zati

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zati (plural zatis)

1. Macaca radiata, a macaque native to India and Sri Lanka with a hairstyle similar to a centre parting.

• capped macaque, bonnet monkey

• “zati”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Itza, tazi

From Ottoman Turkish ذاتی (zāti), from Arabic ذاتِيّ (ḏāti, “individual, private ; subjective, self.”)^[1]

zati

1. personal
2. proper