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Translingual

Symbol

kat

1. Symbol for katal, an SI unit of measurement of catalytic activity.

English

Etymology 1

Noun

kat (plural kats)

1. An ancient Egyptian unit of weight, one fiftieth of an avoirdupois pound.

Etymology 2

Noun

kat (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of khat

Anagrams

• ATK, TKA, Tak

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/, [k?t], [kät]

Noun

kat (plural katte)

1. cat

Descendants

• ? Xhosa: ikati
• ? Zulu: ikati

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (kat).

Noun

kat m (indefinite plural kate, definite singular kati, definite plural katet)

1. floor, storey

Declension

Central Kurdish

Noun

kat (kat)

1. time

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kat?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kat]

Noun

kat m anim

1. executioner

   Synonym: poprav?í

Declension

Derived terms

• kat?v
• katan
• katovna
• katyn?

Further reading

• kat in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• kat in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse k?ttr, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/, [?k?ad?]

Noun

kat c (singular definite katten, plural indefinite katte)

1. cat

Inflection

Derived terms

• huskat

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• khat (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/, [?k?ad?]

Noun

kat c (singular definite katten, not used in plural form)

1. khat

Further reading

• “kat” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/
• Hyphenation: kat
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch catte, from Old Dutch *katta, from Proto-West Germanic *katt?, from Latin catta, feminine of cattus.

Noun

kat f (plural katten, diminutive katje n, masculine kater or mannetjeskat)

1. cat, pussy, Felis silvestris catus

   Synonyms: dakhaas, poes

2. female cat

   Synonym: poes

3. (by extension) feline
4. (historical) cat, tortoise (wheeled gallery offering protection to approaching besiegers; medieval siege weapon)

   Synonym: schildpad

5. (military) cavalier (raised firing platform)

Derived terms

Related terms

• kitten

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kat
  • ? Xhosa: ikati
  • ? Zulu: ikati

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

kat

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of katten
2. imperative of katten

Etymology 3

Noun

kat m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of qat

Anagrams

• tak
• t.k.a.

Further reading

• “kat” in Van Dale Onlinewoordenboek, Van Dale Lexicografie, 2007.

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French quatre (“four”)

Numeral

kat

1. four

Etymology 2

From French carte (“map”)

Noun

kat

1. map

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French quatre (“four”).

Numeral

kat

1. four

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French quatre.

Numeral

kat

1. four

Derived terms

• kat ven
• kat ven dis

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??t/

Noun

kat ?

1. sprout, growth

Derived terms

Polish

Etymology

From dialectal Proto-Slavic *kat?. Cognate to Czech kat, Slovak kat, Upper Sorbian kat and Lower Sorbian kat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/

Noun

kat m pers

1. executioner, hangman, headsman

2. (figuratively) torturer, tormentor

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) katowa?
• (nouns) katownia, katownik, katusz, katusza
• (adjectives) kaci, katowski

Synonyms

• (executioner): oprawca
• (torturer): oprawca

Noun

kat m anim

1. three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

   Synonyms: ciernik, kolka, czart

Declension

Further reading

• kat in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romani

Noun

kat f

1. scissors

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ???? (kat). Compare Turkish kat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kât/

Noun

k?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Croatia) floor, story

Declension

Synonyms

• (Croatia): zboj
• (Bosnia, Serbia): spr?t

See also

• prizemlje

References

• “kat” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• Škalji?, Abdulah (1966) Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Sarajevo: Svjetlost, page 400

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kat?. Cognates include Polish kat, Czech kat, Lower Sorbian kat, and Upper Sorbian kat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kat/

Noun

kat m (genitive singular kata, nominative plural kati, genitive plural katov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. executioner, hangman

Declension

Derived terms

• katovský

Further reading

• kat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (kat), from Proto-Turkic *kat (“layer”).

Noun

kat (definite accusative kat?, plural katlar)

1. floor, level
2. fold, layer
3. times

Declension

Descendants

• ? Romanian: cat

Volapük

Noun

kat (nominative plural kats)

1. cat

Declension

Hyponyms

• hikat (“male cat, tomcat”)
• jikat (“female cat”)
• katil (“small cat, kitty”)
• katül (“young cat, kitten”)

Derived terms

West Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kattuz

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?t/

Noun

kat c (plural katten, diminutive katsje)

1. cat

Further reading

• “kat”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse kátr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ko?t/, /k??t/, /k??t/

  Rhymes: -ó?t

Noun

kat m (definite katn, dative katåm)

1. the first slice of a loaf

Adjective

kat (plural kaat)

1. lively, frisky

Related terms

• kaat f (“friskiness, playfulness”)

Albanian

Etymology 1

An onomatopoeia, similar to Italian toccare (“to touch, to tap”).

Verb

tok (first-person singular past tense toka, participle tokë)

1. I cut (meat), sharpen (scythe), knock

Alternative forms

• toku

Derived terms

• toka

Related terms

• tokë
• cek

Etymology 2

A semantic variation of the above mentioned verb.

Adverb

tok

1. together

References

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Russian ??? (tok).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tok]

Noun

tok (definite accusative toku, plural toklar)

1. (colloquial) current (electric)

   Synonym: c?r?yan

Declension

Further reading

• “tok” in Obastan.com.

Chickasaw

Particle

tok

1. particle used to express actions in the past.

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tok?.

Pronunciation

Noun

tok m

1. flow

Declension

Further reading

• tok in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tok in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tok]
• Hyphenation: tok
• Rhymes: -ok

Etymology 1

Of unknown origin.

Noun

tok (plural tokok)

1. holder
2. case
3. cover
4. sheath

Declension

Derived terms

• tokmány

(Compound words):

• portok
• tokkal-vonóval

Etymology 2

Of uncertain origin. Perhaps borrowed from Turkic, probably before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare also Middle Armenian ?????? (t?uxu, “sturgeon”).

Noun

tok (plural tokok)

2. sturgeon (a type of fish)

Declension

References

Further reading

• (case, sheath): tok in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (sturgeon): tok in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Kokborok

Alternative forms

• tau

Etymology

From Proto-Bodo-Garo *tao² (“bird”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *daw (“bird”). Cognate with Bodo (India) ??? (dao), Atong (India) taw·, Garo do·o.

Noun

tok

1. bird

References

• Debbarma, Binoy (2001) , “tok”, in Concise Kokborok-English-Bengali Dictionary, Language Wing, Education Department, TTAADC, ?ISBN, page 129

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tok

1. simple past of ta

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

tok

1. past tense of ta, taka and take

Polabian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tak?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?k/

Pronoun

tok

1. such

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?k/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *tok?.

Noun

tok m inan

1. process

   Synonyms: przebieg, proces

2. course

3. train

4. current (part of a fluid that moves continuously in a certain direction)
5. (ornithology) courtship display

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

Noun

tok m inan

1. (archaic) toque (type of hat)

   Synonym: toczek

Declension

Further reading

• tok in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tok in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *tok?. Cognate to e-grade t??i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tô?k/

Noun

t?k m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. flow
2. stream, current
3. flux

4. (Croatia) movement in space (as opposed to time, compare tij?k)

Derived terms

Declension

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ????? (compare Turkish toka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tô?k/

Noun

t?k m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (regional) sheath, scabbard

   Synonym: korice

Declension

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tok?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?k/

Noun

tok m (genitive singular toku, nominative plural toky, genitive plural tokov, declension pattern of dub)

1. flow
2. current

Declension

Further reading

• tok in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *tok?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tó?k/

Noun

t??k m inan

1. current

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Hungarian tok

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??k/, /tó?k/

Noun

t?k or t??k m inan

1. holder
2. case

Inflection

Further reading

• “tok”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Southeastern Tepehuan

Etymology

Cognate with Northern Tepehuan tóki, O'odham toki.

Noun

tok

1. cotton

References

• R. de Willett, Elizabeth, et al. (2016) Diccionario tepehuano de Santa María Ocotán, Durango (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 48)?^[1] (in Spanish), electronic edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 168

Swedish

Etymology

Dialectal, perhaps of imitative origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tu?k/

Noun

tok c

1. crazy person, fool, wacko
2. shrubby cinquefoil (short form of ölandstok)

Declension

Related terms

References

• “tok”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Swedish Academy Dictionary]?^[2] (in Swedish), 1937

Anagrams

• okt

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English talk.

Noun

tok

1. message; news; speech; announcement
2. rumour
3. word
4. language

Derived terms

Related terms

• toktok

Verb

tok intrans., transitive tokim

1. (intransitive) to speak, talk

Related terms

• tokim

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic [script needed] (tok, “full”), from tod-/to- (“to become satiated, to fill”). Related to dolmak and doymak.

Adjective

tok (comparative daha tok, superlative en tok)

1. sated, full (not hungry)

   Synonym: doymu?

2. (on prescriptions for medication) not having an empty stomach

Antonyms

• aç

Derived terms

• tokluk

References

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German tocke, from Old High German toccha (“doll”), from Proto-Germanic *dokko (“something round”), related to *dukk? (“muscle, strength”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eu-k- (“to spin, shake”); cognate with German Docke (“corn dolly”).

Pronunciation

Noun

tok f (plural toka) (diminutive takla)

1. doll

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.