Kat

• Rhymes: -æt

Kat

1. 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.

• List at "Catherine"

• ATK, TKA, Tak, tak

• IPA^(key): [kat]

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• Hyphenation: Kat
• Rhymes: -at

Kat m (strong, genitive Kats or Kat, plural Kats)

1. (automotive, informal) Clipping of Katalysator (“catalytic converter”).

• “Kat” in Duden online

Borrowed from Arabic قَات (qāt).

Kat n (strong, genitive Kats or Kat, no plural)

1. khat (drug produced from Catha edulis)

• Qat

• Kathstrauch

• “Kat” in Duden online

• kaat (Föhr-Amrum)
• kåt (Mooring)

From Old Frisian katte. Cognates include West Frisian kat.

Kat f (plural Kater)

1. (Sylt) cat

 

From Old Frisian katte, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā. Cognates include West Frisian kat and German Katze.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat/
• Hyphenation: Kat
• Rhymes: -at

Kat m (plural Katte)

1. cat (Felis catus)

• Púus

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “Kat”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN