Where does “Kata” come from?

Kata (Polish) comes from Japanese 型 — choreographed training exercises.

Kata (Polish): khat

Definitions

  1. khat

Ancestry of “Kata”, step by step

Kata traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Japanese 型

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Japanese型choreographed training exercises

via Arabic قَات

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicقَاتkhat

Words derived from “Kata”

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