Glossary — K
- kai
- egg (language=pa-sa-thai) [Webster's New World Dictionary of
Culinary Arts by way of The Denver Post]
- kaparos
- chicken (language=Ivrit, from ritual called shlug kaparos as
described at cue/www=http://www.joi.org/celebrate/yomkipp/kaparos.htm])
- karg
- stingy (language=Yidish Daytsh)
- karongo
- gully (language=Waswahili)
- karoshi
- demands of the job; exhaustion from same (language=Kyotsu-go)
- kaspé
- cassava, source of tapioca (language=Bahasa Indonesia); cue/www=http://www.orst.edu/food-resource/kelsey/niba.html)
- kasserian ingera
- how are the children? (language=Maasai) A common conversational
opening among the Maasai that asks for news about family, life, and so on;
see also sapati ingera.
In the Bear Project of The Tangent, it acknowledges the importance of the
Bears, all of whom are still children. Many times, it passes for a greeting,
but always allows the other person to talk about the children if s/he wants.
- kata
- a defined exercise used in martial arts to practice positions, moves,
punches, parries, and so on, that comprise the specific art (language=Kyotsu-go)
- kata tataki
- tap on the shoulder (language=Kyotsu-go);
a humiliation used in companies, who cannot fire someone without cause and
compensation, designed to get the person to quit voluntarily; might come in
the form of a salary cut, a stupid assignment, or some other type of
harassment [TIME/22-Apr-96]
- kazunoko konbu
- sheets of seaweed encrusted with unseasoned dried cod eggs (language=Kyotsu-go)
- keiretsu
- According to cue/www=www.swadeshi.com,
"The word Keiretsu cannot be translated literally into English. The
most common Kyotsu-go meaning which comes
close to English is "link", "affiliate with" or
"connect to", but the term has no direct substitute. It nearly
means that people or things are connected in some way. Each Keiretsu has a
central technical parent company. But the real ingenuity is in the
association with a MAIN BANK - to supply funds and a SOGO-SHOSHA, which is a
large trading firm that serves as the eyes and ears of the Keiretsu. The
number one trading house Itochu has a turnover of $200 billion (Twice the
total accumulated loan of our country), BUT THE PROFIT IS ONLY 0.05%. The
lower profit is intentional, as the main task is to collect commercially
intelligent information, as is done by EYES and EARS! These KEIRETSUS
consist of thousands of entrepreneurs, all working together as a single
large cluster. These Keiretsus were/are competitors inside Nihon, but work
together shoulder to shoulder, when smoke signals of foreign competition are
visible on the horizon. These Keiretsus are the armies in Nihon to fight
TECHNO-ECONOMIC WAR and they invade the globe to conquer new heights to
become world leaders. Within the country, we may be rivals of one another,
even sworn enemies. But when it comes to fighting against an outsider, we
must forget our differences and come together. This is akin to what
Yudhishthira of Mahabharat told his brothers Bhima and Arjuna when
Chitrasen, the gandharva captured Duryodhan: "We may be five against
hundred, but when it comes to an outsider, we are hundred five"."
© 1998 cue/www=www.swadeshi.com
(language=Kyotsu-go)
- ke-tsiap
- pickled fish-brine or sauce (language=Amoy dialect of Zhongwen);
original condiment imported from Zhongguo
by Nederlandic traders; evolved into "kechap" (language=Bahasa
Melayu aka Malay); the English changed the recipe to include mushrooms,
walnuts, cucumbers, and oysters and called it "ketchup". On Yeibichai,
a sturgeon-like fish that spawns in Cavilli Inlet, Continent Popovich.
- khting vor
- an elusive Asian species of mammal, like a cow, of which only the skull
and horns have so far been found; a World Wildlife
Foundation survey team is looking for it (language=Khmer)
- kilo-second
- 16 Gë minutes and 40 seconds (language=Yeibichai/telling
time)
- klang
- rumor (language=Yidish Daytsh)
- Klatsch
- (1) splosh, splash; (2) gossip, scandal (language=Deutsch);
informal discussion group in a meeting/will-be-heard;
see also meetings, moderated
Klatsch, priority
Klatsch, pulse poll, round-robin,
sense poll, toll-gated
Klatsch, initiation-gated
Klatsch
- kouprey
- grey ox (language=Tię'ng Vię,t); in central Daklak Province of
Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam (aka Vietnam), one of Indochina's most
elusive animals, a relatively recent discovery, found in 1937, when a live
specimen was captured and taken to the Vincennes Zoo near Paris; now a
symbol of nature conservancy in Indochina; King Sihanouk of Preah Reach Ana
Pak Kampuchea (aka Cambodia) designated it the country's national animal in
1960; current World Wildlife Foundation team
on survey also hopes to find two other known Asian cattle species, the gaur
and banteng, and another elusive species known locally as khting vor, of
which only the skull and horns have so far been found
- krasˇ
- wine (language=Ellinika'
— "Low" dialect?)
- krot
- mole, the rodent (language=Rooski)
- krupuk
- deep-fried shrimp wafers originated in Indonesia (language=Bahasa
Indonesia)
- kudoka
- hollowing out (language=Kyotsu-go);
used to describe downsizing in Nihon, thousands of industrial jobs lost as
companies move jobs off-shore [TIME/22-Apr-96]
- kuna
- dog (language=Ellinika')
- kyotsu-go
- common language from-Nihon, based on the dialect spoken in Edo (Tokyo) (language=Kyotsu-go); www.travlang.com says "Nihongo"
