кит

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See also: кіт, кит., and kit

Avar

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian кит (kit).

Noun

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кит (kit)

  1. whale

Bulgarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos), of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [kit]
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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кит (kitm

  1. (countable) whale (mammal)
  2. (uncountable) putty, mastic
    Synonym: маджун (madžun)

Declension

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Anagrams

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Kazakh

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Alternative scripts
Arabic كيت
Cyrillic кит
Latin kit

Etymology

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Borrowed from Russian кит (kit), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

Noun

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кит (kit)

  1. whale

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Macedonian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos), of Pre-Greek origin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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кит (kitm

  1. whale
  2. putty

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Moksha

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Noun

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кит (kit)

  1. indefinite plural nominative of ки (ki); roads
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 135
      ки, — дорога
      ki , -t — doroga
      road, -s — road [in Russian]

Pronoun

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кит (kit)

  1. indefinite plural nominative of кие (kije); who [pl.]
    • O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 4
      Кит молихть?
      Kit moľihť?
      Who [pl.] is going?

Northern Mansi

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Northern Mansi numbers (edit)
20
[a], [b] ←  1 2 3  → 
    Cardinal: китыг (kityg), кит (kit)
    Ordinal: китыт (kityt)
    A.o.: китсёс (kitsës)
    Adverbial: китпис (kitpis)
    Multiplier: китписыӈ (kitpisyň)
    Distributive: китгыл (kitgyl)
    Number of people: китан (kitan)

Alternative froms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Uralic *käktä.[1]

Pronunciation

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Numeral

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кит (kit)(Sosva, Ob, Upper Lozva)

  1. two (only as counter)

References

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  1. ^ Entry #227 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  • Afanasʹjeva, K. V., Sobjanina, S. A. (2012) “кит”, in Školʹnyj mansijsko-russkij slovarʹ [Mansi-Russian school dictionary], Khanty-Mansiysk: RIO IRO

Russian

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic китъ (kitŭ), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

Noun

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кит (kitm anim (genitive кита́, nominative plural киты́, genitive plural кито́в, relational adjective кито́вый)

  1. whale
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Descendants
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  • Azerbaijani: kit
  • Bezhta: кит (kit)
  • Ingrian: kiitta
  • Kazakh: кит (kit)
  • Kyrgyz: кит (kit)
  • Tatar: кит (kit)
  • Turkmen: kit
  • Uyghur: كىت (kit)
  • Uzbek: kit

Etymology 2

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Noun

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кит (kitf inan pl

  1. genitive plural of ки́та (kíta)

Etymology 3

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Abbreviation of Китай (Kitaj) or китаец (kitajec).

Noun

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кит (kitm anim (genitive ки́та, nominative plural ки́ты, genitive plural ки́тов)

  1. (Russian Far East) a male Chinese person
  2. (university slang) the Chinese language
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Serbo-Croatian

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Serbian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sr

Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

Noun

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ки̏т m (Latin spelling kȉt)

  1. whale

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Further reading

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  • кит”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2024

Ukrainian

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Ukrainian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia uk

Etymology

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Inherited from Old Ruthenian китъ (kit).

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Noun

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кит (kytm animal (genitive кита́, nominative plural кити́, genitive plural киті́в)

  1. whale

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