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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Hindi ???? (l??h?).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l??ti?/

Noun

lathi (countable and uncountable, plural lathis)

1. (India, countable) A heavy stick or club, usually used by policemen.
   • 1973, JG Farrell, The Siege of Krishnapur:

     The iron-bound bamboo staves, known as lâtees, with which most disputes among rival zemindars were traditionally settled.

   • 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin 2014, p. 131:

     A phalanx of policemen armed with lathis faced a mob of mill workers squatting on the road.

   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 94:

     Nearby, held back by a line of lathi-carrying peons, stood the farmers whose vessels were being weighed […].

2. (uncountable) A martial art based on stick fighting originally practiced in India.

   Lathi shares its basic principles with other martial arts.

Derived terms

• lathicharge

References

• “lathi”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000

Anagrams

• Lahti, Litha, laith, tahil, tahli, thali, thial

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

lati

1. rattan

Finnish

Noun

lati

1. lat (former Latvian unit of currency)
2. (idiomatic) penny (small amount of money), in the expression ei latin latia ("not a penny")

   Minulla ei ole latin latia.

   I don't have a penny.

Declension

Anagrams

• Ilta, ilta, lait, liat, tali, tila

Ilocano

Noun

lati

1. rust

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.ti/

Adjective

lati

1. masculine plural of lato

Noun

lati m pl

1. plural of lato

Anagrams

• alti, tali

Kankanaey

Noun

lati

1. rust

Kayapa Kallahan

Noun

lati

1. rust

Latin

Adjective

l?t?

1. nominative masculine plural of l?tus
2. genitive masculine singular of l?tus
3. genitive neuter singular of l?tus
4. vocative masculine plural of l?tus

References

• lati in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Latvian

Noun

lati m

1. nominative plural form of lats
2. vocative plural form of lats

Masbatenyo

Noun

lati

1. meadow

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /la.?t??i/

Verb

lati

1. first-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of latir
2. second-person plural (vós, sometimes used with vocês) affirmative imperative of latir

Tagalog

Noun

lati

1. swamp; bog; marsh