pakka
Definite, confirmed, solid, authentic, genuine.
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Definite, confirmed, solid, authentic, genuine. From Hindi पक्का (also Urdu پکا, Punjabi), literally meaning "ripe" or "cooked" — by metaphorical extension "fully formed", "the real thing". In South Asian English used to certify everything from plans ("pakka plan" = confirmed plan, definitely happening) to friendships ("pakka friend" = true friend, ride-or-die) to construction ("pakka house" = a permanent brick-built house, as opposed to a kachha mud-walled one). Also used to confirm a fact in conversation: "Pakka?" — "Pakka." The opposite is "kachha" (raw, unfinished, unreliable). One of the most universally understood words across Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi speakers.
It is a pakka plan now — we are flying to Goa on the 15th, tickets are booked.
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(originally, South Asia) Genuine or authentic; hence of behaviour: correct, socially acceptable or proper.
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(South Asia) Constructed as a permanent building, with high-quality materials (especially fired clay bricks and tiles as opposed to unfired mud and thatch).
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Pakat is Singlish — Singapore's distinctive English creole — for conspiring, colluding, or scheming together. If you pakat with someone, you're coordinating behind the scenes, usually to get an advantage or pull something off that might not be entirely above board. It's used casually for everything from harmless coordination ('let's pakat and surprise her') to genuinely shady collusion. The word is common in everyday Singapore speech and pop culture.
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(India, of a building) Constructed using a combination of pukka (strong, high-quality) and kutcha (inferior) materials.
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(Singapore, Singlish) To conspire; to collude.