hat

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Translingual[edit]

Symbol[edit]

hat

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Haitian Creole.

English[edit]

 hat on Wikipedia
A rabbi in a kolpik hat.

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, 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 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀‎ (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود‎ (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

Noun[edit]

hat (plural hats)

  1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or 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, published 2000, →ISBN, 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.
    1. (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
      We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
  4. (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.
  5. (typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.
  6. (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
  7. (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
  8. (Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
    • 1830, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, chapter 32, in Paul Clifford:
      I knew intimately all the 'Hats' in the University, and I was henceforth looked up to by the 'Caps,' as if my head had gained the height of every hat that I knew.
Synonyms[edit]
Hyponyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from hat (noun)
Descendants[edit]
  • Sranan Tongo: ati
Translations[edit]
háček — see háček
caret — see caret
See also[edit]

Verb[edit]

hat (third-person singular simple present hats, present participle hatting, simple past and past participle hatted)

  1. (transitive) To place a hat on.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
      After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
  2. (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
    • 1929 December 2, “Five New Hats”, in Time:
      It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.
  3. (intransitive) To shop for hats.
    • 1920, Katharine Metcalf Roof, The Great Demonstration, page 122:
      We might just go hatting this afternoon […]
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, Olympia Press:
      Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

hat

  1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit
References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

Cimbrian[edit]

Verb[edit]

hat

  1. third-person singular present indicative of haban

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse hattr, hǫttr.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /had/, [hæd̥], [hæt]

Noun[edit]

hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)

  1. hat

Inflection[edit]

Declension of hat
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative 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]

Hungarian numbers (edit)
60
 ←  5 6 7  → 
    Cardinal: hat
    Nominal: hatos
    Ordinal: hatodik
    Day of month: hatodika
    A.o.: hatodszor, hatodjára
    Adverbial: hatszor
    Multiplier: hatszoros
    Distributive: hatosával
    Collective: mind a hat
    Fractional: hatod
    Number of people: hatan

From Proto-Uralic *kutte. Cognates include Finnish kuusi, Mansi хо̄т (hōt), Khanty хәт (xət).

Numeral[edit]

hat

  2. six
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hat hatok
accusative hatot hatokat
dative hatnak hatoknak
instrumental hattal hatokkal
causal-final hatért hatokért
translative hattá hatokká
terminative hatig hatokig
essive-formal hatként hatokként
essive-modal — —
inessive hatban hatokban
superessive haton hatokon
adessive hatnál hatoknál
illative hatba hatokba
sublative hatra hatokra
allative hathoz hatokhoz
elative hatból hatokból
delative hatról hatokról
ablative hattól hatoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		haté hatoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		hatéi hatokéi
Possessive forms of hat
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hatom hataim
hatjaim
2nd person sing. hatod hataid
hatjaid
3rd person sing. hata
hatja 		hatai
hatjai
1st person plural hatunk hataink
hatjaink
2nd person plural hatotok hataitok
hatjaitok
3rd person plural hatuk
hatjuk 		hataik
hatjaik
Derived terms[edit]
Compound words with numerals
Other compound words

(Non-institutionalized adjectival compounds with single-element numerals [excerpt]):
hatezres, hatmilliós, hatmilliárdos, hatbilliós; hatméteres, hatcentis, hatkilós, hatdekás, hatgrammos, hattonnás, hatliteres; hatwattos, hatamperes; hatperces, hatórás, hatórai, hatórányi, hatnapi, hatnapos, hathetes, hatheti, hatéves, hatévi, hathavi; hatpercenként, hatóránként, hatnaponta, hatnaponként, hathetente, hathetenként, hathavonta, hathavonként, hatévente, hatévenként; hatfokos, hatfokú, hatirányú, hatoldalas, hatoldalú, hatkötetes, hatdimenziós, hatszázalékos, hatkerekű, hatfős, hatfőnyi, hatnyelvű, hatgyerekes / hatgyermekes, hattagú, hatelemű, hatrészes, hatemeletes, hatrétegű, hatszintes, hatablakos, hatajtós, hatüléses, hatjegyű, hatpontos, hatszavas, hatbetűs, hatsoros; hatforintos, hatdolláros, hateurós; hatlábú, hatágú, hatfejű, hatkezű, hatkarú, hatszemű, hatfülű, hatlevelű.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-Uralic *kattɜ- (“to penetrate, go ahead, move somewhere”). The suffix -hat/-het originated from this verb.[1] First attested in c. 1372.

Verb[edit]

hat

  2. (intransitive, obsolete) to get, arrive at, pass, progress towards (a certain location)
    Synonyms: hatol, ér, jut
    • 1863, János Arany, Rege a csodaszarvasról (The Legend of the Wondrous Hunt, translated by E.D. Butler)
      Süppedékes mély tavaknak / Szigetére ők behatnak.
      An island fair to reach, they pass / Through treacherous pool and deep morass.
  4. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to enter, penetrate
    Synonym: hatol
  6. (intransitive) to take effect, to be effective, to work
    Synonyms: hatásos, működik, beválik
  8. (intransitive) to affect, to have influence, to act (on something -ra/-re)
    Synonyms: kihat, érint, befolyásol
  10. (intransitive) to seem, appear (as something -nak/-nek)
    Synonyms: tűnik, látszik
Conjugation[edit]
conjugation of hat
1st person sg 2nd person sg
informal 		3rd person sg,
2nd p. sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl
informal 		3rd person pl,
2nd p. pl formal
Indica­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. hatok hatsz hat hatunk hattok hatnak
Def. intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
2nd-p. o. ―
Past Indef. hatottam hatottál hatott hatottunk hatottatok hatottak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Condi­tional
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. hatnék hatnál hatna hatnánk hatnátok hatnának
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Sub­junc­tive
mood 		Pre­sent Indef. hassak hass or
hassál 		hasson hassunk hassatok hassanak
Def. ―
2nd-p. o. ―
Infinitive hatni hatnom hatnod hatnia hatnunk hatnotok hatniuk
Other nonfinite
verb forms 		Verbal noun Present participle Past participle Future part. Adverbial part. Potential
hatás ható hatott ― hatva hathat
Derived terms[edit]

(With verbal prefixes):

References[edit]

  1. ^ hat in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading[edit]

  • (six): hat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (to take effect): hat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Irish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hat

  1. h-prothesized form of at

Verb[edit]

hat

  1. h-prothesized form of at

Khalaj[edit]

Perso-Arabic هات‎

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Turkic *at.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (Mansûrâbâdî, Tâlxâbî, Xaltâbâdî) IPA(key): [hɒt]
  • (Xarrâbî) IPA(key): [ha(ˑ)t]

Noun[edit]

hat (definite accusative hatı, plural hatlar)

  1. horse

Declension[edit]

Declension of hat
singular plural
nominative hat hatlar
genitive hatıyñ hatlarıyñ
dative hatqa hatlarqa
definite accusative hatı hatları
locative hatça hatlarça
ablative hatda(n) hatlarda(n)
instrumental hatla(n) hatlarla(n)
equative hatvâra hatlarvâra
quantitative hatqadar hatlarqadar

References[edit]

Kholosi[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Sanskrit हस्त (hasta).

Noun[edit]

hat ?

  1. (anatomy) hand

References[edit]

  • Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014), “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎[2], pages 13-36

Luxembourgish[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

hat

  1. inflection of hunn:
    1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
    2. second-person plural preterite indicative

Verb[edit]

hat

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

Maricopa[edit]

Noun[edit]

hat (plural haat)

  1. dog

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English hæt, hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.

Alternative forms[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hat (plural hattes or hatten)

  1. A hat or cap; a piece of headgear or headwear.
  2. A helmet; a hat used as armour.
  3. (rare) A circlet or tiara; a ring-shaped piece of headgear.
  4. (rare) A circle of foam or mist.
  5. (rare) An area of hilly woodland.
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Noun[edit]

hat

  1. Alternative form of hate

North Frisian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Frisian hit.

Pronoun[edit]

hat

  1. it

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nb

Etymology 1[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata or hatene)

  1. hatred, hate
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

hat

  1. imperative of hate

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz. Akin to English hate.

Noun[edit]

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata)

  1. hatred, hate
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

hat

  1. imperative of hate

References[edit]

Old English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-West Germanic *hait.

Cognates
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
Declension[edit]
Declension of hāt — Strong
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hāt hāt hāt
Accusative hātne hāte hāt
Genitive hātes hātre hātes
Dative hātum hātre hātum
Instrumental hāte hātre hāte
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hāte hāta, hāte hāt
Accusative hāte hāta, hāte hāt
Genitive hātra hātra hātra
Dative hātum hātum hātum
Instrumental hātum hātum hātum
Declension of hāt — Weak
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hāta hāte hāte
Accusative hātan hātan hāte
Genitive hātan hātan hātan
Dative hātan hātan hātan
Instrumental hātan hātan hātan
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hātan hātan hātan
Accusative hātan hātan hātan
Genitive hātra, hātena hātra, hātena hātra, hātena
Dative hātum hātum hātum
Instrumental hātum hātum hātum
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From hātan.

Noun[edit]

hāt n

  1. a promise
Declension[edit]
Declension of hat (strong a-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative hāt hāt
accusative hāt hāt
genitive hātes hāta
dative hāte hātum
Synonyms[edit]

Swedish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hat n (uncountable)

  1. hate, hatred

Declension[edit]

Declension of hat 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative hat hatet — —
Genitive hats hatets — —

Related terms[edit]

Tok Pisin[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From English hat.

Noun[edit]

hat

  1. hat

Etymology 2[edit]

From English hard.

Adverb[edit]

hat

  1. hard
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:
      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.”
      →New International Version translation
Related terms[edit]

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish خط‎, from Arabic خَطّ‎ (ḵaṭṭ).

Noun[edit]

hat (definite accusative hattı, plural hatlar)

  1. line
    Sigfried hattı ― Siegfried line
  2. writing

Declension[edit]

Inflection
Nominative hat
Definite accusative hattı
Singular Plural
Nominative hat hatlar
Definite accusative hattı hatları
Dative hatta hatlara
Locative hatta hatlarda
Ablative hattan hatlardan
Genitive hattın hatların

Turkmen[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ‎ (ḵaṭṭ).

Noun[edit]

hat (definite accusative haty, plural hatlar)

  1. letter (written message)

Declension[edit]

Declension of hat
singular plural
nominative hat hatlar
accusative haty hatlary
genitive hatyň hatlaryň
dative hata hatlara
locative hatda hatlarda
ablative hatdan hatlardan
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