hat
TranslingualEdit
SymbolEdit
hat
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /hæt/
Audio (US) (file)
- (Canada, California, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): [hat]
Audio (UK RP) (file)
- (Northern US) IPA(key): [hɛt]
- Rhymes: -æt
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”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.
NounEdit
hat (plural hats)
- A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
- 1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, OCLC 7780546; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], OCLC 2666860, page 0091:
- There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
- 2009, “Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions”[1], performed by Andy Samberg, Will Ferrell and J. J. Abrams:
- Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!
- (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
- (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
- (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
- We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.
- (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.
- (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.
- 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, p.139:
- (typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.
- 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1
- I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”
- 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1
- (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
- (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
- (Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
- 1830, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, chapter 32, in Paul Clifford:
- I knew intimately all the 'Hats' in the University, and I was henceforth looked up to by the 'Caps,' as if my head had gained the height of every hat that I knew.
SynonymsEdit
- (student and nobleman): gold hatband, tuft
HyponymsEdit
- See also Thesaurus:headwear
Derived termsEdit
- at the drop of a hat
- bowler hat
- brick in one's hat
- buy yourself a hat
- double-hat
- eat one's hat
- hand someone his hat
- hang one's hat on
- hard hat
- hatband
- hat hair
- hat in hand
- hatless
- hat matrix
- hatnote
- hat on a hat
- hat parade
- hatpin
- hats off
- hatstand
- hatter
- hat trick
- home is where you hang your hat
- Medicine Hat
- old hat
- pass the hat
- put one's name in the hat
- take one's hat off to
- talk through one's hat
- throw one's hat in the ring
- triple-hat
- under one's hat
- wear too many hats
- wear two hats
- woolly hat
DescendantsEdit
- Sranan Tongo: ati
TranslationsEdit
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See alsoEdit
VerbEdit
hat (third-person singular simple present hats, present participle hatting, simple past and past participle hatted)
- (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.
- (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.
- 1929, "Five New Hats," Time, 2 December, 1929, [2]
- (intransitive) To shop for hats.
- 1920, Katharine Metcalf Roof, The Great Demonstration (page 122)
- We might just go hatting this afternoon […]
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt
- Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.
- 1920, Katharine Metcalf Roof, The Great Demonstration (page 122)
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
hat
- (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
AnagramsEdit
CimbrianEdit
VerbEdit
hat
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)
InflectionEdit
GermanEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
hat
HungarianEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
60 | ||
← 5 | 6 | 7 → |
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Cardinal: hat Nominal: hatos Ordinal: hatodik Day of month: hatodika A.o.: hatodszor, hatodjára Adverbial: hatszor Multiplier: hatszoros Distributive: hatosával Collective: mind a hat Fractional: hatod Number of people: hatan |
From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kutte (“six”). Cognates include Finnish kuusi, Mansi хо̄т (hōt), Khanty хәт (xət).
NumeralEdit
hat
DeclensionEdit
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony) | ||
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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 |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
haté | hatoké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
hatéi | hatokéi |
Possessive forms of hat | ||
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possessor | single possession | multiple possessions |
1st person sing. | hatom | hataim hatjaim |
2nd person sing. | hatod | hataid hatjaid |
3rd person sing. | hata hatja |
hatai hatjai |
1st person plural | hatunk | hataink hatjaink |
2nd person plural | hatotok | hataitok hatjaitok |
3rd person plural | hatuk hatjuk |
hataik hatjaik |
Derived termsEdit
(Non-institutionalized adjectival compounds with single-element numerals [excerpt]):
hatezres, hatmilliós, hatmilliárdos, hatbilliós; hatméteres, hatcentis, hatkilós, hatdekás, hatgrammos, hattonnás, hatliteres; hatwattos, hatamperes; hatperces, hatórás, hatórai, hatórányi, hatnapi, hatnapos, hathetes, hatheti, hatéves, hatévi, hathavi; hatpercenként, hatóránként, hatnaponta, hatnaponként, hathetente, hathetenként, hathavonta, hathavonként, hatévente, hatévenként; hatfokos, hatfokú, hatirányú, hatoldalas, hatoldalú, hatkötetes, hatdimenziós, hatszázalékos, hatkerekű, hatfős, hatfőnyi, hatnyelvű, hatgyerekes / hatgyermekes, hattagú, hatelemű, hatrészes, hatemeletes, hatrétegű, hatszintes, hatablakos, hatajtós, hatüléses, hatjegyű, hatpontos, hatszavas, hatbetűs, hatsoros; hatforintos, hatdolláros, hateurós; hatlábú, hatágú, hatfejű, hatkezű, hatkarú, hatszemű, hatfülű, hatlevelű.
Etymology 2Edit
[after 1372] From Proto-Uralic *kattɜ- (“to penetrate, go ahead, move somewhere”). The suffix -hat/-het originated from this verb.[1]
VerbEdit
hat
- (intransitive, obsolete) to get, arrive at, pass, progress towards (a certain location)
- 1863, János Arany, Rege a csodaszarvasról (The Legend of the Wondrous Hunt, translated by E.D. Butler)
- Süppedékes mély tavaknak / Szigetére ők behatnak.
- An island fair to reach, they pass / Through treacherous pool and deep morass.
- Süppedékes mély tavaknak / Szigetére ők behatnak.
- 1863, János Arany, Rege a csodaszarvasról (The Legend of the Wondrous Hunt, translated by E.D. Butler)
- (intransitive, archaic or literary) to enter, penetrate
- Synonym: hatol
- (intransitive) to take effect, to be effective, to work
- (intransitive) to affect, to have influence, to act (on something -ra/-re)
- Synonyms: kihat, érint, befolyásol
- (intransitive) to seem, appear (as something -nak/-nek)
ConjugationEdit
1st person sg | 2nd person sg informal |
3rd person sg, 2nd p. sg formal |
1st person pl | 2nd person pl informal |
3rd person pl, 2nd p. pl formal | |||
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Indicative mood |
Present | Indef. | hatok | hatsz | hat | hatunk | hattok | hatnak |
Def. | intransitive verb, definite forms are not used | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Past | Indef. | hatottam | hatottál | hatott | hatottunk | hatottatok | hatottak | |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Conditional mood |
Present | Indef. | hatnék | hatnál | hatna | hatnánk | hatnátok | hatnának |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Subjunctive mood |
Present | Indef. | hassak | hass or hassál |
hasson | hassunk | hassatok | hassanak |
Def. | ― | |||||||
2nd-p. o. | ― | |||||||
Infinitive | hatni | hatnom | hatnod | hatnia | hatnunk | hatnotok | hatniuk | |
Other nonfinite verb forms |
Verbal noun | Present participle | Past participle | Future part. | Adverbial part. | Potential | ||
hatás | ható | hatott | ― | hatva | hathat |
Derived termsEdit
(With verbal prefixes):
ReferencesEdit
- ^ hat in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN. (See also its 2nd edition.)
Further readingEdit
- (six): hat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
- (to take effect): hat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
IrishEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hat
- h-prothesized form of at
VerbEdit
hat
- h-prothesized form of at
KholosiEdit
EtymologyEdit
NounEdit
hat ?
ReferencesEdit
- Eric Anonby; Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014), “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx[3], pages 13-36
LuxembourgishEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
hat
- inflection of hunn:
VerbEdit
hat
- inflection of haen:
MaricopaEdit
NounEdit
hat (plural haat)
Middle EnglishEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old English hæt, hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
- A hat or cap; a piece of headgear or headwear.
- A helmet; a hat used as armour.
- (rare) A circlet or tiara; a ring-shaped piece of headgear.
- (rare) A circle of foam or mist.
- (rare) A area of hilly woodland.
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “hat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-18.
Etymology 2Edit
NounEdit
hat
- Alternative form of hate
North FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Frisian hit.
PronounEdit
hat
Norwegian BokmålEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.
NounEdit
hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata or hatene)
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
- hate (verb)
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
hat
- imperative of hate
ReferencesEdit
- “hat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
hat
- imperative of hate
ReferencesEdit
- “hat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Proto-West Germanic *hait.
AdjectiveEdit
hāt
DeclensionEdit
Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
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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, hāte | hāt |
Accusative | hāte | hāta, hāte | hāt |
Genitive | hātra | hātra | hātra |
Dative | hātum | hātum | hātum |
Instrumental | hātum | hātum | hātum |
Derived termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
From hātan.
NounEdit
hāt n
- a promise
DeclensionEdit
SynonymsEdit
- ġehāt (much more common)
SwedishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hat n (uncountable)
DeclensionEdit
Declension of hat | ||||
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Uncountable | ||||
Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | hat | hatet | — | — |
Genitive | hats | hatets | — | — |
Related termsEdit
Tok PisinEdit
Etymology 1Edit
NounEdit
hat
Etymology 2Edit
AdverbEdit
hat
- hard
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:
- Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”
Related termsEdit
TurkishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Ottoman Turkish خط, from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ).
NounEdit
hat (definite accusative hattı, plural hatlar)
- line
- Sigfried hattı ― Siegfried line
- writing
DeclensionEdit
Inflection | ||
---|---|---|
Nominative | hat | |
Definite accusative | hattı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | hat | hatlar |
Definite accusative | hattı | hatları |
Dative | hatta | hatlara |
Locative | hatta | hatlarda |
Ablative | hattan | hatlardan |
Genitive | hattın | hatların |
TurkmenEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ).
NounEdit
hat (definite accusative haty, plural hatlar)
- letter (written message)