kata

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkætə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• Rhymes: -ætə

Etymology 1

From Japanese 型 (literally “pattern, model”). In English use since the 1950s.

Noun

kata (plural katas or kata)

1. (martial arts) Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.

   judo kata

   • 1979, Masatoshi Nakayama, Best Karate: Heian, Tekki, page 12:

     About fifty kata, or "formal exercises," are practiced at the present time, some having been passed down from generation to generation, others having been developed fairly recently.

   • 2006, Kelley MacAulay, Bobbie Kalman, Karate in Action, page 22:

     Katas are a series of motions, such as punches, strikes, and kicks, arranged in a specific pattern. The pattern allows the motions to flow into one another. A student must learn a new kata to advance to each new belt level.

   • 2009, Thomas W. Hanlon, The Sports Rules Book, Human Kinetics, page 161:

     When the competitor's name is called, she stands on the designated line, bows to the panel of judges, and announces the name of the kata she will perform. […] She then performs the kata. When she is finished, her opponent performs her kata. At the end of the second kata, both return to the mat area to await the decision of the judging panel.

   • 2010, Kenji Tokitsu, The Katas: The Meaning Behind the Movements:
2. (by extension, programming) A short programming exercise to improve one's skills through practice and repetition.

   Synonym: code kata

   • 2020, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, Head First C#‎, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 728:

     These kata will give you the C# syntax for inheritance.

Derived terms

• gun kata

Etymology 2

Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “downwards”). Compare cata-.

Noun

kata (plural katas)

1. Ellipsis of kata thermometer..
2. (in combination) A drop (in temperature).

   kata factor

Adverb

kata (comparative more kata, superlative most kata)

1. In a direction analogous to down, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.

   Antonym: ana

   • 1985, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes, page 43:

     Your right half would move ana, let us say, and your left half would move kata. The two halves would, in their parallel spaces, move past the plane of rotation, and then they would swing back into our space.

   • 2005, Animation journal, volumes 13-15:

     Added to the conventional FPS control keys are two extra keys that move the player in ana and kata direction in 4d space. If you go in this extra direction the space around you changes, the room transforms.

Etymology 3

Noun

kata (plural katas)

1. Alternative form of gata (“type of Armenian pastry”)

Further reading

• kata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kata (programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• taka

Chickasaw

Pronoun

kata

1. (interrogative) who
2. (interrogative) whose

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

kata

1. genitive/accusative singular of kat

Esperanto

Etymology

kato (“cat”) +‎ -a (“adjective”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Hyphenation: ka‧ta

Adjective

kata (accusative singular katan, plural kataj, accusative plural katajn)

1. feline

Finnish

Verb

kata

1. inflection of kattaa:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

Anagrams

• akat, taka, taka-

Garo

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

kata

1. to run

Etymology 2

Probably from Assamese কথা (kotha)

Noun

kata

1. word

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

kata

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

From Malay kata, from Pali kathā, from Sanskrit कथा (kathā, “speech; story”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkata/,

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: ka‧ta
• Rhymes: -ta, -a

Noun

kata (plural kata-kata, first-person possessive kataku, second-person possessive katamu, third-person possessive katanya)

1. (linguistics) word: (the smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language)
2. (uncommon) speech: vocal communication.

   Synonyms: bicara, ujar

Verb

kata (stative berkata, active mengata, transitive locative katai, transitive applicative katakan)

1. (intransitive) to say

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

• “kata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

kata

1. Rōmaji transcription of かた

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Sanskrit कथा (kathā).

Pronunciation

• Audio (MY)

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• Rhymes: -a
• Rhymes: -ta

Noun

kata (Jawi spelling کات, plural kata-kata, informal 1st possessive kataku, 2nd possessive katamu, 3rd possessive katanya)

1. word

Derived terms

• katakan
• sekata
• suku kata

Further reading

• “kata” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Nupe

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kā.tā/

Noun

kata

1. house
2. room

See also

• èmì (“house; intergenerational compound comprised of kata”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kà.tà/

Noun

kàtà (plural kàtàzhì)

1. umbrella

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Sanskrit कृत (kṛta, “done”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kr̥tás. Compare Hindi किया (kiyā), Middle Persian 𐭪𐭫𐭲 (klt /⁠-kirt⁠/).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɐ.t̪ɐ/

Verb

kata

1. past participle of karoti; done

Declension

Derived terms

• sukata
• dukkata

Pitjantjatjara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

kata

1. (anatomy) head
2. mind
3. (of a car) bonnet, hood
4. (of a lorry) cab

Derived terms

• katapi (“pillow”)
• kata kura (“headache”)
• kata kutjara (“two-faced”)
• kata tarka (“bald”)
• Kata Tjuṯa

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ta/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ka‧ta

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic قَات (qāt).

Noun

kata f

1. (rare) khat (plant)

   Synonym: czuwaliczka

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 型.

Noun

kata f (indeclinable)

1. (martial arts) kata

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

kata m pers or m animal

1. genitive/accusative singular of kat

Further reading

• kata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Rapa Nui

Verb

kata

1. laugh

Slovak

Noun

kata

1. genitive/accusative singular of kat

Swahili

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

-kata (infinitive kukata)

1. to cut (to break or sever, including in a metaphorical sense)
2. to buy (of tickets)
3. to bring to an end

Conjugation

Derived terms

• Verbal derivations:
  • Causative: -katisha (“to cancel”)
  • Passive: -katwa (“to get cut”)
  • Reduplicative: -katakata (“to mince, dice”)
  • Stative: -katika (“to be cut”)
  • Other formations: -kata choo (“to interrupt (idiomatic)”), -kata tamaa (“to despair”)

• Nominal derivations:
  • ukataji (“cutting”)

Etymology 2

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

kata

Wikipedia ^sw

Noun

kata (n class, plural kata)

1. (Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

   Synonym: (Tanzania) shehia

Derived terms

• kata ndogo (“sublocation”)

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtaʔ/,

• IPA^(key): /ˈkataʔ/, (obsolete)
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Hyphenation: ka‧ta

Noun

katâ (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆ)

1. Alternative form of katha

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtaʔ/,
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Hyphenation: ka‧ta

Noun

katâ (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆ)

1. start of bubbling of rice being boiled

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaˈta/,
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ka‧ta

Pronoun

katá (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆ)

1. (archaic, now dialectal) we (inclusive of the person spoken to)

See also

Interjection

katá (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆ)

1. (dialectal, Southern Tagalog) let's go! (invitation of doing something together)

   Synonyms: katang, tara, tarang, tayo, tayong

References

• “kata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Anagrams

• taka, akat, atak

Tongan

Verb

kata

1. to laugh

Volapük

Noun

kata

1. genitive singular of kat

Western Highland Chatino

Etymology

From Proto-Chatino *kesa (“tobacco”), from Proto-Zapotecan *keʔsa.

Noun

kata⁴

1. cigar, cigarette

Related terms

• lkaꞌ kata

References

• Pride, Leslie, Pride, Kitty (2010) Diccionario chatino de la zona alta: Panixtlahuaca, Oaxaca y otros pueblos‎ (in Spanish), 2nd (electronic) edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 40

Yosondúa Mixtec

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mixtec *kátá.

Verb

kata

1. (transitive) sing

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

kata

1. (intransitive) have an itch

References

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 27