different between besan vs atta

English

Etymology

From Tamil [Term?]. Compare Hindi ???? (besan).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?be?s?n/

Noun

besan (uncountable)

1. Gram flour (as used in Indian and Burmese cuisine).

Translations

Further reading

• gram flour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• BANES, Banes, Benas, banes, basen, beans, nabes, nesba

Asturian

Verb

besan

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of besar

Malay

Alternative forms

• bisan

Noun

besan

1. co-parent-in-law, co-parents-in-law

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From b?s.

Alternative forms

• (Ijekavian) bijésan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??san/
• Hyphenation: be?san

Adjective

bésan (definite b?sn?, comparative bešnji, Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. furious

Declension

Etymology 2

bez- +? san

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?san/
• Hyphenation: be?san

Adjective

bèsan (definite bèsan?, Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. sleepless

Declension

References

• “besan” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
• “besan” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Spanish

Verb

besan

1. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present indicative form of besar.
2. (used formally in Spain) Second-person plural present indicative form of besar.

English

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Contraction

atta

1. that's the; that's a

Usage notes

Used only in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

Derived terms

• attaboy, atta boy
• attadog, atta dog
• attagal, attagirl, atta girl

Alternative forms

• thatta

Etymology 2

From Hindi ??? (???, “flour, farina, dough”).

Noun

atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)

1. (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 7:

     Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.

   • 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books.

     The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger.

Anagrams

• Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *?anta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at.ta/

Pronoun

atta

1. you, thou (second person singular subject personal pronoun)

See also

Chickasaw

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw atta

Verb

atta (active)

1. (intransitive) to be born
2. (transitive) to live in (a location)

Inflection

Choctaw

Verb

atta

1. to live

Gothic

Romanization

atta

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Italian

Adjective

atta

1. feminine singular of atto

Anagrams

• tata

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite ???????????? (attas), Gothic ???????????????? (atta), Old Church Slavonic ????? (ot?c?) and Ancient Greek ???? (átta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?at.ta/, [?ät??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?at.ta/, [??t???]

Noun

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

1. father (term of respect for an old man)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Sicilian: tatà
• Neapolitan: tatà (archaic)

References

• atta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• atta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• atta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• aththa, atha, eththa

Etymology

Proto-West Germanic *att? (“father”).

Noun

atta m

1. father

Descendants

• North Frisian: ate, aatj, taatje, tääte
• West Frisian: heit

References

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ata, ?ta

Etymology

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *aht?u, from Proto-Indo-European *o?t?w.

Numeral

?tta

1. eight

Descendants

• Swedish: åtta

Pali

Alternative forms

Noun

atta

1. vocative singular of attan

Sicilian

Noun

atta f

1. Alternative form of gatta

Turkish

Noun

atta

1. singular locative of at

Yagara

Pronoun

atta

1. I

References

• State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.