grat

See also: Grat, GRAT, grät, and gråt

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæt/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

grat (plural grats)

1. (slang) A gratuity or tip.

Related terms

• autograt

Anagrams

• Targ, gart

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin grātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɡɾat]

Adjective

grat (feminine grata, masculine plural grats, feminine plural grates)

1. (of a sensation) nice, pleasant

Derived terms

• gratament
• malgrat

Noun

grat m (plural grats)

1. taste, preference

   Synonym: gust

   no és del meu grat ― it's not to my taste

Further reading

• “grat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “grat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “grat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “grat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrat/

Verb

grat

1. supine of graś

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• grut (Mooring)
• gurt (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian grāt, which derives from Proto-Germanic *grautaz. Cognates include West Frisian grut.

Adjective

grat (comparative grater, superlative gratst) (Föhr-Amrum)

1. big, great, large.
2. tall

   Hü grat beest?

   How tall are you?

Inflection

Inflection of grat (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

	masculine		feminine / neuter	plural
	indefinite	definite
positive
predicative / adverbial	grat
attributive	graten	grat		grat
independent				graten
partitive	grats			—
comparative
predicative / adverbial	grater
attributive	grateren	grater		grater
independent				grateren
partitive	graters			—
superlative
predicative / adverbial	am gratsten
attributive	—	gratst		gratst
independent				gratsten

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German geræte (“equipment”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrat/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [ˈɡrat]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: grat
• Homophones: grad, Grad

Noun

grat m animal

1. (informal, derogatory) piece of junk; useless or broken item

   Synonyms: rupieć, złom

2. (informal, derogatory) clunker, decrepit car

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gruchot

3. (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl, usually in the plural) gear, equipment

   Synonyms: sprzęt, manele

Declension

Declension of grat

	singular	plural
nominative	grat	graty
genitive	grata	gratów
dative	gratowi	gratom
accusative	grata	graty
instrumental	gratem	gratami
locative	gracie	gratach
vocative	gracie	graty

Further reading

• grat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• grat in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Aleksander Saloni (1908) “grat”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 334

Scots

Verb

grat

1. simple past tense of greet