Wiktionary

chat

See also: CHAT, Chat, chất, chắt, chặt, and chật

EnglishEdit

 
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PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃæt/
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  • Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1Edit

Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

VerbEdit

chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)

 
Two people chatting. (1) (2)
  1. To be engaged in informal conversation.
    She chatted with her friend in the cafe.
    I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.
  2. To talk more than a few words.
    I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.
  3. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
    They chatted politics for a while.
    • 2014, Lenny Smith, Choices, page 43:
      We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.
  4. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
    Do you want to chat online later?
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TranslationsEdit
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NounEdit

chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
    It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.
    1. A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
  2. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
  3. (Internet) A chat room.
    • 1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online (page 256)
      While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]
  4. (metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.
    The Chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.
  5. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
  6. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
exchange of text or voice messages in real time
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Etymology 2Edit

Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.[1]

NounEdit

chat

  1. A small potato, such as is given to swine.

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ William Safire, The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time, p. 43, Simon and Schuster, 2007 →ISBN.

Etymology 3Edit

Unknown.

NounEdit

chat (plural chats)

  1. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 441:
      Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.
TranslationsEdit

Etymology 4Edit

From thieves' cant.

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

chat (plural chats)

  1. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
    • 1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520:
      'Do officers have chats, then, the same as us?'
      'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'
    • 2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls?, →ISBN, page 18:
      May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.
    • 2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, →ISBN, page 149:
      Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.

Etymology 5Edit

NounEdit

chat (plural chats)

  1. Alternative form of chaat

AnagramsEdit

Antillean CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French chat.

NounEdit

chat

  1. cat

DutchEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Borrowed from English chat.

NounEdit

chat m (plural chats, diminutive chatje n)

  1. chat (online conversation)
  2. chat (online conversation platform)
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

VerbEdit

chat

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chatten
  2. imperative of chatten

AnagramsEdit

FrenchEdit

 
Un chat.
 
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Etymology 1Edit

From Middle French chat, from Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

chat m (plural chats, feminine chatte)

  1. cat (feline)
    • 1910, Henry-D. Davray & B. Kozakiewicz (tr.), La Guerre dans les airs, translation of The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, page 335:
      Soudain, d’un seul élan, cela se précipita sur lui, avec un miaulement plaintif et la queue droite. C’était un jeune chat, menu et décharné, qui frottait sa tête contre les jambes de Bert, en ronronnant.
      It advanced suddenly upon him with a rush, with a little meawling cry and tail erect. It rubbed its head against him and purred. It was a tiny, skinny little kitten.
  2. (male) cat, tom, tomcat
  3. tag, tig (children’s game)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

Borrowed from English chat.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

chat m (plural chats)

  1. (Internet) chat (online discussion)
    Synonym: tchat
Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

Haitian CreoleEdit

EtymologyEdit

From French chat, chatte.

NounEdit

chat

  1. cat
  2. (colloquial) thief
  3. pussy (genitals)

IbanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Min Nan 漆 (chhat).

NounEdit

chat

  1. paint (substance)

IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

chat m

  1. Lenited form of cat.

ItalianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: chàt

NounEdit

chat f (invariable)

  1. chat (informal conversation via computer)
Derived termsEdit
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Somali [Term?].

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈkat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: chàt

NounEdit

chat m (invariable)

  1. chat (leaf chewed by people in North Africa and the Middle East)
    Synonym: khat

Middle FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

NounEdit

chat m (plural chats or chatz, feminine singular chatte, feminine plural chattes)

  1. cat (animal)

DescendantsEdit

  • French: chat

Norwegian NynorskEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English chat.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

chat m (definite singular chaten, indefinite plural chatar, definite plural chatane)

  1. (Internet) a chat

ReferencesEdit

Old FrenchEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • cat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)
  • kat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)

EtymologyEdit

From Late Latin cattus.

NounEdit

chat m (oblique plural chaz or chatz, nominative singular chaz or chatz, nominative plural chat)

  1. cat (animal)

Related termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

PolishEdit

 
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Etymology 1Edit

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

chat m inan

  1. (Internet) Alternative spelling of czat
DeclensionEdit
Declension of chat
singular plural
nominative chat chaty
genitive chatu chatów
dative chatowi chatom
accusative chat chaty
instrumental chatem chatami
locative chacie chatach
vocative chacie chaty
Derived termsEdit
adjective
verb

Etymology 2Edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /xat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: chat

NounEdit

chat f

  1. genitive plural of chata

Further readingEdit

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

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

chat m (plural chats)

  1. (Internet) chat room
    Synonym: (chiefly Brazil) bate-papo

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

NounEdit

chat n (uncountable)

  1. chat (online)

DeclensionEdit

declension of chat (singular only)
singular
n gender indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) chat chatul
genitive/dative (unui) chat chatului
vocative chatule

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English chat.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃat/ [ˈt͡ʃat̪]
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: chat

NounEdit

chat m (plural chats)

  1. chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)
  2. chat, chat room

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

NounEdit

chat

  1. chat (usually an exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)

Derived termsEdit

TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

chat (definite accusative chati, plural chatler)

  1. chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)
  2. chat room

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative chat
Definite accusative chati
Singular Plural
Nominative chat chatler
Definite accusative chati chatleri
Dative chate chatlere
Locative chatte chatlerde
Ablative chatten chatlerden
Genitive chatin chatlerin

Derived termsEdit

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