kata

• IPA^(key): /ˈkætə/

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• Rhymes: -ætə

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

kata (plural katas or kata)

1. (martial arts) Any of a sequence of positions and movements used in many martial arts.

   judo kata

   • 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.
2. (by extension, programming) Ellipsis of code kata., a short programming exercise to improve one's skills through practice and repetition.
   • 2020, Andrew Stellman; Jennifer Greene, Head First C#‎, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 728:

     These kata will give you the C# syntax for inheritance.

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

kata (plural katas)

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

   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.

   Antonym: ana

   • 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.

kata (plural katas)

1. Alternative form of gata (“type of Armenian pastry”)

• kata on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• kata (programming) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• taka

kata

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkata]

kata

1. genitive/accusative singular of kat

kato (“cat”) +‎ -a (“adjective”)

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

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

1. feline

kata

1. inflection of kattaa:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

• akat, taka, taka-

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kata

1. to run

Probably from Assamese কথা (kotha)

kata

1. word

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈkata]
• Hyphenation: ka‧ta
• Rhymes: -ta, -a

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

1. (linguistics) word: the smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language.
2. speech: vocal communication.

   Synonyms: bicara, ujar

• “kata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

kata

1. Rōmaji transcription of かた

Borrowed from Sanskrit कथा (kathā).

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• Rhymes: -a
• Rhymes: -ta

kata (Jawi spelling کات‎, plural kata-kata, informal 1st possessive kataku, 2nd possessive katamu, 3rd possessive katanya)

1. word

• katakan
• sekata
• suku kata

• “kata” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

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/

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ka‧ta

Borrowed from Arabic قَات‎ (qāt).

kata f

1. (rare) khat (plant)

   Synonym: czuwaliczka

Borrowed from Japanese 型.

kata f (indeclinable)

1. (martial arts) kata

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

kata m pers or m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of kat

• kata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• kata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

kata

1. laugh

kata

1. genitive/accusative singular of kat

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-kata (infinitive kukata)

1. to cut (to break or sever, including in a metaphorical sense)
2. (of tickets) to buy
3. to bring to an end