different between clay vs rabat

English

Etymology

From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English cl?? (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”).

Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek ???? (glía), Latin gl?ten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Ukrainian ???? (glej, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kl?, IPA^(key): /kle?/, [kl?e?]
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)

1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

   • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].

2. An earth material with ductile qualities.
3. (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.

4. (biblical) The material of the human body.
   • 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Job 10:8-9:

     Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.

   • 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Isaiah 64:8:

     But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.

5. (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
6. A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
7. (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.

   We went shooting clays at the weekend.

8. (informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims

   Danzig is rightfully German clay.

Antonyms

• (material of the human body): soul, spirit

Hyponyms

• kaolin, kaoline
• ball clay
• fire clay
• potter's clay

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• alluvium

Verb

clay (third-person singular simple present clays, present participle claying, simple past and past participle clayed)

1. (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
2. (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,

     They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.

   • 1809, Jonathan Williams, On the Process of Claying Sugar, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 6.

References

• Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter volume 11, Number 1.[2] (etymology)
• “clay” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
• Clay, New Webster Dictionary of English Language, 1980 edition.

Anagrams

• Lacy, acyl, lacy

Middle English

Noun

clay

1. Alternative form of cley (“clay”)

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

French rabat

Noun

rabat (countable and uncountable, plural rabats)

1. A polishing material made of potter's clay that has failed in baking.
2. (countable) A piece of fabric fitted to the collar covering the shirt-front worn by Catholic and Anglican clergy.
3. (countable) The clerical linen collar itself.

Etymology 2

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

Verb

rabat (third-person singular simple present rabats, present participle rabatting, simple past and past participle rabatted)

1. To rotate a plane of projection.

Anagrams

• Barta, Batra, abart, artab

Danish

Noun

rabat c (singular definite rabatten, plural indefinite rabatter)

1. discount
2. road verge or median strip

Declension

References

• “rabat” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Noun

rabat m (plural rabats)

1. flap (of bag, pocket etc.)

Descendants

• ? English: rabat

Verb

rabat

1. third-person singular present indicative of rabattre

Further reading

• “rabat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch rabat (“discount”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?rabat?]
• Hyphenation: ra?bat

Noun

rabat (first-person possessive rabatku, second-person possessive rabatmu, third-person possessive rabatnya)

1. (colloquial) discount.

   Synonyms: diskon, korting, potongan harga

Further reading

• “rabat” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra.bat/

Etymology 1

From Arabic ??????? (raba?a).

Verb

rabat (imperfect jorbot, past participle marbut)

1. to tie; to bind

Conjugation

See also

• g?aqad

Etymology 2

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

Verb

rabat m

1. suburb

Norman

Etymology

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

Noun

rabat m (plural rabats)

1. (Guernsey) downdraft

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?rapah(t)/

Verb

rabat

1. second-person singular present indicative of rahpat

Polish

Etymology

From German Rabatt, from Italian rabatto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ra.bat/

Noun

rabat m inan (diminutive rabacik)

1. discount, rebate (reduction in price)

   Synonyms: zni?ka, obni?ka, opust, bonifikata

Declension

Derived terms

• (verb) rabatowa?
• (adjective) rabatowy

Further reading

• rabat in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• rabat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ra?bat]

Noun

rabat n (plural rabaturi)

1. discount, rebate

Declension