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English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin ? (t?, “pagoda”).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

1. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ????? (t??).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

1. The letter ?? in the Arabic script.

Etymology 3

Interjection

taa

1. Alternative form of ta (“thanks”)

Anagrams

• -ata, AAT, ATA, âta

Aukan

Etymology 1

From English other.

Adjective

taa

1. other; another

Derived terms

• taa taa (“different”)

Etymology 2

From English tar.

Noun

taa

1. tar (black substance; pitch)

References

• Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)

Finnish

(index ta)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t???/, [?t???(?)]
• Rhymes: -??
• Syllabification: taa

Postposition

(genitive + ) taa

1. (poetic, dialectal) Of movement, behind; a shorter form of taakse.

Inflection

Synonyms

• taakse

Antonyms

• eteen, edelle

Related terms

• See the inflection table.
• taka
• taka-
• tausta
• taempi
• takimmainen

Anagrams

• -ata, aat

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Eskimo *ta?u. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.

Noun

taa

1. human being

Interjection

taa

1. listen!; what is that?; I tut!

References

• DAKA
• oqaasileriffik: noun
• oqaasileriffik: interjection

Nzadi

Noun

tàá (plural tàá)

1. father

Coordinate terms

• màá

Further reading

• Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, ?ISBN

Swahili

Etymology

From *tala, from an unknown source (possibly Indian).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??/

Noun

taa (n class, plural taa)

1. lamp, light

Descendants

• ? Kikuyu: tawa
• ? Luganda: etaala
• ? Rwanda-Rundi: itara

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Hindi ??? (???, “thick canvas”)

Noun

tat (countable and uncountable, plural tats)

1. (uncountable, Britain) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
2. (uncountable, Britain) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
3. (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.

Verb

tat (third-person singular simple present tats, present participle tatting, simple past and past participle tatted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.

Translations

References

“tatting, n.1.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2013

Etymology 3

From Hindi ????? (?a???, “pony”)

Alternative forms

• tattoo
• tatt

Noun

tat (plural tats)

1. (India, archaic) A pony.

Etymology 4

Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.

Noun

tat (plural tats)

1. (slang) A tattoo.

Verb

tat (third-person singular simple present tats, present participle tatting, simple past and past participle tatted)

1. (slang) To apply a tattoo.
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     Write on me / Love the way you tat me up

Translations

Etymology 5

Noun

tat (plural tats)

1. (Britain, gambling, slang, archaic) Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”)

See also

• rat-a-tat-tat
• tit for tat
• tatt
• tatting
• tatty

Anagrams

• AT&T, att

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta?t]
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophone: Tat

Verb

tat

1. first/third-person singular preterite of tun

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *tukt?, *tukta (“cross-beam”). Cognate with Finnish tuhto (“thwart (of a ship)”), Komi-Zyrian ??? (tïk, “cross wood, cross bar”), and Selkup ???? (“thwart (of a ship)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?t?t]
• Hyphenation: tat
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

tat (plural tatok)

1. (nautical) stern (the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel)

Declension

References

Further reading

• tat 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

Lenakel

Adjective

tat

1. bad

References

• John Lynch, Lenakel wordlist. (1970)

Mopan Maya

Noun

tat

1. father

References

• Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??t/

Noun

tat f (Arabic spelling ????)

1. boulder, large rock, cliff, crag, precipice
2. stone slab

References

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) , “tat”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Romansch

Etymology

Compare Latin tata, a childish word for father.

Noun

tat m (plural tats)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) grandfather

Synonyms

• (Puter) non
• (Vallader) bazegner, bapsegner

Related terms

• tatta

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tat? (“thief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tât/

Noun

t?t m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (expressively) thief

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tat?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tát/

Noun

t?t m anim

1. thief

Further reading

• “tat”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tat/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (tat, dat), from Proto-Turkic *d?t-.

Noun

tat (definite accusative tad?, plural tatlar)

1. taste

Declension

Verb

tat

1. second-person singular imperative of tatmak

Veps

Etymology

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

Noun

tat

1. father, dad

Inflection

Derived terms

• ezitat
• tatannimi

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “????, ????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

Volapük

Etymology

From German Staat.

Noun

tat

1. state

Declension