kati

• catty
• katti, katty (both obsolete)

Borrowed from Malay kati; see below.

kati (plural katis)

1. (rare, British, historical) A weight equivalent to about 1.5 pounds, adopted as a standard by British companies.

• caddy (chest)

• kati roll

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “kati”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• Kita, tika, Atik, Kait, taki, ikat

• Hyphenation: ka‧ti

kati

1. to prime; to prepare a mechanism for its main work
2. to keep an amount; often coins; in a wallet, cash register, etc., sometimes superstitiously serving as a charm for money or a talisman for money troubles
3. (of a childless couple) to adopt a child in order to promote child bearing, often superstitiously to persuade a higher power to confer a biological child

kati

1. that which is used as priming

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kati.

• atik, kiat, kita

• IPA^(key):

kati

1. nominative/vocative plural of kat

• katje
• katti
• kattie

Borrowed from Malay kati, see below.

• Hyphenation: ka‧ti

kati m (plural kati's, diminutive katietje n)

1. a weight defined as one-hundredth of a pikol, about 625 (other source: 616.7) grams, used in China, Indonesia and Japan
2. a leaden box fitting such weight, notably to ship tea

• theekatje

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition)

Finnish Wikipedia has an article on:

khat

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑti/,
• Rhymes: -ɑti
• Hyphenation^(key): ka‧ti

kati

1. Alternative form of khat

• akti, kait, kita

From Proto-Philippine *kátiq.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkatiʔ/
• Rhymes: -atiʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧ti

katì (Hanunoo spelling ᜣᜦᜲ)

1. decoy wild cock

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 144

Borrowed from English card.

• IPA^(key): /káː.tìː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

kātī̀ m (plural kātunā̀, possessed form kātìn)

1. card
2. playing card
3. gambling with cards

• IPA^(key):
• Rhymes: -ti
• Hyphenation: ka‧ti

kati

1. (interrogative) how

• IPA^(key): /ˈkati/

kati

1. plural of kato

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

kati

Wikipedia ^id

From Malay kati, from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi).^[1]

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ka‧ti

kati (uncountable)

1. A weight defined as 6¼ ons or 625 grams.

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

kati

1. Romanization of ꦏꦠꦶ

kati

1. internal

kati

1. center; interior

-kati

1. internal , central

• kači

Cognate with Wapishana kʰaɨẓ, Trinitario coje, Machiguenga kashiri, Baniwa kéeri, Yine ksuru.

kati

1. (Eastern Lokono) moon

   Synonym: kathi

• de Goeje, C. H. (1928) The Arawak Language of Guiana‎, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 255

From Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /kati/
• Rhymes: -ati, -ti, -i

kati (Jawi spelling کاتي, plural kati-kati, informal 1st possessive katiku, 2nd possessive katimu, 3rd possessive katinya)

1. A weight defined as one-hundredth of a pikol, about 616.7 grams, used in China, Indonesia (mostly Malay-speaking) and Japan.

• > Indonesian: kati (inherited)
• → Dutch: kati
• → English: caddy, caddie, catty, kati
• → Javanese: ꦏꦠꦶ (kati)

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

kati

1. moon

kati class 9 (plural kati)

1. middle

kati

1. nominative plural of kat

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kati class IX (plural kati class X)

1. Alternative form of katikati

kati

1. Alternative form of katikati

kati

1. Alternative form of katikati

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gatəl, from Proto-Austronesian *gaCəl. Cognate with Ilocano gatel, Kapampangan gatal, Bikol Central gatol, Waray-Waray katol, Maranao gatel, Malagasy hatina, Malay gatal, and Manggarai katel.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈti/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ka‧ti

katí (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜒ)

1. itch; itchiness

   Synonyms: pagkati, pangangati

2. (figurative) urge; lust

   Synonyms: tukso, hibo, simbuyo

3. (figurative) restlessness; uneasiness

   Synonyms: balisa, pagkabalisa

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ka-qati, from Proto-Austronesian *qaCi. Cognate with Ilocano ati (“dry, evaporated”), Pangasinan kati, Bikol Central ati, and Wolio kaati (“shallowness, low tide”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkati/
• Rhymes: -ati
• Syllabification: ka‧ti

kati (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜒ)

1. low tide; ebb tide; ebb

   Antonyms: taog, taeb, suwag

2. land not reached by sea or rivers
3. land as opposed to sea

   Synonym: katihan

kati (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜒ)

1. receded (of tides)

Borrowed from Malay kati, from Tamil கட்டி (kaṭṭi). Cognate with Ilocano kati and Bikol Central kati.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkati/
• Rhymes: -ati
• Syllabification: ka‧ti

kati (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜒ)

1. unit of weight equivalent to 623.70 grams or 20 ounces

From Sanskrit कोटि (koṭi, “ten million”), presumably through Malay keti (“hundred thousand”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkati/
• Rhymes: -ati
• Syllabification: ka‧ti

kati (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜒ) (archaic)

1. (mathematics) ten million

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈtiʔ/
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧ti

katî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜒ)

1. clicking sound; tick (of metals, china, eggshells, etc.)
2. act of testing the durability (of wood, metal, eggshell, etc.) by knocking or striking it lightly (on the surface of the teetth)

From Proto-Philippine *kátiq. Cognate with Ibaloi kati (“rooster trained to lure wild roosters”), Hanunoo kati (“decoy wild cock”), Aklanon kati (“to decoy, entice”), and Maranao kati' (“bantam”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈtiʔ/
• Rhymes: -iʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧ti

katî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜒ)

1. act of luring with a decoy (of birds, fowl, animals, etc.)
2. decoy for birds or fowls
3. (figurative) enticement; persuasion

   Synonyms: paghimok, pag-amuki, pagrahuyo

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

• atik, kita, itak, tika, akit, taki, kait

• katî

kati

1. Alternative form of katî

kati

1. accusative singular of kat

kati

1. one

• Jeremy Hammond, The Grammar of Nouns and Verbs in Whitesands, an Oceanic Language of Southern Vanuatu (2009), p. 68

kati

1. seven