blat

See also: Blat, blåt, and блат

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

Imitative. First attested in 1846.

Verb

1. To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat.
2. To make a senseless noise.
   • 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things

     A moment later the engine roared into life. Exhaust blatted through the straight-pipes; people stopped on the street to look.

3. To talk inconsiderately.
4. To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.

Translations

to cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat

• Finnish: inua (fi) (calf), määkiä (fi) (sheep)
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to make a senseless noise

• Finnish: mölistä
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to talk inconsiderately

• Finnish: hölistä (fi), hölöttää (fi)
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to produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument

• Finnish: töräyttää
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Etymology 2

Borrowed from Russian блат (blat), from Polish blat (“cover, umbrella”) or Yiddish בלאַט (blat, “leaf, list”)

Noun

blat (uncountable)

1. Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

   To open a new business in Russia you need blat.

   Synonym: guanxi (from Chinese)

Translations

connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)

• Armenian: ԽԾԲ (hy) (XCB)
• Belarusian: блат m (blat)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 關係／关系 (zh), 关系 (zh) (guānxi)

• Finnish: suhteet (fi), verkosto (fi), blat
• Italian: blat m
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• Polish: blat (pl)
• Russian: блат (ru) m (blat)
• Spanish: blat (es) m
• Ukrainian: блат m (blat)
• Yiddish: בלאַט m or n (blat)

Anagrams

• Balt, Balt.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin blādum, from Frankish *blād (“field produce”), from Proto-Germanic *blēdaz, *blēdō (“flower, leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to flower; leaf”). Compare French blé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈblat]
• Rhymes: -at

Noun

blat m (uncountable)

1. wheat

Derived terms

• blat de moro

Further reading

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

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Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blaːt/

Noun

blat m

1. collective of blata: several rocks; rock as a mass or material

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *blat, from Proto-Germanic *bladą.

Noun

blat n

1. leaf
2. page (of a book)
3. panel (in a door)
4. tongue, blade
5. any flat surface or object

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: blad
  • Afrikaans: blad
• Limburgish: blaad

Further reading

• “blat”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “blat (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

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Occitan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin blādum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blat/

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Noun

blat m (plural blats)

1. wheat

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Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *bladą, whence also Old Saxon blad, Old English blæd, Old Norse blað. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃oto-, from *bʰleh₃-.

Noun

blat n (plural bletir)

1. leaf

Descendants

• Middle High German: blat
  • Alemannic German: Blatt

    Swabian:

  • Central Franconian: Blatt, Blat

    Hunsrik: Blaat

    Luxembourgish: Blat

  • East Central German:

    Upper Saxon German:

    Vilamovian: błot

  • East Franconian:
  • German: Blatt
  • Rhine Franconian: Blaat, Blatt

    Pennsylvania German: Blatt

  • Yiddish: בלאַט (blat)

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Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from German Blatt.

Noun

blat

1. the flat surface of a table