Clipping of English Kikuyu.

ki

1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Kikuyu.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Kikuyu terms

Borrowed from Hawaiian ki.

• IPA^(key): /kiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

ki (countable and uncountable, plural kis)

1. A plant native to the Pacific islands and China (Cordyline fruticosa); ti.

ki (plural kis)

1. Alternative form of key (a kilogram)
   • 2005, Dave Courtney, Dave Courtney's Heroes and Villains, London: Virgin Books, →ISBN, page 113:

     And that's what I think happened to Joe. Someone who worked for him walked in and asked to buy a ki of heroin and he went, 'I don't do that.' Then a bit later someone else walked in and offered to sell him some a ta stupid price and he went, 'Hang about, I've got a buyer for that.'

   • 2006, Graham Johnson, Druglord: Guns, Powder and Pay-Offs, Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, published 2007, →ISBN, page 93:

     But the buzz wasn't enough, though. It's nothing like the feeling you get with a hundred kis of heroin in the boot of your car.

   • 2012, Kim K., Rise of an American Gangstress, Bellport, N.Y.: Melodrama Publishing, →ISBN, page 108:

     Hopefully, she would be able to save up just enough to buy her own half a ki of coke. And from there, the sky would be the limit.

ki (uncountable)

1. (UK, naval slang) Alternative form of kye (“cocoa”).
   • 1917, The Tea & Coffee Trade Journal, volumes 34-35, page 217:

     At sea a special cauldron of 'ki,' prepared by the ship's cook, is sent round action stations in 'fannies' or large pitchers.

From dated romanizations of Mandarin 氣 / 气 (qì) without the k-q merger, or from Japanese 気 (ki), both ultimately from the same Middle Chinese origin.

• IPA^(key): /kiː/

ki (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) Alternative form of chi.
   • 1983, George A. Kirby, Jujitsu: Basic Techniques of the Gentle Art, page 19:

     If you are calm and relaxed it will be easier for you to accept and use his ki, helping him to reach his goal. In other words, you will redirect his ki or enhance it with your own to bring your attacker down in the direction he was directing his ki.

• ik, Ik, IK

ki

1. alternative form of aki

• Joseph Laurent (1884), New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau, page 40

ki

1. bone

• R. D. Shaw, The Bosavi Language Family (1986), in Papers in New Guinea Linguistics (D. C. Laycock et al., eds.), number 24

ki

1. second-person singular imperative of kam

From Classical Persian کِه (ki).

• IPA^(key): [ci]
• (Karabakh) IPA^(key): [cin]

• Audio:

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ki

1. that

   Mən bilirəm ki, bu düzdür.

   I know that this is right.

   O mənə demişdir ki, hər şey yaxşı olacaq. Amma olmadı.

   He told me that everything would be fine. But it wasn't.

2. to, in order to, so that

   Mən oraya getmişdim ki, lazım olanları alım.

   I went there to buy whatever was needed.

   Onlar onu evə göndərdilər ki, heç kim onu görməsin.

   They sent him home so that nobody would see him.

From Middle Breton ci, from Proto-Brythonic *ki, from Proto-Celtic *kū, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ.

ki m (plural chas or kon)

1. dog

   Ar c'hi zo o kousket amañ.

   The dog is sleeping here.

• aourgi
• kiez

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ki, from Proto-Austronesian *ki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈki/ [ˈki]

ki (Basahan spelling ᜃᜒ)

1. (formal, Naga) Used to mark oblique cases of personal nouns

   An kantang ini, para ki papa.

   This song's for (my) father.

   Yaon ki ate an selpon mo.

   Your sister has your cellphone.

2. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) indirect or object marker for nouns or phrases other than personal names

   Nagkaon sana kami ki pamahawan.

   We just ate breakfast.

3. (Tabaco–Legazpi–Sorsogon) of (expressing possession)

   Harong ki ayam.

   House of dog.

• (used to mark oblique cases): kay
• (indirect or object marker): nin, -ng

• IPA^(key): /ki˩/, [ki˩]

ki

1. house

• Bruhn, Daniel Wayne (2014), A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Central Naga‎^[1], Berkeley: University of California, page 53
• Clark, Mary M. (1893), Ao Naga grammar with illustrative phrases and vocabulary, Molung: Assam Secretariat Printing Office, page 129
• Gowda, K. S. Gurubasave (1985), Ao-English-Hindi Dictionary, Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages, page 24

• kei (Revived Late Cornish)

From Old Cornish ci, from Proto-Brythonic *ki, from Proto-Celtic *kū, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ. Cognate with Breton ki, Irish cú, Manx coo, Scottish Gaelic cù, and Welsh ci.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [kiː]

ki m (plural keun)

1. dog

ki c

1. initialism of kunstig intelligens

• KI
• AI (anglicism)

• “ki” in Den Danske Ordbog

ki

1. again, too, more
2. furthermore, moreover

• KI

ki f (uncountable, no diminutive)

1. initialism of kunstmatige inseminatie
2. initialism of kunstmatige intelligentie

   Synonym: AI

ki n (plural ki's, no diminutive)

1. initialism of kadastraal inkomen

cf. Ojibwe aki

ki inan

1. earth

Jerry Randolph Valentine (2001), Nishnaabemwin Reference Grammar, University of Toronto, page 177

ki

1. to, for, towards (used for common nouns and names of places)
2. at (used for locations)

Internationalism (compare English chi), ultimately from Mandarin 氣／气 (qì).

• IPA^(key): /ˈki(ː)/, [ˈk̟i(ː)]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification^(key): ki
• Hyphenation^(key): ki

ki

1. chi, qi (life force in Chinese medicine)

When pronounced /kiː/:

ki

1. Noun class indicator for nouns (singular) including trees and some objects such as knives

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

ki

1. (definite) the (when it follows the noun)

   Lekki ki ― the tree

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

ki

1. (used in indicating something)

   Ki lekki ― this/that tree

• Common to all varieties of Fula (Fulfulde / Pulaar / Pular).

ki

1. who

From French qui.

• IPA^(key): /ki/

ki

1. what

ki

1. (relative) who, which

• This word as a pronoun is always the subject of the relative clause.

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[2], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 92

For pronunciation and definitions of ki – see 枝 (“branch; twig; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 枝).

• IPA^(key): [ˈki]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ki

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ki (comparative kijjebb, superlative legkijjebb)

1. out, not inside, from the inside, in an outward direction

   Antonym: be

This term may also be part of the split form of a verb prefixed with ki-, occurring when the main verb does not follow the prefix directly. It can be interpreted only with the related verb form, irrespective of its position in the sentence, e.g. meg tudták volna nézni (“they could have seen it”, from megnéz). For verbs with this prefix, see ki-; for an overview, Appendix:Hungarian verbal prefixes.

From Proto-Uralic *ke, the same root from which the Finnish ken and Ter Sami kie are derived.

ki

2. (interrogative) who (what person or people; which person or people)
3. (relative, archaic) synonym of aki (“who”, the person or people that)
   • 1916, Mihály Babits, “Új könyvekre”‎^[3], stanza 2:

     Gondoljatok arra, kit messze rejtek ¶ rejt tőletek, ki ha kóstolja bortok ¶ nem érzi már ízét sem; és ha szóltok ¶ nem érti, s más összhang mit vágya kerget.

     Think of him whom a distant hiding place hides from you, who, if he tastes your wine, no longer feels its taste; and if you speak, he does not understand, and what harmony his desire pursues.

     (literally, “Think of the one who is hidden from you by a distant hideout, who when tasting your wine will not sense its savor anymore, [who] will not understand when you speak to him, and it’s a different harmony [that] his desire pursues.”)

4. (relative, archaic) synonym of az, aki (“who”, whoever, he/she who, they who)

   ki korán kel, aranyat lel ― the early bird gets the worm (literally, “whoever gets up early finds gold”)

5. (paired) some (referring to people)

   Ki erre, ki arra szaladt. ― Some ran this way; some, the other way.

• (who): ki in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (out): ki in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Dutch quu.

• IPA^(key): /ki/, [ki]

ki (plural ki-ki)

1. The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.

• kiu (Standard Malay)

• (Latin-script letter names) huruf; a, be, ce, de, e, ef, ge, ha, i, je, ka, el, em, en, o, pe, ki, er, es, te, u, ve, we, eks, ye, zet

• “ki”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

ki

1. The hiragana syllable き (ki) or the katakana syllable キ (ki) in Hepburn romanization.

Clipping of iki.

ki

1. (colloquial) this, these

From Portuguese que.

ki

1. that
2. which

ki

1. than

From Portuguese que.

• IPA^(key): /ki/

ki

1. (interrogative) what (what thing)
2. (relative) that; which

ki

1. Latin spelling of ქი (ki)

ki

1. to, toward.

• ki waho - out, outside

• “ki” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From French qui.

ki

1. (relative) who
2. (relative) what

• kifer

• kisann-la

From French que.

ki

1. than
2. that

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kii.

ki

1. horn
2. antler

• Lorrain, J. Herbert (1940), “ki”, in Dictionary of the Lushai language, Calcutta: Asiatic Society

ki

1. this

• kyi

ki

1. it

ki

1. have

   Na ki maari

   I have a money

• Shah, S. & Brenzinger, M. (2016). Ouma Geelmeid ke kx’u ǁxaǁxa Nǀuu. Cape Town: CALDi, University of Cape Town.
• Sands, Bonny & Jones, Kerry & Esau, Katrina & Collins, Chris & Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Job, Sylvanus & Miller, Amanda & Steyn, Betta & Zaanen, Menno & Namaseb, Levi & Berg, Dietloff & Mantzel, Dotty & Damarah, Willem & Snyman, Claudia & Wyk, David & Brugman, Johanna & Exter, Mats & Vaalbooi, Antjie & Westhuizen, Mietjie. (2022). Nǀuuki Namagowab Afrikaans English ǂXoakiǂxanisi/Mîdi di ǂKhanis/Woordeboek/Dictionary.

ki

1. alternative spelling of qui
   • 13th century, Unknown, La Vie de Saint Laurent, page 1, column 2, line 16:

     ki trop i prent son tens i pert

     He who spends too much of his time on it suffers as a result

   • c. 1250, Marie de France, Equitan:

     m'est une anguisse el quer ferue, ki tut le cors me fet trembler

     Such a pain has pierced my heart, that makes my whole body quiver

   • 10th century, Turold, La Chanson de Roland, page CCLVIII [4]:

     Cil sunt vassal ki les oz ajusterent.

     Great was the courage of the ones who joined these two armies in battle

• IPA^(key): [kiː]

From Proto-Katuic *kii (“that”). Cognate with Eastern Bru ki (“that, then, there”), Semelai ke ("that"), Besisi ke ("that"), and possibly Vietnamese cái (general classifier, focus marker).

ki 

1. (Pahi Tamprin) that/those

   Synonym: cốh

   ingay ki ― that day

ki 

1. (Pahi Tamprin) used as link in topic-comment constructions, "topicalizer".

   Synonym: cốh

   Along ngcốh ki két.

   That tree is small.

   (literally, “As for that tree, [it's] small.”)

ki 

1. (Pahi Tamprin) so; then

   Synonym: cốh

   Ki ngai pôq tốq vel.

   Then they went to village.

From Proto-Katuic *kii, *ʔakii (“horn”). Cognate with Proto-Bahnaric *ʔəkɛː (“horn”) (whence Bahnar ake, hơke) and Proto-Vietic *t-keː (whence Arem takeː ("horn"), Vietnamese gai (“thorn”)).

ki 

1. rhinoceros horn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ki/

ki (کیۡ)

1. as
2. of
3. out of
4. with

• Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “ki”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[5], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ki/

ki (conjunction, Perso-Arabic spelling کیۡ)

1. or

• Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “ki”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[6], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ki/

ki (conjunction, Perso-Arabic spelling کیۡ)

1. Complementizer preceding extraposed complement clause

• Henrik Liljegren; Naseem Haider (2011), “ki”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[7], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN

• kiko (synonym)

From Portuguese quê and Spanish qué and Kabuverdianu ki.

ki

1. what

• kay (dialectal)

Inherited from Old Polish ki, from Proto-Slavic *kъjь.

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: ki
• Homophone: -ki

ki

1. (obsolete except in set phrases or dialectal, Far Masovian) what, which kind of (referring to an undetermined set of possible answers)

   Synonyms: jaki, który

• ki in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Antoni Waga (1860), “ki”, in “Abecadłowy spis wyrazów ludowego języka w okolicach Łomży, Wizny i przyległych”, in Kazimierz Władysław Wóycicki, editor, Biblioteka Warszawska‎^[8] (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 752
• Maria Renata Mayenowa; Stanisław Rospond; Witold Taszycki; Stefan Hrabec; Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023), “ki”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
• “KI”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], (Can we date this quote?)
• Samuel Bogumił Linde (1808), “ki”, in Słownik języka polskiego, volume 1b, page 989
• Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861), “ki”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861, volume I, page 486
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “ki”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 318
• Woliński, Marcin; Saloni, Zygmunt; Wołosz, Robert; Gruszczyński, Włodzimierz; Skowrońska, Danuta; Bronk, Zbigniew (2020), “ki”, in Słownik gramatyczny języka polskiego [Grammatical Dictionary of Polish]‎^[9], 4. online edition, Warszawa

ki

1. say
2. look

ki

1. what

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *kъjь, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos + relative particle *yos.

ki ? (Cyrillic spelling ки)

1. (Kajkavian, relative) which, that, who

   Synonym: koji

From Proto-Slavic *kъjь, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷos + relative particle *yos. First attested in the 15th century.

• IPA^(key): /ki/

ki

1. who, which, that (relative)

This pronoun needs an inflection-table template.

ki

1. romanization of 𒆠 (ki)

ki

1. Shortened form of kai (“wood, tree”)

• Commonly used as prefix for names of trees and plants, esp. for those of large trees, e.g. ki ajag, ki beusi, kiara, etc.^[1]

• Audio (Kenya):

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ki

1. (dated or literary) positive degree present and gnomic ki class_(VII) of -wa (“it is”)
   • 1891, W.E. Taylor, African Aforisms (overall work in English), translation by Taylor, nr. 48:

     Kifo ki karibu: ki kishogoni mwako.

     Death is near: it is at the back of thy head.

Cognate with Persian کی (ki).

ki

1. who

Cognate with Persian کی (ki).

ki

1. who

From English key.

ki

1. key

From Proto-Polynesian *ki. Cognates include Hawaiian i and Samoan 'i. The sense of the direct object stems from the comparison of a thought's motion to a physical motion.

• IPA^(key): [ki]
• Hyphenation: ki

ki

1. towards, to, into, on to
2. Marks the direct object of some verbs.

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[10], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 159

• IPA^(key): /ki/

ki

1. to (in the dative sense)

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *kɪ̀í (“what?”).

• IPA^(key): /ki/, [ci]

ki

1. (interrogative) what, what kind of

   Synonym: kiki

• This determiner causes the word before it to move its high tone to the ultimate syllable. Thus erangi /eɾáːnɡi/ (“color”) but rangi ki? /ɾaˑnɡí ki/ (“what color (is it)?”).
• Unlike kiki, ki is generally not used at the start of a sentence.

• Kaji, Shigeki (2007), A Rutooro Vocabulary‎^[11], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), →ISBN, pages 427, 438
• Entry 6432 at Bantu Lexical Reconstructions 3

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كه (ki), from Classical Persian که.

• IPA^(key): /ci/

ki

1. (+ optative or imperative) so that, so

   Yaptım ki gidesin.

   I did it so that you would (be able to) go.

   Yaptım ki gitsin.

   I did it so that they would (be able to) go.

2. that

   Seni öpersem biliyorum ki, sana âşık olacağım.

   If I kiss you, I know that I'll fall in love with you.

   1. Used after a nominal phrase as an emphatic, acting as if there is an implied consequence of the phrase, equivalent to English so ... that

      O kadar güzelsin ki! (gözlerinin içine sonsuza dek bakabilirim).

      You are so beautiful! (that I can look into your eyes forever).

      O kadar uykum var ki (her an bayılabilirim gibi hissediyorum).

      I'm so tired (that I feel like I'm going to pass out any moment).

3. anyways

   Neden ondan korkuyorsun? O bir halt yapmaz ki.

   Why are you even afraid of them? They won’t do shit anyways.

• With sense 1, the optative is used for all persons with the exception of the third person singular, which takes the imperative form instead.
• With sense 2, it also possible to use this sentence structure

  • Seni öpersem, sana âşık olacağımı biliyorum.

    If I kiss you, I know that I'll fall in love with you.

• With sense 2.1, the implied consequence is by definition not used (doing that would instead fall under the parent definiton), and in the usage examples are used to make the English translations clearer. Using a sentence with ki and no finite verb is grammatically correct.

Reduced form of iki.

• IPA^(key): /ˈci/

ki

1. two (short form of iki)

   bir-ki-üç-dört

   one-two-three-four

• k- (with verb inflections)

Inherited from Proto-Algonquian *ki·ra.

• IPA^(key): [ki]

ki

1. you (second person singular)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ki˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kɪj˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kɪj˧˧]

From French quille.

(classifier con) ki

1. (bowling) a pin

From English Henry Kissinger.

(classifier con) ki

1. (colloquial, euphemistic) dog (animal)

   ngu như ki ― stupid like a dog

2. common Vietnamese name for dogs

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

(classifier cái) ki

1. a dustpan

   Synonym: đồ hốt rác

ki

1. ha^[1]

• (high-tone): IPA^(key): /kí/
• (mid-tone): IPA^(key): /kī/
• (low-tone): IPA^(key): /kì/

kí

1. The name of the Latin script letter K/k.

• (Latin-script letter names) lẹ́tà; á, bí, dí, é, ẹ́, fí, gí, gbì, hí, í, jí, kí, lí, mí, ní, ó, ọ́, pí, rí, sí, ṣí, tí, ú, wí, yí

kí

1. (subjunctive) Subjunctive clause particle expressing obligation, wish, or permission.

Similar to the negation particles kì and kò, the first-person singular pronoun mo changes to n after this particle.

kí

1. (transitive) to greet, to say hello
2. (transitive) to visit

kì

1. (transitive) to deliver a eulogy for someone
2. (transitive) to sing the praises of someone

ki

1. (transitive) to load
2. (transitive) to compress (powdered material) into a container

ki

1. (intransitive) to be viscous
2. to be thick (relating to stew or soup)

• ìki, kíki, òṣùwọ̀n-ìki

kì

1. alternative form of kò (“not”) (used before í)

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *kii.

• IPA^(key): [kí]
• Hyphenation: ki

kí

1. horn

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): [kí]
• Hyphenation: ki

kí

1. parrot

• Philip Thangliènmâng (2010), Minimal dictionary and Self-tutor Functional Grammar in Zo-English-Hindi, New Delhi: Zoculsin, →ISBN, pages 34, 212
• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou (PhD thesis), Canchipur: Manipur University, page 63