کتی

کتی (Katë) (Kamviri, Western Kata-viri)

1. alternative form of Katë (“Kata, Katë”)

from Prakrit: 𑀓𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢 (kutta)

کُتّی (kuttī)

1. feminine of کُتّا (kuttā, “dog”); bitch
2. (vulgar, offensive) a term of abuse towards females

Uncertain. Farhadi derives it from کتِ (kat-i) ~ قتِ (qat-i), which would explain the initial stress and how it can be used with از (az). He also links it to Kabuli گت (gat, “together”, adjective), from Pashto ګډ (gaḍ).^[1] Some suggest it to be from a Turkic language.

Related to Tajik катӣ (kati) ~ қатӣ (qati) and Bukhari kati ~ kəti with the same meaning.

کتی • (katē or katī)

1. (Dari, Hazaragi, more colloquial) with, by, alongside

   Synonym: (Iranian; formal in Dari) با (bâ)

   از برنج کتی گوشت می‌خواهی یا همیالی گشنه نیی

   az birinj kat(ē) gōšt mē-xāyī yā amyālē gušna niyī

   do you want rice and/alongside meat or are you not hungry right now?

   (Dari, colloquial)

   کتی مه بیا ― kat(ē) ma biyā ― come with me (Dari, colloquial)

   کتی از وا موری ― kat(ī) az wā mūrī ― come with me (Hazaragi, colloquial)

• قتی (qatī) (northern Afghanistan)

کتی • (kati)

1. a diminutive of the female given name کتایون (katâyun)

From کُتّا (kuttā), from Prakrit 𑀓𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢 (kutta), possibly from Proto-Indo-Iranian *kútas.

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /kʊt̪.t̪iː/
• Rhymes: -iː

کُتّی • (kuttī) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਕੁੱਤੀ)

1. feminine of کُتّا (kuttā, “dog”); bitch
2. (vulgar, offensive) a term of abuse towards females

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “کُتّی”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• “ਕੁੱਤੀ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Learned borrowing from Sanskrit कति (kati), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóti.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /kə.t̪iː/

کتی • (kati) (Hindi spelling कति) (rare)

1. how many

• Platts, John T. (1884) “kati”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.