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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.
   • 2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music

     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

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?, IPA^(key): /te?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology

Spelling form indicating original pronunciation of tea.

Noun

tay (plural tays)

1. (obsolete or dialect) Tea.

Anagrams

• AYT, Yat, yat

Kalasha

Determiner

tay

1. your (singular)

Coordinate terms

• mími

Kwaza

Noun

tay

1. woman

References

• Hein van der Voort, A Grammar of Kwaza

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Middle French taye, and its source, Latin t?ca, th?ca, from Ancient Greek ???? (th?k?, “covering, sheath”)

Noun

tay (plural tays)

1. The outer membrane of the brain.

   • ryght so he smote hys fadir, Kynge Arthure, with hys swerde holdynge in both hys hondys, uppon the syde of the hede, that the swerde perced the helmet and the tay of the brayne.

References

• “tei and teie, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 September 2020.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tay

1. Alternative form of þei

Paipai

Adjective

tay

1. big

Pipil

Alternative forms

• (Izalco) tey (/?te?j/)

Etymology

From Proto-Nahuan *tla-. Compare Classical Nahuatl tlein (“what”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?j/

Pronoun

tay

1. (interro?ative) what

   Tay tikwaj yalua?

   What did you eat yesterday?

2. (relative) what; that which; the thing that

   Tesu nikmati ne tay inak

   I dont't know what she/he said

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Anatolian Turkish [script needed] (tay), from Proto-Turkic [Term?]. Cognate with Kazakh ??? (tay).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?j/

Noun

tay (definite accusative tay?, plural taylar)

1. colt (horse)

Vietnamese

Etymology

From Proto-Vietic *si?, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *sii(?) (Shorto). Cognate with Thavung ??. Compare Sora si?i.

The relationship between this root and the root represented by Khmer ?? (day), Bahnar ti, Juang iti is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [taj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [taj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta(?)j??]
• Homophone: tai (in some Southern accents)

Noun

tay • (????)

1. (colloquial) a hand
2. (colloquial) an arm

3. (informal) a guy; a dude

Derived terms