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Cadim Lexicon

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This is the Cadim dictionary.

  • Abbreviations used:
  • n. - noun
  • adj. - adjective
  • adv. - adverb
  • det. - determiner
  • part. - particle
  • conj. - conjunction
  • pron. - pronoun
  • adp. - adposition
  • num. - number
  • art. - article
  • inter. - interjection
  • suf. - suffix


ec ta alha nun samek ha ra dal lam cin ua mem fa gena yad ba ka jim za alem

ec

  • etuz -- n. bone, skeleton, vertebra
  • enab -- n. grape; small, round, smooth-skinned edible fruit, usually purple, red, or green, that grows in bunches on certain vines
  • emrek -- v. buy, obtain for money, purchase

ta

  • te -- pron. second person singular, accusative, formal/polite form
  • ta -- pron. second person singular, accusative, informal form (most common)
  • ta'aba /ta:."?a.ba:/ -- n. nature, essential characteristics, primitive state of being, environment
  • tabak -- n. leaves of certain varieties of plant cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, or for smoking in pipes
  • tum -- pron. second person plural, accusative

alha

  • ana -- pron. first person singular, accusative
  • asud -- n./adj. black, having the color of black
  • arum -- conj./adv. why; the reason that | for what reason
  • al -- art. the | definite article
  • acam -- n. a star, especially when seen as the center of any single solar system, the star around which the Earth revolves | sun, solar
  • ayen -- conj./pron. where; the place in/at which; the place from which | the place in which
  • ayer -- n. yesterday, the day before today
  • abdek -- v. destroy, damage beyond use or repair
abdabos al doma -- destroy-PAST-1PL def-art house -- We destroyed the house.
  • abu -- n. father of ____
  • azul -- n./adj. blue, having the color of blue

nun

  • ne -- det. / adv. expressing negation | no, not
  • nemza -- n. nation; group of people sharing aspects of language, culture and/or ethnicity
  • neko -- n. small, domestic cat; member of the cat family Felidae
  • nayeb -- n./adj. white; the color of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths
  • nos -- pron. first person plural, accusative

samek

  • sela -- pron./det. that; that thing | what is being indicated
  • sa -- det. yes, correct; affirmative expression; an answer that shows agreement or acceptance
  • sanduk -- n. box; rectangular container, usually with a hinged lid
  • sala -- n. sauce; liquid (often thickened) condiment or accompaniment to food
  • sabad -- n. Saturday, the seventh day of the week
  • suyob -- n. Wednesday, the fourth day of the week

ha

  • heleb -- n. bread, baked dough made from cereals, any variety of bread
  • hemra -- n. wine, alcoholic beverage made by fermenting juice of fruits or vegetables other than grapes, usually preceded by the type of the fruit or vegetable
  • halek -- v. greet; informally address with salutations or expressions of kind wishes
  • hala -- inter. an informal greeting, similar to hi or hey | exclamation to get attention
  • hum -- pron. third person plural, accusative

ra

  • ramak -- v. see, perceive with the eyes, perceive or detect as if by sight
kua rata? -- what see-2SG-NOM-inf? -- What (are/do) you see(ing)?
  • rako -- n. otter; any aquatic or marine carnivorous mammal

dal

  • decad -- n. example of something to copy, model of behaviour
  • da -- num. ten, the number between nine and eleven, the digit
  • duraz -- n. peach, peach tree
  • doma -- n. house, home, abode, structure serving as an abode of human beings

lam

  • lec -- n. milk, liquid secreted by the mammary glands of mammals to nourish their young
  • la -- det. / adv. expressing negation | no, not
Used most often for emphasis.

cin

  • ca -- num. six, the number between five and seven, the digit
  • catira -- n. sandwich; snack formed of various ingredients between two slices of bread
  • coka -- adj./det. many, much
  • ciron -- n. fox; any species of small wild canids resembling the red fox
  • cimak -- v. to eat, consume, take in food

ua

  • ua -- num. one, first number
  • ufuk -- n. horizon; horizontal line that appears to separate the Earth from the sky
  • orak -- n. sickle; having a semicircular blade and short handle
  • oda -- n. room, chamber
  • ok -- n. arrow; projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow | sign or symbol used to indicate a direction

mem

  • manat -- n. bill; piece of paper money, used to refer to any paper currency
  • muj -- n. man, adult male human, husband, male partner in marriage
  • mon -- n. month; period into which a year is divided, historically based on the phases of the moon, period of 30 days, 31 days, or some alternation thereof
  • mocri -- n. island; area of land totally surrounded by water

fa

  • fenera -- n. lamp, lattern, beacon
  • fayad -- n. benefit, profit, advantage
  • fila -- n. elephant, a mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw

gena

  • gula -- n./adj. yellow, having yellow as its color

yad

  • yed -- n. hand, part of the arm below the forearm or wrist in a human
  • yara -- n. year, twelve months, ~365 days
  • yama -- n. mountain; large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth
  • yon -- num. the cardinal number 4
  • yom -- n. day, daylight; period of 24 hours
  • imak -- v. make, do, produce
  • ina catira - make-1SG-NOM sandwich - I (am) mak(e/ing) (a) sandwich.

ba

  • becek -- v. kiss, touch with the lips
ayer becum ala kadab anai -- yesterday kiss-3PL 1SG on/in body 1SG-POSS -- Yesterday they were kissing on my body.
  • ba -- n. past; the period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future | (grammar) the past tense
  • bukra -- n./adv. tomorrow; the day after the present day

ka

  • ketan -- adj. small, not large, young
  • ketab -- n. book, collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material
  • kebra -- prep. across, through
  • kahua -- n. coffee, a beverage made by infusing the beans of the coffee plant in hot water
  • kam -- adv./pron. how much / how many; Used with countable and uncountable nouns.
kam tena? -- How many do you have? | Hada ilha kam tenu. -- This is how many I have.
  • kamra -- n. the Moon, the satellite of planet Earth, any substantially sized natural satellite of a planet
  • kua -- pron./adv./conj./interj./det. what, interrogative pronoun, relative pronoun
  • kul(u) -- det. all, every individual of the given class, everyone, everything | n. everything possible
  • kucina -- n. kitchen, a room or area for preparing food

jim

  • jarecek -- v. pull, drag | apply force to (something) so it comes towards one

za

  • zudra -- n. father, mother and their sons and daughters / group of people related by blood, marriage, law, or custom
  • zuga -- n. train; line of connected cars or carriages pushed or pulled by one or more locomotives, especially a railroad train which travels on a set of tracks

alem

  • al -- art. the, definite grammatical article that implies necessarily that the entity it articulates is presupposed; something already mentioned, or completely specified later in the same sentence, or assumed already completely specified
  • -il -- suf. of or pertaining to; adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form.
  • nemzil -- adj. national
  • il -- pron. third-person singular, epicene, accusative case (nominative -ni/-in, reflexive ilik, possessive ili)
  • ila -- pron. third-person singular, feminine, accusative case (nominative -ni/-in, reflexive ilak, possessive ilai)
  • ilu -- pron. third-person singular, masculine, accusative case (nominative -ni/-in, reflexive iluk, possessive ilua)

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