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Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).

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nat (plural nats)

  1. A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175:
      They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness.

Etymology 2 edit

Reduced form of naught.

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nat (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Not. [14th–17th c.]
    • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheard's Pipe:
      And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there.

Etymology 3 edit

Abbreviation of natural logarithm.

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nat (plural nats)

  1. A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.
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Etymology 4 edit

Noun edit

nat (plural nats)

  1. (colloquial, US) Clipping of natatorium.

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Aromanian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin nātus (born). Compare Romanian nat (personal, individual).

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nat m

  1. child

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Catalan edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Catalan nat, from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (begotten, produced), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (to beget, give birth).

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nat (feminine nada, masculine plural nats, feminine plural nades)

  1. born
    Synonym: nascut

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Danish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Danish nat, from Old Norse nátt, nótt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

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nat c (singular definite natten, plural indefinite nætter)

  1. night (period between sunset and sunrise)

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Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch nat, from Old Dutch nat, from Proto-West Germanic *nat, from Proto-Germanic *nataz.

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  • IPA(key): /nɑt/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: nat
  • Rhymes: -ɑt

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nat (comparative natter, superlative natst)

  1. wet
    Na de regen was het gras nat en modderig.
    After the rain, the grass was wet and muddy.
    Trek een jas aan, anders word je nat in de regen.
    Put on a coat, or you'll get wet in the rain.
    De hond kwam terug van zijn wandeling met natte poten.
    The dog came back from his walk with wet paws.
    We moesten schuilen voor de natte sneeuw.
    We had to take shelter from the wet snow.
    De kinderen kwamen binnen met natte kleren na het spelen in de regen.
    The children came inside with wet clothes after playing in the rain.

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Inflection of nat
uninflected nat
inflected natte
comparative natter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial nat natter het natst
het natste
indefinite m./f. sing. natte nattere natste
n. sing. nat natter natste
plural natte nattere natste
definite natte nattere natste
partitive nats natters

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  • Berbice Creole Dutch: nati
  • Negerhollands: nat
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: nat
  • Aukan: nati

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nat n (uncountable)

  1. moisture

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Etymology 1 edit

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nat

  1. to burn

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t) (ill; evil spirit).

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nat

  1. ghost; god; spirit

References edit

  • Xu, Xijian (徐悉艰); Xiao, Jiacheng (肖家成); Yue, Xiangkun (岳相昆); Dai, Qingxia (戴庆厦) (1983-12), “nat”, in 景汉辞典 [Jingpho-Chinese Dictionary], Kunming: Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House, page 557

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nat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of

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nat

  1. rain

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Adverb edit

nat

  1. Alternative form of not
    • 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boethius and Troilus
      And at the laste, yif that any wight wene a thing to ben other weyes thanne it is, it is nat only unscience, but it is deceivable opinioun ful diverse and fer fro the sothe of science.

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nat

  1. Alternative form of not

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nāt

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of nytan

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Etymology edit

From Old Norse nátt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts.

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nāt f

  1. night

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Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (begotten, produced), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (to beget, give birth). The meaning in Romanian developed from that of "offspring" or "progeny" in relation to the parent. Compare Aromanian nat (child), also Occitan nada (girl).

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nat m (plural nați)

  1. (uncommon, popular) person, individual
    Synonyms: om, persoană, individ, ins
  2. (uncommon, popular) kinsman, relative
    Synonyms: rudă, rudenie

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Singpho edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t).

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nat

  1. spirit

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nat

  1. deep
    ti nat uk'umethe deep stream

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Etymology edit

From Middle English nat.

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nat

  1. not
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
      Gooude var nat oan dhing, niether treesh ar thraame;
      Good for not one thing; neither for the trace, nor the car.

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  • Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 58