tatta

See also: Tatta, tättä, and tåtta

English

Etymology

Noun

tatta (plural tattas)

(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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

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

tatta m

(Luserna) father
Synonym: vatar

References

Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

(slang, sometimes derogatory) an autochthonous Dutch person
Synonym: bakra

Japanese

Romanization

tatta

Rōmaji transcription of たった

Pali

Alternative scripts

𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
तत्त (Devanagari script)
তত্ত (Bengali script)
තත‍්ත (Sinhalese script)
တတ္တ or တတ်တ (Burmese script)
ตตฺต or ตัตตะ (Thai script)
ᨲᨲ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
ຕຕ຺ຕ or ຕັຕຕະ (Lao script)
តត្ត (Khmer script)
𑄖𑄖𑄴𑄖 (Chakma script)

Etymology 1

Inherited from Sanskrit तप्त (taptá). Cognate with Prakrit 𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (tatta).

Adjective

tatta

hot, heated, glowing

Declension

Declension table of "tatta" (masculine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	tatto	tattā
Accusative (second)	tattaṃ	tatte
Instrumental (third)	tattena	tattehi or tattebhi
Dative (fourth)	tattassa or tattāya or tattatthaṃ	tattānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	tattasmā or tattamhā or tattā	tattehi or tattebhi
Genitive (sixth)	tattassa	tattānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	tattasmiṃ or tattamhi or tatte	tattesu
Vocative (calling)	tatta	tattā

Declension table of "tattā" (feminine)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	tattā	tattāyo or tattā
Accusative (second)	tattaṃ	tattāyo or tattā
Instrumental (third)	tattāya	tattāhi or tattābhi
Dative (fourth)	tattāya	tattānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	tattāya	tattāhi or tattābhi
Genitive (sixth)	tattāya	tattānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	tattāya or tattāyaṃ	tattāsu
Vocative (calling)	tatte	tattāyo or tattā

Declension table of "tatta" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	tattaṃ	tattāni
Accusative (second)	tattaṃ	tattāni
Instrumental (third)	tattena	tattehi or tattebhi
Dative (fourth)	tattassa or tattāya or tattatthaṃ	tattānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	tattasmā or tattamhā or tattā	tattehi or tattebhi
Genitive (sixth)	tattassa	tattānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	tattasmiṃ or tattamhi or tatte	tattesu
Vocative (calling)	tatta	tattāni

Etymology 2

Inherited from Sanskrit तत्व (tatva). Cognate with Prakrit 𑀢𑀢𑁆𑀢 (tatta).

Noun

tatta n

truth

Declension

Declension table of "tatta" (neuter)

Case \ Number	Singular	Plural
Nominative (first)	tattaṃ	tattāni
Accusative (second)	tattaṃ	tattāni
Instrumental (third)	tattena	tattehi or tattebhi
Dative (fourth)	tattassa or tattāya or tattatthaṃ	tattānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)	tattasmā or tattamhā or tattā	tattehi or tattebhi
Genitive (sixth)	tattassa	tattānaṃ
Locative (seventh)	tattasmiṃ or tattamhi or tatte	tattesu
Vocative (calling)	tatta	tattāni

References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “tatta”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead, page 295
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tattva”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 321
Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tapta”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 323

Swedish

Etymology

Back-formation from tattare (“Traveller, Gypsy”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²tatːa/

Verb

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

(slang, offensive) to steal, gyp

Conjugation

Conjugation of tatta (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	tatta		tattas
Supine	tattat		tattats
Imperative	tatta		—
Imper. plural¹	tatten		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	tattar	tattade	tattas	tattades
Ind. plural¹	tatta	tattade	tattas	tattades
Subjunctive²	tatte	tattade	tattes	tattades
	Participles
Present participle	tattande
Past participle	tattad
¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.