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mean
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?n, IPA(key): /mi?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
- Homophone: mien
Etymology 1
From Middle English menen (“to intend; remember; lament; comfort”), from Old English m?nan (“to mean, signify; lament”), from Proto-Germanic *mainijan? (“to mean, think; lament”), from Proto-Indo-European *meyn- (“to think”).
Germanic cognates include West Frisian miene (“to deem, think”) (Old Frisian m?na (“signify”)), Dutch menen (“to believe, think, mean”) (Middle Dutch menen (“think, intend”)), German meinen (“to think, mean, believe”), Old Saxon m?nian. Indo-European cognates include Old Irish mían (“wish, desire”) and Polish mieni? (“signify, believe”). Related to moan.
Verb
mean (third-person singular simple present means, present participle meaning, simple past and past participle meant)
- To intend.
- (transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention. [from 8th c.]
- (intransitive) To have as intentions of a given kind. [from 14th c.]
- (transitive, usually in passive) To intend (something) for a given purpose or fate; to predestine. [from 16th c.]
- (transitive) To intend an ensuing comment or statement as an explanation.[1]
- (transitive) To intend, to plan (to do); to have as one's intention. [from 8th c.]
- To convey (a meaning).
- (transitive) To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea). [from 8th c.]
- (transitive) Of a word, symbol etc: to have reference to, to signify. [from 8th c.]
- A term should be included if it's likely that someone would run across it and want to know what it means. This in turn leads to the somewhat more formal guideline of including a term if it is attested and idiomatic.
- (transitive) Of a person (or animal etc): to intend to express, to imply, to hint at, to allude.
- (transitive) To convey (a given sense); to signify, or indicate (an object or idea). [from 8th c.]
- (transitive) To have conviction in (something said or expressed); to be sincere in (what one says). [from 18th c.]
- (transitive) To cause or produce (a given result); to bring about (a given result). [from 19th c.]
- (usually with to) To be of some level of importance.
- That little dog meant everything to me.
- This shared cup of coffee means something to us.
- Formality and titles mean nothing in their circle.
Synonyms
- (convey, signify, indicate): convey, indicate, signify
- (want or intend to convey): imply, mean to say
- (intend; plan on doing): intend
- (have conviction in what one says): be serious
- (have intentions of a some kind):
- (result in; bring about): bring about, cause, lead to, result in
Derived terms
- I mean
Translations
Verb
mean (third-person singular simple present means, present participle meaning, simple past and past participle meaned)
- (Ireland, Britain regional) To lament.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:
- Thanne morned Mede · and mened hire to the kynge / To haue space to speke · spede if she my?te.
- 1560 (1677), Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. iii. (1677), page 144:
- They were forced to mean our estate to the Queen of England.
- 1845, Wodrow Society Select Biographies:
- All the tyme of his sickness he never said, "Alace!" or meaned any pain, whilk was marvellous. Never man died in greater peace of mind or body.
- c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, III:
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English mene, imene, from Old English m?ne, ?em?ne (“common, public, general, universal”), from Proto-West Germanic *gamain?, from Proto-Germanic *gamainiz (“common”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to change, exchange, share”).
Cognate with West Frisian mien (“general, universal”), Dutch gemeen (“common, mean”), German gemein (“common, mean, nasty”), Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gamains, “common, unclean”), Latin comm?nis (“shared, common, general”) (Old Latin comoinem).
Adjective
mean (comparative meaner, superlative meanest)
- (obsolete) Common; general.
- Of a common or low origin, grade, or quality; common; humble.
- Low in quality or degree; inferior; poor; shabby.
- Without dignity of mind; destitute of honour; low-minded; spiritless; base.
- Ivanhoe (1952 film)
- Prince John: "Your foe has bloodied you, sir knight. Will you concede defeat? You fight too well to die so mean a death. Will you not throw in your lot with me instead?
- Ivanhoe: "That would be an even meaner death, Your Grace."
- a mean motive
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- Can you imagine I so mean could prove, / To save my life by changing of my love?
- Ivanhoe (1952 film)
- Of little value or worth; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
- 1708, John Philips, Cyder
- The Roman legions and great Caesar found / Our fathers no mean foes.
- 1708, John Philips, Cyder
- (chiefly Britain) Ungenerous; stingy; tight-fisted.
- Disobliging; pettily offensive or unaccommodating
- Selfish; acting without consideration of others; unkind.
- Intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise; bearing ill will towards another
- Synonyms: cruel, malicious
- Powerful; fierce; strong
- Synonyms: harsh, damaging
- (colloquial) Accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with.
- (informal, often childish) Difficult, tricky.
Synonyms
- (intending to cause harm, successfully or otherwise): cruel, malicious, nasty, spiteful
- (miserly; stingy): See also Thesaurus:stingy
- (low-minded; acting without consideration of others): base, ignoble, selfish, unkind, vile
- (powerful): damaging, fierce, harsh, strong
- (accomplished with great skill; deft; hard to compete with): deft, skilful (UK), skillful (US), top-notch
- (inferior): cheap, grotty (slang), inferior, low-quality, naff (UK slang), rough and ready, shoddy, tacky (informal)
Antonyms
- (low-minded; acting without consideration of others): lofty, noble, honorable
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English meene, borrowed from Old French meien (French moyen), Late Latin medi?nus (“that is in the middle, middle”), from Latin medius (“middle”). Cognate with mid. For the musical sense, compare the cognate Italian mezzano. Doublet of median and mizzen.
Adjective
mean (not comparable)
- Having the mean (see noun below) as its value.
- (obsolete) Middling; intermediate; moderately good, tolerable.
- , II.ii.2:
- I have declared in the causes what harm costiveness hath done in procuring this disease; if it be so noxious, the opposite must needs be good, or mean at least, as indeed it is […].
- being of middle age and a mean stature
- , II.ii.2:
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
mean (plural means)
- (now chiefly in the plural) A method or course of action used to achieve some result. [from 14th c.]
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.5:
- To say truth, it is a meane full of uncertainty and danger.
- c. 1812, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essays
- You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements.
- 1860, William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics
- Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean.
- 2011, "Rival visions", The Economist, 14 Apr 2011:
- Mr Obama produced an only slightly less ambitious goal for deficit reduction than the House Republicans, albeit working from a more forgiving baseline: $4 trillion over 12 years compared to $4.4 trillion over 10 years. But the means by which he would achieve it are very different.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.5:
- (obsolete, in the singular) An intermediate step or intermediate steps.
- a. 1563, Thomas Harding, "To the Reader", in The Works of John Jewel (1845 ed.)
- Verily in this treatise this hath been mine only purpose; and the mean to bring the same to effect hath been such as whereby I studied to profit wholesomely, not to please delicately.
- 1606, The Trials of Robert Winter, Thomas Winter, Guy Fawkes, John Grant, Ambrose Rookwood, Rob. Keyes, Thomas Bates, and Sir Everard Digby, at Westminster, for High Treason, being Conspirators in the Gunpowder-Plot
- That it was lawful and meritorious to kill and destroy the king, and all the said hereticks. — The mean to effect it, they concluded to be, that, 1. The king, the queen, the prince, the lords spiritual and temporal, the knights and burgoses of the parliament, should be blown up with powder. 2. That the whole royal issue male should be destroyed. S. That they would lake into their custody Elizabeth and Mary the king's daughters, and proclaim the lady Elizabeth queen. 4. That they should feign a Proclamation in the name of Elizabeth, in which no mention should be made of alteration of religion, nor that they were parties to the treason, until they had raised power to perform the same; and then to proclaim, all grievances in the kingdom should be reformed.
- a. 1623, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
- Apply desperate physic: / We must not now use balsamum, but fire, / The smarting cupping-glass, for that's the mean / To purge infected blood, such blood as hers.
- a. 1563, Thomas Harding, "To the Reader", in The Works of John Jewel (1845 ed.)
- Something which is intermediate or in the middle; an intermediate value or range of values; a medium. [from 14th c.]
- 1875, William Smith and Samuel Cheetham, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Little, Brown and Company, volume 1, page 10, s.v. Accentus Ecclesiasticus,
- It presents a sort of mean between speech and song, continually inclining towards the latter, never altogether leaving its hold on the former; it is speech, though always attuned speech, in passages of average interest and importance; it is song, though always distinct and articulate song, in passages demanding more fervid utterance.
- 1875, William Smith and Samuel Cheetham, editors, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, Little, Brown and Company, volume 1, page 10, s.v. Accentus Ecclesiasticus,
- (music, now historical) The middle part of three-part polyphonic music; now specifically, the alto part in polyphonic music; an alto instrument. [from 15th c.]
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, page 147:
- Of these [rattles] they have Base, Tenor, Countertenor, Meane, and Treble.
- 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, in Kupperman 1988, page 147:
- (statistics) The average of a set of values, calculated by summing them together and dividing by the number of terms; the arithmetic mean. [from 15th c.]
- (mathematics) Any function of multiple variables that satisfies certain properties and yields a number representative of its arguments; or, the number so yielded; a measure of central tendency.
- 1997, Angus Deaton, The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy,[3] World Bank Publications, ?ISBN, page 51:
- Note that (1.41) is simply the probability-weighted mean without any explicit allowance for the stratification; each observation is weighted by its inflation factor and the total divided by the total of the inflation factors for the survey.
- 2002, Clifford A. Pickover, The Mathematics of Oz: Mental Gymnastics from Beyond the Edge,[4] Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 246:
- Luckily, even though the arithmetic mean is unusable, both the harmonic and geometric means settle to precise values as the amount of data increases.
- 2003, P. S. Bullen, Handbook of Means and Their Inequalities,[5] Springer, ?ISBN, page 251:
- The generalized power means include power means, certain Gini means, in particular the counter-harmonic means.
- 1997, Angus Deaton, The Analysis of Household Surveys: A Microeconometric Approach to Development Policy,[3] World Bank Publications, ?ISBN, page 51:
- (mathematics) Either of the two numbers in the middle of a conventionally presented proportion, as 2 and 3 in 1:2=3:6.
- 1825, John Farrar, translator, An Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic by Silvestre François Lacroix, third edition, page 102,
- ...if four numbers be in proportion, the product of the first and last, or of the two extremes, is equal to the product of the second and third, or of the two means.
- 1999, Dawn B. Sova, How to Solve Word Problems in Geometry, McGraw-Hill, ?ISBN, page 85,
- Using the means-extremes property of proportions, you know that the product of the extremes equals the product of the means. The ratio t/4 = 5/2 can be rewritten as t:4 = 5:2, in which the extremes are t and 2, and the means are 4 and 5.
- 2007, Carolyn C. Wheater, Homework Helpers: Geometry, Career Press, ?ISBN, page 99,
- In , the product of the means is , and the product of the extremes is . Both products are 54.
- 1825, John Farrar, translator, An Elementary Treatise on Arithmetic by Silvestre François Lacroix, third edition, page 102,
Hypernyms
- (statistics): measure of central tendency, measure of location, sample statistic
Coordinate terms
- (statistics): median, mode
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- (statistics): spread, range
Further reading
- mean at OneLook Dictionary Search
- mean in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- -mane, -nema, Amen, Eman, Enma, MENA, Mena, NAmE, NEMA, NMEA, amen, mane, mnae, name, namé, neam, ñame
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish medón (“middle, centre”), from Latin medi?nus.
Noun
mean m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
- centre, middle
- interior
- average
Derived terms
- meanagh (“center, central; intermediate; centric, centrical”, adj)
- mean scoill (“secondary school, college”)
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish menbach (“small”), from a Proto-Celtic derivation of the root *mey- (“small, little”). Cognate with Latin minus, minor, minutus and Ancient Greek ?????? (minúth?, “lessen”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /m?n/
Adjective
mean
- little, tiny
Synonyms
- beag
- bìodach
- meanbh
- mion
Derived terms
- mean air mhean
Mutation
Spanish
Verb
mean
- Second-person plural (ustedes) present indicative form of mear.
- Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes?) present indicative form of mear.
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fat
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: f?t, IPA(key): /fæt/
- Rhymes: -æt
- Homophone: phat
Etymology 1
From Middle English fat, from Old English f?tt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).
Adjective
fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)
- Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
- 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
- While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.
- 2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press (?ISBN), page 46:
- Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.
- 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
- Thick.
- So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
- Bountiful.
- Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
- (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
- 1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman
- making our western wits fat & mean
- 1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman
- Fertile; productive.
- Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
- 1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
- now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk
- 1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
- Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
- , "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"
- persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture
- , "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"
- (dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
- (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
- 1992, DeDe Owens, ?Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success (page 81)
- Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.
- 1992, DeDe Owens, ?Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success (page 81)
- (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
- 1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre (page 131)
- He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state.
- 1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing (page 12)
- He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.
- 2012, Greg Robinson, ?Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens (page 9)
- Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie.
- 1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre (page 131)
- Alternative form of phat (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
- (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also Thesaurus:obese
- (thick): thick
- (bountiful): bountiful, prosperous
Antonyms
- Of sense (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): lean, skinny, slender, slim, thin
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: fatu
Translations
Noun
fat (usually uncountable, plural fats)
- (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with a high oil content, used for long-term storage of energy.
- (countable) A refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat.
- That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
- (slang) An erection.
- (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
- The best or richest productions; the best part.
- (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
- (informal) A fat person.
- 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019
- Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.
- 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019
- A beef cattle fattened for sale.
Synonyms
- (animal tissue): adipose tissue, lard (in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat)
- (substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat): grease, lard
- (fat person): fatty, fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person
Derived terms
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: fatu
Translations
See also
- fat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb
fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)
- (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
- (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fat? (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.
Noun
fat (plural fats)
- (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429:
- In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429:
- (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.
Synonyms
- vat
Translations
Anagrams
- AFT, ATF, FTA, TAF, TFA, aft, aft-, taf
Albanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin f?tum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [fat]
Noun
fat m (indefinite plural fate, definite singular fat, definite plural fatet)
- luck
- chance
- Synonym: shans, rast, mundësi
- fate
- destiny
- spouse
Declension
References
Buli (Indonesia)
Etymology
From Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.
Numeral
fat
- four
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?fat/
- Rhymes: -at
Etymology 1
From Latin f?tum.
Noun
fat m (uncountable)
- fate, destiny
Related terms
- fatal
Etymology 2
From Latin fatuus.
Adjective
fat (feminine fada, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fades)
- bland, insipid
- Synonym: insuls
Related terms
- fatu
Further reading
- “fat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Chuukese
Adjective
fat
- clear, transparent
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French fat (“conceited; dandy”), from Latin fatuus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f?t/
- Hyphenation: fat
- Rhymes: -?t
Noun
fat m (plural fatten or fats, diminutive fatje n)
- dandy, a man obsessed with his looks
- Synonyms: dandy, pronker, saletjonker
Derived terms
- fatterig
- fattig
French
Etymology
From Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa/
Adjective
fat (feminine singular fate, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)
- conceited
Further reading
- “fat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- taf
Friulian
Etymology 1
From Latin factus.
Verb
fat
- past participle of fâ
Adjective
fat
- done, made
- ripe
Etymology 2
From Latin factum.
Noun
fat m (plural fats)
- fact, deed
Related terms
- fâ
- fatôr
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fat?, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fa?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Noun
fat n (genitive singular fats, nominative plural föt)
- vat
- item of clothing
Declension
Kowiai
Etymology
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.
Numeral
fat
- four
Ladin
Noun
fat m (plural fac)
- fact
Derived terms
- de fat
Adjective
fat m (feminine singular fata, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)
- done
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse fat
Noun
fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat or fater, definite plural fata or fatene)
- plate, dish
- barrel, drum, cask
Derived terms
- tefat
References
- “fat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??t/ (example of pronunciation)
Etymology 1
From Old Norse fat, Proto-Germanic *fat?.
Noun
fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat, definite plural fata)
- plate, dish
- barrel, drum, cask
Derived terms
- tefat
- oljefat
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
fat
- imperative of fata and fate
References
- “fat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Frisian
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *fait. Cognates include Old Saxon *f?t and Old Norse feitr.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?fat/
Noun
fat m
- fat
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN, page 28
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *fat?.
Noun
fat n
- vessel, cup
Declension
Slavomolisano
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian fatto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fât/
Noun
fat m
- story
- 2010, Rino John Gliosca, “Bonifacio en Amérique”:
- 2010, Rino John Gliosca, “Bonifacio en Amérique”:
Declension
References
- Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fat?, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.
Pronunciation
Noun
fat n
- saucer; a small dish
- plate (serving dish)
- barrel (oil or wine), cask, keg (beer)
- barrel; a unit of volume. Usually referring to the oil barrel of 158.9873 liters
Declension
Derived terms
- (saucer): tefat
- (serving dish): serveringsfat, kakfat
- (barrel; container): fatöl
Idioms
- (about something that is, or is by others perceived as, an obstacle (physical or mental) to someone)
Tboli
Etymology
From Proto-Philippine *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.
Numeral
fat
- four
Volapük
Etymology
From German Vater or English father.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fat/
Noun
fat (nominative plural fats)
- father
Declension
Derived terms
- fatül
- lefat
- lüfat
Wolof
Verb
fat
- to shelter
References
Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, ?ISBN, page 19
Yamdena
Alternative forms
- fate
Etymology
From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *?pat, from Proto-Austronesian *S?pat.
Numeral
fat
- four
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