tatami
See also: tàtàmǐ
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (tatami).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tatami (plural tatamis or tatami)
- Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
- 1964, John Berryman, chapter 31, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 35:
- Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts,
- 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 2:
- Small tools are spread on the tatami: a razor knife, a sprue cutter, curls of emery paper.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
straw matting in Japanese houses
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Anagrams edit
Basque edit
Etymology edit
Ultimately from Japanese 畳 (tatami).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tatami inan
- tatami
- 2001 December 28, Goienkaria, number 47, page 47:
- Bigarren solairuan gimnasioa eta tatami gela jarriko dituzte.
- On the second floor, a gym and a tatami room will be installed.
Declension edit
Declension of tatami (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
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absolutive | tatami | tatamia | tatamiak |
ergative | tatamik | tatamiak | tatamiek |
dative | tatamiri | tatamiari | tatamiei |
genitive | tatamiren | tatamiaren | tatamien |
comitative | tatamirekin | tatamiarekin | tatamiekin |
causative | tatamirengatik | tatamiarengatik | tatamiengatik |
benefactive | tatamirentzat | tatamiarentzat | tatamientzat |
instrumental | tatamiz | tatamiaz | tatamiez |
inessive | tatamitan | tatamian | tatamietan |
locative | tatamitako | tatamiko | tatamietako |
allative | tatamitara | tatamira | tatamietara |
terminative | tatamitaraino | tatamiraino | tatamietaraino |
directive | tatamitarantz | tatamirantz | tatamietarantz |
destinative | tatamitarako | tatamirako | tatamietarako |
ablative | tatamitatik | tatamitik | tatamietatik |
partitive | tatamirik | — | — |
prolative | tatamitzat | — | — |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tatami
Declension edit
Inflection of tatami (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tatami | tatamit | ||
genitive | tatamin | tatamien | ||
partitive | tatamia | tatameja | ||
illative | tatamiin | tatameihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tatami | tatamit | ||
accusative | nom. | tatami | tatamit | |
gen. | tatamin | |||
genitive | tatamin | tatamien | ||
partitive | tatamia | tatameja | ||
inessive | tatamissa | tatameissa | ||
elative | tatamista | tatameista | ||
illative | tatamiin | tatameihin | ||
adessive | tatamilla | tatameilla | ||
ablative | tatamilta | tatameilta | ||
allative | tatamille | tatameille | ||
essive | tatamina | tatameina | ||
translative | tatamiksi | tatameiksi | ||
abessive | tatamitta | tatameitta | ||
instructive | — | tatamein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “tatami”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams edit
French edit
Noun edit
tatami m (plural tatamis)
Further reading edit
- “tatami”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Japanese 畳 (tatami, “tatami mat”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tatami (plural tatami-tatami, first-person possessive tatamiku, second-person possessive tatamimu, third-person possessive tataminya)
Further reading edit
- “tatami” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
tatami
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tatami m pers
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (たたみ (tatami).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tatami m (plural tatamis)
Further reading edit
- “tatami”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014