Tat

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tat"

English

Alternative forms

• Tati

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Turkic *tāt (“alien, stranger, pagan”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑːt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt

Noun

Tat (plural Tats or Tat)

1. A member of an Iranian people, presently living within Azerbaijan, Armenia and southern Dagestan in Russia.

Translations

member of an Iranian people

• Finnish: tati
• Tat: zuhun tati

Proper noun

Tat

1. A southwestern Iranian language spoken by the Tat people.

   Synonym: Caucasian Persian

Derived terms

• Judeo-Tat

Translations

language

• Armenian: թաթերեն (hy) (tʻatʻeren)
• Finnish: tati
• Russian: татский (ru) (tatskij)
• Tat: zuban tati, zuhun tati

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Tat, ttt ⁠

Anagrams

• AT&T, att

German

Alternative forms

• That

Etymology

From Middle High German tāt, from Old High German tāt (akin to Old Saxon dād), from Proto-West Germanic *dādi.

Compare Low German Daad/Daat, Dutch daad, English deed, Danish dåd, Gothic *𐌳𐌴𐌸𐍃 (*dēþs), and Ancient Greek θέσις (thésis, “arrangement”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːt/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -aːt
• Homophone: tat

Noun

Tat f (genitive Tat, plural Taten)

1. deed
2. act, action

   ein Mann der Tat ― a man of action

3. (law) crime, offense

Declension

Declension of Tat [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Tat	die	Taten
genitive	einer	der	Tat	der	Taten
dative	einer	der	Tat	den	Taten
accusative	eine	die	Tat	die	Taten

Hyponyms

• Beziehungstat
• Bluttat
• Gewalttat ("act of violence")
• Gräueltat
• Heldentat
• Missetat
• Schandtat ("foul or wicked deed")
• Straftat

 

Derived terms

• auf frischer Tat
• in der Tat
• tatenlos
• Täter
• Tatort
• Tatverdacht
• Untat

 

Further reading

• “Tat” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Tat” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Tat” in Duden online
• Tat on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de