# kisi
## Esperanto
### Etymology

Borrowed from English kiss. Compare German küssen, Yiddish קישן (kishn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈkisi]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -isi
* Hyphenation: ki‧si

### Verb

kisi (present kisas, past kisis, future kisos, conditional kisus, volitive kisu)
* (transitive) to kiss
    Kisu min, stultulo. ― Kiss me, stupid.

#### Derived terms

* forkisi (“to kiss away (ex. sorrow)”)
* interkisi
* kisadi (“to kiss for a long time or repeatedly; to make out”)
* kisebla (“kissable”)
* kisema (“inclined toward kissing”)
* kiseto (“small, fast kiss; peck”)
* kisinda (“worthy of being kissed”)
* kiso (“kiss”)

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈkisi/ [ˈki.si]
* Rhymes: -isi
* Syllabification: ki‧si

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Malay کيسي (kisi).

#### Noun

kisi (plural kisi-kisi)
* synonym of kisi-kisi (“grating”)
* lattice:
** (literal) a flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used as a garden trellis
** (physics, crystallography) a regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif
** electrode for fuel cells
** (mathematics, algebra, statistics) In any of several technical senses, a substructure with properties analogous to those the set of points with integer coordinates bears in relation to the full Euclidian space these points are contained in
*** (mathematics) graph that can be drawn within a repeating arrangement of points
** optical lattice: spatially periodic polarization pattern

##### Derived terms

* berkisi
* berkisi-kisi
* kisi-kisi
* kisi kristal
* kisi radiator

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Javanese ꦏꦶꦱꦶ (kisi, “snake hatchling”, literally “bobbin, spool, reel”).

#### Noun

kisi (plural kisi-kisi)
* snake hatchling

##### Descendants

* → Malay: کيسي (kisi) (semantic loan)

### Further reading

* “kisi” 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.

## Jamamadí
### Verb

kisi
* (Banawá) to descend

### References

* 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

## Javanese
### Romanization

kisi
* Romanization of ꦏꦶꦱꦶ

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic كَسْو (kasw).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkɪ.sɪ/
* Rhymes: -ɪsɪ

### Noun

kisi m
* verbal noun of kesa: the act of covering, plastering

## Mwani
### Noun

kisi class 7
* darkness

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈki.ɕi/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iɕi
* Syllabification: ki‧si

### Verb

kisi
* third-person singular present of kisić

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

From Arabic قَاسَ (qāsa, “to measure”).

#### Verb

-kisi (infinitive kukisi)
* to imagine, guess
* (nautical) to measure a ship's location

##### Conjugation

Conjugation of -kisi :
| Positive present | -nakisi |
| Subjunctive | -kisi |
| Negative | -kisi |
| Imperative singular | kisi |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kukisi |
| Negative | kutokisi |
Imperatives :
| Singular | kisi |
| Plural | kisini |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hukisi |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -likisi |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kukisi |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -takisi |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -takisi |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sikisi |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngekisi |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singekisi |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalikisi |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalikisi |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -mekisi |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshakisi |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jakisi |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kikisi |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipokisi |
| Consecutive | kakisi / positive subject concord + -kakisi |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -kakisi |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

##### Derived terms

* Nominal derivations:
** kisio

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English kiss.

#### Noun

kisi class IX (no plural)
* a kiss on the lips
    Synonym: busu

## Tagabawa
### Noun

kisì
* blanket

## Volapük
### Pronoun

kisi
* what? (accusative, interrogative) (accusative of kis)