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ka

nounverbnounattested in dialogue

  • //kɑː//

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.

noun

  1. 1

    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.

    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.

Etymology

Borrowed from Egyptian kꜣ.

verb

  1. 1

    obsoleteTo serve or help; used only in the phrase "Ka me, ka thee" or variants thereof.

    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

Origin uncertain.

noun

  1. 1

    The name of the Cyrillic script letter К / к.

Forms

plural
kas
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).