koto

From Japanese 琴 (koto).

koto (plural kotos)

1. (music) A Japanese stringed instrument having numerous strings, usually seven or thirteen, that are stretched over a convex wooden sounding board and are plucked with three plectra, worn on the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of one hand.
   • 1962, Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle, in Four Novels of the 1960s, Library of America 2007, p. 94:

     Seated on the soft carpet with their drinks, they listened to a recording of koto, Japanese thirteen-string harp.

• kotoist

• Koot, Otok, toko, took

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoː.toː/
• Hyphenation: ko‧to
• Rhymes: -oːtoː

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo koto, from English coat.

koto m (plural koto's)

1. A traditional Surinamese dress, traditionally worn by women of African descent.

Borrowed from Japanese 琴 (koto).

koto m (plural koto's)

1. A koto; a Japanese stringed instrument.

Borrowed from German Kot.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkoto/
• Hyphenation: ko‧to
• Rhymes: -oto

koto (accusative singular koton, plural kotoj, accusative plural kotojn)

1. mud

• kota (muddy)
• kotanimulo (“low-minded person”)

From Proto-Finnic *koto, which is derived from Proto-Finnic *kota. Cognate with Estonian kodu.

koto

1. (archaic) home
   • 1855 — Aleksis Kivi, Koto ja kahleet

     Hän muisteli kotoansa kivisellä aholla yläpuolella vihantoja peltoja ja korkean vuoren alla.

• koti

From Japanese 琴 (koto)

koto

1. (music) koto (instrument)

• koot

From Japanese 琴 (koto).

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koto m (plural kotos)

1. koto (musical instruments)

• koto on the French Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fr

• “koto” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

koto

1. Rōmaji transcription of こと
2. Rōmaji transcription of コト

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

koto (plural kotokoto)

1. louse (insect)

From English coat.

• IPA^(key): /ˈko.to/

koto

1. A traditional African-Surinamese dress.

• → Dutch: koto

koto (genitive koo, partitive [please provide])

1. house, home

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• "koto" in Vadja keele sõnaraamat