kota

See also: Kota, kóta, Kōta, kõta, and kôta

Cebuano

Etymology

From English quota, from Latin quota, from Latin quota pars.

Noun

kota

1. quota

Esperanto

Etymology

From koto +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• Audio

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Adjective

kota (accusative singular kotan, plural kotaj, accusative plural kotajn)

1. muddy

Finnish

A modern wooden kota built as shelter and cooking place for hikers and campers.

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kota, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kota. Cognates include Estonian koda and Hungarian ház.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkotɑ/, [ˈko̞t̪ɑ]
• Rhymes: -otɑ
• Syllabification^(key): ko‧ta

Noun

kota

1. A conical or hemispherical shelter with an open fireplace in the middle, usually supported by a frame of wooden poles and covered with a variety of materials including hides, textile fabric, peat and timber; known in some English texts by its Northern Sami name goahti.
   1. Specifically, a saamelaiskota.
2. (botany) capsule
3. core of an apple

   Synonym: kara

Declension

Inflection of kota (Kotus type 10*F/koira, t-d gradation)
nominative		kota	kodat
genitive		kodan	kotien
partitive		kotaa	kotia
illative		kotaan	kotiin
		singular	plural
nominative		kota	kodat
accusative	nom.	kota	kodat
	gen.	kodan
genitive		kodan	kotien kotainrare
partitive		kotaa	kotia
inessive		kodassa	kodissa
elative		kodasta	kodista
illative		kotaan	kotiin
adessive		kodalla	kodilla
ablative		kodalta	kodilta
allative		kodalle	kodille
essive		kotana	kotina
translative		kodaksi	kodiksi
instructive		—	kodin
abessive		kodatta	koditta
comitative		—	kotineen

Possessive forms of kota (type koira)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	kotani	kotamme
2nd person	kotasi	kotanne
3rd person	kotansa

Derived terms

• koti
• koto (“home”)
• läpikotaisin

See also

• kammi
• teltta
• Goahti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• kato, toka

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay kota, from Classical Malay kota, from Tamil கோட்டம் (kōṭṭam, “city”) or Sanskrit कोट्ट (koṭṭa, “city”). The sense in government was coined by Indonesian politician Teuku Muhammad Hasan in 1945 to translate Dutch gemeente or stadsgemeente.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kota/
• Hyphenation: ko‧ta

Noun

kota (plural kota-kota, first-person possessive kotaku, second-person possessive kotamu, third-person possessive kotanya)

1. city,
   1. A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
   2. (government) The second-level urban administrative division in Indonesia.

Usage notes

1. The sense of second-level urban administrative division is used since 1999. The previous term for second-level urban administrative division are kota madya (1965-1999) and kota praja (~1965). The second-level urban administrative division in Java during colonial period were Dutch stads-gemeente (literally “urban commune”) and Japanese 市 (shi, si).
2. Before 1999, kota was used to describe urban administrative division, which can be a first-level administrative division (kota raya), a second-level administrative division (kota madya), a third-level administrative division (kota administratif), or a fourth-level administrative division (kota kecamatan).

Derived terms

• berkota
• kekota-kotaan
• kekotaan
• mengota
• mengotai
• mengotakan
• pengotaan
• perkotaan

 

• kota administrasi
• kota administratif
• kota industri
• kota jasa
• kota kecamatan
• kota kosmopolitan
• kota madya
• kota megalopolitan
• kota megapolitan
• kota metropolitan
• kota pelabuhan
• kota perdagangan
• kota pinggiran
• kota praja
• kota pusat religi
• kota raya
• kota satelit
• kota suci

 

• ibu kota
• negara kota
• wali kota

 

Further reading

• “kota” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Javanese

Noun

kota

1. Nonstandard spelling of kutha.

Lower Sorbian

Noun

kota

1. Superseded spelling of kóta.

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkota]

Verb

kota (Lontara spelling ᨀᨚᨈ, semi-transitive anngota)

1. (transitive) to chew

Malay

Etymology

From Sanskrit कोट्ट (koṭṭa) or Tamil கோட்டம் (kōṭṭam).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ta

Noun

kota (Jawi spelling کوتا‎, plural kota-kota, informal 1st possessive kotaku, 2nd possessive kotamu, 3rd possessive kotanya)

1. city

Descendants

• Indonesian: kota
• Swahili: ukuta

See also

• (Indonesian) kota

Further reading

• “kota” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ta/

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: ko‧ta

Noun

kota m

1. accusative/genitive singular of kot

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian kotao.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǒta/

Noun

kota m

1. cauldron

Declension

    declension of kota (inan series-1a masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	kota	kotla
genitive	kotla	kotli
dative	kotlu	kotli
accusative	kota	kotla
locative	kotlu	kotla
instrumental	kotlom, kotlam	kotli

References

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

Swedish

Noun

kota c

1. a vertebra, an element of the backbone

Declension

Declension of kota
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	kota	kotan	kotor	kotorna
Genitive	kotas	kotans	kotors	kotornas

Related terms

• ryggkota

See also

• diskbråck
• kotlett

Anagrams

• toka