tarot

See also: Tarot

English

Tarot cards.

Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹəʊ/
• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛɹoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ærəʊ
• Homophone: taro

Noun

tarot (countable and uncountable, plural tarots)

1. (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
   • 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.

     […] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.

   • 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [1]

     They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.

     As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.

   • 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [2]

     In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; […]

2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

Translations

card game

• Catalan: tarot m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔羅牌／塔罗牌 (zh) (tǎluópái), 塔罗牌 (zh) (tǎluó pái), 塔羅／塔罗 (zh), 塔罗 (zh) (tǎluó), 意大利紙牌／意大利纸牌, 意大利纸牌 (Yìdàlì zhǐpái)

• Czech: taroky m pl
• Danish: tarot n
• Esperanto: tarokoj
• Finnish: tarot (fi), tarokki
• French: tarot (fr) m
• German: Tarot m or n
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: ταρό n (taró)
• Italian: tarocco (it) m
• Japanese: タロット (tarotto)
• Portuguese: tarô (pt) m
• Russian: таро́ (ru) n (taró)
• Serbo-Croatian: тарот m, tarot (sh) m
• Turkish: tarot (tr)

individual card

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔羅牌／塔罗牌 (zh) (tǎluópái), 塔罗牌 (zh) (tǎluó pái), 塔羅卡／塔罗卡 (zh), 塔罗卡 (zh) (tǎluó kǎ)

• Esperanto: taroko
• Finnish: tarot-kortti
• French: carte de tarot f, tarot (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Tarotkarte f
• Greek: ταρό n (taró)
• Japanese: タロット (tarotto), タロットカード (tarottokādo)
• Russian: ка́рта (kárta) таро́ (taró) (kárta taró) f, таро́ (ru) n (taró)

Further reading

• tarot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ratto, Tatro, ottar, rotta, tator, torat, torta, troat

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French

Etymology

From Italian tarocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʁo/
• Homophones: taraud, tarauds, taro

Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

1. tarot

Derived terms

• taroté
• taroter
• tarotier

Further reading

• “tarot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rotât

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French tarot, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian tarocchi.

Noun

tarot m (Cyrillic spelling тарот)

1. tarot (card game)

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈɾod/ [t̪aˈɾoð̞]

Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

1. tarot