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Definitions and meaning of gat

gat

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡæt/
  • Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

Clipping of Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

Noun

gat (plural gats)

  1. (archaic, slang) 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).

Noun

gat (plural gats)

  2. A traditional Korean hat made of horsehair, once worn by married gentlemen.
Alternative forms
  • kat
Translations

Etymology 6

Noun

gat

  1. Alternative spelling of khat.

Etymology 7

Alternative forms

  • Gat

Noun

gat (uncountable)

  1. (Ireland, slang) Guinness (type of beer).

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, Valencia) [ˈɡat]
  • Rhymes: -at

Noun

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

  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 [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], 2007 April
  • “gat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
  • “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
    Het kind viel door een gat in de omheining. ― The child fell through a gap in the fence.
    Er zit een groot gat in de muur na het verwijderen van het schilderij. ― There is a big hole in the wall after removing the painting.
    Het lek in het dak veroorzaakte een gat waar het water naar binnen stroomde. ― The leak in the roof caused a gap where the water flowed in.
  2. godforsaken place, hamlet
    Synonyms: uithoek, midden van nergens
  3. (archaic) port

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: gat

Descendants

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

Noun

gat n or m (plural gatten or gaten, diminutive gatje n or 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).
    Synonyms: achterste, kont, (vulgar) reet

Derived terms

  • gatlikker

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 someone, to ask someone 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): /ˈɡat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: gat

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 got

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 geiȥ, Old Norse geit, Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍄𐍃 (gaits); and with Latin haedus (“kid”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɑːt/

Noun

gāt f

  1. goat

Declension

Strong consonant stem:

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

  • gātānstīg
  • gātbucca
  • gāthierde

Descendants

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

Old Norse

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *gatą.

Noun

gat n

  1. hole, opening
Related terms
  • gata
Descendants
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: gatt

Etymology 2

Verb

gat

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

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “gat”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Tagalog

Noun

gat (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ᜔)

  1. alternative letter-case form of Gat

Further reading

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

Anagrams

  • tag-

Tok Pisin

Alternative forms

  • igat

Etymology

From English got.

Verb

gat

  1. have

Derived terms

  • gat bel
  • igat
  • nogat

Venetan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡat/

Noun

gat m (plural gati) (Belluno, northern Treviso, Chipilo)

  1. alternative form of gato

References

  • “gat”, in el Galepin – www.elgalepin.com

Source: wiktionary.org