different between gah vs gat

English

Interjection

gah

1. Expressing exasperation or annoyance.

Anagrams

• HGA, Hag., agh, gha, hag

Navajo

Etymology

Cognate with Sarcee nit??adigha, Chipewyan gah, Beaver gaah, Carrier goh, Sekani gah, Ahtna ggax, and South Slavey gah.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

Derived terms

• gahtsoh (hare)
• hak?az gah
• tsétah gah

Pali

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (g?h).

Root

gah (Pali name gaha)

1. to seize, to take

Usage notes

The initial consonant tends to geminate after prefixes. Nasals after the root may be retroflexed.

Derived terms

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *GaX, from Proto-Na-Dene *GaX.

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

Western Apache

Noun

gah

1. rabbit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
2. (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.

     You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.

   • 1988, N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton

     Goin' off on a motherfucker like that

     With a gat that's pointed at yo ass

Translations

Verb

gat (third-person singular simple present gats, present participle gatting, simple past and past participle gatted)

1. (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.

Etymology 2

From guitar, by shortening

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. (New Zealand, slang) A guitar

Etymology 3

Verb

gat

1. (Scotland and Northern England or archaic) simple past tense of get
   • Genesis 19:27

     And Abraham gat up early in the morning

Etymology 4

From Icelandic [Term?].

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. An opening between sandbanks; a strait.

Etymology 5

From Korean ? (gat).

Alternative forms

• kat

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.

Anagrams

• ATG, GTA, TAG, TGA, tag

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gat (“hole, gap; arse”), from Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gat?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at/

Noun

gat (plural gate, diminutive gaatjie)

1. hole; perforation
2. gap; opening

3. hole or hollowed out area used as a shelter or home by animals
4. (figuratively) dump; a run-down living space, room or house

5. (golf) hole; cup

Synonyms

• (gap): gaping
• (golf): putjie

Derived terms

• gatvol

Noun

gat (plural gatte, diminutive gatjie)

1. (vulgar) anus
2. (crude) rump; buttocks; bum; ass; backside of a human

3. the backside of animals or objects

Synonyms

• (backside, ass): agterstewe, blaker, stert
• (anus): hol, poephol

Derived terms

• gatkant
• kaalgat

Anagrams

• agt

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?] (compare Occitan gat, cat), from Late Latin cattus (“cat”) (compare French chat, Spanish gato). See cat for more.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /??at/
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

gat m (plural gats, feminine gata)

1. cat (feline animal)
2. jack (device for lifting heavy objects)
3. cat shark

Synonyms

• (cat): mix (colloquial), moix (colloquial)

Derived terms

Related terms

• gata

Adjective

gat (feminine gata, masculine plural gats, feminine plural gates)

1. (Mallorca) drunk

Further reading

• “gat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gat?. Doublet of gate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??t/
• Hyphenation: gat
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

gat n (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)

1. gap, hole

   Synonyms: hol, opening

2. godforsaken place, hamlet

   Synonyms: uithoek, midden van nergens

3. (archaic) port

Noun

gat n or m (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)

1. (vulgar) arsehole, asshole
2. (by extension, informal) the buttocks, butt, bum, rear-end, bottom of a person or animal
   • "Het regent" (nursery rhyme).

   Synonym: achterste

Derived terms

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gat, from Proto-Germanic *gat?.

Noun

gat n (genitive singular gats, nominative plural göt)

1. hole, perforation (an opening through a solid body)

2. (colloquial, school) a gap in a fixed schedule, an unassigned time in the schedule, usually between classes; break, free period

Declension

Derived terms

• standa á gati (to be unable to answer a question, to be at a loss)
• reka einhvern á gat (to stump somebody, to ask somebody a question he cannot answer)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

gat

1. first-person singular active present indicative of geta

   Ég gat ekki stöðvað hana.

   I couldn't stop her.

2. third-person singular active present indicative of geta

See also

• hola

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gat? (“dike”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian hat, Polish ga?, Serbo-Croatian gat (“ditch, dam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at/

Noun

gat m (diminutive ga?ik)

1. pond
2. dam, embankment

Declension

Derived terms

• gatny
• gatojski
• pódgata?
• pódgatki

Further reading

• gat in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• gat in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?at/

Verb

gat

1. Medial form of gate

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

gat

1. Alternative form of gate (“gate”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gat

1. Alternative form of gate (“way”)

Etymology 3

Noun

gat

1. (Northern, Early Middle English) Alternative form of goot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

gat

1. past tense of gjeta

Etymology 2

Noun

gat n (definite singular gatet, indefinite plural gat, definite plural gata or gati)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by gatt

Nuer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?at], [?ad]

Noun

gat

1. son

Occitan

Alternative forms

• cat

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Late Latin cattus (compare Catalan gat, French chat). See cat for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?at]

Noun

gat m (plural gats, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

1. a cat

Related terms

• gata

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *gait, from Proto-Germanic *gaits.

Cognate with Old Saxon g?t, Old Dutch *geit, Old High German geiz, Old Norse geit, Gothic ???????????????????? (gaits); and with Latin haedus (“kid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???t/

Noun

g?t f

1. goat

Declension

Coordinate terms

• bucca (“male goat”)

Derived terms

• g?thierde

Descendants

• Middle English: goot, got, gat, gote, goet, goth, gathe
  • English: goat
    • ? Abenaki: kots (from "goats")
    • ? Marshallese: koot
    • ? Rotokas: goti
  • Scots: gait, gayt
  • Yola: geearth, geearte, gurth

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Noun

gat n

1. hole, opening

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: gatt

Etymology 2

Verb

gat

1. first-person singular past indicative active of geta
2. third-person singular past indicative active of geta

References

• gat in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romagnol

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??at/, [??a??t]

Noun

gat m (plural ghét)

1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)
   • December 2007, Vincenzo Sanchini, Tigrin e Biancon in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 8:

     S'i padrùn gio tla pianura,\ chi por gat j è armast te' ghét,\ in s'è mòs da meda tl'éra,\ a raspè mla porta tchjusa.

Romanian

Etymology

From Hungarian gát

Noun

gat n (plural gaturi)

1. (Transylvania) dam

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) giat

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Noun

gat m (plural gats)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) cat

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gat? (“dike”). Cognate with Slovak ha? (“dam”), Upper Sorbian hat, Polish ga?, Lower Sorbian gat (“pond, dam”), and Russian ???? (gat?, “causeway”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ât/

Noun

g?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. ditch
2. dam

Declension

References

• “gat” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

• igat

Etymology

From English got.

Verb

gat

1. have

Derived terms

• gat bel
• igat
• nogat

Venetian

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??at/
• Hyphenation: gàt

Noun

gat m (plural gati)

1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)