watt

See also: Watt

English

Etymology

Named after Scottish engineer James Watt. For the surname, see Watt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɒt/
• (US) enPR: wät, IPA^(key): /wɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt
• Homophones: wat, wot, what (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

watt (plural watts)

1. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W

Derived terms

• gigawatt
• kilowatt
• megawatt
• microwatt
• milliwatt
• nanowatt
• picowatt
• terawatt

 

Translations

derived unit of power

• Afrikaans: watt
• Arabic: وَاط‎ m (wāṭ)
• Armenian: վատտ (hy) (vatt)
• Asturian: vatiu m, watt m
• Azerbaijani: vatt
• Belarusian: ват m (vat)
• Bengali: ওয়াট (ẇaṭ)
• Bulgarian: ват (bg) m (vat)
• Burmese: ဝပ် (my) (wap)
• Catalan: watt (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瓦特 (zh) (wǎtè)

• Czech: watt (cs)
• Danish: watt n
• Dutch: watt (nl)
• Esperanto: vatto, ŭato, vato
• Faroese: watt n
• Finnish: watti (fi)
• French: watt (fr) m
• Galician: vatio (gl) m, watt (gl) m
• Georgian: ვატი (vaṭi)
• German: Watt (de) n
• Greek: βατ (el) n (vat)
• Hebrew: ואט‎ (he)
• Hindi: वॉट (vŏṭ), वाट (hi) (vāṭ)
• Hungarian: watt (hu)
• Icelandic: vatt
• Ido: wato (io)
• Inari Sami: wattâ
• Indonesian: watt (id)
• Italian: watt (it) m
• Japanese: ワット (ja) (watto)
• Kazakh: ватт (vatt)

• Khmer: វ៉ាត់ (vat)
• Korean: 와트 (wateu)
• Kyrgyz: ватт (ky) (vatt)
• Lao: ວັດ (lo) (wat)
• Latvian: vats
• Lithuanian: vatas
• Macedonian: ват m (vat)
• Malay: watt
• Maori: wata
• Mongolian: ватт (mn) (vatt)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: watt m

  Nynorsk: watt m

• Pashto: واټ‎ (ps) m
• Persian: وات‎ (fa) (vât)
• Polish: wat (pl) m
• Portuguese: watt (pt) m
• Russian: ватт (ru) m (vatt)
• Scottish Gaelic: uàt m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ват m

  Roman: vat (sh) m

• Slovak: watt m
• Spanish: vatio (es) m, watt (es) m
• Swedish: watt (sv) c
• Tajik: ватт (tg) (vatt)
• Tatar: ватт (watt)
• Thai: วัตต์ (th) (wàt)
• Turkish: watt
• Turkmen: watt
• Ukrainian: ват (uk) m (vat)
• Urdu: واٹ‎ (ur) (vāṭ)
• Uzbek: vatt (uz)
• Vietnamese: watt (vi), oát (vi), oat (vi)

See also

• watt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ATWT, at. wt., twat

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Asturian

Etymology

From English watt

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Synonyms

• vatiu

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Czech

Noun

watt m

1. watt (unit of power)

Further reading

• watt in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• watt in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʋɒt], [ʋɑt]

• Audio

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• Homophones: wad, wat

Noun

watt m (plural watts, diminutive wattje n)

1. watt

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French

Etymology

From English watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wat/

• Audio (Paris)

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• Homophone: ouate

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

Further reading

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

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Galician

Noun

watt m (plural [please provide])

1. watt

Synonyms

• vatio

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Hungarian

Etymology

From English watt, named after Scottish engineer James Watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒtː]
• Hyphenation: watt
• Rhymes: -ɒtː

Noun

watt (plural wattok)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	watt	wattok
accusative	wattot	wattokat
dative	wattnak	wattoknak
instrumental	wattal	wattokkal
causal-final	wattért	wattokért
translative	wattá	wattokká
terminative	wattig	wattokig
essive-formal	wattként	wattokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	wattban	wattokban
superessive	watton	wattokon
adessive	wattnál	wattoknál
illative	wattba	wattokba
sublative	wattra	wattokra
allative	watthoz	wattokhoz
elative	wattból	wattokból
delative	wattról	wattokról
ablative	wattól	wattoktól
non-attributive possessive - singular	watté	wattoké
non-attributive possessive - plural	wattéi	wattokéi

Possessive forms of watt
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	wattom	wattjaim
2nd person sing.	wattod	wattjaid
3rd person sing.	wattja	wattjai
1st person plural	wattunk	wattjaink
2nd person plural	wattotok	wattjaitok
3rd person plural	wattjuk	wattjaik

Derived terms

• wattnyi
• wattos

 

Compound words

• wattfogyasztás
• wattmérő
• wattóra

 

Related terms

• kilowatt
• megawatt

 

Further reading

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

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Italian

Etymology

From English watt.

Noun

watt m (invariable)

1. watt

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

Noun

watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattene)

1. a watt (SI unit of power, symbol W)

Derived terms

• kilowatt
• megawatt
• wattsekund

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Named after the Scottish engineer James Watt.

Noun

watt m (definite singular watten, indefinite plural watt, definite plural wattane)

1. a watt (as above)

Derived terms

• wattsekund

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Portuguese

Etymology

From English watt

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

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Romanian

Etymology

From French watt.

Noun

watt m (plural wați)

1. watt

Declension

Declension of watt

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) watt	wattul	(niște) wați	wații
genitive/dative	(unui) watt	wattului	(unor) wați	waților
vocative	wattule		waților

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Spanish

Alternative forms

• vatio

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwat/, [ˈwat̪]

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

• “watt”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

Named after Scottish engineer James Watt; for the surname see Watt.

Noun

watt c

1. watt