"katani" meaning in Swahili

See katani in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: Sw-ke-katani.flac [Kenya] Forms: katani [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic كَتَّان (kattān). Etymology templates: {{glossary|loanword|Borrowed}} Borrowed, {{bor|sw|ar|كَتَّان|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Arabic كَتَّان (kattān), {{bor+|sw|ar|كَتَّان}} Borrowed from Arabic كَتَّان (kattān) Head templates: {{head|sw|noun|head=}} katani, {{sw-noun|n}} katani (n class, plural katani)
  1. fiber from hemp, flax, or sisal Wikipedia link: sw:katani Tags: class-10, class-9 Synonyms: kitani Derived forms: mkatani
    Sense id: en-katani-sw-noun-1eul770F Categories (other): Swahili entries with incorrect language header

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for katani meaning in Swahili (1.8kB)

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ki",
            "2": "gatani",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Kikuyu: gatani",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Kikuyu: gatani"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "كَتَّان",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic كَتَّان (kattān)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "كَتَّان"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic كَتَّان (kattān)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic كَتَّان (kattān).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "katani",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "katani",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "katani (n class, plural katani)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "mkatani"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fiber from hemp, flax, or sisal"
      ],
      "id": "en-katani-sw-noun-1eul770F",
      "links": [
        [
          "fiber",
          "fiber"
        ],
        [
          "hemp",
          "hemp"
        ],
        [
          "flax",
          "flax"
        ],
        [
          "sisal",
          "sisal"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kitani"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "class-10",
        "class-9"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sw:katani"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-katani.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/Sw-ke-katani.flac/Sw-ke-katani.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/Sw-ke-katani.flac/Sw-ke-katani.flac.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Kenya"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Kenya)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "katani"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "mkatani"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ki",
            "2": "gatani",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Kikuyu: gatani",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Kikuyu: gatani"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "loanword",
        "2": "Borrowed"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "كَتَّان",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Arabic كَتَّان (kattān)",
      "name": "bor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "ar",
        "3": "كَتَّان"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Arabic كَتَّان (kattān)",
      "name": "bor+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Arabic كَتَّان (kattān).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "katani",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sw",
        "2": "noun",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "katani",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n"
      },
      "expansion": "katani (n class, plural katani)",
      "name": "sw-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Swahili",
  "lang_code": "sw",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Swahili entries with incorrect language header",
        "Swahili lemmas",
        "Swahili n class nouns",
        "Swahili nouns",
        "Swahili terms borrowed from Arabic",
        "Swahili terms derived from Arabic",
        "Swahili terms with audio links"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "fiber from hemp, flax, or sisal"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fiber",
          "fiber"
        ],
        [
          "hemp",
          "hemp"
        ],
        [
          "flax",
          "flax"
        ],
        [
          "sisal",
          "sisal"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "class-10",
        "class-9"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "sw:katani"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "Sw-ke-katani.flac",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/Sw-ke-katani.flac/Sw-ke-katani.flac.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/Sw-ke-katani.flac/Sw-ke-katani.flac.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Kenya"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Kenya)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "kitani"
    }
  ],
  "word": "katani"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Swahili dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (4d5d0bb and edd475d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.