pika

From French, from an Evenki word which Peter Simon Pallas transcribes as piika or peeka, but which cannot be found in modern dictionaries.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpaɪkə/
• Rhymes: -aɪkə

pika (plural pikas)

1. Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia.

• black-lipped pika
• plateau pika

• Paik, Paki, kipa, paki

From Latin pica.

pika

1. magpie

• mika

pika

1. prick

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪka]
• Rhymes: -ɪka
• Hyphenation: pi‧ka

pika f

1. Obsolete form of píka (“pike”).
   • 1873 September 2, “Nauka o zbrani”, in Vlasť, volume III, number 35, page 1:

     Ratiště pik nesmí míti suků, musí býti ohebné a bez kazů.

     Shafts of pikes must not have knots, they must be flexible and without flaws.

• piky
• od piky

pika f

1. American pika, Ochotona princeps^{WP WSp Commons} (species within the family Ochotonidae)
   • 2002 February 5, Ivo Budil, “Pišťuchu ohrožuje oteplování Země”, in Vesmír, number 12, page 709:

     Sledování života pik v posledním půlstoletí naznačuje, že je může vyhubit už nepatrné zvýšení teploty na Zemi.

     Research of the life of American pikas in the last half-century suggests that even a minute increase of the Earth's temperature can make them extinct.

• (genera Vulpes and Urocyon): živočichové – regnum; strunatci – phylum; čtyřnožci – superclassis; savci – class; zajícovití – order; pišťuchovití – family; pišťucha – genus

• pika in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957

• IPA^(key): /ˈpika/
• Hyphenation: pi‧ka
• Rhymes: -ika

pika (accusative singular pikan, plural pikaj, accusative plural pikajn)

1. (card games) of the suit of spades (♠).

   la pika aso ― the ace of spades

• piko

pika

1. genitive singular of pikk

See English entry above

pika

1. A pika.
2. In plural (pikat), the taxonomic family Ochotonidae.

• piiskujänis

pika-

1. See: pika-

• kapi, kipa

pika m (plural pikas)

1. pika

From Portuguese picar. Cognates with Kabuverdianu gente.

pika

1. to split
2. to chop

• IPA^(key): [ˈpikɒ]
• Hyphenation: pi‧ka

pika (plural pikák)

1. lance

From Portuguese picar.

pika

1. to chop

piramīda ar sniega pikām

pika f (4th declension)

1. lump
2. snowball
3. pat
4. clod
5. clump
6. chunk
7. cob
8. clot

• piken m

pika f

1. definite feminine singular of pike

pika

1. ear

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975)
• Yong Lam Liaw, Pamosu Organised Phonology Data (2002)

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɪkɐ]

pika

1. pain

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʲi.ka/

pika f

1. pike (a very long thrusting spear formerly used extensively by infantry)

• pikinier
• pikinierski

• gizarma
• glewia
• halabarda
• kontarion
• kopia
• korseka
• lanca
• młot lucereński
• partyzana
• rohatyna
• runka
• spisa friulska
• szponton

pika m inan

1. genitive singular of pik
2. (nonstandard, colloquial) accusative singular of pik (a spade in card games)

• pika in Polish dictionaries at PWN

-pika (infinitive kupika)

1. To cook

• Verbal derivations:
  • Applicative: -pikia
  • Causative: -pikisha
  • Passive: -pikwa
  • Reciprocal: -pikana
  • Stative: -pikika

piká

1. fist blow