kayak

• kaiak, kiack, kyack, kyak, qayaq, kayack, qajaq

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ. Compare Greenlandic qajaq and Yup'ik qayaq.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈkaɪˌæk/

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• Rhymes: -aɪæk

kayak (plural kayaks)

1. A type of small boat, covered over by a surface deck, powered by the occupant or occupants using a double-bladed paddle in a sitting position, from a hole in the surface deck.
   • 2018 July 17, Autumn Spanne, “Check out these crazy rock formations across the United States”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     It’s just offshore from private property inaccessible to the general public, so a good way to approach the rock is by kayak, which can be rented in the small village of Port Austin.

• → Cebuano: kayak
• → Japanese: カヤック (kayakku)
• → Khmer: កាយ៉ាក់ (kaayak)
• → Korean: 카약 (kayak)
• → Portuguese: caiaque

• canoe
• umiak

kayak (third-person singular simple present kayaks, present participle kayaking, simple past and past participle kayaked)

1. (intransitive) To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak.

   Kayaking is an Olympic sport.

2. (transitive) To traverse (a body of water) by kayak.

   On a dare, he kayaked the Harlem River in New York from Hell's Gate to Spyten Duyvil.

• yakka

From English kayak, borrowed from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”) (Inuvialuktun), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ.

• Hyphenation: ka‧yak

kayak

1. a kayak

kayak

1. to ride a kayak

From English kayak, from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “hunter's boat”), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ.

kayak m (plural kayakys or kayagow)

1. kayak

• “kayak” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

• kayac (rare)

From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.jak/

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• Homophone: kayaks
• Hyphenation: kayak

kayak m (plural kayaks)

1. kayak

• “kayak”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From Betawi kaya', kaya, from Javanese ꦏꦪ (kaya, “like, such as”), from Old Javanese kaya (“like, as, as if, it looks as if”), from Pali काय (kāya), from Sanskrit क (ka, “similarity (suffix)”).

• kaya
• kek
• kyk

• IPA^(key): [ˈka.jaʔ]
• Hyphenation: ka‧yak

kayak

1. (colloquial) like, such as

   Synonyms: macam, sebagai, seperti

From Dutch kajak, from English kayak, from Inuktitut ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”), from Proto-Eskimo *qayaʁ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈka.jak]
• Hyphenation: ka‧yak

kayak (plural kayak-kayak)

1. (sports) kayak

   Synonym: sampan

• “kayak”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• cayac, caiaco (rare)

From Inuktitut (Inuvialuktun) ᖃᔭᖅ (qayaq, “man's boat”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈjak/
• Rhymes: -ak
• Hyphenation: ka‧yàk

kayak m (invariable)

1. kayak

Borrowed from English kayak.

kayak m (plural kayaks)

1. (Jersey) kayak

• kayac, cayac

• • Rhymes: -ak
  • Syllabification: ka‧yak
• IPA^(key): /ˈkajak/ [ˈka.jak]
  • Rhymes: -ajak

kayak m (plural kayaks)

1. kayak

• “kayak”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From kay- +‎ -ak.

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• Hyphenation: ka‧yak

kayak (definite accusative kayağı, plural kayaklar)

1. ski

kayak (genitive kayaka, plural kayaks)

1. kayak