tat

See also: Tat, tát, tắt, tất, tät, tą̊t, -tat, and -tât

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tæt/
  • Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”)

Noun

tat (uncountable)

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

Etymology 2

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

Reference

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

Etymology 3

From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”)

Alternative forms

Noun

tat (plural tats)

  1. (India, archaic) A pony.
    • 1879, Val Cameron Prinsep, Glimpses of Imperial India, page 206:
      And so each morning before daybreak I am up, and having dispatched my luggage on the backs of coolies after much noise and bustle, without which no natives can work, I mount my tat as the sun begins to touch the higher hills, and start on my morning ride of twelve miles.

Etymology 4

Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.

Noun

tat (plural tats)

  1. (slang) A tattoo.
Translations

See also

Anagrams

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [taːt]
  • Rhymes: -aːt
  • Homophone: Tat

Verb

tat

  1. First-person singular preterite of tun.
  2. Third-person singular preterite of tun.

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *tukta (“cross-beam”). Cognate with Finnish tuhto (“thwart (of a ship)”), Komi тік (tïk, “cross wood, cross bar”), and Selkup тати (“thwart (of a ship)”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒt]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: tat

Noun

tat (plural tatok)

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tat tatok
accusative tatot tatokat
dative tatnak tatoknak
instrumental tattal tatokkal
causal-final tatért tatokért
translative tattá tatokká
terminative tatig tatokig
essive-formal tatként tatokként
essive-modal — —
inessive tatban tatokban
superessive taton tatokon
adessive tatnál tatoknál
illative tatba tatokba
sublative tatra tatokra
allative tathoz tatokhoz
elative tatból tatokból
delative tatról tatokról
ablative tattól tatoktól
Possessive forms of tat
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tatom tatjaim
2nd person sing. tatod tatjaid
3rd person sing. tatja tatjai
1st person plural tatunk tatjaink
2nd person plural tatotok tatjaitok
3rd person plural tatjuk tatjaik

References

Kurdish

Noun

tat ?

  1. cliff

Mopan Maya

Noun

tat

  1. father

References

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tatь (“thief”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tât/

Noun

tȁt m (Cyrillic spelling та̏т)

  1. (expressively) thief

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tatь (“thief”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tât/

Noun

tat ? (genitive [please provide], nominative plural [please provide])

  1. thief

Turkish

Etymology

From Old Turkic, from Proto-Turkic *dāt-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtat/
  • Hyphenation: tat

Noun

tat (definite accusative tadı, plural tatlar)

  1. taste

Declension

Inflection
Nominative tat
Definite accusative tadı
Singular Plural
Nominative tat tatlar
Definite accusative tadı tatları
Dative tada tatlara
Locative tatta tatlarda
Ablative tattan tatlardan
Genitive tadın tatların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular tadım tatlarım
2nd singular tadın tatların
3rd singular tadı tatları
1st plural tadımız tatlarımız
2nd plural tadınız tatlarınız
3rd plural tatları tatları

Veps

Noun

tat

  1. father, dad

Inflection

Inflection of tat
nominative sing. tat
genitive sing. tatan
partitive sing. tatad
partitive plur. tatoid
singular plural
nominative tat tatad
accusative tatan tatad
genitive tatan tatoiden
partitive tatad tatoid
essive-instructive tatan tatoin
translative tataks tatoikš
inessive tatas tatoiš
elative tataspäi tatoišpäi
illative ? tatoihe
adessive tatal tatoil
ablative tatalpäi tatoilpäi
allative tatale tatoile
abessive tatata tatoita
comitative tatanke tatoidenke
prolative tatadme tatoidme
approximative I tatanno tatoidenno
approximative II tatannoks tatoidennoks
egressive tatannopäi tatoidennopäi
terminative I ? tatoihesai
terminative II tatalesai tatoilesai
terminative III tatassai —
additive I ? tatoihepäi
additive II tatalepäi tatoilepäi

Derived terms

  • ezitat
  • tatannimi

References

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

Volapük

Etymology

From German Staat.

Noun

tat

  1. state

Declension

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