tav

tav (plural tavs)

1. Alternative form of taw (Semitic letter)

• ATV, TVA, VAT, VTA, vat, vta

• tiede

• IPA^(key): [ˈtavˀ], [ˈtˢɑwˀ]

tav

1. past tense of tie

From Phoenician [Term?].

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑʋ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ʋ]
• Rhymes: -ɑʋ
• Syllabification^(key): tav

tav

1. taw (twenty-second letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

• -vat

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *tāpás, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-. Cognate with Sanskrit तपस् (tapas, “heat, fire”), Persian آفتاب (âftâb, “sun”), Persian تاب (tâb, “heat, warmth”), Ormuri تووه (“sun”), Latin tepidus (“warm”), Russian тёплый (tjóplyj, “warm”), Old Armenian տապ (tap, “heat”).

• IPA^(key): /tɑːv/

tav f (Arabic spelling تاڤ)

1. sunshine, sun, sunlight,

   Synonym: roj

• Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “tav”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 597

• IPA^(key): /ta˧˦/

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tamX (“rib”).[1]

tav (classifier: tus)

1. (anatomy) rib

   Neeg muaj 12 tug tav. ― A human has 12 ribs.

2. side, horizontal

tav

1. to herd animals, drive animals with a stick

   Nws mus tav nyuj noj zaub. ― He herds the cows to feed on grass.

2. to lay down across

   Ib tug nab pw tav kev. ― A snake laid across the trail.

3. to prune, trim

   Nws tav cov ntsis zaub. ― She prunes the growth of the vegetable.

tav

1. a period of time

   txog tav no ― until now

   tav twg? ― when?

   Tav twg kuj tau. ― Any time will be all right.

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 305-6.
• Jaisser, Annie, Ratliff, Martha, Riddle, Elizabeth, Strecker, David, Vang, Lopao, Vang, Lyfu (1995) Hmong For Beginners‎, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley, page 271.