kazi

kazi (plural kazis)

1. (historical) Alternative form of Kazi

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.”

• Zaki, Zika, zika

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

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

kazi (genitive kazin, partitive kazie, diminutive kazine)

1. (South Karelian) cat

• kišša (North Karelian or dialectal)

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

kazi class 9 (plural kazi)

1. work, business
2. job, occupation

 

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kazi

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From Proto-Bantu *cad-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑ.zi/

• Audio (Kenya):

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kazi (n class, plural kazi)

1. work, business
2. job, occupation

• -fanya kazi (“to work”)

kazi

1. woman

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