kazi

See also: Kazi, kazí, kazı, kaži, käzi, -kazi, кази, and кажи

English

Etymology 1

Noun

kazi (plural kazis)

1. (historical) Alternative form of Kazi

Etymology 2

Noun

kazi (plural kazis)

1. Alternative form of khazi (“toilet”)
   • 2002, Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife, Phoenix (2012), page 183:

     “Go and clean the kazi now.”

Anagrams

• Zaki, Zika, zika

Karelian

Regional variants of kazi

North Karelian (Viena)	kasi
South Karelian (Tver)	kazi

Etymology

From an East Slavic language. Cognates include dialectal Finnish kasi and Veps kaži.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑzʲi/
• Hyphenation: ka‧zi

Noun

kazi (genitive kazin, partitive kazie, diminutive kazine)

1. (South Karelian) cat

Declension

Tver Karelian declension of kazi (type 2/risti, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	kazi	kazit
genitive	kazin	kaziloin
partitive	kazie	kaziloida
illative	kazih	kaziloih
inessive	kazissa	kaziloissa
elative	kazista	kaziloista
adessive	kazilla	kaziloilla
ablative	kazilda	kaziloilda
translative	kaziksi	kaziloiksi
essive	kazina	kaziloina
comitative	kazinke	kaziloinke
abessive	kazitta	kaziloitta

Possessive forms of kazi
1st person	kazini
2nd person	kazis
3rd person	kazih
*) Possessive forms are very rare for adjectives and only used in substantivised clauses.

Synonyms

• kišša (North Karelian or dialectal)

References

• A. V. Punzhina (1994) “kazi”, in Словарь карельского языка (тверские говоры) [Dictionary of the Karelian language (Tver dialects)], →ISBN

Mwani

Noun

kazi class 9 (plural kazi)

1. work, business
2. job, occupation

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *cad-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.zi/

• Audio (Kenya):

  (file)

Noun

kazi class IX (plural kazi class X)

1. work, business
2. job, occupation

Derived terms

• -fanya kazi (“to work”)

Yeyi

Noun

kazi

1. woman

References

• Frank Seidel, A Grammar of Yeyi: A Bantu Language of Southern Africa (2008)