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hat

See also: HAT, hát, hät, hạt, haț, -hat, and hăț

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EnglishEdit

 hat on Wikipedia

PronunciationEdit

 
A rabbi in a kolpik hat.

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle English hat, from Old English hæt (“head-covering, hat”), from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”). Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀‎ (xaoda, “hat”), Welsh caddu (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

 
A Panama hat.

NounEdit

hat (plural hats)

  1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
  2. (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
    • 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), →ISBN, p.121:
      My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.
  3. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
    1. (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
      We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
  4. (video games) A hat switch.
    • 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, p.139:
      The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.
  5. (typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.
  6. (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
  7. (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
Terms derived from hat (noun)
TranslationsEdit
See alsoEdit

VerbEdit

hat (third-person singular simple present hats, present participle hatting, simple past and past participle hatted)

  1. (transitive) To place a hat on.
    • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
      After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.
  2. (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
    • 1929, "Five New Hats," Time, 2 December, 1929, [2]
      It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

hat

  1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit
    When I axed him why he hat 'im, he said, "I ne know, I ne know, mate."
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Further readingEdit

AnagramsEdit

DanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse hattr, hǫttr.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)

  1. hat

InflectionEdit

Declension of hat
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hat hatten hatte hattene
genitive hats hattens hattes hattenes

GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

hat

  1. Third-person singular present of haben.

HungarianEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kutte (“six”). Cognates include Finnish kuusi, Mansi хо̄т (hōt), Khanty хәт (xət).

NumeralEdit

hat

Hungarian cardinal numbers
 <  5 6 7  > 
    Cardinal : hat
    Ordinal : hatodik
  1. (cardinal) six
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hat hatok
accusative hatot hatokat
dative hatnak hatoknak
instrumental hattal hatokkal
causal-final hatért hatokért
translative hattá hatokká
terminative hatig hatokig
essive-formal hatként hatokként
essive-modal — —
inessive hatban hatokban
superessive haton hatokon
adessive hatnál hatoknál
illative hatba hatokba
sublative hatra hatokra
allative hathoz hatokhoz
elative hatból hatokból
delative hatról hatokról
ablative hattól hatoktól
Possessive forms of hat
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hatom hatjaim
2nd person sing. hatod hatjaid
3rd person sing. hatja hatjai
1st person plural hatunk hatjaink
2nd person plural hatotok hatjaitok
3rd person plural hatjuk hatjaik
Derived termsEdit
Compound words
See alsoEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

hat

  1. take effect, affect, have influence
  2. seem like
ConjugationEdit
conjugation of hat
Infinitive hatni
Past participle hatott
Present participle ható
Future participle -
Adverbial participle hatva
Potential hathat
1st person sg 2nd person sg informal 3rd person sg,
2nd person sg formal 		1st person pl 2nd person pl informal 3rd person pl,
2nd person pl formal
Indicative mood Present Indefinite hatok hatsz hat hatunk hattok hatnak
Definite intransitive verb, definite forms are not used
Past Indefinite hatottam hatottál hatott hatottunk hatottatok hatottak
Definite -
Conditional mood Present Indefinite hatnék hatnál hatna hatnánk hatnátok hatnának
Definite -
Subjunctive mood Present Indefinite hassak hass
or
hassál 		hasson hassunk hassatok hassanak
Definite -
Conjugated infinitive hatnom hatnod hatnia hatnunk hatnotok hatniuk
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Derived terms

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InterlingueEdit

VerbEdit

hat

  1. past and passive participle of har

IrishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hat

  1. h-prothesized form of at

VerbEdit

hat

  1. h-prothesized form of at

LuxembourgishEdit

MaricopaEdit

NounEdit

hat (plural haat)

  1. dog

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old English hæt, hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hat (plural hattes or hatten)

  1. A hat or cap; a piece of headgear or headwear.
  2. A helmet; a hat used as armour.
  3. (rare) A circlet or tiara; a ring-shaped piece of headgear.
  4. (rare) A circle of foam or mist.
  5. (rare) A area of hilly woodland.
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
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Etymology 2Edit

From Old English hete, influenced by haten.

NounEdit

hat

  1. Alternative form of hate

Norwegian BokmålEdit

 
Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

NounEdit

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata or hatene)

  1. hatred, hate
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

hat

  1. imperative of hate

ReferencesEdit

Norwegian NynorskEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz. Akin to English hate.

NounEdit

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata)

  1. hatred, hate

Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

VerbEdit

hat

  1. imperative of hate

ReferencesEdit

Old EnglishEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Germanic *haitaz. Cognate with Old Frisian hēt (West Frisian hjit), Old Saxon hēt, Dutch heet, Old High German heiz (German heiß), Old Norse heitr (Swedish het). Cognate to Albanian ethe (“shiver, fiever”), dialectal hethe and ith (“warmth, body heat”), dialectal hith.

AdjectiveEdit

hāt

  1. hot, fierce
    Ðeos wyrt byþ cenned on hatum stowum ― This plant is grown in hot places.
DeclensionEdit
Declension of hat — Strong
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hāt hāt hāt
Accusative hātne hāte hāt
Genitive hātes hātre hātes
Dative hātum hātre hātum
Instrumental hāte hātre hāte
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hāte hāta, -e hāt
Accusative hāte hāta, -e hāt
Genitive hātra hātra hātra
Dative hātum hātum hātum
Instrumental hātum hātum hātum
Declension of hat — Weak
Singular Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hāta hāte hāte
Accusative hātan hātan hāte
Genitive hātan hātan hātan
Dative hātan hātan hātan
Instrumental hātan hātan hātan
Plural Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hātan hātan hātan
Accusative hātan hātan hātan
Genitive hātra, hātena hātra, hātena hātra, hātena
Dative hātum hātum hātum
Instrumental hātum hātum hātum
DescendantsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

From Old English hātan.

NounEdit

hāt n

  1. a promise

SwedishEdit

 
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EtymologyEdit

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hat n (uncountable)

  1. hatred, haught

DeclensionEdit

Declension of hat 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative hat hatet — —
Genitive hats hatets — —

Related termsEdit

Tok PisinEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From English hat.

NounEdit

hat

  1. hat

Etymology 2Edit

From English hard.

AdverbEdit

hat

  1. hard
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, in Tok Pisin), Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 3:19, in Tok Pisin), :
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TurkishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ‎ (ḵaṭṭ).

NounEdit

hat (definite accusative hatı, plural hatlar)

  1. line
  2. writing

DeclensionEdit

Inflection
Nominative hat
Definite accusative hatı
Singular Plural
Nominative hat hatlar
Definite accusative hatı hatları
Dative hata hatlara
Locative hatta hatlarda
Ablative hattan hatlardan
Genitive hatın hatların

TurkmenEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ‎ (ḵaṭṭ).

NounEdit

hat (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

  1. letter (written message)
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