kiai

Borrowed from Japanese 気合 (kiai).

• IPA^(key): /kiːˈaɪ/

kiai (plural kiais or kiai)

2. The short yell or shout uttered when performing an attacking move in martial arts.
   • 2009, Sayem Huq, “Gemori Battousai”, in Bladin: Edge of Blade, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 24:

     The kiai is a battle cry to raise your battle spirit. It keeps your body in top shape, in top concentration. Different people have different kiai.

• hi-yah

From Javanese kyai (ꦏꦾꦲꦶ), from Old Javanese kiya-kiya, kyayi (“respected person”). Semantic loan from Banjarese kiai for distric chief sense. Compare Proto-Malayic *akiʔ (“grandfather”) and Central Malay yai (“grandfather”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈkiʲaʲi]
• Hyphenation: ki‧ai

kiai (plural kiai-kiai)

1. ulema

   Synonym: ulama

2. spiritual teacher
3. honorific for sacred treasure
4. honorific for tiger (Panthera tigris), when trespass the forest
5. (historical) district chief, in South Kalimantan

• → Min Nan: 稽 (ke)

From Japanese 気合(きあい) (kiai, “yell; spirit, fight”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkiai̯/
• Hyphenation: ki‧ai

kiai

1. (sports) kiai, the yell or shout uttered when performing a move in martial arts

• “kiai” 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.

kiai

1. Rōmaji transcription of きあい