Kat

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kat"

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -æt

Proper noun

Kat

  1. A short form of the female given names Katharine and Katherine.
    • 1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, →ISBN, 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.

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German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [kat]
  • Audio (Berlin)(file)
  • Hyphenation: Kat
  • Rhymes: -at

Noun

Kat m (strong, genitive Kats or Kat, plural Kats)

  1. (automotive, informal) Clipping of Katalysator (“catalytic converter”).
Declension
Declension of Kat [masculine, strong]
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Kat die Kats
genitive eines des Kats, Kat der Kats
dative einem dem Kat den Kats
accusative einen den Kat die Kats
Further reading
  • “Kat” in Duden online

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic قَات (qāt).

Noun

Kat n (strong, genitive Kats or Kat, no plural)

  1. khat (drug produced from Catha edulis)
Declension
Declension of Kat [sg-only, neuter, strong]
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative ein das Kat
genitive eines des Kats, Kat
dative einem dem Kat
accusative ein das Kat
Alternative forms
  • Qat
See also
  • Kathstrauch
Further reading
  • “Kat” in Duden online

Saterland Frisian
n'Kat.

Etymology

From Old Frisian katte, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā. Cognates include West Frisian kat and German Katze.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkat/
  • Hyphenation: Kat
  • Rhymes: -at

Noun

Kat m (plural Katte)

  1. cat (Felis catus)

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Derived terms

References
  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “Kat”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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