tat

tat

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

• IPA^(key): /tæt/

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• Rhymes: -æt

From Hindi टाट (ṭāṭ, “thick canvas”).

tat (countable and uncountable, plural tats)

1. (uncountable, Britain) Cheap and vulgar tastelessness; sleaze.
2. (uncountable, Britain) Cheap, tasteless, useless goods; trinkets.
3. (countable, India) Gunny cloth made from the fibre of the Corchorus olitorius (jute).

Unknown. Perhaps the same as etymology 1, above, or perhaps a back-formation from tatting. Attested since the 19th century.

tat (third-person singular simple present tats, present participle tatting, simple past and past participle tatted)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To make (something by) tatting.

“tatting, n.1.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2013.

From Hindi टट्टू (ṭaṭṭū, “pony”).

• tattoo, tatt

tat (plural tats)

1. (India, archaic) A pony.
   • 1879, Val Cameron Prinsep, Glimpses of Imperial India, page 206:

     And so each morning before daybreak I am up, and having dispatched my luggage on the backs of coolies after much noise and bustle, without which no natives can work, I mount my tat as the sun begins to touch the higher hills, and start on my morning ride of twelve miles.

Clipping of tattoo; see further etymology there.

tat (plural tats)

1. (slang) A tattoo.

tat (third-person singular simple present tats, present participle tatting, simple past and past participle tatted)

1. (slang) To apply a tattoo.
   • 2016 May 5, Fifth Harmony, “Write on Me”, 7/27, Epic Records, Sysco Music

     Write on me / Love the way you tat me up

tat (plural tats)

1. (UK, gambling, slang, archaic) Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”)

tat (plural tats)

1. Alternative form of tatty (“kind of woven mat or screen”)

• rat-a-tat-tat
• tit for tat
• tatt
• tatting
• tatty

• AT&T, att

• IPA^(key): [taːt]

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• Rhymes: -aːt
• Homophone: Tat

tat

1. first/third-person singular preterite of tun

From Proto-Uralic *tuktɜ, *tukta (“cross-beam”). Cognate with Finnish tuhto (“thwart (of a ship)”), Komi-Zyrian тік (tik, “cross wood, cross bar”), and Selkup тати (“thwart (of a ship)”).[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtɒt]

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• Hyphenation: tat
• Rhymes: -ɒt

tat (plural tatok)

1. (nautical) stern (the rear part or after end of a ship or vessel)

• tat 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

tat

1. bad

• John Lynch, Lenakel wordlist. (1970)

• IPA^(key): /taːt/

tat

1. third-person feminine singular perfect of ta

tat

1. father

• Hofling, Charles Andrew (2011). Mopan Maya–Spanish–English Dictionary, University of Utah Press.

• IPA^(key): /tɑːt/

tat f (Arabic spelling تات‎)

1. boulder, large rock, cliff, crag, precipice
2. stone slab

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

Compare Latin tata, a childish word for father.

tat m (plural tats)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) grandfather

• (Puter) non
• (Vallader) bazegner, bapsegner

• tatta

From Proto-Slavic *tatь (“thief”).

• IPA^(key): /tât/

tȁt m (Cyrillic spelling та̏т)

1. (expressively) thief

From Proto-Slavic *tatь.

• IPA^(key): /tát/

tȁt m anim

1. thief

• “tat”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

From Ottoman Turkish طات‎ (tat, dat), from Proto-Turkic *dāt-.

• IPA^(key): /tat/

tat (definite accusative tadı, plural tatlar)

1. taste

tat

1. second-person singular imperative of tatmak

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

tat

1. father, dad

• ezitat
• tatannimi

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007), “отец, папа”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovarʹ [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika

From German Staat.

tat

1. state