- Kaaba (n.)
[Kaaba 词源字典] - 1734, Caaba, cube-shaped building in the Great Mosque of Mecca, containing the Black Stone, from Arabic ka'bah "square house," from ka'b "cube."[Kaaba etymology, Kaaba origin, 英语词源]
- kit and caboodle (n.)[kit and caboodle 词源字典]
- also kaboodle, 1861, from kit (n.1) in dismissive sense "number of things viewed as a whole" (1785) + boodle "lot, collection," perhaps from Dutch boedel "property." Kit also was paired with other words in similar formations.[kit and caboodle etymology, kit and caboodle origin, 英语词源]
- kabuki (n.)[kabuki 词源字典]
- 1896, from Japanese, popular theater (as opposed to shadow puppet-plays or lyrical Noh dramas), literally "art of song and dance," from ka "song" + bu "dance" + ki "art, skill" [Barnhart, OED]. Alternative etymology (in Webster's) is from nominal form of kabuku "to be divergent, to deviate," from early opinion of this form of drama. Since c. 1650, all parts are played by males.[kabuki etymology, kabuki origin, 英语词源]
- Kabul[Kabul 词源字典]
- capital of Afghanistan, named for its river, which carries a name of unknown origin.[Kabul etymology, Kabul origin, 英语词源]
- Kabyle[Kabyle 词源字典]
- Berber of Algeria and Tunisia, 1738, also of their language, from French, from Arabic qaba'il, plural of qabilah "tribe."[Kabyle etymology, Kabyle origin, 英语词源]
- kaddish (n.)[kaddish 词源字典]
- "doxology of the Jewish ritual," 1610s, from Aramaic qaddish "holy, holy one," from stem of q'dhash "was holy," ithqaddash "was sanctified," related to Hebrew qadhash "was holy," qadhosh "holy." According to Klein, the name probably is from the second word of the text veyithqaddash "and sanctified be."[kaddish etymology, kaddish origin, 英语词源]
- kaffeeklatsch (n.)[kaffeeklatsch 词源字典]
- "gossip over cups of coffee," 1877, from German Kaffeeklatsch, from kaffee "coffee" (see coffee) + klatsch "gossip" (see klatsch).
THE living-room in a German household always contains a large sofa at one side of the room, which is the seat of honor accorded a guest. At a Kaffeeklatsch (literally, coffee gossip) the guests of honor are seated on this sofa, and the large round table is wheeled up before them. The other guests seat themselves in chairs about the table. [Mary Alden Hopkins, "A 'Kaffeeklatsch,'" "Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics," May 1905]
[kaffeeklatsch etymology, kaffeeklatsch origin, 英语词源] - Kaffir (n.)
- 1790, from Arabic kafir "unbeliever, infidel, impious wretch," with a literal sense of "one who does not admit the blessings of God," from kafara "to cover up, conceal, deny, blot out." Technically, "non-Muslim," but in Ottoman times it came to be used almost exclusively for "Christian." Early English missionaries used it as an equivalent of "heathen" to refer to Bantus in South Africa (1792), from which use it came generally to mean "South African black" regardless of ethnicity, and to be a term of abuse since at least 1934.
- Kafkaesque (adj.)
- 1947, resembling situations from the writings of Franz Kafka (1883-1924), German-speaking Jewish novelist born in Prague, Austria-Hungary. The surname is Czech German, literally "jackdaw," imitative.
- kafuffle (n.)
- variant of kerfuffle.
- kafir (1)
- "A person who is not a Muslim (used chiefly by Muslims)", From Arabic kāfir 'infidel, unbeliever'. Compare with Kaffir.
- Kafir (2)
- "A member of a people of the Hindu Kush mountains of NE Afghanistan", From Arabic kāfir (see Kaffir).
- kaftan
- "A man’s long belted tunic, worn in countries of the Near East", Late 16th century: from Turkish, from Persian ḵaftān, partly influenced by French cafetan.
- kaffeeklatsch (n.)[kaffeeklatsch 词源字典]
- "gossip over cups of coffee," 1877, from German Kaffeeklatsch, from kaffee "coffee" (see coffee) + klatsch "gossip" (see klatsch).
THE living-room in a German household always contains a large sofa at one side of the room, which is the seat of honor accorded a guest. At a Kaffeeklatsch (literally, coffee gossip) the guests of honor are seated on this sofa, and the large round table is wheeled up before them. The other guests seat themselves in chairs about the table. [Mary Alden Hopkins, "A 'Kaffeeklatsch,'" "Boston Cooking-School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics," May 1905]
[kaffeeklatsch etymology, kaffeeklatsch origin, 英语词源]
- kafir (1)[kafir 词源字典]
- "A person who is not a Muslim (used chiefly by Muslims)", From Arabic kāfir 'infidel, unbeliever'. Compare with Kaffir.[kafir etymology, kafir origin, 英语词源]
- Kafir (2)
- "A member of a people of the Hindu Kush mountains of NE Afghanistan", From Arabic kāfir (see Kaffir).
- kaftan[kaftan 词源字典]
- "A man’s long belted tunic, worn in countries of the Near East", Late 16th century: from Turkish, from Persian ḵaftān, partly influenced by French cafetan.[kaftan etymology, kaftan origin, 英语词源]