tatta

See also: Tatta, tättä, and tåtta

English

Etymology

Hindi

Noun

tatta (plural tattas)

  1. (India) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is allowed to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tatta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Cimbrian

Etymology

Probably from Italian tata, from Latin tata (dad, daddy), of onomatopoeic origin. Alternatively from Middle High German tate (father), from Old High German *tato, from Proto-West Germanic *dadō (father, dad).

Noun

tatta m

  1. (Luserna) father
    Synonym: vatar

References

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo Ptata (Dutch person), from ptata (potato, fries). Doublet of patat and bataat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.taː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: tat‧ta

Noun

tatta m (plural tatta's, diminutive tattaatje n)

  1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) An autochthonous Dutch person.
    Synonym: bakra

Japanese

Romanization

tatta

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たった

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit तप्त (taptá).

Adjective

tatta

  1. hot, heated, glowing

Declension

References

  • Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “tatta”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Swedish

Etymology

Back-formation from tattare (Traveller, Gypsy).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /²tatːa/

Verb

tatta (present tattar, preterite tattade, supine tattat, imperative tatta)

  1. (slang, offensive) to steal, gyp

Conjugation

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