelauan verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to swim"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "swim",
          "swim"
        ]
      ],
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        "(intransitive) to swim"
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈka.u ˈka.u]"
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

{
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      "args": {
        "1": "to",
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      },
      "expansion": "kaukau",
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "Tongan",
  "lang_code": "to",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 6 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Tongan entries with incorrect language header",
        "Tongan lemmas",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to wash"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wash",
          "wash"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "kaukau"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-03 using wiktextract (51d164f and fb63907). 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.