taa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "taa"

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin (, “pagoda”).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

  1. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.

Etymology 2

From Arabic تَاء (tāʔ).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

  1. The letter ت in the Arabic script.

Interjection

taa

  1. Alternative form of ta (thanks)

Anagrams

Aukan

Etymology 1

From English other.

Adjective

taa

  1. other; another
    taa deianother day, another (some other) time
Derived terms
  • taa taa (different)

Etymology 2

From English tar.

Noun

taa

  1. tar (black substance; pitch)

References

Esperanto

Etymology

Ultimately from ǃXóõ tâa ǂàã (literally people's language).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtaa]
  • Rhymes: -aa
  • Hyphenation: ta‧a

Adjective

taa (accusative singular taan, plural taaj, accusative plural taajn)

  1. (la taa) clipping of la taa lingvo (the Taa language)

Finnish

Etymology

taka + -(k) (k-lative singular)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɑːˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ː(ʔ)]
  • Rhymes: -ɑː
  • Syllabification(key): taa

Postposition

taa (+ genitive) (dialectal, poetic)

  1. (of movement) (to) behind
    Se laskeutui metsän taa.It landed behind the forest.

Inflection

Cannot take a possessive suffix.

Synonyms

Antonyms

Derived terms

compounds

Further reading

Anagrams

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Eskimo *taʁu. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.

Pronunciation

Noun

taa

  1. human being

Interjection

taa

  1. listen!; what is that?; I tut!
See also: ta

References

  • DAKA
  • (noun): taa in Katersat
  • (interjection): taa in Katersat

Nzadi

Noun

tàá (plural tàá)

  1. father

Coordinate terms

Further reading

  • Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

Swahili

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑː/
  • (file)

Etymology 1

From *tala, from an unknown source (possibly Indian).

Noun

taa (n class, plural taa)

  1. lamp, light
Descendants
  • Kikuyu: tawa
  • Luganda: etaala
  • Rwanda-Rundi: itara

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).

Noun

taa (n class, plural taa)

  1. obedience
    Synonym: utii

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.

Verb

taa

  1. to chop, to cut up

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [taː]

Ideophone

taa

  1. bam, banging

References

  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “taa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
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