kodak

English

Etymology

Genericization of the trademark Kodak.

Noun

kodak (plural kodaks)

1. (dated) A camera: a device for taking still photographs.
   • 1893, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Utopia, Limited:

     To diagnose / Our modest pose / The Kodaks do their best

   • 1911 June, Jack London, chapter 17, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:

     Charmian and Martin brought up the rear, armed with kodaks. We dived under the avocado trees […] and came on a spot that satisfied Martin's photographic eye.

2. (dated) A still photograph.
   • 1913, Booth Tarkington, The Flirt, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 70:

     There were photographs everywhere: photographs framed and unframed; photographs large and photographs small, the fresh and the faded; tintypes, kodaks, “full lengths,” “cabinets,” groups—every type of photograph; […]

   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN, page 338:

     You may consult the kodaks taken at my arrest if you are curious, Archivist.

Verb

kodak (third-person singular simple present kodaks, present participle kodaking, simple past and past participle kodaked)

1. (transitive, dated) To photograph.
   • 1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat:

     A knot of obviously American tourists were kodaking his lodge-gates.

2. (transitive, dated) To describe or characterise briefly and vividly.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kodak.

Anagrams

• dokka

Cebuano

Etymology

Genericization of the trademark Kodak.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ko‧dak

Noun

kodak

1. a camera; a device for taking still photographs

Verb

kodak

1. to take a photograph
2. to have one's photograph taken

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:kodak.

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From Kodak.

Noun

kodak

1. camera

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From Kodak.

Noun

kodak

1. camera

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English kodak, genericized trademark from Kodak.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkodak/, [ˈko.dɐk]
• Hyphenation: ko‧dak

Noun

kodak (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜇᜃ᜔) (dated)

1. (broadly) camera (device for taking photographs)

   Synonym: kamera

2. (strictly) small portable camera (especially from Kodak)

Derived terms

• kodakan
• magkodakan
• magpakodakan

 

References

• “kodak”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Zorc, David Paul (1981) Core Etymological Dictionary of Filipino: Part 2, page 93

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /koˈdak/

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish قودق (koduk), قودق (kodak, “donkey colt”)

Noun

kodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)

1. (Bulgaristan Türkleri Kocaeli, Çorum, Van, Kerkük) colt

Etymology 2

Possibly from Middle Turkish koduk. Several etymologies may be mixed here.

Noun

kodak (definite accusative kodağı, plural kodaklar) (dialectal)

1. family
2. (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) shelter
3. (Salatin *Tire -İzmir) home
4. (Aydın) follower
5. (Çorum) a child who is tied to his/her mother's apron strings