kata

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

kata (plural katas or kata)

1. (martial arts) A sequence of positions and movements used in the practice of many martial arts.
   • 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.

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

kata (plural katas)

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

   kata thermometer; kata factor

kata (comparative more kata, superlative most kata)

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

• ana

kata (plural katas)

1. Alternative form of gata

• taka

kata

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

kato (“cat”) +‎ -a (“adjective”)

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkata/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ta
• Rhymes: -ata

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

1. feline

kata

1. Indicative present connegative form of kattaa.
2. Second-person singular imperative present form of kattaa.
3. Second-person singular imperative present connegative form of kattaa.

• akat, taka, taka-

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

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta/

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

1. word

• kata benda
• kata depan
• kata ganti
• kata kerja
• kata penghubung
• kata sandang
• kata seru
• kata sifat

• kelas kata
• suku kata

kata

1. Rōmaji transcription of かた

Borrowed from Sanskrit कथा (kathā).

kata (Jawi spelling کات‎, plural kata-kata, informal first-person possessive kataku, informal second-person possessive katamu, third-person possessive katanya)

1. word

• suku kata

kate +‎ -a (feminine nominal suffix).

kata f (plural katas)

1. female cat

• kate (“cat”)

• kato (“male cat”)

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

• IPA^(key): /kɐ.t̪ɐ/

kata

1. past participle of karoti; done

• sukata
• dukkata

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɐtɐ]

kata

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ta/

From Arabic قَات‎‎ (qāt).

kata f

1. (rare) khat (plant)

   Synonym: czuwaliczka

From Japanese 型

kata f (indeclinable)

1. (martial arts) kata

kata m pers or m anim

1. inflection of kat:
   1. genitive singular
   2. accusative singular

• kata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

kata

1. laugh

-kata (infinitive kukata)

1. to cut
2. (of tickets) to buy

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈtaʔ/

kata

1. start of bubbling of rice being boiled
2. fiction; make-believe
3. ide talk

• IPA^(key): /ka.ˈta/

kata

1. we; the two of us; you and I

kata

1. genitive singular of kat

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

kata⁴

1. cigar, cigarette

• lkaꞌ kata

• 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