Kat

See also: Appendix:Variations of "kat"

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æt

Proper noun

Kat

1. A diminutive of the female given names Katharine or Katherine.
   • 1991, Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips, →ISBN, page 36:

     During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine, dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy - - - At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt - - - When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.

   • 2025 October 29, Ryan J. Reilly and Natasha Korecki, “DOJ indicts Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh over ICE protests”, in NBC News‎:

     A special federal grand jury has indicted Democratic congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh alongside other protesters who allegedly blocked vehicles outside of a federal immigration facility in Broadview, Illinois.

See also

• List at "Catherine"

Anagrams

• ATK, TKA, Tak, tak

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kat]

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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• Hyphenation: Kat
• Rhymes: -at

Etymology 1

Noun

Kat m (strong, genitive Kats or Kat, plural Kats)

1. (automotive, informal) clipping of Katalysator (“catalytic converter”)

Declension

Declension of Kat [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Kat	die	Kats
genitive	eines	des	Kats, Kat	der	Kats
dative	einem	dem	Kat	den	Kats
accusative	einen	den	Kat	die	Kats

Further reading

• “Kat” in Duden online

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic قَات (qāt).

Noun

Kat n (strong, genitive Kats or Kat, no plural)

1. khat (drug produced from Catha edulis)

Declension

Declension of Kat [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Kat
genitive	eines	des	Kats, Kat
dative	einem	dem	Kat
accusative	ein	das	Kat

Alternative forms

• Qat

See also

• Kathstrauch

Further reading

• “Kat” in Duden online

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• kaat (Föhr-Amrum)
• kaot (Halligen)
• kåt (Mooring)

Etymology

From Old Frisian katte. Cognates include West Frisian kat.

Noun

Kat f (plural Kater)

1. (Sylt) cat

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian katte, from Proto-West Germanic *kattā. Cognates include West Frisian kat and German Katze.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkat/
• Hyphenation: Kat
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

Kat m (plural Katte)

1. cat (Felis catus)

Synonyms

• Púus

Derived terms

• Katule

References

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “Kat”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN