See also: Tatta, tättä, and tåtta

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Etymology edit

Hindi

Noun edit

tatta (plural tattas)

  1. (India) A bamboo frame or trellis hung at a door or window of a house, over which water is allowed to trickle, in order to moisten and cool the air as it enters.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for tatta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Cimbrian edit

Etymology edit

Probably from Italian tata, from Latin tata (dad, daddy), of onomatopoeic origin. Alternatively from Middle High German tate (father), from Old High German *tato, from Proto-West Germanic *dadō (father, dad).

Noun edit

tatta m

  1. (Luserna) father
    Synonym: vatar

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Dutch edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo Ptata (Dutch person), from ptata (potato, fries). Doublet of patat and bataat.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑ.taː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: tat‧ta

Noun edit

tatta m (plural tatta's, diminutive tattaatje n)

  1. (slang, sometimes derogatory) An autochthonous Dutch person.
    Synonym: bakra

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

tatta

  1. Rōmaji transcription of たった

Pali edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Sanskrit तप्त (taptá).

Adjective edit

tatta

  1. hot, heated, glowing

Declension edit

References edit

  • Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “tatta”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

Back-formation from tattare (Traveller, Gypsy).

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Verb edit

tatta (present tattar, preterite tattade, supine tattat, imperative tatta)

  1. (slang, offensive) to steal, gyp

Conjugation edit