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)

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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).

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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

Declension

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Declension of кит
singular plural
indefinite кит (kit) китови (kitovi)
definite unspecified китот (kitot) китовите (kitovite)
definite proximal китов (kitov) китовиве (kitovive)
definite distal китон (kiton) китовине (kitovine)
vocative киту (kitu) китови (kitovi)
count form кита (kita)

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 forms

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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:
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Etymology

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From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

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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, 2015–2024

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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References

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