nat

Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).

• IPA^(key): /nɑːt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt

nat (plural nats)

1. A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.
   • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175:

     They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness.

Reduced form of naught.

nat (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Not. [14th–17th c.]
   • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheard's Pipe:

     And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there.

Abbreviation of natural logarithm.

nat (plural nats)

1. A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.

• nit, nepit

• bit, nat, qubit

nat (plural nats)

1. (colloquial, US) Clipping of natatorium.

• -ant, ANT, Ant, Ant., NTA, TAN, TNA, Tan, a'n't, an't, ant, ant-, ant., tan

From Latin nātus (“born”). Compare Romanian nat (“personal, individual”).

nat m

1. child

• nascu

Inherited from Old Catalan nat, from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“begotten, produced”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth”).

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈnat]
• Rhymes: -at

nat (feminine nada, masculine plural nats, feminine plural nades)

1. born

   Synonym: nascut

• nounat

• “nat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “nat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “nat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “nat” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From Old Danish nat, from Old Norse nátt, nótt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

• IPA^(key): /nad̥/

nat c (singular definite natten, plural indefinite nætter)

1. night (period between sunset and sunrise)

• natlig

• “nat” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch nat, from Old Dutch nat, from Proto-West Germanic *nat, from Proto-Germanic *nataz.

• IPA^(key): /nɑt/

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• Hyphenation: nat
• Rhymes: -ɑt

nat (comparative natter, superlative natst)

1. wet

   Na de regen was het gras nat en modderig.

   After the rain, the grass was wet and muddy.

   Trek een jas aan, anders word je nat in de regen.

   Put on a coat, or you'll get wet in the rain.

   De hond kwam terug van zijn wandeling met natte poten.

   The dog came back from his walk with wet paws.

   We moesten schuilen voor de natte sneeuw.

   We had to take shelter from the wet snow.

   De kinderen kwamen binnen met natte kleren na het spelen in de regen.

   The children came inside with wet clothes after playing in the rain.

• droog

• doornat
• natregenen
• nattevingerwerk
• zeiknat

• Berbice Creole Dutch: nati
• Negerhollands: nat
• Skepi Creole Dutch: nat
• → Aukan: nati

nat n (uncountable)

1. moisture

• IPA^(key): /nat˧˩/

nat

1. to burn

Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t) (“ill; evil spirit”).

• IPA^(key): /nat˥˥/

nat

1. ghost; god; spirit

• Xu, Xijian (徐悉艰), Xiao, Jiacheng (肖家成), Yue, Xiangkun (岳相昆), Dai, Qingxia (戴庆厦) (1983 December) “nat”, in 景汉辞典 [Jingpho-Chinese Dictionary], Kunming: Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House, page 557

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /nat/, [nät̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /nat/, [nät̪]

nat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of nō

nat

1. rain

nat

1. Alternative form of not
   • 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boethius and Troilus

     And at the laste, yif that any wight wene a thing to ben other weyes thanne it is, it is nat only unscience, but it is deceivable opinioun ful diverse and fer fro the sothe of science.

nat

1. Alternative form of not

• IPA^(key): /nɑːt/

nāt

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of nytan

From Old Norse nátt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts.

nāt f

1. night

• Swedish: natt

Inherited from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“begotten, produced”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth”). The meaning in Romanian developed from that of "offspring" or "progeny" in relation to the parent. Compare Aromanian nat (“child”), also Occitan nada (“girl”).

nat m (plural nați)

1. (uncommon, popular) person, individual

   Synonyms: om, persoană, individ, ins

2. (uncommon, popular) kinsman, relative

   Synonyms: rudă, rudenie

• naște

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t).

nat

1. spirit

• Stephen Morey, The Singpho Agentive – Functions and Meanings (2012), p. 12

• IPA^(key): /nätʰ/

nat

1. deep

   ti nat uk'ume ― the deep stream

(Verbs)

• natij

(Adjectives)

• natik

(Adjectives & Nouns)

• natil

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

From Middle English nat.

• IPA^(key): /nat/

nat

1. not
   • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:

     Gooude var nat oan dhing, niether treesh ar thraame;

     Good for not one thing; neither for the trace, nor the car.

• nad (“had not”)

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 58