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Tata

Tata

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tata"

English

Proper noun

Tata

  1. A surname. of famous people in India.

tata

tata

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tata"

English

Interjection

tata

  1. Alternative form of ta ta

Etymology 2

From French tette, of Germanic origin, and/or Old English titt. Confer Dutch tiet and German Zitze.

Noun

tata (plural tatas)

  1. (slang) Breast.

Anagrams


Amanab

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑtɑ/

Noun

tata

  1. pig

Cebuano

Pronunciation 1

  • (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /t̪at̪a/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Etymology 1

Compare tatay.

Noun

tata

  1. A familiar address to one's father.

Pronunciation 2

  • (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈt̪aˈt̪a/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Etymology 2

Reduplication of ta, from initial clipping of bata.

Noun

tata

  1. (childish) A familiar address to a child.

Pronunciation 3

  • (General Cebuano) IPA(key): /ˈt̪aʔˈt̪aʔ/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Etymology 3

Compare tastas

Verb

tata

  1. To wear out.

Central Tarahumara

Noun

tata

  1. father

Classical Nahuatl

Etymology

Perhaps imitative, though compare tahtli (father) and Spanish taita (dad).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈta.ta]

Noun

tata (animate)

  1. A child's word for his father; dad, daddy.

Synonyms

References

  • Alonso de Molina (1571) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, pages 11v, 91r

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tata

  1. elder sister

French

Noun

tata f (plural tatas)

  1. (childish) auntie

Noun

tata m (plural tatas)

  1. (chiefly Canada, vulgar) imbecile, idiot, bastard, wanker, dickhead

Guaraní

Noun

tata

  1. fire

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtɒtɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Noun

tata (plural taták)

  1. uncle (used to call old men in a manner of humour)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tata taták
accusative tatát tatákat
dative tatának tatáknak
instrumental tatával tatákkal
causal-final tatáért tatákért
translative tatává tatákká
terminative tatáig tatákig
essive-formal tataként tatákként
essive-modal
inessive tatában tatákban
superessive tatán tatákon
adessive tatánál tatáknál
illative tatába tatákba
sublative tatára tatákra
allative tatához tatákhoz
elative tatából tatákból
delative tatáról tatákról
ablative tatától tatáktól
Possessive forms of tata
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tatám tatáim
2nd person sing. tatád tatáid
3rd person sing. tatája tatái
1st person plural tatánk tatáink
2nd person plural tatátok tatáitok
3rd person plural tatájuk tatáik

Indonesian

Noun

tata

  1. order
  2. arrangement
  3. system

Italian

Noun

tata f (plural tate)

  1. governess (or any young woman looking after children)
  2. big sister

Anagrams


Latin

Etymology

Onomatopoeic, mimicking baby talk. Compare the similar atta, and also Cornish tat, tas, Breton tad, Ancient Greek τατᾶ (tatâ), τέττα (tétta), Bulgarian та́тко (tátko), Sanskrit तात (tāta).

Pronunciation

Noun

tata m (genitive tatae); first declension

  1. daddy, a term used by children for their father

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative tata tatae
genitive tatae tatārum
dative tatae tatīs
accusative tatam tatās
ablative tatā tatīs
vocative tata tatae

Descendants

References


Lingala

Noun

tata class 1a

  1. father

Molise Croatian

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian tata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tâːtḁ/

Noun

tata m

  1. dad, father

Declension

References

  • Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

Neapolitan

Etymology

From Latin tata.

Noun

tata

  1. father, dad

Synonyms


Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt̪at̪a/

Noun

tata m pers

  1. (informal) dad

Declension

Synonyms


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tata.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tâta/
  • Hyphenation: ta‧ta

Noun

tȁta m (Cyrillic spelling та̏та)

  1. dad, daddy

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tata. Compare taita.

Noun

tata m (plural tatas)

  1. (dialectal, colloquial, El Salvador) father, daddy

Etymology

From Spanish teta.

Noun

tata m (plural tatas)

  1. (colloquial, vulgar) (chiefly in the plural) breasts

Swahili

Verb

-tata (infinitive kutata)

  1. to tangle

Conjugation

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