pataka

Borrowed from Māori pātaka.

pataka (plural pataka or patakas)

1. (New Zealand) A Maori storehouse for food, typically raised above the ground. [from 19th c.]
   • 1972, James K. Baxter, ‘Autumn Testament’, Selected Poems, Te Herenga Waka University Press 2023, p. 281:

     The brown grass that Barry cut for us / With the new sickle, is lying in heaps / Between the house and the door of the pataka / Where we stuck our mattresses.

Borrowed from Hindi पटाका (paṭākā), पटाखा (paṭākhā).

• phataka, patakha

pataka (plural patakas)

1. (India) A firecracker; a small paper packet of coloured potash and pieces of kankar, exploding when thrown against a hard surface.

• IPA^(key): /pataˈkaʔ/ [pɐ.t̪ɐˈkaʔ]
• Hyphenation: pa‧ta‧ka

patakâ (Badlit spelling ᜉᜆᜃ)

1. baseless; unfounded; unsubstantiated

   Synonyms: walay basehan, walay kapiskaran

   Ayaw og pataka og sumbong.

   Don't make baseless complains.

   Ayaw og tuo sa mga balita nga pataka lang ug walay tinubdan.

   Don't believe on news that is just unsubstantiated and has no source.

2. reckless; indiscriminate

   Pataka ang iyang pagdrayb maong naaksidente siya.

   His driving was reckless, that's why he got into an accident.

   Pataka nga pagpamusil. ― Indiscriminate firing.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /paˈtaka/ [paˈt̪a.ka]
• Rhymes: -aka
• Syllabification: pa‧ta‧ka

Borrowed from Javanese ꦥꦠꦏ (pataka), from Old Javanese patāka (“flag, pennon, banner, sign, emblem”), from Sanskrit पताका (patākā, “banner, flag”).

pataka (plural pataka-pataka)

1. guidon: pennant, banner

   Synonyms: bendera, panji

2. colors

Borrowed from Sundanese [Term?]. Compare to Old Javanese pataka (“a part of the roof”) and Sanskrit पाटक (pāṭaka, “shore, long span”).

pataka (plural pataka-pataka)

1. (dialectal) dome of mosque (West Java)

• “pataka”, 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

pataka

1. romanization of ꦥꦠꦏ

From Aymara pataka.

• IPA^(key): /paˈtaka/

pataka (Raguileo spelling)

1. one hundred

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

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• IPA^(key): /pa.ta.ka/
• Rhymes: -ka
• Homophones: pataka, pātaka, patāka
• Hyphenation: pa‧ta‧ka

pataka

1. a part of the roof; ridge

• "pataka" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.

pȃtākā (Cyrillic spelling па̑та̄ка̄)

1. genitive plural of patak