hat

hat

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

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /hæt/

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• (Canada, California, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): [hat]

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• (Northern US) IPA^(key): [hɛt]
• Rhymes: -æt

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.

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.
   • 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0091:

     There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

   • 2009, “Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions”‎performed by Andy Samberg, Will Ferrell, and J. J. Abrams:

     Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!

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 names or numbers 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.
   • 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1

     I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”

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, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 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.

• (student and nobleman): gold hatband, tuft

• See also Thesaurus:headwear

• Sranan Tongo: ati

• take one's hat off to

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, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     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.

hat

1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past of hit

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

• hat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ATH, aht, tha

hat

1. third-person singular present indicative of haban

From Old Norse hattr, hǫttr.

• IPA^(key): /had/, [hæd̥], [hæt]

hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)

1. hat

• IPA^(key): /hat/

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• Rhymes: -at

hat

1. third-person singular present of haben

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒt]

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

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

hat

1. six

(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.

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

hat

1. (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.

2. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to enter, penetrate

   Synonym: hatol

3. (intransitive) to take effect, to be effective, to work

   Synonyms: hatásos, működik, beválik

4. (intransitive) to affect, to have influence, to act (on something -ra/-re)

   Synonyms: kihat, érint, befolyásol

5. (intransitive) to seem, appear (as something -nak/-nek)

   Synonyms: tűnik, látszik

(With verbal prefixes):

• (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

• IPA^(key): /hat̪ˠ/

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

From Proto-Turkic *at.

• IPA^(key): [ha(ˑ)t], [haːt], [hɒ(ˑ)t], [hɒːt], [hæ̞t]
• (Mansûrâbâdî, Tâlxâbî, Xaltâbâdî) IPA^(key): [hɒt]
• (Xarrâbî) IPA^(key): [ha(ˑ)t]

hat (definite accusative hatı, plural hatlar)

1. horse

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1971) Khalaj Materials, Indiana University, →ISBN
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1988) Grammatik des Chaladsch [Grammar of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, →OCLC
• https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lxforms.php?lx=klj

From Sanskrit हस्त (hasta).

hat ?

1. (anatomy) hand

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

• IPA^(key): /haːt/

hat

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

hat

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

hat (plural haat)

1. dog

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

• hatt, hatte, hæt

• IPA^(key): /hat/

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.

• hater
• haterynge
• hatten
• hattere
• ketil-hat

• Scots: hat, hatt, hate, hait
• English: hat
• → Irish: hata

• “hat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.

hat

1. Alternative form of hate

From Old Frisian hit.

hat

1. it

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

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

1. hatred, hate

• hatefull
• hater

• hate (verb)

hat

1. imperative of hate

• “hat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːt/

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

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

1. hatred, hate

• hatar
• hatefull

hat

1. imperative of hate

• “hat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /xɑːt/, [hɑːt]

From Proto-West Germanic *hait.

hāt

1. hot

• ceald

• hātheort
• hǣtan
• hǣtu

• Middle English: hot, hote, hoot, hoote, hoth, whote; hate, hatte
  • English: hot
  • Geordie English: het
  • Scots: hat, hait, hate
  • Yola: hoat, hote, hoate

From hātan.

hāt n

1. a promise

• ġehāt (much more common)

• English: hote, hot, hate, hat

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

• IPA^(key): /hɑːt/

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hat n (uncountable)

1. hate, hatred
   • 1982, Lustans Lakejer (lyrics and music), “Diamanter [Diamonds]”, in Diamanter / Sång om syrsor [Diamonds / Song about crickets]:

     Jag ska börja bli elak. Jag ska odla mitt hat. För om hatet är tillräckligt kallt, så ser man världen så klart. Och jag ska skapa intriger. Jag ska inte gå att lita på. För om dom vet att jag går bakom deras rygg, så känner dom sig så små.

     I'm going to [shall] start being mean. I'm going to cultivate my hatred. Because if the hatred is cold enough, you see the world so clearly. And I will create intrigue [intrigues]. I will not be able to trust. Because if they know that I go behind their backs [back], they feel so small.

   • 1995, De Lyckliga Kompisarna (lyrics and music), “Hat som hobby [Hate as hobby]”, in Sagoland [Fairy tale land]:

     Hat och hat och hat, men vad gör du av din kärlek? Hat och hat och hat, men vad gör du av din kärlek? Spänn av och låt din längtan sippra fram.

     Hate and hate and hate, but what do you do with your love? Hate and hate and hate, but what do you do with your love? Relax and let your longing seep out.

• hatbrott
• judehat
• rashat

• hata
• hatare
• hatisk

• hat in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hat in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hat in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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hat

1. four

• Fransiskus Monteiro (1985) Kamus Tetun-Indonesia [Tetum-Indonesian Dictionary] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

From English hat.

hat

1. hat

From English hard.

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.”

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• hatpela
• hatwok

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

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hat (definite accusative hattı, plural hatlar)

1. line

   Sigfried hattı ― Siegfried line

2. writing

Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ).

hat (definite accusative haty, plural hatlar)

1. letter (written message)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gatь.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: hat

hat m inan (diminutive haćik)

1. pond (natural or man-made)

• “hat” in Soblex