different between tata vs gata

English

Etymology 1

Probably hypocoristic, circa 1823.

Interjection

tata

1. Alternative form of ta ta

Etymology 2

From French tette, of Germanic origin, and/or Old English titt. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze.

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Noun

tata (plural tatas)

1. (slang) Breast.

Anagrams

• atta

Aeka

Noun

tata

1. paternal aunt

References

Greenhill, Simon (2017). "Language: Aeka". TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

Amanab

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?t?/

Noun

tata

1. pig

References

• Andy Minch. Amanab grammar essentials. 1992.

Bikol Central

Noun

tatá

1. door; gate

Cebuano

Pronunciation 1

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /t?at?a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Etymology 1

Compare tatay.

Noun

tata

1. a familiar address to one's father

Pronunciation 2

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?t?a?t?a/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Etymology 2

Reduplication of ta, from initial clipping of bata.

Noun

tata

1. (childish) a familiar address to a child

Pronunciation 3

• (General Cebuano) IPA^(key): /?t?a??t?a?/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Etymology 3

Compare tastas

Verb

tata

1. to wear out

Central Tarahumara

Noun

tata

1. father

Chavacano

Noun

tata

1. father

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

Perhaps imitative, though compare tahtli (“father”) and Spanish taita (“dad”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta.ta]

Noun

tata (animate)

1. A child's word for his father; dad, daddy.
   • 1571: Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 111v. col. 1.

     Taita. padre delos niños. tata.

     Taita. the children's father. tata.

   • Idem, f. 91r. col. 1.

     Tata. por tayta,padre [dize el niño.]

     Tata. from tayta, father, says the child.

Synonyms

• tahtli

References

• Alonso de Molina (1571) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, pages 11v, 91r

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tata

1. elder sister

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ta/

Noun

tata f (plural tatas)

1. (childish) auntie

Noun

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (chiefly Canada, vulgar) imbecile, idiot, bastard, wanker, dickhead

Further reading

• “tata” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Guaraní

Noun

tata

1. fire

Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tata (plural taták)

1. (possibly offensive) uncle, old man, fogey (used to speak of or address old men humorously or disparagingly)
2. (informal, dialectal) father, dad

Declension

Further reading

• tata 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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay tata, from Pali tath? (“in this way”), from Sanskrit ??? (tath?, “in that manner”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta.ta]
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Noun

tata (first-person possessive tataku, second-person possessive tatamu, third-person possessive tatanya)

1. order
2. arrangement
3. system

Derived terms

Compounds

Further reading

• “tata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Noun

tata f (plural tate)

1. governess (or any young woman looking after children)
2. big sister

Anagrams

• atta

Latin

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, mimicking baby talk. Compare the similar atta, and also Cornish tat, tas, Breton tad, Ancient Greek ???? (tatâ), ????? (tétta), Bulgarian ?????? (tátko), Sanskrit ??? (t?ta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ta.ta/, [?t?ät?ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ta.ta/, [?t???t??]

Noun

tata m (genitive tatae); first declension

1. dad, daddy, a term used by children for their father

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Eastern Romance
  • Aromanian: tatã
  • Romanian: tat?
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Dalmatian: tuota, teta
  • Italian: tata
    • ? Cimbrian: tatta
    • ? Mòcheno: tata
  • Neapolitan: tata
• West Iberian
  • Portuguese: tatá
  • Spanish: tata, tato, taita

References

• tata in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tata in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Lingala

Noun

tata 1 (plural batata 2)

1. father
2. man

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [t???d??], (enunciated) [t?? t??]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /t?æ?t?æ?/
• Bender phonemes: {tahtah}

Determiner

tata

1. superlative particle; most

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tata/

Etymology 1

From Tamil ?????? (t?tt?)

Noun

tata

1. grandfather

   Synonym: granper

Etymology 2

From kaka, from French caca.

Noun

tata

1. (usually childish) poo, excrement

Verb

tata (medial form tata)

1. (usually childish) to poo, defecate

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Italian tata, from Latin tata (“dad, daddy”), of onomatopoeic origin.

Noun

tata m

1. father

References

• “tata” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
• “tata” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin tata.

Noun

tata

1. father, dad

Synonyms

• papa, pate

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish tata.

Noun

tata

1. father

Phuthi

Verb

-tata

1. to hurry

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.ta/

Noun

tata m pers

1. (informal) dad

Declension

Synonyms

• tato
• ojciec

Further reading

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

Quechua

Noun

tata

1. mister
2. father

Derived terms

• jatun tata

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâta/
• Hyphenation: ta?ta

Noun

t?ta m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. dad, daddy

Declension

Synonyms

• ?a?a

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

tata (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. genitive/accusative singular of tat

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian tata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tâ?t?/

Noun

tata m

1. dad, father

Declension

References

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 394

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tata/, [?t?a.t?a]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tata. Compare taita.

Noun

tata m (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial, Latin America, Philippines) daddy, a term used by children for their father
2. (colloquial) nanny

   Synonyms: niñera, criada

3. (colloquial) big sister
4. (colloquial, Chile) grandfather, a term used by children for their grandfather

   Synonym: abuelo

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From teta.

Noun

tata f (plural tatas)

1. (colloquial, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) breasts

Further reading

• “tata” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

Swahili

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tat- (“to entangle, be entangled”).

Pronunciation

Verb

-tata (infinitive kutata)

1. to tangle

Conjugation

Related terms

• matata
• tatua

Tagalog

Noun

tata

1. conversational term used for one's father

Noun

tatà, tatâ

1. sign made by a sharp blade

Synonyms

• gatgat
• gatla
• tiab

Thao

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *?sa.

Numeral

tata

1. one

Synonyms

• taha

Yogad

Numeral

tatá

1. one

English

Alternative forms

• kata, katah (from Western Armenian pronunciation)
• gatah

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian ???? (gat?a).

Noun

gata (plural gatas)

1. A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.

Translations

Anagrams

• Agta

Balinese

Romanization

gata

1. Romanization of ??
2. Romanization of ??

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /??a.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /??a.ta/

Noun

gata f (plural gates)

1. female equivalent of gat

Fijian

Noun

gata

1. snake, serpent

Hiligaynon

Noun

gatâ

1. coconut milk

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ka?ta/
• Rhymes: -a?ta

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?.

Noun

gata f (genitive singular götu, nominative plural götur)

1. street, road

Declension

Derived terms

• aðalgata
• gatnamót
• götustrákur

Etymology 2

From gat (“hole”).

Verb

gata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gataði, supine gatað)

1. (transitive) to pierce through
2. (transitive) specifically, to punch a hole in (using a perforator)
3. (intransitive, informal) to be stumped (be unable to answer a question)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• gatari

Japanese

Romanization

gata

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Masbatenyo

Noun

gatâ

1. coconut milk

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• gaten

Noun

gata m or f

1. definite feminine singular of gate

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gata f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater or gator, definite plural gatene or gatone)

1. definite singular of gate
2. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by gate

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gatw?.

Noun

gata f (genitive g?tu, plural g?tur)

1. street, road

Declension

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?.

Noun

gata f

1. street, road

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: gata
• ? Finnish: katu

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese gata, from Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.t?/
• Hyphenation: ga?ta

Noun

gata f (plural gatas)

1. female cat
2. (slang) very beautiful woman

Derived terms

• gatinha

Related terms

• gato m

Romanian

Etymology

Origin disputed. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *gotov?. The word can also be found in Albanian, compare Albanian gati (which, like the Romanian, is also invariable). Alternatively, the word may be of ultimate Paleo-Balkanic or Albanian origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a.ta/

Adjective

gata m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. ready, willing
2. done

Declension

Synonyms

• (done): terminat

Related terms

• g?ti

Adverb

gata

1. readily, willingly

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ata/, [??a.t?a]

Noun

gata f (plural gatas, masculine gato, masculine plural gatos)

1. she-cat, molly, queen, female cat

Derived terms

• a gatas

Related terms

• gato

Noun

gata f (plural gatas)

1. car-jack, jack

Related terms

• gato m
• gatear

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish gata, from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatw?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????ta/
• ("en gata")

Noun

gata c

1. street

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

• gata in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• agat, taga

Tagalog

Noun

gatâ

1. coconut milk