See also: ANTA, Anta, ȧnta, äntä, -anta, anta-, -anță, and antą

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin antae (pilasters)

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

anta (plural antae or antas)

  1. (architecture) A kind of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Related termsEdit

TranslationsEdit

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “anta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

AnagramsEdit

GalicianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Probably from Latin antae (jamb); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language[1]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

anta m (plural antas)

  1. dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark
    Synonyms: arca, forno
  2. large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls
    Synonym: chanto

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • anta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • anta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • anta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1983–1991), “anta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

HausaEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ʔán.tàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʔán.tàː]

NounEdit

antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)

  1. Alternative spelling of hanta

IndonesianEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈanta/
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta

Etymology 1Edit

From Sanskrit अन्त (antá, disposition, essence).

NounEdit

anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)

  1. (archaic) character, nature.
    Synonyms: sifat, tabiat

Etymology 2Edit

Unadapted borrowing from Arabic أَنْتَ(ʔanta, you). Doublet of anda.

PronounEdit

anta

  1. (informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours
Alternative formsEdit
SynonymsEdit

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

  • anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • coen (slang, East Java)
  • ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • kamu (intimate)
  • ko, kowe (informal, Java)
  • kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
  • lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

Etymology 3Edit

From Belitung Malay [Term?].

NounEdit

anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)

  1. rice dirt.

Further readingEdit

ItalianEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈan.ta/
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Hyphenation: àn‧ta

Etymology 1Edit

From Latin antae f pl.

NounEdit

anta f (plural ante)

  1. door (of furniture)
  2. shutter (of window)
  3. sash (of window)
  4. panel
SynonymsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (forty), cinquanta (fifty), sessanta (sixty), settanta (seventy), ottanta (eighty), and novanta (ninety).

NounEdit

anta m pl (plural only)

  1. (informal) forties, fifties, sixties, ... (in someone's age)

AnagramsEdit

JapaneseEdit

RomanizationEdit

anta

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あんた

LudianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

VerbEdit

anta

  1. give

Norwegian BokmålEdit

EtymologyEdit

an- +‎ ta; from German annehmen.

VerbEdit

anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)

  1. to assume, presume
  2. to accept, approve

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

PaliEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Inherited from Sanskrit अन्त (anta).

NounEdit

anta m

  1. end
  2. goal
  3. top

DeclensionEdit

Derived termsEdit

NounEdit

anta n

  1. intestine, tharm

DeclensionEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Khmer: អន្តៈ (ʼɑntaʼ)

PolishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin antae.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈan.ta/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Syllabification: an‧ta

NounEdit

anta f

  1. (architecture, Ancient Greece) anta

DeclensionEdit

Further readingEdit

  • anta in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • anta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

PortugueseEdit

PronunciationEdit

 
anta

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Galician-Portuguese anta, borrowed from Latin antās pl.

NounEdit

anta f (plural antas)

  1. (architecture) anta
  2. (archaeology) dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)
    Synonym: dólmen
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Arabic لَمْتَة(lamta).

NounEdit

anta f (plural antas)

  1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)
    Synonym: tapir

NounEdit

anta m or f by sense (plural antas)

  1. (Brazil, figuratively) a stupid person
    Você é uma anta!
    You are an idiot!

SpanishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From ante.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈanta/ [ˈãn̪.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Syllabification: an‧ta

NounEdit

anta f (plural antas)

  1. female equivalent of ante; moose, elk
  2. (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)
    Synonyms: tapir, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake.

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

anta (present antar, preterite antog, supine antagit, imperative anta)

  1. to suppose, to presume, to guess
    Jag antar att det är dags att köpa en ny kaffebryggare.
    I presume it's time to buy a new coffee machine.
  2. to accept an offer
    Schackspelaren antog erbjudandet om remi efter att ha funderat på det.
    The chessplayer accepted the offer of a draw after having thought about it.
  3. (especially in the past participle) to accept (to a school, etc.)
    Jag har blivit antagen till Harvard!
    I've been accepted to Harvard!

ConjugationEdit

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

AnagramsEdit

TagalogEdit

PronunciationEdit

  • Hyphenation: an‧ta
  • IPA(key): /ʔanˈta/, [ʔɐnˈta]
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔanta/, [ˈʔan.tɐ]

NounEdit

antá or anta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜆ)

  1. rancidity; rancid odor

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

VoticEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

PronunciationEdit

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈɑntɑː/, [ˈɑntɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑntɑː
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta

VerbEdit

anta

  1. to give

InflectionEdit

Conjugation of anta (type III-3/anta, nt-nn gradation)
Indicative
Present Perfect
positive negative positive negative
1st singular annõn en annõ 1st singular õõn antõnnu en õõ antõnnu
2nd singular annõd ed annõ 2nd singular õõd antõnnu ed õõ antõnnu
3rd singular annõb eb annõ 3rd singular on antõnnu eb õõ antõnnu
1st plural annõmmõ emmä annõ 1st plural öõmmõ antõnnu emmä õõ antõnnu
2nd plural annõttõ että annõ 2nd plural õõttõ antõnnu että õõ antõnnu
3rd plural annõta eväd annõ 3rd plural õlla annõttu eväd õõ annõttu
impersonal annõta eväd annõ impersonal õlla annõttu eväd õõ annõttu
Imperfect Pluperfect
positive negative positive negative
1st singular annin en antõnnu 1st singular õlin antõnnu
2nd singular annid ed antõnnu 2nd singular õlid antõnnu
3rd singular anti eb antõnnu 3rd singular õli antõnnu
1st plural annimmõ emmä antõnnu 1st plural õlimmõ antõnnu
2nd plural annittõ että antõnnu 2nd plural õlittõ antõnnu
3rd plural annõtti eväd annõttu 3rd plural õlti annõttu
impersonal annõtti eväd annõttu impersonal õlti annõttu
Conditional
Present Perfect
positive negative positive negative
1st singular antaizin en antaizʹ 1st singular õllõizin antõnnu en õllõizʹ antõnnu
2nd singular antaizid ed antaizʹ 2nd singular õllõizid antõnnu ed õllõizʹ antõnnu
3rd singular antaizʹ eb antaizʹ 3rd singular õllõizʹ antõnnu eb õllõizʹ antõnnu
1st plural antaizimmõ emmä antaizʹ 1st plural õllõizimmõ antõnnu emmä õllõizʹ antõnnu
2nd plural antaizittõ että antaizʹ 2nd plural õllõizittõ antõnnu että õllõizʹ antõnnu
3rd plural annõttaizʹ eväd annõttaizʹ 3rd plural õltaizʹ annõttu eväd õltaizʹ annõttu
impersonal annõttaizʹ eväd annõttaizʹ impersonal õltaizʹ annõttu eväd õltaizʹ annõttu
Imperative
Present
positive negative
1st singular
2nd singular annõ elä annõ
3rd singular antõgo elko antõgo
1st plural
2nd plural antaga elka antaga
3rd plural antõgod
impersonal
Nominal forms
Infinitives Participles
active passive
1st anta present antõjõ
2nd illative antõma past antõnnu annõttu
inessive antõmõz
elative antõmassõ
abessive antõmattõ

ReferencesEdit

  • V. Hallap, E. Adler, S. Grünberg, M. Leppik (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎[1], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Yilan CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Japanese あんた (anta).

PronounEdit

anta

  1. you (second person singular pronoun)

SynonymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • Chien Yuehchen (2015), “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics[2], pages 513-532
  • Chien Yuehchen (2018), “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの人称代名詞”, in 日本語の研究[3], volume 14, issue 4