different between tutu vs tara

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French tutu, from cucu (“bum, bottom”), playful reduplication of cul (“arse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tu??tu?/

Noun

tutu (plural tutus)

1. A ballet skirt made of layered stiff but light netting.

   The ballet dancer representing the swan wore a white tutu.

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Maori.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tutu/

Noun

tutu (plural tutus)

1. (New Zealand) Any of the genus Coriaria of shrubs and trees found in New Zealand.

   Synonyms: toot plant, tupakihi

Derived terms

• tutin

Etymology 3

From Maori tut? (“mischievous, disobedient”).

Pronunciation

• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?t?t??/

Verb

tutu (third-person singular simple present tutus, present participle tutuing, simple past and past participle tutued)

1. (New Zealand) to fiddle or mess around with something.

Chuukese

Verb

tutu

1. to shower

Finnish

Etymology 1

From French tutu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tutu/, [?t?ut?u]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification: tu?tu

Noun

tutu

1. tutu (garment)

Declension

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tutu?/, [?t?ut?u(?)]
• Rhymes: -utu
• Syllabification: tu?tu

Verb

tutu

1. inflection of tutua:
   1. indicative present connegative
   2. second-person singular imperative present/present connegative

Anagrams

• tuut

French

Etymology

Alteration of cucu, which is itself a reduplicated form of cul (“butt, bum, arse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ty.ty/

Noun

tutu m (plural tutus)

1. tutu

Hausa

Noun

t?tù m (possessed form t?tùn)

1. (childish or humorous) poop

Kapampangan

Etymology

Cognate with Tagalog totoo

Adjective

tutu

1. true; genuine

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u

Noun

tutu m (plural tutus)

1. tutu (ballet skirt)
2. (slang) money
   • 1971, "Donald, Meu Sobrinho", O Pato Donald #1000 (English text: 1952, "The Hypno-Gun", Walt Disney's Comics #145)

     Tio Patinhas: Mas eu lhe emprestei um cruzado para comprar um livro! Lembra-se?

     Ademar: Sim, eu me lembro! Mas eu já li o livro! E não preciso mais pagar! […] Sim, você tem tutu de sobra! Não lhe fará falta êsse cruzeirinho.

     Uncle Scrooge: But I loaned you a dollar to buy a book! Don't you remember?

     Rockjaw: Sure I remember! But I've read the book! I don't need to pay you now! […] And, besides, you've got lots of money! You don't need the dollar!

Rapa Nui

Etymology

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

Verb

tutu

1. burn

Romanian

Etymology

From French tutu.

Noun

tutu n (plural tutuuri)

1. tutu

Declension

Sechura

Alternative forms

• xoto (Spruce's orthography)

Noun

tutu

1. water

References

• Matthias Urban, El vocabulario sechurano de Richard Spruce, in Lexis volume XXXIX (2) 2015, citing Baltasar Jaime Martínez Compañón

Swedish

Noun

tutu c

1. tutu

Declension

Thao

Noun

tutu

1. (anatomy) breast

Tiruray

Noun

tutu

1. (anatomy) breast

Tsou

Etymology

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

Noun

tutu

1. (anatomy) pupil

Yosondúa Mixtec

Etymology 1

From Proto-Mixtec *tútù, from a Mixe-Zoquean language, from Proto-Mixe-Zoque *toto.

Noun

tutu

1. paper
2. document
3. book

Etymology 2

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

Verb

tutu

1. (intransitive) whistle

Etymology 3

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

Adjective

tutu

1. together

Derived terms

• stutu

References

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)?^[2] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 81–82

English

Alternative forms

• ta-ra
• turrah

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæ????/, /t?????/ (note: Stress on 2nd syllable, unlike the proper name Tara)

Interjection

tara

1. (Northern England or informal) goodbye; equivalent to the more geographically widespread ta ta
   • 2004: Metro in This is London (website of London Evening Standard), Jolie says ta-ra to Lara - Pssst...Actress Angelina Jolie's days as Tomb Raider action hero Lara Croft are over.

Synonyms

• bye, ta ta

See also

• ta ta

Anagrams

• A.A.R.T., ATRA, Arta, atar, rata

'Are'are

Noun

tara

1. road

References

• Kate?ina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

Balinese

Romanization

tara

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

Bikol Central

Phrase

tara (tará) (Bikol Naga)

1. what's up

   Synonym: nom

Related terms

• pataratara

Catalan

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (?ar?a, “that which is thrown away”), a derivative of ??????? (?ara?a, “to throw (away)”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tara f (plural tares)

1. defect, imperfection
2. tare (empty weight of a container)

Further reading

• “tara” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• tiara

Etymology

From Latin terra. Compare Italian and Portuguese terra, Romansch terra, tiara, teara, Romanian ?ar?, Spanish tierra, French terre.

Noun

tara f

1. earth, ground

Fijian

Verb

tara

1. (transitive) to touch, to take hold of

tara (tara-va)

1. (intransitive) to follow, to succeed, to come after

French

Pronunciation

Verb

tara

1. third-person singular past historic of tarer

Anagrams

• rata, râta

Hausa

Etymology 1

Considered by Blench to be likely derived from a Plateau Benue-Congo language; compare Horom taras, Che ataras, Fyam téres.

Numeral

tar?à f

1. nine

Etymology 2

Verb

t?r?? (grade 1)

1. collect, gather
2. add up

Etymology 3

Verb

tàr? (grade 2)

1. go to meet or welcome someone
2. buy up something to resell later

Etymology 4

Noun

t??r? f (possessed form t??rar?)

1. fine (of money)

Etymology 5

Noun

t??r? f (possessed form t??rar?)

1. being mindful, caring about something

Indonesian

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Malay tara, from Classical Malay tara (“equal”).

Noun

tara

1. comparable, equal, equivalent.

   Synonyms: banding, imbang, sama

Affixations

Etymology 2

From Minangkabau [Term?].

Noun

tara

1. nailed wooden tools for making lines on wood.

Etymology 3

Unknown Possibly from Sanskrit ?? (tara, “surpassing, excelling”). Compare to Indonesian tera (“stamp, seal”).

Noun

tara

1. picture, picture.

   Synonyms: angan, imaji, gambar

Etymology 4

From Dutch tarra, from Italian tara, from Medieval Latin tara, from Arabic ?????? (?ar?, “rubbish, refuse”), from ??????? (?ara?a, “reject, deduct”).

Noun

tara

1. tare, the empty weight of a container; the tare weight or unladen weight.

Further reading

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

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.ra/

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin tara, from Arabic ?????? (?ar?, “rubbish, refuse”), from ??????? (?ara?a, “reject, deduct”).

Noun

tara f (plural tare)

1. tare
2. defect, vice, flaw
3. (archaic) deficiency

Derived terms

• tarare

Descendants

• ? French: tare

Etymology 2

Verb

tara

1. inflection of tarare:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• atra, rata

Further reading

• tara in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Japanese

Romanization

tara

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Laboya

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ta?ra]

Noun

tara

1. thorn

References

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) , “tara”, in Lamboya word list, Leiden: LexiRumah

Livonian

Alternative forms

• (Courland) tar?

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tarha, related to Finnish tarha.

Noun

tara

1. fence
2. garden

Makasar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?tara]

Noun

tara (Lontara spelling ??)

1. anus

Miskito

Adjective

tara

1. big, large

Antonyms

• sirpi

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ta.ra/

Etymology 1

From trze?.

Noun

tara f

1. washboard (board used to hand wash laundry)

   Synonym: tarka

Declension

Etymology 2

From Italian tara, from Arabic ????????? (?ar?a).

Noun

tara f

1. tare (the empty weight of a container)

Declension

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

From Arabic ???????? (?ar?a, “that which is thrown away”). Compare Italian tara and French tare, taré (“crazy”).

Noun

tara f (plural taras)

1. tare (the empty weight of a container)
2. (colloquial) obsession, mania

   Synonyms: mania, obsessão

3. (colloquial) flaw, defect

   Synonym: defeito

4. (slang) sexual fetish or desire

   Synonyms: perversão, fetiche

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????????? (tara) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Etymology

From Bengali ???? (tara).

Noun

tara (Hanifi spelling ????????????????)

1. star

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

t?ra f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. tare

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Medieval Latin tara, from Andalusian Arabic ???????? (“that which is thrown away”), a derivative of Arabic ??????? (?ara?a, “to throw (away)”).

Noun

tara f (plural taras)

1. tare (empty weight of a container)
2. defect, flaw, vice
3. deficiency

Related terms

• tarado
• tarar
• destarar

Tagalog

Etymology

From tayo na.

Verb

tara

1. (colloquial) Let's go.

   Tara, alisan na.

   Let's go, it's time to leave.

Tahitian

Noun

tara

1. horn

Turkish

Noun

tara (definite accusative {{{1}}}, plural {{{2}}})

1. grain

Verb

tara

1. imperative of taramak