кат

From dialectal Proto-Slavic *katъ. Cognate with Ukrainian кат (kat), Russian кат (kat).

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кат • (kat) m pers (genitive ка́та, nominative plural ка́ты, genitive plural ка́таў)

1. executioner
2. (figurative) a ruthless killer, a butcher

• “кат” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org

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• Rhymes: -at

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *katъ.

кат • (kat) m

1. (dated) span, turn
2. way, turn, order (in enumeration or classification)

   Synonyms: ред (red), поря́дък (porjádǎk)

• отка́т (otkát, “recoil”)
• прока́т (prokát, “profile, design”) (technical)
• скат (skat, “cliff”)

• ката́я (katája, “to span”)

• “кат²”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قات (kat).

кат • (kat) m

1. (low colloquial) storey, floor

   Synonym: етаж (etaž)

2. (low colloquial) layer, thickness

   Synonyms: слой (sloj), пласт (plast), (dialectal) сяд (sjad)

3. (low colloquial) set of clothes, suit, change

   Synonym: чифт (čift)

• “кат¹”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “кат”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

From Proto-Slavic *kato.

кат • (kat)

1. (poetic) Alternative form of като́ (kató)

кат • (kat)

1. (poetic) Alternative form of като́ (kató)

• как (kak, “how”), ка́ко (káko, “in such a way”)

• “кат”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014

• акт (akt), так (tak)

From Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ, “script; handwriting; written character”).

кат • (kat) (Arabic spelling قات)

1. letter (written message)

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Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kǫtъ.

кат • (kat) m (plural катови, diminutive катче)

1. corner

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قات (kat).

кат • (kat) m (relational adjective катен)

1. floor, storey (level)

   Synonym: спрат (sprat)

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• Rhymes: -at

кат • (kat) m anim or m inan (genitive ка́та, nominative plural ка́ты, genitive plural ка́тов)

1. (historical) executioner
2. (nautical) cat

   кат-ба́лка ― kat-bálka ― cathead

3. (botany) khat
4. (computing) cut (livejournal cut, <lj-cut>, which allows you to hide all or part of your entry behind a link)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “кат”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قات (kat).

• IPA^(key): /kât/

ка̏т m (Latin spelling kȁt)

1. (Croatia) floor, story

• (Bosnia, Serbia): sprȁt

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

From Proto-Turkic *kat (“layer”). Cognate with Kazakh қат (qat), Kyrgyz кат (kat), Crimean Tatar qat, Karachay-Balkar къат (qat), Kumyk къат (qat), Bashkir ҡат (qat), Tatar кат (qat), Turkmen gat, Uzbek qat, Uyghur قات (qat), Shor қат, Western Yugur qat, etc.

кат • (kat)

1. layer

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “кат”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

From Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ, “script; handwriting; written character”). Cognate with Kazakh хат (xat), Kyrgyz кат (kat), Kumyk хат (xat), Bashkir хат (xat), Tatar хат (xat), Turkmen hat, Uzbek xat, Uyghur خەت (xet), etc.

кат • (kat)

1. letter

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “кат”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

From Proto-Turkic *Kat (“berry”). Cognate Kyrgyz кат (kat), Tuvan кат (kat), etc.

кат • (kat)

1. berry

N. A. Baskakov, Toščakova N.A, editor (1947), “кат”, in Ojrotsko-Russkij Slovarʹ [Oyrot-Russian Dictionary], Moscow: M.: OGIZ, →ISBN

From Proto-Turkic *Kat (“berry”).

• IPA^(key): /qat/

кат • (kat) (definite accusative катты, plural каттар)

1. berry

   Бо арыгда кат хөй. ― Bo arıgda kat xöy. ― There are a lot of berries in this forest.

• честек-кат (çestek-kat)

Borrowed from Polish kat.[1]

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кат • (kat) m pers (genitive ка́та, nominative plural кати́, genitive plural каті́в)

1. executioner
2. (figurative) a ruthless killer, a butcher
3. (derogatory) devil, evil force

• катува́ти impf (katuváty)

• Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2015), “кат”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 6 (зга́га – ква́рта), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund, →ISBN
• “кат”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1973), “кат”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 4 (І – М), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 116
• “кат”, in Kyiv Dictionary (in English)
• “кат”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)

From Sogdian 𐼋𐼚𐼀𐼋 (ktʾk⁩), from Proto-Iranian *kátah. Compare Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬙𐬀 (kata, “house, room”), Bactrian καδαγο (kadago, “house, household”).

кат (kat)

1. house

   Ман кат аноки хаст.

   Man kat anoki xast.

   My house is in another place.