English

Proper noun

Kat

1. A short form of the female given names Katharine and Katherine.
   • 1991 Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips ISBN 0385 421060 : page 36:

     During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy - - - At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt - - - When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.

See also

• List at "Catherine"

German

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kat]
• Hyphenation: Kat
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

Kat m ‎(genitive Kat or Kats, plural Kats)

1. (auto part) Short for Katalysator ‎(“catalytic converter”).

External links

• Kat in Duden online

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kat]
• Hyphenation: Kat

Noun

Kat n ‎(genitive Kat or Kats, no plural)

1. khat

External links

• Kat in Duden online

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *kat, katte, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz, *kattō, *katts. More at cat.

Noun

Kat m

1. cat

Synonyms

• Puus

Translingual

Symbol

kat

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

English

Noun

kat ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of khat

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɐt/

Noun

kat ‎(plural katte)

1. cat

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] ‎(kat).

Noun

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

1. floor, storey/story

Czech

Noun

kat m

1. executioner

Declension

Synonyms

• popravčí

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse kǫttr, from Proto-Germanic *kattuz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/, [ˈkʰad̥]

Noun

kat c (singular definite katten, plural indefinite katte)

1. cat

Inflection

Derived terms

• huskat

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kat/, [ˈkʰad̥]

Noun

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

1. khat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɑt

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *kattuz, cognate with English cat.

Noun

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

1. cat, pussy
2. female cat
3. (by extension) feline

Derived terms

Verb

kat

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

Etymology 2

From Arabic خَات ‎(ḵāt)

Noun

kat m ‎(uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of qat

Anagrams

• tak
• t.k.a.

Haitian Creole

Etymology 1

From French quatre ‎(“four”)

Numeral

kat

1. (cardinal) four

Etymology 2

From French carte ‎(“map”)

Noun

kat

1. map

Kurdish

Noun

kat ?

1. (Kurmanji) sprout, growth

Derived terms

Noun

kat ?

1. (Sorani) time

Lojban

Rafsi

kat

1. rafsi of kalte.

Louisiana Creole French

Etymology

From French quatre ‎(“four”).

Numeral

kat

1. (cardinal) four

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French quatre.

Numeral

kat

1. (cardinal) four

Derived terms

• kat ven
• kat ven dis

Polish

Etymology

From dialectal Proto-Slavic *katъ. 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

   Ku rozczarowaniu tłumu egzekucję na rynku odwołano z powodu choroby kata.

2. (figuratively) torturer, tormentor

Declension

Derived terms

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

Synonyms

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

Romani

Noun

kat f

1. scissors

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowing from Ottoman Turkish [script needed] ‎(kat). Compare Turkish kat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kât/

Noun

kȁt m ‎(Cyrillic spelling ка̏т)

1. (Croatia) floor, story

Declension

Synonyms

• (Croatia): zboj
• (Bosnia, Serbia): sprȁt

References

• “kat” in Hrvatski jezični portal
• Abdulah Škaljić (1966), Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku, Svjetlost: Sarajevo, page 400

Slovak

Noun

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

1. executioner, hangman

Declension

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [script needed] ‎(kat), from Old Turkic kat, from Proto-Turkic *Kat ‎(“layer”).

Noun

kat ‎(definite accusative katı, plural katlar)

1. floor

Declension

Volapük

Noun

kat ‎(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

Noun

kat ‎(plural katten)

1. cat