kakaktua

Indonesian

Alternative forms

• kakatua (nonstandard, nevertheless common)

Etymology

From Malay kakaktua, from kakak (“older sibling (now specifically means sister)”) +‎ tua (“old”) or perhaps onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kakaʔˈtua/ [ka.kaʔˈt̪u.a]
• Syllabification: ka‧kak‧tu‧a

Noun

kakaktua

1. cockatoo (a bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot)
2. (colloquial, by extension) parrot (any bird of the order Psittaciformes)

Noun

kakaktua

1. pincers (a gripping tool, pivoted like a pair of scissors, but with blunt jaws)

Further reading

• “kakaktua” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Malay

Etymology

From kakak (“sister”) +‎ tua (“old”) or onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /kakaʔtuə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /kakaʔtua/

Noun

kakaktua (plural kakaktua-kakaktua, informal 1st possessive kakaktuaku, 2nd possessive kakaktuamu, 3rd possessive kakaktuanya)

1. cockatoo (a parrot)
2. (colloquial, by extension) a parrot

Derived terms

• burung kakaktua

Descendants

• → Dutch: kaketoe, kakatoe (superseded)
  • Afrikaans: kaketoe
  • → English: cockatoo
    • → Irish: cocatú
    • → Maori: kokatu, koketu
  • → German: Kakadu
    • → Bulgarian: какаду́ (kakadú)
    • → Czech: kakadu
    • → Finnish: kakadu
    • → Hungarian: kakadu
    • → Macedonian: какаду́ (kakadú)
    • → Norwegian: kakadu
    • → Polish: kakadu
    • → Romanian: cacadu
    • → Russian: какаду́ (kakadú)
    • → Swedish: kakadua
• → Greek: κακατόης (kakatóis)
• Indonesian: kakaktua
• → Italian: cacatua
• → Portuguese: cacatua, catatua
  • → French: cacatoès
• → Spanish: cacatúa
• → Thai: กระตั้ว