Saterland Frisian

Noun

Gat n ‎(plural Goate or Goatere)

1. hole

English

Noun

gat ‎(plural gats)

1. (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
2. (slang, 1920's gangster) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
   • 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep.

     You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.

   • 1988, N.W.A, Straight Outta Compton

     Goin' off on a **** like that

     With a gat that's pointed at yo ass

Translations

Verb

gat ‎(third-person singular simple present gats, present participle gatting, simple past and past participle gatted)

1. (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
   • 2000, George Nelson, One Woman Short, page 27:

     He in a black suit in a coffin, gatted by a junkie for his fake Rolex watch at a taco stand on Western.

   • 2002, Brian A. Massey, Shadow Clock‎, page 293:

     Vance's death scene would have a racy romantic glamour, sort of like Dillinger gatted at the Biograph, Pretty Boy slain in the cornfield, Bonnie and Clyde ambushed in their Ford Roadster.

   • 2005, Lewis Grossberger, Turn that down!, page 198:

     Fact I was chillin' with Notorious BIG when he got gatted. It was a accident. Biggie got in front of my Glock when I was bustin' slugs at some mothaf***a.

Etymology 2

From guitar, by shortening

Noun

gat ‎(plural gats)

1. (New Zealand, slang) A guitar

Etymology 3

Verb

gat

1. (Scottish and Northern English, or archaic) simple past tense of get

   And Abraham gat up early in the morning (Genesis 19²⁷)

Anagrams

• GTA, tag, TGA

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gat ‎(“hole”).

Noun

gat ‎(plural gate, diminutive gaatjie)

1. hole; perforation
2. gap; opening

   Hy't 'n gat in sy opvoeding.‎

   He has a gap in his education.

3. hole or hollowed out area used as a shelter or home by animals
4. (figuratively) dump; a run-down living space, room or house

   Jinne! Jy bly in 'n gat!‎

   Man! You live in a dump!

5. (golf) hole; cup

Derived terms

• gatvol

Synonyms

• (gap): gaping
• (golf): putjie

Noun

gat ‎(plural gatte, diminutive gatjie)

1. (vulgar) anus
2. (crude) rump; buttocks; bum; ass; backside of a human

   Sit op jou gat!‎

   Sit on your ass!

3. the backside of animals or objects

   Die olifant staan met sy gat na ons toe.‎

   The elephant is standing with his backside turned to us.

Derived terms

• gatkant
• kaalgat

Synonyms

• (backside, ass): agterstewe, blaker, stert
• (anus): hol, poephol

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡat/
• Rhymes: -at

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus ‎(“cat”).

Noun

gat m ‎(plural gats, feminine gata)

1. cat (feline animal)
2. jack (device for lifting heavy objects)
3. cat shark

Synonyms

• mix
• moix

Derived terms

• agafar el gat
• esgatinyar-se
• donar gat per llebre
• el gat i la rata
• estar com el gat i el gos
• gat cerval
• gat d'algàlia
• gat de mar
• gat dels frares
• gat escaldat amb aigua tèbia en té prou
• gat fer
• gat mesquer
• gat salvatge
• gatada
• gatinada
• gatinyar-se
• gatonera
• haver-hi gat amagat
• quatre gats
• semblar un gat escorxat
• tenir el gat

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɑt

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

Noun

gat n ‎(plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)

1. A gap, hole
2. A godforsaken place, hamlet
3. (vulgar) An arsehole
4. (archaic) A port

Synonyms

• (hole): hol, opening
• (godforsaken place): uithoek, midden van nergens

Derived terms

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

Noun

gat n ‎(genitive singular gats, nominative plural göt)

1. hole, perforation (an opening through a solid body)

   Hann notaði skóna þangað til komið var gat á þá.‎

   He used the shoes until they had got a hole in them.

2. (colloquial, school) a gap in a fixed schedule, an unassigned time in the schedule, usually between classes; break, free period

   Ég er í gati milli níu og hálfellefu á fimmtudögum.‎

   I have a break between nine and half past ten on Thursdays.

Declension

Derived terms

• standa á gati (to be unable to answer a question, to be at a loss)
• reka einhvern á gat (to stump somebody, to ask somebody a question he cannot answer)

Verb

gat

1. first-person singular active present indicative of geta

   Ég gat ekki stöðvað hana.

   I couldn't stop her.

2. third-person singular active present indicative of geta

Lojban

Rafsi

gat

1. rafsi of gasta.

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gatь ‎(“dike”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian hat, Polish gać, Serbo-Croatian gat ‎(“ditch, dam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡat]

Noun

gat m ‎(diminutive gaśik)

1. pond
2. dam, embankment

Declension

Derived terms

• gatny
• gatojski
• pódgataŕ
• pódgatki

Occitan

Alternative forms

• cat

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡat]

Noun

gat m (plural gats, feminine gata, feminine plural gatas)

1. A cat

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gaits, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰaid-. Cognate with Old Saxon gēt, Old High German geiz (German Geiß), Old Norse geit (Danish ged, Swedish get), Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 ‎(gaits); and with Latin haedus ‎(“kid”).

Pronunciation

Noun

gāt f

1. A (female) goat, nanny-goat

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: gote, goot, got, gat
  • Scots: gait, gayt
  • English: goat

See also

• bucca

Romagnol

E’ gat

Etymology

From Latin cattus ‎(“cat”), from Late Egyptian čaute, feminine of čaus ‎(“jungle cat; African wildcat”), from earlier tešau ‎(“female cat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡat/, [ˈɡaɐ̯t]

Noun

gat m ‎(plural ghét)

1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)
   • December 2007, Vincenzo Sanchini, Tigrin e Biancon in la Ludla, il Papiro, page 8:

     S'i padrùn gio tla pianura,\ chi por gat j è armast te' ghét,\ in s'è mòs da meda tl'éra,\ a raspè mla porta tchjusa.

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Puter, Vallader) giat

Noun

gat m (plural gats)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) cat

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gatь ‎(“dike”). Cognate with Upper Sorbian hat, Polish gać, Lower Sorbian gat ‎(“pond, dam”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡât/

Noun

gȁt m ‎(Cyrillic spelling га̏т)

1. ditch
2. dam

Declension

References

• “gat” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

• igat

Etymology

From English got.

Verb

gat

1. have
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:20 (translation here):

     Bihain God i tok olsem, “Solwara i mas pulap long ol kain kain samting i gat laip. Na ol pisin i mas kamap na flai nabaut long skai.”

Derived terms

• gat bel
• igat
• nogat

Venetian

Dei gati

Etymology

From Latin cattus ‎(“cat”), from Late Egyptian čaute, feminine of čaus ‎(“jungle cat; African wildcat”), from earlier tešau ‎(“female cat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡat/
• Hyphenation: gàt

Noun

gat m ‎(plural gati)

1. cat (Felis silvestris catus, a domesticated feline commonly kept as a house pet)