kah

See also: KAH

Estonian

Etymology

Variant of ka.

Adverb

kah

  1. (colloquial) also, too
    Kas ta on kah insener?
    Is he also an engineer?

Min Nan

Etymology 1

Noun

kah (POJ, traditional 甲, simplified 甲)

  1. the first of the ten heavenly stems

Etymology 2

From Dutch akker (“field”)[1]

Noun

kah (POJ, traditional 甲, simplified 甲)

  1. principal unit of land (area) measure in Taiwan, containing 2,934 坪 (ping), equivalent to 0.97 hectares,[2] roughly 2.1 acres[1]

Etymology 3

Preposition

kah (POJ, traditional 佮, simplified 佮)

  1. with; accompanying

Synonyms
  • (Mandarin) 和 (hé)

References
  1. Andrade, Tonio (2005), “Appendix A: Weights, Measures, and Exchange Rates”, in How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, Columbia University Press, →ISBN.
  2. “Entry #1857”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (in Chinese and Min Nan), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.
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