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4-letter words (2 found)

ANTA,TANA,

3-letter words (4 found)

ANA,ANT,NAT,TAN,

2-letter words (5 found)

AA,AN,AT,NA,TA,

You can make 11 words from anta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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anta nata atna tana ntaa tnaa anat naat aant aant naat anat atan taan aatn aatn taan atan ntaa tnaa nata anta tana atna

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Definitions and meaning of anta

anta

Etymology

From Latin antae (“pilasters”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæn.tə/

Noun

anta (plural antae or antas)

  1. (architecture) A kind of pier that terminates the walls of the naos, a kind of post or pillar on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple.

Related terms

  • in antis

Translations

References

  • “anta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • AANT, Anat, Nata, Tana, anat., naat, taan, tana

Galician

Alternative forms

  • ante

Etymology

Probably from Latin antae (“jamb”); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈanta̝/

Noun

anta m (plural antas)

  1. dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark
    Synonyms: arca, forno
  2. large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls
    Synonym: chanto

Derived terms

  • Anta
  • Antas
  • Antas de Ulla
  • Antela
  • Antelo

References

  • “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “anta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “anta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “anta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Hausa

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʔán.tàː/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʔán.tàː]

Noun

antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)

  1. Alternative spelling of hanta

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈanta/
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit अन्त (antá, “disposition, essence”).

Noun

anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)

  1. (archaic) character, nature.
    Synonyms: sifat, tabiat

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta, “you”).

Pronoun

anta

  1. (informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours
Alternative forms
Synonyms

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

  • anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • coen (slang, East Java)
  • ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • kamu (intimate)
  • ko, kowe (informal, Java)
  • kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
  • lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

Etymology 3

From Belitung Malay [Term?].

Noun

anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)

  1. rice dirt.

Further reading

  • “anta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈan.ta/
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Hyphenation: àn‧ta

Etymology 1

From Latin antae f pl.

Noun

anta f (plural ante)

  1. door (of furniture)
  2. shutter (of window)
  3. sash (of window)
  4. panel
Synonyms
  • sportello
  • pannello

Etymology 2

From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (“forty”), cinquanta (“fifty”), sessanta (“sixty”), settanta (“seventy”), ottanta (“eighty”), and novanta (“ninety”).

Noun

anta m pl (plural only)

  1. (informal) forties, fifties, sixties, ... (in someone's age)

Anagrams

  • Tana, nata, tana

Japanese

Romanization

anta

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あんた

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *antadak. Cognates include Finnish antaa and Veps antta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑntɑ/
  • Rhymes: -ɑntɑ
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta

Verb

anta

  1. (transitive) to give
  2. (auxiliary) to allow

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References

  • Juho Kujola (1944) Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 10
  • M. Pahomov (2022) “anta”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎[1], Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 16

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

an- +‎ ta; from Danish antage. Calque of German annehmen.

Verb

anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)

  1. to assume, presume
  2. to accept, approve

Derived terms

  • antagelig, antakelig
  • antagelse, antakelse

References

  • “anta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit अन्त (anta).

Noun

anta m or n

  1. end
  2. goal
  3. top

Declension

Derived terms

  • kāranta (“final sound of word”)

Noun

anta n

  1. intestine, tharm

Declension

Descendants

  • Khmer: អន្តៈ (ʼɑntaʼ)

References

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antae.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈan.ta/
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Syllabification: an‧ta

Noun

anta f

  1. (architecture, Ancient Greece) anta

Declension

Further reading

  • anta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Homophone: Anta
  • Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese anta, borrowed from Latin antās pl.

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

  1. (architecture) anta
  2. (archaeology) dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)
    Synonym: dólmen
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Arabic لَمْتَة (lamta).

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

  1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)
    Synonym: tapir

Noun

anta m or f by sense (plural antas)

  1. (Brazil, figuratively) a stupid person

Spanish

Etymology

From ante.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈanta/ [ˈãn̪.t̪a]
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Syllabification: an‧ta

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

  1. female equivalent of ante; moose, elk
  2. (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)
    Synonyms: tapir, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

Further reading

  • “anta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake.

Pronunciation

Verb

anta (present antar, preterite antog, supine antagit, imperative anta)

  1. to assume, to suppose
  2. to guess, to suppose
  3. to accept an offer
  4. (especially in the past participle) to accept (to a school, etc.)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • antagning
  • antagande

References

  • anta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • anta in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
  • anta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
  • anta in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

Anagrams

  • anat, anat.

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog)
    • IPA(key): /ʔanˈta/, [ʔɐnˈta]
    • IPA(key): /ˈʔanta/, [ˈʔan.tɐ]
  • Rhymes: -a, -anta
  • Syllabification: an‧ta

Noun

antá or anta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜆ)

  1. rancidity; rancid odor
    Synonym: (Marinduque) angal

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “anta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈɑntɑː/, [ˈɑntɑ]
  • Rhymes: -ɑntɑː
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta

Verb

anta

  1. to give

Inflection

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Japanese あんた (anta).

Pronoun

anta

  1. you (second person singular pronoun)

Synonyms

  • nta

Derived terms

  • antataci

References

  • Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎[2], pages 513-532
  • Chien Yuehchen (2018) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの人称代名詞”, in 日本語の研究‎[3], volume 14, number 4

Yoruba

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /à.ŋ̀.tà/

Noun

àǹtà

  1. savannah monitor

Related terms

  • awọ́nrínwọ́n
  • awọ̀n
  • àlégbà

Source: wiktionary.org