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gat
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æt/
- Rhymes: -æt
Etymology 1
From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.
Noun
gat (plural gats)
- (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
- (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
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.
Translations
Verb
gat (third-person singular simple present gats, present participle gatting, simple past and past participle gatted)
- (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
Etymology 2
From guitar, by shortening
Noun
gat (plural gats)
- (New Zealand, slang) A guitar
Etymology 3
Verb
gat
- (Scotland and Northern England or archaic) simple past tense of get
- Genesis 19:27
- And Abraham gat up early in the morning
- Genesis 19:27
Etymology 4
From Icelandic [Term?].
Noun
gat (plural gats)
- An opening between sandbanks; a strait.
Etymology 5
From Korean ? (gat).
Alternative forms
- kat
Noun
gat (plural gats)
- 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)
- hole; perforation
- gap; opening
- hole or hollowed out area used as a shelter or home by animals
- (figuratively) dump; a run-down living space, room or house
- (golf) hole; cup
Synonyms
- (gap): gaping
- (golf): putjie
Derived terms
- gatvol
Noun
gat (plural gatte, diminutive gatjie)
- (vulgar) anus
- (crude) rump; buttocks; bum; ass; backside of a human
- 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)
- cat (feline animal)
- jack (device for lifting heavy objects)
- cat shark
Synonyms
- (cat): mix (colloquial), moix (colloquial)
Derived terms
Related terms
- gata
Adjective
gat (feminine gata, masculine plural gats, feminine plural gates)
- (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)
- gap, hole
- Synonyms: hol, opening
- godforsaken place, hamlet
- Synonyms: uithoek, midden van nergens
- (archaic) port
Noun
gat n or m (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)
- (vulgar) arsehole, asshole
- (by extension, informal) the buttocks, butt, bum, rear-end, bottom of a person or animal
- "Het regent" (nursery rhyme).
- Synonym: achterste
- "Het regent" (nursery rhyme).
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)
- hole, perforation (an opening through a solid body)
- (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
- first-person singular active present indicative of geta
- Ég gat ekki stöðvað hana.
- I couldn't stop her.
- Ég gat ekki stöðvað hana.
- 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)
- pond
- 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
- Medial form of gate
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
gat
- Alternative form of gate (“gate”)
Etymology 2
Noun
gat
- Alternative form of gate (“way”)
Etymology 3
Noun
gat
- (Northern, Early Middle English) Alternative form of goot
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Verb
gat
- past tense of gjeta
Etymology 2
Noun
gat n (definite singular gatet, indefinite plural gat, definite plural gata or gati)
- form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by gatt
Nuer
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?at], [?ad]
Noun
gat
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- English: goat
Old Norse
Etymology 1
Noun
gat n
- hole, opening
Descendants
- Norwegian Nynorsk: gatt
Etymology 2
Verb
gat
- first-person singular past indicative active of geta
- 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)
- 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.
- December 2007, Vincenzo Sanchini, Tigrin e Biancon in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 8:
Romanian
Etymology
From Hungarian gát
Noun
gat n (plural gaturi)
- (Transylvania) dam
Declension
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) giat
Etymology
From Late Latin cattus.
Noun
gat m (plural gats)
- (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 ????)
- ditch
- dam
Declension
References
- “gat” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal
Tok Pisin
Alternative forms
- igat
Etymology
From English got.
Verb
gat
- 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)
- cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)
gat From the web:
- what gate is my flight
- what gate is american airlines
- what gate is spirit airlines at dfw
- what gate is american airlines at dfw
- what gate is my flight delta
- what gates open during depolarization
- what gate is frontier at dfw
- what gate is delta at jfk
yat
English
Alternative forms
- jat
Noun
yat (plural yats)
- A vowel letter of the Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabet (Cyrillic capital ?, Cyrillic small ?, Glagolitic ?), no longer in current use
- The Late Proto-Slavic (Common Slavic) vowel that was represented by this letter, usually transcribed as /?/. This vowel underwent various alterations in the later Slavic dialects and is no longer distinguished (except in Ijekavian).
Translations
Anagrams
- AYT, Tay, tay
Kalasha
Noun
yat
- remembrance, memory
Turkish
Etymology 1
From English yacht.
Noun
yat (definite accusative yat?, plural yatlar)
- yacht
Etymology 2
From Proto-Turkic *j?t (“foreign(er)”).
Noun
yat (definite accusative yat?, plural yatlar)
- (dialectal) foreigner
Etymology 3
Verb
yat
- second-person singular imperative of yatmak
Volapük
Noun
yat (nominative plural yats)
- squirrel
Declension
Derived terms
- hiyat
- hiyatül
- yatül
- jiyat
- jiyatül
yat From the web:
- what ya doing
- what yakuza game to play first
- what yall doing gif
- what yacht to do
- what yarn to use for crochet
- what yall finna get into