ka

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see also: KA

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɑː/

Noun

ka (plural kas)

1. A spiritual part of the soul in Egyptian mythology, which survived after death.
   • 1983, Norman Mailer, Ancient Evenings:

     Then, I wondered how long I must wait before seeing my Double, but if I recalled, the Ka was not supposed to appear before the seventy days of embalming were done.

   • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:

     Hence Dorian's portrait is like the ka or double of the deceased in Egyptian tombs, heaped with toys and furniture.

   • 2011, Neil Gaiman, American Gods (Tenth Anniversary Edition), William Morrow 2013, p. 179:

     ‘You could bind the ka of a man to his body for five thousand years,’ said Jaquel.

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To serve or help; used only in the phrase "Ka me, ka thee" or variants thereof.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, III.5:

     Now nature stood ever on this point, Kæ mee Ile kæ thee, and ever ready to bee even alwaies on recompences and vicissitude of things, and to give as good as one brings.

   • 1821, Walter Scott, Kenilworth:

     Ka me, ka thee, is a proverb all over the world.

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KA

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Noun

ka (plural kas)

1. (slang, law enforcement) Initialism of Known Associate

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