kat kat

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Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish قات قات (ḳat ḳat),[1][2] from قات (ḳat),[3] equivalent to reduplication of kat (layer; multiplication; floor, storey). Cognates with Azerbaijani qat-qat, Bashkir ҡат-ҡат (qat-qat), Kazakh қат-қат (qat-qat), Kyrgyz кат-кат (kat-kat), Tatar кат-кат (qat-qat), qat-qat, Turkmen gat-gat, Uyghur قاتار-قاتار (qatar-qatar, row after row), Uzbek qat-qat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkat.kat/
  • Hyphenation: kat‧kat

Adverb

kat kat

  1. (comparative) many times as much, by far
    Synonyms: katbekat, binkat
    • 2022 August 11, Avrupa Uzay Ajansı: İklim değişikliğinin ekonomik hasarı enerji krizinden kat kat fazla olacak, BBC News Türkçe:
      Avrupa Uzay Ajansı (ESA) Başkanı Josef Aschbacher iklim değişikliğinin ekonomik hasarının, Avrupa'nın şu anda yaşadığı enerji krizinden kat kat fazla olacağını söyledi.
      European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Josef Aschbacher states that the economic damage from climate change will be many times more than the energy crisis Europe is going through at the moment.
  2. layer on top of layer, in layers

References

  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قات قات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1406
  2. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قات قات”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 920
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kat¹”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

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