koto

From Japanese 琴 (koto).

koto (plural kotos)

1. (music) A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.
   • 1962, Philip K. Dick, “The Man in the High Castle”, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America, published 2007, page 94:

     Seated on the soft carpet with their drinks, they listened to a recording of koto, Japanese thirteen-string harp.

• kotoist

• Koot, Otok, toko, toko-, took

koto

1. poncho.
2. blanket.

• Valentín Isidro Reyes (2012); Vocabulario nauatl-español, material de apoyo para la enseñanza de la lengua nauatl, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, diversidad intercultural, Mexico City, Mexico.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.toː/
• Hyphenation: ko‧to
• Rhymes: -oːtoː

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo koto, from English coat.

koto m (plural koto's)

1. A traditional Surinamese dress, traditionally worn by women of African descent.

Borrowed from Japanese 琴 (koto).

koto m (plural koto's)

1. A koto; a Japanese stringed instrument.

Borrowed from German Kot.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkoto]
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: ko‧to

koto (accusative singular koton, plural kotoj, accusative plural kotojn)

1. mud (mixture of water and soil or sediment)

• kota (“muddy”)
• kotanimulo (“low-minded person”)
• koti (“to puddle”)

• grundo (“ground; dirt; soil”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoto/, [ˈko̞t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification^(key): ko‧to

From Proto-Finnic *koto, which is derived from Proto-Finnic *kota. Cognate with Estonian kodu.

koto (archaic)

1. home
   • 1855, Aleksis Kivi, Koto ja kahleet‎:

     Hän muisteli kotoansa kivisellä aholla yläpuolella vihantoja peltoja ja korkean vuoren alla.

     He reminisced his home on the rocky glade above the verdant fields and beneath the tall mountain.

• koti

• “1. koto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

From Japanese 琴 (koto).

koto

1. (music) koto (instrument)

• “2. koto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

• koot, toko

Borrowed from Japanese 琴 (koto).

• IPA^(key): /ko.to/

• Audio

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koto m (plural kotos)

1. koto (musical instruments)

• koto on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• “koto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

koto

1. Rōmaji transcription of こと
2. Rōmaji transcription of コト

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

koto (plural kotokoto)

1. louse (insect)

From kutu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu.

koto

1. louse

koto

1. louse (insect)

From English coat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.to/

koto

1. A traditional African-Surinamese dress.

• → Dutch: koto

From kaut- (“split, strike, break”).

koto f

1. crevice, hole, pit

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “koto”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 215

From Proto-Finnic *koto.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈkoto/, [ˈkoto]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation: ko‧to

koto

1. house, home

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

koto

1. louse (insect)