kattan
English
Noun
kattan (uncountable)
- (India, historical) The waste selvage in silk weaving, used for stringing ornaments.
Related terms
- cuttanee
References
- Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “kattan”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].
Hungarian
Etymology
From an onomatopoeic (sound-imitative) root + -an (instantaneous verb-forming suffix).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkɒtːɒn]
- Hyphenation: kat‧tan
- Rhymes: -ɒn
Verb
kattan
- (intransitive) to click (to make one short clicking sound)
Conjugation
conjugation of kattan
| 1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal | 3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal | 1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal | 3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indicative mood | Present | Indef. | kattanok | kattansz | kattan | kattanunk | kattantok | kattannak |
| Def. | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | |||||||
| 2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
| Past | Indef. | kattantam | kattantál | kattant | kattantunk | kattantatok | kattantak | |
| Def. | ― | |||||||
| 2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
| Conditional mood | Present | Indef. | kattannék | kattannál | kattanna | kattannánk | kattannátok | kattannának |
| Def. | ― | |||||||
| 2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
| Subjunctive mood | Present | Indef. | kattanjak | kattanj or kattanjál | kattanjon | kattanjunk | kattanjatok | kattanjanak |
| Def. | ― | |||||||
| 2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
| Infinitive | kattanni | kattannom | kattannod | kattannia | kattannunk | kattannotok | kattanniuk | |
| Other nonfinite verb forms | Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
| kattanás | kattanó | kattant | ― | kattanva | kattanhat | |||
Derived terms
- kattanás
(With verbal prefixes):
- átkattan
- bekattan
- belekattan
- elkattan
- felkattan
- helyrekattan
- kikattan
- lekattan
- megkattan
- összekattan
- rákattan
- visszakattan
Related terms
- kattant
- kattint
- kattog
References
- kattan in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further reading
- kattan in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
Swedish
Noun
kattan
- definite singular of katta.
Anagrams
- kantat, tankat