Kat
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "kat"
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æt
Proper noun
Kat
- 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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Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Noun
Kat m (strong, genitive Kats or Kat, plural Kats)
- (automotive, informal) Clipping of Katalysator (“catalytic converter”).
Declension
Declension of Kat [masculine, strong]
Further reading
- “Kat” in Duden online
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic قَات (qāt).
Noun
Kat n (strong, genitive Kats or Kat, no plural)
- khat (drug produced from Catha edulis)
Declension
Declension of Kat [sg-only, neuter, strong]
Alternative forms
- Qat
See also
- Kathstrauch
Further reading
- “Kat” in Duden online
Alternative forms
- kaat (Föhr-Amrum)
- kåt (Mooring)
Etymology
From Old Frisian katte. Cognates include West Frisian kat.
Noun
Kat f (plural Kater)
Etymology
From Old Frisian katte, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā. Cognates include West Frisian kat and German Katze.
Pronunciation
Noun
Kat m (plural Katte)
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