# кит
## Avar
### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кит (kit).

### Noun

кит • (kit)
* whale

## Bulgarian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos), of Pre-Greek origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kit]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

кит • (kit) m
* (countable) whale (mammal)
* (uncountable) putty, mastic
    Synonym: маджун (madžun)

#### Declension
### Anagrams

* тик (tik)

## Kazakh

Alternative scripts :
| Arabic | كيت |
| Cyrillic | кит |
| Latin | kit |

### Etymology

Borrowed from Russian кит (kit), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

### Noun

кит • (kit)
* whale

#### Declension
## Macedonian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos), of Pre-Greek origin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kit]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -it

### Noun

кит • (kit) m
* whale
* putty

#### Declension
## Moksha
### Noun

кит • (kit)
* indefinite plural nominative of ки (ki); roads
** O. Je. Poljakov (1993) Russko-mokšanskij razgovornik [Russian-Moksha phrasebook], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 135
    ки, -т — дорогаki , -t — dorogaroad, -s — road [in Russian]

### Pronoun

кит • (kit)
* indefinite plural nominative of кие (kije); who [pl.]
** O. Je. Poljakov (1995) Učimsja govoritʹ po-mokšanski [Let's learn to speak Moksha], Saransk: Mordovskoje knižnoje izdatelʹstvo, →ISBN, page 4
    Кит молихть?Kit moľihť?Who [pl.] is going?

## Northern Mansi
### Alternative forms

* тит (tit) — Sygva

### Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *käktä.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kit]
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### Numeral

кит (kit)(Sosva, Ob, Upper Lozva)
* two (only as counter)

### References

* ↑ Entry #227 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
* Afanasʹjeva, K. V., Sobjanina, S. A. (2012) “кит”, in Školʹnyj mansijsko-russkij slovarʹ [Mansi-Russian school dictionary], Khanty-Mansiysk: RIO IRO

## Russian
### Alternative forms

* китъ (kit) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kʲit]
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic китъ (kitŭ), from Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

#### Noun

кит • (kit) m anim (genitive кита́, nominative plural киты́, genitive plural кито́в, relational adjective кито́вый)
* whale

##### Related terms

* китёнок (kitjónok)
* китёныш (kitjónyš)
* кити́ха (kitíxa)
* китобо́ец (kitobójec)
* китобо́й (kitobój)
* китобо́йный (kitobójnyj)
* китоло́в (kitolóv)
* китоло́вный (kitolóvnyj)

##### Descendants

* → Azerbaijani: kit
* → Bezhta: кит (kit)
* → Ingrian: kiitta
* → Kazakh: кит (kit)
* → Kyrgyz: кит (kit)
* → Tatar: кит (kit)
* → Turkmen: kit
* → Uyghur: كىت (kit)
* → Uzbek: kit

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

кит • (kit) f inan pl
* genitive plural of ки́та (kíta)

### Etymology 3

Abbreviation of Китай (Kitaj) or китаец (kitajec).

#### Noun

кит • (kit) m anim (genitive ки́та, nominative plural ки́ты, genitive plural ки́тов)
* (Russian Far East) a male Chinese person
* (university slang) the Chinese language

##### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From Ancient Greek κῆτος (kêtos).

### Noun

ки̏т m (Latin spelling kȉt)
* whale

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “кит”, in Raskovnik [Dictionary portal Raskovnik of the Institute for the Serbian Language, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts] (in Serbo-Croatian), http://raskovnik.org, 2024

## Ukrainian
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Ruthenian китъ (kit).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [kɪt]
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

кит • (kyt) m animal (genitive кита́, nominative plural кити́, genitive plural киті́в)
* whale

#### Declension
### References

* Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “кит”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka