keten

Borrowed from Arabic كَتَّان (kattān). Compare Azerbaijani kətan.

keten

1. cotton, fabric, textile.

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• IPA^(key): /ˈkeː.tə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ke‧ten
• Rhymes: -eːtən

From Middle Dutch ketene, from Old Dutch *ketina, from Latin catēna. Compare Old High German ketina (German Kette).

keten f (plural ketenen or ketens, diminutive ketentje n)

1. chain, fetter, shackle
2. (figuratively) chain (of events or businesses)
3. (figuratively) a network of civil society organisations, healthcare institutions, government agencies, etc., working together to provide coordinated social or medical care to a specific category of patients or other citizens

• → Sranan Tongo: keti, ketin
  • → Kari'na: keti

From keet.

keten

1. (intransitive) to fool around noisily and hyperactively

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

keten

1. plural of keet

• nekte, teken

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كتان, from Arabic كَتَّان (kattān), from Classical Syriac ܟܶܬܳܢܳܐ (kettānā, “flax; linen”). Cognate with Akkadian 𒃰 (kitûm, “flax”), 𒄀𒆤 (kītum, “mat”), Sumerian 𒃰 (gada, “flax”), 𒄀𒆤 (^gikid, “mat”) and Old Armenian կտաւ (ktaw, “flax”).

keten (definite accusative keteni, plural ketenler)

1. flax (plant)
2. linen