kazi

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English

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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kazi (plural kazis)

  1. (historical) Alternative form of Kazi

Etymology 2

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Noun

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kazi (plural kazis)

  1. Alternative form of khazi (toilet)

Anagrams

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Karelian

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Regional variants of kazi
North Karelian
(Viena)
kasi
South Karelian
(Tver)
kazi

Etymology

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From an East Slavic language. Cognates include dialectal Finnish kasi and Veps kaži.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑzʲi/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧zi

Noun

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kazi (genitive kazin, partitive kazie, diminutive kazine)

  1. (South Karelian) cat

Declension

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Tver Karelian declension of kazi (type 2/risti, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative kazi kazit
genitive kazin kaziloin
partitive kazie kaziloida
illative kazih kaziloih
inessive kazissa kaziloissa
elative kazista kaziloista
adessive kazilla kaziloilla
ablative kazilda kaziloilda
translative kaziksi kaziloiksi
essive kazina kaziloina
comitative kazinke kaziloinke
abessive kazitta kaziloitta
Possessive forms of kazi
1st person kazini
2nd person kazis
3rd person kazih
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms

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  • kišša (North Karelian or dialectal)

References

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  • A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kazi”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

Mwani

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Noun

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kazi class 9 (plural kazi)

  1. work, business
  2. job, occupation

Swahili

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Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Proto-Bantu *cad-.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈkɑ.zi/
  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

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kazi (n class, plural kazi)

  1. work, business
  2. job, occupation

Derived terms

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Yeyi

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Noun

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kazi

  1. woman

References

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  • Frank Seidel, A Grammar of Yeyi: A Bantu Language of Southern Africa (2008)