# kanti
## Esperanto
### Etymology

From Latin cantāre.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkanti]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -anti
* Hyphenation: kan‧ti

### Verb

kanti (present kantas, past kantis, future kantos, conditional kantus, volitive kantu)
* (transitive, intransitive) to sing
    Ni kantu ion. ― Let's sing something.
    Mi ne estas muzikema, sed mi ŝatas kanti en duŝo. ― I am not musical, but I like to sing in the shower.

#### Derived terms

* alkanti (“to sing along”)
* antaŭkanti (“to sing before an audience”)
* ekkanti (“to begin to sing”)
* kantaĉi (“to sing badly”)
* kantanto (“one who is singing, singer”)
* kantisto (“professional singer”)

#### Related terms

* kanto

### References

“kanti”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], Sennacieca Asocio Tutmonda, 2020

## Hausa
### Etymology

Borrowed from English canteen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /kàn.tíː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [kàn.tíː]

### Noun

kàntī m (plural kantunā̀, possessed form kàntin)
* shop, store

### References

* Hausa vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkanti/

### Noun

kanti
* plural of kanto

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦤ꧀ꦛꦶ (kanthi, “companion”), from Old Javanese kaṇṭi (“companion, ally”), probably from Sanskrit कान्ता (kāntā, “wife”), कान्त (kānta, “beloved”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkan.ti/
* Rhymes: -ti, -i
* Hyphenation: kan‧ti

### Noun

kanti (plural kanti-kanti)
* (rare) friend (person whose company one enjoys)
    Synonyms: bendu, dongan, handai, handai tolan, kamerad, kanca, karib, kawan, kenalan, kolega, kontak, mitra, perepat, rafik, rekan, sahabat, saki, sejawat, sekutu, sobat, sohib, teman, tolan

#### Derived terms

* penganti

### Further reading

* “kanti” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀓𑀦𑁆𑀢𑀺 (Brahmi script)
* कन्ति (Devanagari script)
* কন্তি (Bengali script)
* කන‍්ති (Sinhalese script)
* ကန္တိ or ၵၼ္တိ or ၵၼ်တိ (Burmese script)
* กนฺติ or กันติ (Thai script)
* ᨠᨶ᩠ᨲᩥ (Tai Tham script)
* ກນ຺ຕິ or ກັນຕິ (Lao script)
* កន្តិ (Khmer script)
* 𑄇𑄚𑄴𑄖𑄨 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit कान्ति (kānti). Cognate with Prakrit 𑀓𑀁𑀢𑀺 (kaṃti).

### Noun

kanti f
* beauty
    Synonyms: sobhaṇa, sobhā, pabhāsa, vilāsa, sirī

#### Declension
### References

* Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “kānti”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 155

## Sranan Tongo
### Verb

kanti
* to cast

## Tagalog
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /kanˈtiʔ/ [kɐn̪ˈt̪iʔ]
* Rhymes: -iʔ
* Syllabification: kan‧ti

### Noun

kantî (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜈ᜔ᜆᜒ)
* light or gentle hit or tap
    Synonyms: tapik, dantik, kalabit, haplos, sagi

#### Derived terms

* kantiin
* pagkanti

### Further reading

* “kanti”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* takin, antik, iknat

## Tocharian A
### Noun

kanti ?
* gong, cymbal

## Tocharian B
### Noun

kanti ?
* bread

## Zulu
### Pronunciation

IPA: /kantîː/

### Adverb

kantî
* after all, however, nevertheless, notwithstanding
* in fact

### Conjunction

kantî
* whereas

### Interjection

kanti
* so what?, who cares?

### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “kanti”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “kanti (6.3-8)”