English

Noun

hat ‎(plural hats)

1. A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone or a cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
   • 1915, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger, chapter II:

     There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

2. (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
   • 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation (2000), ISBN 978-0-634-00927-3, p.121:

     My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.

3. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which numbers/names are pulled out in a lottery.
   1. (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.

      We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.‎

4. (video games) A hat switch.
   • 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, p.139:

     The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.

5. (typography, nonstandard, rare) = háček
   • 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <34390399.BD7@umich.edu>#1/1

     I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”

6. (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:headgear

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• take one's hat off to

Verb

hat ‎(third-person singular simple present hats, present participle hatting, simple past and past participle hatted)

1. (transitive) To place a hat on.
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

     After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.

2. (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
   • 1929, "Five New Hats," Time, 2 December, 1929,

     It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.

Etymology 2

Verb

hat

1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past tense of hit

   When I axed him why he hat 'im. He saidː "I ne know, I ne know, mate".‎

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• aht
• tha

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hattr, hǫttr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [had̥]

Noun

hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)

1. hat

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hat/
• Rhymes: -at

Verb

hat

1. Third-person singular present of haben.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhɒt]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *kutte ‎(“six”). Cognates include Finnish kuusi, Mansi хо̄т ‎(hōt), Khanty хәт ‎(xət).

Numeral

hat

1. (cardinal) six

Declension

Derived terms

• hatodik
• hatos
• hatszor
• hatszoros

See also

• öt < 6 < hét

Etymology 2

Verb

hat

1. affect, have influence
2. seem like

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (seem): tűnik

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

• kihat
• meghat
• visszahat

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hat̪ˠ/

Noun

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

Verb

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

Luxembourgish

Verb

hat

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of hunn
2. third-person singular preterite indicative of hunn
3. second-person plural preterite indicative of hunn

Verb

hat

1. second-person plural present indicative of haen
2. second-person plural imperative of haen

Maricopa

Noun

hat ‎(plural haat)

1. dog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

Noun

hat n ‎(definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata or hatene)

1. hatred, hate

Related terms

• hate (verb)

Derived terms

• hatefull

Etymology 2

Verb

hat

1. imperative of hate

References

• “hat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

Noun

hat n ‎(definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata)

1. hatred, hate

Old English

Pronunciation

From Proto-Germanic *haitaz. Cognate with Old Frisian hēt (West Frisian hjit, Old Saxon hēt, Dutch heet, Old High German heiz (German heiß), Old Norse heitr (Swedish het). Cognate to Albanian ethe ‎(“shiver, fiever”), dialectal hethe and ith ‎(“warmth, body heat”), dialectal hith.

Adjective

hāt

1. hot, fierce

   Ðeos wyrt byþ cenned on hatum stowum‎ ― This plant is grown in hot places.

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hot, hat
  • English: hot
  • Scots: hat, hait, hate

Etymology 2

From Old English hātan.

Noun

hāt n

1. a promise

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɑːt/

Noun

hat n ‎(uncountable)

1. hatred, haught

Declension

Related terms

• hata
• hatbrott
• judehat
• rashat

Tok Pisin

Etymology 1

From English hat.

Noun

hat

1. hat

Etymology 2

From English hard.

Adverb

hat

1. hard
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 3:19 (translation here):

     Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”

Related terms

• hatpela
• hatwok

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic خَطّ ‎(ḵaṭṭ).

Noun

hat ‎(definite accusative }}}, plural }}})

1. line
2. writing

Turkmen

Etymology

Borrowing from Arabic خَطّ ‎(ḵaṭṭ).

Noun

hat ‎(definite accusative }}}, plural }}})

1. letter (written message)