tat

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tæt/

• Audio (AU)

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• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”)

Noun

tat (countable and uncountable, plural tats)

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

Translations

vulgar tastelessness — see sleaze

Etymology 2

Origin unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th 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

to produce by tatting

• Finnish: käpyillä

References

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

Etymology 3

From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”)

Alternative forms

• tattoo
• tatt

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.

Verb

tat (third-person singular simple present tats, present participle tatting, simple past and past participle tatted)

1. (slang) To apply a tattoo.
   • 2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music

     Write on me / Love the way you tat me up

Translations

slang: tattoo — see tattoo

See also

• rat-a-tat-tat
• tit for tat
• tatt
• tatting
• tatty

Anagrams

• AT&T, att

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taːt]

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aːt
• Homophone: Tat

Verb

tat

1. first/third-person singular preterite of tun

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Hungarian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒt]

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: tat
• Rhymes: -ɒt

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
non-attributive possessive - singular	taté	tatoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	tatéi	tatokéi

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

Further reading

• tat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

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Lenakel

Adjective

tat

1. bad

References

• John Lynch, Lenakel wordlist. (1970)

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Mopan Maya

Noun

tat

1. father

References

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

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Northern Kurdish

Noun

tat ?

1. cliff

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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

Related terms

• tatta

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tatь (“thief”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tât/

Noun

tȁt m (Cyrillic spelling та̏т)

1. (expressively) thief

Declension

Declension of tat

	singular	plural
nominative	tȁt	tàtovi
genitive	tata	tatova
dative	tatu	tatovima
accusative	tata	tatove
vocative	tate	tatovi
locative	tatu	tatovima
instrumental	tatom	tatovima

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tatь.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tát/

Noun

tȁt m anim

1. thief

Further reading

• “tat”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tat/

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طات‎ (tat, dat), from Proto-Turkic *dāt-.

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

Verb

tat

1. second-person singular imperative of tatmak

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Veps

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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

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Volapük

Etymology

From German Staat.

Noun

tat

1. state

Declension

declension of tat

	singular	plural
nominative	tat	tats
genitive	tata	tatas
dative	tate	tates
accusative	tati	tatis
vocative 1	o tat!	o tats!
predicative 2	tatu	tatus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only