kra

Meanings

1. The letter Κʻ or ĸ, formerly used to write the Kalaallisut language of Greenland, replaced in 1973 by the letter q.

1. A long-tailed macaque of India and Sumatra, reddish-olive in colour with black spots and tail.

1. A branch of the Kra-Dai language family spoken in southern China and northern Vietnam.

1. Initialism of Kenya Revenue Authority.

1. Initialism of key result area.

Etymology

Coined by Thai linguist Weera Ostapirat in 1999 from a reconstruction of a Proto-Kra endonym cognate with Thai ข้า (kâa, “slave”).