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From English quota, from Latin quota, from Latin quota pars.

kota

1. quota

From koto +‎ -a.

kota (accusative singular kotan, plural kotaj, accusative plural kotajn)

1. muddy

From Proto-Finnic *kota (compare Estonian koda), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kota (compare Erzya кудо (kudo), Hungarian ház).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkotɑ/, [ˈko̞t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -otɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): ko‧ta

kota

1. A conical or hemispherical shelter with an open fireplace in the middle, usually supported by a frame of wooden poles and covered with a variety of materials including hides, textile fabric, peat and timber; known in some English texts by its Northern Sami name goahti.
   1. Specifically, a saamelaiskota.
2. (botany) capsule
3. core of an apple

   Synonym: kara

• kammi
• teltta
• Goahti on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• “kota”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

• kato, toka

• IPA^(key): /kota/
• Hyphenation: ko‧ta

From Malay kota, from Classical Malay kota, from Tamil கோட்டம் (kōṭṭam, “city”) or Sanskrit कोट्ट (koṭṭa, “city”).

• The sense in government was coined by Indonesian politician Teuku Muhammad Hasan in 1945 to translate Dutch gemeente or stadsgemeente.
• Displaced Dutch stad (“city, town”) by Komisi Bahasa Indonesia as published on Kanpō/Berita Pemerintah No.38 Year III Month 3 (2604) in 1944.

kota (plural kota-kota)

1. city,
   1. (urban studies) A large settlement, bigger than a town; sometimes with a specific legal definition, depending on the place.
   2. (government) The second-level urban administrative division in Indonesia.

1. The sense of second-level urban administrative division is used since 1999. The previous term for second-level urban administrative division are kota madya (1965-1999) and kota praja (~1965). The second-level urban administrative division in Java during colonial period were Dutch stadsgemeente (literally “urban commune”) and Japanese 市 (shi, “city”) which romanised as si.
2. Before 1999, kota was used to describe urban administrative division, which can be a first-level administrative division (kota raya), a second-level administrative division (kota madya), a third-level administrative division (kota administratif), or a fourth-level administrative division (kota kecamatan).

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kota

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Borrowed from Serua [Term?].

kota (plural kota-kota)

1. a small box made of pandan leaves, a place to store valuables, usually carried by the Serua indigenous people

Borrowed from Kur [Term?], probably cognate of Etymology 1.

kota (plural kota-kota)

1. a garden that has been fenced with a stone fence

Borrowed from Blagar [Term?], probably cognate of Etymology 1.

kota (plural kota-kota)

1. fence made of coral piles

• “kota” 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.

kota

1. Nonstandard spelling of kutha.

kota

1. to go in, to enter

kota

1. to enter

kota

1. Superseded spelling of kóta.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkota]

kota (Lontara spelling ᨀᨚᨈ, semi-transitive anngota)

1. (transitive) to chew

From Sanskrit कोट्ट (koṭṭa) or Tamil கோட்டம் (kōṭṭam).

• Rhymes: -ta
• Rhymes: -a

kota (Jawi spelling کوتا, plural kota-kota, informal 1st possessive kotaku, 2nd possessive kotamu, 3rd possessive kotanya)

1. city

   Synonym: bandar raya

• > Indonesian: kota (inherited)
• > Peranakan Indonesian: kota (inherited)
• → Swahili: ukuta
• → Tagalog: kuta

• (Indonesian) kota

• “kota” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Inherited from Malay kota.

kota

1. city

   Synonym: stad

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: ko‧ta

kota m

1. accusative/genitive singular of kot

From Serbo-Croatian kotao.

• IPA^(key): /kǒta/

kota m

1. cauldron

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

kota c

1. a vertebra, an element of the backbone

• ryggkota

• diskbråck
• kotlett

• kota in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kota in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kota in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• toka

• kuwota
• kuta

Borrowed from Spanish cuota (“quota”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkota/ [ˈkoː.t̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: ko‧ta

kota (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜆ)

1. quota

   Synonym: takda

• akto, toka, tako, kato, Atok

From Ottoman Turkish قوته (kota), from French quota.

kota (definite accusative kotayı, plural kotalar)

1. quota

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “kota2”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kota”, in Nişanyan Sözlük