taa

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

  1. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.

Etymology 2

From Arabic تَاء‎ (tāʾ).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

  1. The letter ت in the Arabic script.

Interjection

taa

  1. Alternative form of ta (“thanks”)

Anagrams

Aukan

Etymology 1

From English other.

Adjective

taa

  1. other; another
    taa dei ― another day, another (some other) time
Derived terms
  • taa taa (“different”)

Etymology 2

From English tar.

Noun

taa

  1. tar (black substance; pitch)

References

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from ǃXóõ tâa ǂàã (literally “people's language”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈtaa]
  • Rhymes: -aa
  • Hyphenation: ta‧a

Adjective

taa (accusative singular taan, plural taaj, accusative plural taajn)

  1. (la taa) clipping of la taa lingvo (“the Taa language”)

Finnish

Etymology

The k-lative singular of taka.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑːˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑː(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Syllabification(key): taa

Postposition

(genitive + ) taa

  1. (poetic, dialectal) Of movement, behind; a shorter form of taakse.
    Se laskeutui metsän taa. ― It landed behind the forest.

Inflection
Declension of taa
noun case singular pluraladverbial
form		 singular plural
nominative taka- –superessive – –
genitive – –delative – –
partitive takaa –sublative – –
accusative – –lative (taas) –
inessive – –temporal – –
elative – –causative – –
illative – –multiplicative – –
adessive – –distributive – –
ablative – –temp. dist. – takaisin
allative – –prolative taitse –
essive takana –situative – –
translative taa
taakse		 –oppositive – –
instructive – –
abessive – –
comitative – –

Synonyms

Antonyms

Anagrams

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Eskimo *taʁu. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.

Noun

taa

  1. human being

Interjection

taa

  1. listen!; what is that?; I tut!
See also: ta

References
  • DAKA
  • (noun): taa in Katersat
  • (interjection): taa in Katersat

Nzadi

Noun

tàá (plural tàá)

  1. father

Coordinate terms

Further reading
  • Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

Swahili

Etymology

From *tala, from an unknown source (possibly Indian).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /tɑː/
  • Audio (Kenya)(file)

Noun

taa (n class, plural taa)

  1. lamp, light

Descendants
  • → Kikuyu: tawa
  • → Luganda: etaala
  • → Rwanda-Rundi: itara

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.

Verb

taa

  1. to chop, to cut up
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