tav
English edit
Noun edit
tav (plural tavs)
- Alternative form of taw (Semitic letter)
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Alternative forms edit
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tav
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Phoenician [Term?].
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
tav
- taw (twenty-second letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
Declension edit
Inflection of tav (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | tav | tavit | ||
genitive | tavin | tavien | ||
partitive | tavia | taveja | ||
illative | taviin | taveihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | tav | tavit | ||
accusative | nom. | tav | tavit | |
gen. | tavin | |||
genitive | tavin | tavien | ||
partitive | tavia | taveja | ||
inessive | tavissa | taveissa | ||
elative | tavista | taveista | ||
illative | taviin | taveihin | ||
adessive | tavilla | taveilla | ||
ablative | tavilta | taveilta | ||
allative | taville | taveille | ||
essive | tavina | taveina | ||
translative | taviksi | taveiksi | ||
abessive | tavitta | taveitta | ||
instructive | — | tavein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *tāpás, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-. Cognate with Sanskrit तपस् (tapas, “heat, fire”), Persian آفتاب (âftâb, “sun”), Persian تاب (tâb, “heat, warmth”), Ormuri تووه (“sun”), Latin tepidus (“warm”), Russian тёплый (tjóplyj, “warm”), Old Armenian տապ (tap, “heat”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Central Kurdish | هەتاو (hetaw) |
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tav f (Arabic spelling تاڤ)
References edit
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “tav”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary[1], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 597
White Hmong edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tamX (“rib”).[1]
Noun edit
tav (classifier: tus)
- (anatomy) rib
- Neeg muaj 12 tug tav. ― A human has 12 ribs.
- side, horizontal
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
tav
- to herd animals, drive animals with a stick
- Nws mus tav nyuj noj zaub. ― He herds the cows to feed on grass.
- to lay down across
- Ib tug nab pw tav kev. ― A snake laid across the trail.
- to prune, trim
- Nws tav cov ntsis zaub. ― She prunes the growth of the vegetable.
Noun edit
tav
- a period of time
- txog tav no ― until now
- tav twg? ― when?
- Tav twg kuj tau. ― Any time will be all right.
Derived terms edit
- tav su (“noon”)
References edit
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[2], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 305-6.
- Jaisser, Annie, Ratliff, Martha, Riddle, Elizabeth, Strecker, David, Vang, Lopao, Vang, Lyfu (1995) Hmong For Beginners[3], Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley, page 271.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.