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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??/
• Homophone: tau

Etymology 1

From Middle English tawen, from Old English tawian (“to do, make”), from Proto-Germanic *tawjan? (“to make, prepare”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewh?- (“to tie to, secure”).

Cognate with Dutch touwen (“to rope, tether, curry”), Dutch tuien (“to fasten with ropes”), German Tau (“rope, hawser, cable”), Gothic ???????????????????????? (taujan, “to make, prepare”). Related to tool and tether.

Verb

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew.
2. (transitive, by extension) To beat; to scourge.
3. (transitive) To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
   1. (transitive) To turn (animals' hide) into leather, usually by soaking it in a certain solution.

Related terms

• tool

Noun

taw

1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

Derived terms

• tawse

Etymology 2

Unknown.

Noun

taw (plural taws)

1. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
   • 1922 , James Joyce, Ulysses, chapter V:^[1]

     Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.

2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
3. (square dancing) A dance partner.

   Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.

4. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

Verb

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

1. To shoot a marble.

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• tav
• taf

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta?/

Noun

taw (plural taws)

1. The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.

Translations

Further reading

• taw on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 4

Compare tew (“to tow”), and tow.

Alternative forms

• tawe (obsolete)

Verb

taw (third-person singular simple present taws, present participle tawing, simple past and past participle tawed)

1. To push; to tug; to tow.

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References

• Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967

Anagrams

• ATW, AWT, TWA, Twa, WAT, WTA, Wat, wat

Ili Turki

Noun

taw

1. mountain

References

• Zhào Xi?ngrú and Reinhard F. Hahn (1989). "The Ili Turk People and Their Language". Central Asiatic Journal.

Tatar

Noun

taw

1. mountain

Welsh

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *t?ti (“to be (stative)”) (compare Old Irish at·tá, Irish tá), from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand”).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ta?u?/
• (South Wales, standard) IPA^(key): /tau?/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ta/, /t?/

Conjunction

taw

1. (South Wales) that (introduces a noun clause, marking it for emphasis)
   • 1990, Y Faner, p. 8:

Synonyms

• (formal) (North Wales, colloquial) mai

Etymology 2

From Proto-Celtic *tawsos (“silent”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh?ws- (“still, silent”) (compare Sanskrit ???????? (t????m, “silently”)).

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ta?u?/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /tau?/

Noun

taw m (uncountable)

1. silence

Derived terms

• distaw (“quiet, silent”)
• rhoi taw ar (“to silence”)

Etymology 3

Verb

taw

1. second-person singular imperative of tewi

Mutation

References

Wolof

Verb

taw

1. to rain

English

Noun

tas (plural tasses)

1. Alternative spelling of tass

Anagrams

• -ast, AST, ATS, ATs, S. A. T., S.A.T., SAT, STA, Sat, Sat., Sta, Sta., TSA, as't, ast, at's, ats, sat, sat., sta

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Arabic ????? (??s), ultimately from Middle Persian tšt'. Doublet of te?t.

Noun

tas (definite accusative tas?, plural taslar)

1. a small tub or bason
2. basin (a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall)

Derived terms

• tasa dü?m?k

Etymology 2

From Persian ???? (tâs), from Middle Persian t?s (t?s, “die, dice”).

Noun

tas (definite accusative tas?, plural taslar)

1. (backgammon) match (a series of games, played until one player reaches three points, for example by winning three single games (oyuns), or a single game and a gammon (mars).)

Declension

Chono

Numeral

tas

1. three

   Dios Sap, Dios Cot, Dios Espiritu Santo, tas persona, cayca Dios üeñec. (18th century catechism)

   Dios Padre, Dios Hijo, Dios Espíritu Santo. Tres personas, pero un solo Dios nomás. (translation by Bausami, 1975)

   God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Three persons but only one God.

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [ta?z]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [tæ?z]

Noun

tas m (plural tasow)

1. father

Synonyms

• sira

Derived terms

• tas-gwynn/tas-gwydn

Mutation

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?s/
• Hyphenation: tas
• Rhymes: -?s

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Proto-Germanic *task?. Compare Old High German tasca (modern German Tasche), Middle Low German taske, English tasse.

Noun

tas f (plural tassen, diminutive tasje n)

1. bag

   Synonym: zak

Alternative forms

• tasch (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• tassen

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: tas
  • ? Ternate: tas

Etymology 2

From French tasse, from Arabic ????? (??s) (a shortening of ?????? (?ast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt).

Noun

tas f (plural tassen, diminutive tasje n)

1. (Belgium) cup (like a cup of coffee or tea)

Synonyms

• (cup): kop, kopje, mok, jat

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch tas, tasse, from Old Dutch *tas, *tasso, compare Old English tas and English tass (from Frankish), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“pile, heap”), Proto-Indo-European *d?y- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”).

Noun

tas m

1. (dialectal) heap

Anagrams

• sta

French

Etymology

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French tas (“heap, mass”), from Frankish *tas (“mass”), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“heap, mow”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?y- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”)

Akin to Middle Dutch tas, tasse (“heap, pile”) (Dutch tas), Middle Low German tas (“heap, stack of wheat or other grain, mow”), Old English tas (“heap, mow of corn or hay”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dais (“heap”), Scots dass, Welsh dâs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?/, /ta/

Noun

tas m (plural tas)

1. heap, pile
2. (colloquial, dialectal) thing

Derived terms

• sur le tas

Related terms

• tasser

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• STA

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch tas, from Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Old Dutch, from Proto-Germanic *task?. Compare Old High German tasca (modern German Tasche), Middle Low German taske, English tasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tas/
• Hyphenation: tas

Noun

tas (first-person possessive tasku, second-person possessive tasmu, third-person possessive tasnya)

1. bag.

Descendants

• ? Ternate: tas

Related terms

Further reading

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

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ta-, from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”), part of the paradigm of *só, *séh?, *tód (“this, that”). Cognates include Lithuanian tàs, Old Prussian stas (< *sa + *tas), Sudovian tas, Old Church Slavonic ?? (t?), Ukrainian and Russian ??? (tot), Bulgarian ??? (t?j), Czech and Polish ten, Sanskrit ??? (tad), Ancient Greek ?? (tó), Latin iste (< *is-te, with te from *to-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tas]

Pronoun

tas (demonstrative, distal) (proximal: šis)

1. (used as a determiner) that

2. (used as a pronoun) that, that one

Declension

Related terms

• t?
• t?ds

References

Lithuanian

Pronoun

tas m (plural: tie)

1. (used as a determiner) that

Declension

Livonian

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Latvian tase. Ultimately from French tasse.

Noun

tas

1. cup, teacup
2. a serving of tea or coffee

Usage notes

Likely to be used with daintier styles of dishware, heavier cups or mugs are likely to be called kr?z.

Declension

See also

• al?ztas
• allitas
• kaffetas

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tas

1. passive of ta

Phalura

Etymology

From Sanskrit ? (ta, “base of nom.sg.n., all obl.sg and all pl. forms of pron. and pronom. adj”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tas/

Pronoun

tas (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling ??)

1. him
2. her
3. it (rem acc)

Alternative forms

• tes (Biori)

References

• Liljegren, Henrik; Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)?^[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, ?ISBN
• Turner, Ralph Lilley, “[2]”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, 1969–1985.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (tas) (whence Turkish tas), from Arabic ????? (??s, “bowl, cup”), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt). Doublet of tàcna.

Noun

t?s m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. cymbal
2. the plate part of a traditional balance or scale
3. (Eastern Orthodoxy) collection plate

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

See also

• cìmbal
• cimbalo

Spanish

Noun

tas m (plural tas)

1. small anvil

Swedish

Verb

tas

1. infinitive passive of ta.
2. present tense passive of ta.

Anagrams

• -ast

Ternate

Etymology

From Indonesian tas, from Dutch tas, from Middle Dutch tasche, from Proto-Germanic *task?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tas]

Noun

tas

1. bag

References

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (tas), which borrowed this from Arabic ????? (??s, “bowl”) (a shortening of ?????? (?ast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of Proto-Iranian *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *tet?-. Cognate with French tasse.

Noun

tas (definite accusative tas?, plural taslar)

1. a bowl, typically made of metal.
   • 2005, Saffet Ulusoy, Akl?mda kalanlar, page 66:

     Me?er bu tas ve içindeki su, yemek yedikten sonra içine ellerini sokup y?kamaya yar?yormu?.

     Apparently this bowl and the water in it served to dip your hands in and wash them after the meal.

Declension

References

• tas in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu