hat

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English [edit]

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A hat.
Rabbi Moshe Leib Rabinovich, Munkacser Rebbe, wearing a kolpik hat.

Etymology [edit]

From Middle English, from Old English hæt, hætt (“head-covering, hat”), from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan  (xaoda, “hat”), Welsh caddu (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

hat (plural hats)

  1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
  2. (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
    • 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ISBN 978-0-634-00927-3, page 121:
      My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
  3. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
  4. (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
    We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
  5. (video games) A hat switch.
    • 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL (page 139)
      The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.
  6. (typography, nonstandard, rare) = háček
Hyponyms [edit]

Derived terms [edit]

Terms derived from the noun "hat"


Translations [edit]

A head covering
A role or capacity

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Anagrams [edit]

Danish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse hattr, hǫttr.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)

  1. hat

Inflection [edit]

    Inflection of hat
common gender Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative, dative and accusative hat hatten hatte hattene
genitive hats hattens hattes hattenes

German [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Verb [edit]

hat

  1. Third-person singular present of haben.

Hungarian [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kutte (“six”). Cognates include Finnish kuusi.

Numeral [edit]

hat

Hungarian cardinal numbers
 <  5 6 7  > 
    Cardinal : hat
    Ordinal : hatodik
  1. (cardinal) six
Derived terms [edit]
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Etymology 2 [edit]

Verb [edit]

hat

  1. affect, have influence
  2. seem like
Conjugation [edit]
conjugation of hat
Infinitive hatni
Past participle hatott
Present participle ható
Future participle -
Adverbial participle hatva
Potential hathat
1st person sg 2nd person sg informal 3rd person sg,
2nd person sg formal		 1st person pl 2nd person pl informal 3rd person pl,
2nd person pl formal
Indicative Mood Present Indefinite hatok hatsz hat hatunk hattok hatnak
Definite intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
Past Indefinite hatottam hatottál hatott hatottunk hatottatok hatottak
Definite -
Conditional Mood Present Indefinite hatnék hatnál hatna hatnánk hatnátok hatnának
Definite -
Subjunctive Mood Present Indefinite hassak hass
or
hassál		 hasson hassunk hassatok hassanak
Definite -
Conjugated Infinitive hatnom hatnod hatnia hatnunk hatnotok hatniuk
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With verb prefixes

Luxembourgish [edit]

Verb [edit]

hat

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of hunn
  2. third-person singular preterite indicative of hunn
  3. second-person plural preterite indicative of hunn

Verb [edit]

hat

  1. second-person plural present indicative of haen
  2. second-person plural imperative of haen

Norwegian Bokmål [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

Noun [edit]

hat n (definite singular hatet; uncountable)

  1. hatred

Norwegian Nynorsk [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

Noun [edit]

hat n (definite singular hatet; uncountable)

  1. hatred

Old English [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /hɑːt/

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Proto-Germanic *haitaz. Cognate with Old Frisian hēt (West Frisian hjit, Old Saxon hēt, Dutch heet, Old High German heiz (German heiß), Old Norse heitr (Swedish het). Cognate to Albanian ethe (“shiver, fiever”), dialectal hethe and ith (“warmth, body heat”), dialectal hith.

Adjective [edit]

hāt

  1. hot, fierce
    Ðeos wyrt byþ cenned on hatum stowum: this plant is grown in hot places.
Descendants [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Old English hātan.

Noun [edit]

hāt n

  1. a promise

Swedish [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /hɑːt/
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Noun [edit]

hat n

  1. hatred, haught

Declension [edit]

Declension of hat
uncountable uncountable
Neuter indefinite definite
nominative hat hatet
genitive hats hatets

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Tok Pisin [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

English hat

Noun [edit]

hat

  1. hat

Etymology 2 [edit]

English hard

Adverb [edit]

hat

  1. hard
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 3:19 (translation here):
      Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”
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Turkish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Arabic خط (xaṭṭ).

Noun [edit]

hat

  1. line
  2. writing
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