katana

Borrowed from Japanese 刀(かたな) (katana).

• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈtɑnə/, [kɪ̈ˈtʰɑnə]

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katana (plural katana or katanas)

1. (weaponry) A type of Japanese longsword, having a single edge and slight curvature, historically used by samurai and ninja.

• samurai sword

• uchigatana

• katanin

• Kanata, Nakata, Tanaka

katana

1. blanket

• IPA^(key): [ˈkatana]

katana m anim

1. genitive/accusative singular of katan

Borrowed from Japanese 刀.

• IPA^(key): /ˌkaːˈtaː.naː/
• Hyphenation: ka‧ta‧na
• Rhymes: -aːnaː

katana c (plural katana's)

1. a katana

• samoeraizwaard

Borrowed from Japanese 刀 (katana, literally “sword”).

• IPA^(key): /ka.ta.na/

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katana m (plural katanas)

1. katana

From Japanese 刀 (katana).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒtɒnɒ]
• Rhymes: -ɒ
• Hyphenation: ka‧ta‧na
• Rhymes: -nɒ

katana (plural katanák)

1. katana (a Japanese sword used by the samurai of ancient and feudal Japan)

Borrowed from Japanese 刀(かたな) (katana, “a single-edged sword”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /kaˈtana/ [kaˈt̪a.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ka‧ta‧na

katana (plural katana-katana)

1. katana

• “katana” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Japanese 刀 (katana, literally “sword”).

• IPA^(key): /kaˈta.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: ka‧tà‧na

katana f (plural katane)

1. katana

katana

1. Rōmaji transcription of かたな

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ka‧ta‧na

Borrowed from Japanese 刀 (katana, literally “sword”).

katana f

1. katana

Borrowed from Hungarian katona.

katana f (diminutive katanka)

1. (ethnography) twin caftan worn in some regional Polish folk costumes for women
2. (ethnography) type of covering in men's folk costumes that reaches one's ankles
3. (ethnography, historical, military) a short-tailed jacket worn by soldiers in the 18th century
4. (colloquial) jacket

   Synonym: kurtka

• katana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• katana in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Gustaw Pobłocki (1887) “katana”, in Słownik kaszubski z dodatkiem idyotyzmów chełmińskich i kociewskich (in Polish), 2 edition, Chełmno, page 133
• Aleksander Saloni (1908) “katana”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 335
• Władysław Siarkowski (1891) “katana”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludowej z okolic Pińczowa”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, page 336

• IPA^(key): /kaˈtana/ [kaˈt̪a.na]
• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: ka‧ta‧na

katana f (plural katanas)

1. alternative spelling of catana

• “catana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

katana c

1. (weaponry) a katana

   Synonym: (informal) samurajsvärd

   En katana skär som smör genom kött och ben

   A katana cuts like butter through flesh and bone

• ninja
• samuraj
• svärd (“sword”)

• catana — obsolete, Spanish-based spelling

Borrowed from Japanese 刀(かたな) (katana, literally “sword”), possibly via Spanish catana according to Potet (2016).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /kaˈtanaʔ/ [kɐˈt̪aː.n̪ɐʔ]
• Rhymes: -anaʔ
• Syllabification: ka‧ta‧na

katanà (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜆᜈ)

1. Japanese sword; katana
2. (archaic) sword

• “katana”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 471.
• Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎^[1] (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
• Potet, Jean-Paul G. (2016) Tagalog Borrowings and Cognates, Lulu Press, →ISBN, page 343

• Tanaka