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Definitions and meaning of gat

gat

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡæt/
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. (archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
2. (originally 1920s gangster slang) Any type of gun, usually a pistol.

   Synonyms: piece; see also Thesaurus:firearm

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.

Etymology 2

From guitar, by shortening.

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. (New Zealand, slang) A guitar

Etymology 3

Verb

gat

1. (Scotland and Northern England or archaic) simple past of get

Etymology 4

From Icelandic gat.

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. An opening between sandbanks; a strait.

Etymology 5

From Korean 갓 (gat).

Alternative forms

• kat

Noun

gat (plural gats)

1. A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.

See also

• gat-toothed

Anagrams

• ATG, GTA, TAG, TGA, tag

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch gat (“hole, gap; arse”), from Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /χat/

Noun

gat (plural gate, diminutive gaatjie)

1. hole; perforation
2. gap; opening

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

5. (golf) hole; cup

Synonyms

• (gap): gaping
• (golf): putjie

Derived terms

• gatvol

Noun

gat (plural gatte, diminutive gatjie)

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

3. the backside of animals or objects

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• gatkant
• kaalgat

Anagrams

• agt

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan gat, from Late Latin cattus (“cat”). Compare Occitan gat~cat, French chat, Spanish gato.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gat m (plural gats, feminine gata)

1. cat (feline animal)
2. jack (device for lifting heavy objects)
3. A catshark, especially the small-spotted catshark.

Synonyms

• (cat): mix (colloquial), moix (colloquial)
• (small-spotted catshark): gat ver

Derived terms

Related terms

• gata
• gatet

Adjective

gat (feminine gata, masculine plural gats, feminine plural gates)

1. (Mallorca) drunk

References

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

Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡat/

Noun

gat (singular definite gattet, plural indefinite gatter)

1. (zoology) anus (of an animal, fish especially)
2. (nautical) scupper

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch gat, from Old Dutch *gat, from Proto-West Germanic *gat, from Proto-Germanic *gatą. Doublet of gate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣɑt/
• (Holland)
• Hyphenation: gat
• Rhymes: -ɑt

Noun

gat n (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)

1. gap, hole

   Synonyms: hol, opening

2. godforsaken place, hamlet

   Synonyms: uithoek, midden van nergens

3. (archaic) port

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gat

Noun

gat n or m (plural gaten, diminutive gaatje n)

1. (vulgar) arsehole
2. (by extension, informal) the buttocks, butt, bum, rear-end, bottom of a person or animal
   • "Het regent" (nursery rhyme).

   Synonym: achterste

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: gat
• Berbice Creole Dutch: gati
• Jersey Dutch: xjât, hât
• Negerhollands: gat, gad

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

Etymology 1

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

Noun

gat n (genitive singular gats, nominative plural göt)

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

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

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)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

gat

1. first-person singular active present indicative of geta

2. third-person singular active present indicative of geta

See also

• hola

Lombard

Alternative forms

• gatt, gàtt (Western orthographies)
• gàt (Eastern orthographies)

Etymology

From Latin cattus ("cat"), cognate to Ligurian Italian gatto, Catalan and Piedmontese gat, Spanish gato.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡat/
  • IPA^(key): [ɡat] (Western, Eastern)
  • IPA^(key): [ɡat], [ɡɛt], [ɟɛt] (Ticinese)

Noun

gat m (masculine plural gatj, feminine singular gata, feminine plural gate)

1. cat

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 inan (diminutive gaśik)

1. pond
2. dam, embankment

Declension

Derived terms

• gatny
• gatojski
• pódgataŕ
• pódgatki

Further reading

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “gat”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999) “gat”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡat/

Verb

gat

1. Medial form of gate

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

gat

1. Alternative form of gate (“gate”)

Etymology 2

Noun

gat

1. Alternative form of gate (“way”)

Etymology 3

Noun

gat

1. (Northern, Early Middle English) Alternative form of goot

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Verb

gat

1. past tense of gjeta

Etymology 2

Noun

gat n (definite singular gatet, indefinite plural gat, definite plural gata or gati)

1. (pre-2012) alternative form of gatt

Nuer

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡat], [ɡad]

Noun

gat

1. son

Occitan

Alternative forms

• cat

Etymology

From Old Occitan, from Late Latin cattus (compare Catalan gat, French chat). See cat for more.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡat]

Noun

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

1. a cat

Related terms

• gata
• gatet

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gaits. Cognate with Old Frisian *gāt, Old Saxon gēt, Old Dutch *geit, Old High German geiz, Old Norse geit, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits); and with Latin haedus (“kid”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑːt/

Noun

gāt f

1. goat

Declension

Hyponyms

• bucca (“male goat”)
• tiċċen (“kid”)

Derived terms

• gātānstīg
• gātbucca
• gāthierde

Descendants

• Middle English: goot, got, gat, gote, goet, goth, gathe, geet
  • English: goat (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: gait, gayt
  • Yola: geearth, geearte, gurth; gearded

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *gatą

Noun

gat n

1. hole, opening

Descendants

• Norwegian Nynorsk: gatt

Etymology 2

Verb

gat

1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of geta

References

• “gat”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romagnol

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus (“cat”). See the etymology at cat for further details.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡat/, [ˈɡaɐ̯t]

Noun

gat m (plural ghët)

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.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian gát, from Proto-Slavic *gatь.

Noun

gat n (plural gaturi)

1. (Transylvania) dam

Declension

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Noun

gat m (plural gats)

1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) cat

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gatь (“dike”). Cognate with Slovak hať (“dam”), Upper Sorbian hat, Polish gać, Lower Sorbian gat (“pond, dam”), and Russian гать (gatʹ, “causeway”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡât/

Noun

gȁt m (Cyrillic spelling га̏т)

1. ditch
2. dam

Declension

Further reading

• “gat” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Tagalog

Noun

gat (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ᜔)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gat

Further reading

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

Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

• igat

Etymology

From English got.

Verb

gat

1. have

Derived terms

• gat bel
• igat
• nogat

Venetian

Alternative forms

• gato (Standard)

Etymology

Compare Venetian gato and Italian gatto.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

gat m (plural gati)

1. (Belluno, Northern Treviso, Chipilo) cat

Source: wiktionary.org