different between hat vs haft

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /hæt/
• (Canada, California, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [hat]
• (Northern US) IPA^(key): [h?t]
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Middle English hat, from Old English hæt (“head-covering, hat”), from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kad?- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan ????????????????????? (xaoda, “hat”), Persian ???? (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

Noun

hat (plural hats)

1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.

   • There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
2. (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
   • 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ?ISBN, p.121:

     My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.

3. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
   1. (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.

4. (video games) A hat switch.
   • 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, p.139:

     The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.

5. (typography, nonstandard, rare) The há?ek symbol.
   • 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <[email protected]>#1/1

     I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”

6. (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
7. (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
8. (Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).

Synonyms

• (student and nobleman): gold hatband, tuft

Hyponyms

• See also Thesaurus:headwear

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: ati

Translations

See also

• take one's hat off to

Verb

hat (third-person singular simple present hats, present participle hatting, simple past and past participle hatted)

1. (transitive) To place a hat on.
2. (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
   • 1929, "Five New Hats," Time, 2 December, 1929, [2]

     It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.

Etymology 2

Verb

hat

1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Further reading

• hat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ATH, aht, tha

Cimbrian

Verb

hat

1. third-person singular present indicative of haban

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hattr, h?ttr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [had?]

Noun

hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)

1. hat

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hat/
• Rhymes: -at

Verb

hat

1. third-person singular present of haben

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?t]
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kutte (“six”). Cognates include Finnish kuusi, Mansi ???? (h?t), Khanty ??? (x?t).

Numeral

hat

2. six

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

hat

2. (intransitive, obsolete) to get, arrive at, pass, progress towards (a certain location)

   Synonyms: hatol, ér, jut

   • 1863, János Arany, Rege a csodaszarvasról (The Legend of the Wondrous Hunt, translated by E.D. Butler)

     Süppedékes mély tavaknak / Szigetére ?k behatnak.

     An island fair to reach, they pass / Through treacherous pool and deep morass.

4. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to enter, penetrate

   Synonym: hatol

6. (intransitive) to take effect, to be effective, to work

   Synonyms: hatásos, m?ködik, beválik

8. (intransitive) to affect, to have influence, to act (on something -ra/-re)

   Synonyms: kihat, érint, befolyásol

10. (intransitive) to seem, appear (as something -nak/-nek)

    Synonyms: t?nik, látszik

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Further reading

• (six): hat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (to take effect): hat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hat??/

Noun

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

Verb

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

Kholosi

Etymology

From Sanskrit ???? (hasta).

Noun

hat ?

1. (anatomy) hand

References

• Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) , “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx?^[3], pages 13-36

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha?t/

Verb

hat

1. inflection of hunn:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural preterite indicative

Verb

hat

1. inflection of haen:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Maricopa

Noun

hat (plural haat)

1. dog

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hæt, hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.

Alternative forms

• hatt, hatte, hæt

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hat/

Noun

hat (plural hattes or hatten)

1. A hat or cap; a piece of headgear or headwear.
2. A helmet; a hat used as armour.
3. (rare) A circlet or tiara; a ring-shaped piece of headgear.
4. (rare) A circle of foam or mist.
5. (rare) A area of hilly woodland.

Related terms

• hater
• haterynge
• hatten
• hattere
• ketil-hat

Descendants

• Scots: hat, hatt, hate, hait
• English: hat
• ? Irish: hata

References

• “hat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

Etymology 2

Noun

hat

1. Alternative form of hate

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hit.

Pronoun

hat

1. it

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

Noun

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata or hatene)

1. hatred, hate

Derived terms

• hatefull
• hater

Related terms

• hate (verb)

Etymology 2

Verb

hat

1. imperative of hate

References

• “hat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??t/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz. Akin to English hate.

Noun

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata)

1. hatred, hate

Derived terms

• hatar
• hatefull

Etymology 2

Verb

hat

1. imperative of hate

References

• “hat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /x??t/, [h??t]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *haitaz. Cognate with Old Frisian h?t (West Frisian hjit), Old Saxon h?t, Dutch heet, Old High German heiz (German heiß), Old Norse heitr (Swedish het). Cognate to Albanian ethe (“shiver, fiever”), dialectal hethe and ith (“warmth, body heat”), dialectal hith.

Adjective

h?t

1. hot, fierce

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hot, hoth, whote
  • English: hot
  • Scots: hat, hait, hate
  • Yola: hoat, hote

Etymology 2

From h?tan.

Noun

h?t n

1. a promise

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??t/

Noun

hat n (uncountable)

1. hatred, haught

Declension

Related terms

• hata
• hatbrott
• judehat
• rashat

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English hat.

Noun

hat

1. hat

Etymology 2

From English hard.

Adverb

hat

1. hard

Related terms

• hatpela
• hatwok

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (?a??).

Noun

hat (definite accusative hat?, plural hatlar)

1. line
2. writing

Declension

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ????? (?a??).

Noun

hat (definite accusative haty, plural hatlar)

1. letter (written message)

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hæft/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /h??ft/
• Rhymes: -??ft, -æft

Etymology 1

From Old English hæft, from Proto-Germanic *haftij?.

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. The handle of a tool or weapon.
   • 1679, John Dryden, Oedipus

     This brandish'd dagger / I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast.

Synonyms

• helve

Hyponyms

• hilt (sword handle)
• stale, stail, stele, steal (axe handle)

Translations

Verb

haft (third-person singular simple present hafts, present participle hafting, simple past and past participle hafted)

1. (transitive) To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle

Derived terms

• haftable

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old Norse hefð.

Alternative forms

• heft

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. (Northern English dialect) A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted.

Translations

Anagrams

• Fath

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?h?fd?]

Verb

haft

1. past participle of have

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /haft/
  • Rhymes: -aft

Noun

haft n (genitive singular hafts, nominative plural höft)

1. (of a horse) hobble
2. (in the plural) restrictions
3. (anatomy) frenulum
4. (genetics, of a chromosome) constriction

Declension

Derived terms

• aukahaft (secondary constriction)
• baklituhaft (posterior synechia)
• baugslituhaft (annular synechia)
• dausgarnarlokuhaft (frenulum valvae ilealis)
• dreift þráðhaft (diffuse centromere)
• efrivararhaft (frenulum labii superioris)
• forhúðarhaft (frenulum preputii penis)
• framlituhaft (anterior synechia)
• fylgiþráðhaft (centromerus comitans)
• hæðarhaft (altitude hold)
• haftaskurður (synechotomy)
• haftasvæði (restricted area)
• haft efra mænukylfutjalds (frenulum veli medullaris superioris)
• ljósstreymisstuðull straumhafts (ballast lumen factor)
• meðalhaftlengd (mean free path)
• meyjarhaft (hymen)
• meyjarhaftsdoppur (carunculae hymenales)
• neðrivararhaft (frenulum labii inferioris)
• oplaust meyjarhaft (imperforate hymen)
• skapabarmahaft (frenulum labiorum pudendi)
• snípshaft (frenulum clitoridis)
• þráðhaft (centromere)
• þráðhaftskúla (spherula centromeri)
• þráðhaftslaus (acentric)
• tunguhaft (frenulum linguae; ankyloglossia, tongue-tie)

Old Norse

Participle

haft

1. strong neuter nominative/accusative singular of hafðr

Verb

haft

1. supine of hafa

Polish

Etymology

From Middle High German haft (“chain link”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaft/

Noun

haft m inan

1. embroidery

Declension

Related terms

• haftowa?

Further reading

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

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse hefð.

Noun

haft (plural hafts)

1. Alternative spelling of heft

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?haft/

Verb

haft

1. supine of ha.
2. supine of hava.