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tas

English

Noun

tas (plural tasses)

  1. Alternative spelling of tass.

Anagrams

  • S.A.T., Sta., ats, ast, Sat., Sta, sta, S. A. T., AST, sat, Ast, ATs, sat., ATS, Sat, at's, TSA, SAT, T(S/A), as't, -ast, STA

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Arabic طَاس (ṭās), ultimately from Middle Persian tšt'. Doublet of teşt.

Noun

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

  1. a small tub or bason
  2. basin (a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall)
Derived terms
  • tasa düşmək

Etymology 2

From Persian طاس (tâs), from Middle Persian tʾs (tās, “die, dice”).

Noun

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

  1. (backgammon) match (a series of games, played until one player reaches three points, for example by winning three single games (oyuns), or a single game and a gammon (mars).)

Declension

Chono

Numeral

tas

  1. three
    Dios Sap, Dios Cot, Dios Espiritu Santo, tas persona, cayca Dios üeñec. (18th century catechism)
    Dios Padre, Dios Hijo, Dios Espíritu Santo. Tres personas, pero un solo Dios nomás. (translation by Bausami, 1975)
    God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Three persons but only one God.

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish tat, from Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos. Cognate with Breton and Welsh tad.

Pronunciation

  • (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA(key): [taːz]
  • (Revived Late Cornish) IPA(key): [tæːz]

Noun

tas m (plural tasow)

  1. father, dad
    Synonym: sira

Coordinate terms

Derived terms

Mutation

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtas]

Verb

tas

  1. second-person singular imperative of tasit

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑs/
  • Hyphenation: tas
  • Rhymes: -ɑs

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Old Dutch *taska, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *taska, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Compare Old High German tasca (modern German Tasche), Middle Low German taske, English tasse.

Noun

tas f (plural tassen, diminutive tasje n)

  1. bag
    Synonym: zak
Alternative forms
  • (obsolete) tasch
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • Jersey Dutch: tās, tos
  • → Aukan: tasi
  • → Caribbean Hindustani: tás
  • → Kari'na: tasy
  • → Indonesian: tas
    • → Ternate: tas

Etymology 2

From French tasse, from Arabic طَاس (ṭās) (a shortening of طَسْت (ṭast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt).

Noun

tas f (plural tassen, diminutive tasje n)

  1. (Belgium) cup (like a cup of coffee or tea)
Synonyms
  • (cup): kop, kopje, mok, jat

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch tas, tasse, from Old Dutch *tas, *tasso, compare Old English tas and English tass (from Frankish), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“pile, heap”), Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”).

Noun

tas m

  1. (dialectal) heap

Anagrams

  • sta

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French tas (“heap, mass”), from Frankish *tas (“mass”), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“heap, mow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”).

Akin to Middle Dutch tas, tasse (“heap, pile”) (Dutch tas), Middle Low German tas (“heap, stack of wheat or other grain, mow”), Old English tas (“heap, mow of corn or hay”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dais (“heap”), Scots dass, Welsh dâs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta/ ~ /tɑ/

Noun

tas m (plural tas)

  1. heap, pile
  2. (colloquial, dialectal) thing

Derived terms

Related terms

  • tasser

Further reading

  • “tas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • STA

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tasse (“cup”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tas/

Noun

tas

  1. cup

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch tas, from Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Old Dutch *taska, from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Compare Old High German tasca (modern German Tasche), Middle Low German taske, English tasse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtas/
  • Hyphenation: tas

Noun

tas (plural tas-tas)

  1. bag

Related terms

Descendants

  • → Ternate: tas

Further reading

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

Kangean

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch tas, from Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Old Dutch *taska, from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: tas

Noun

tas

  1. bag; backpack
    Synonym: ransel

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”), part of the paradigm of *só, *séh₂, *tód (“this, that”).

Cognates include Lithuanian tàs, Old Prussian stas (< *sa + *tas), Sudovian tas, Old Church Slavonic тъ (tŭ), Ukrainian and Russian тот (tot), Bulgarian тъй (tǎj), Czech and Polish ten, Sanskrit तद् (tad), Ancient Greek τό (tó), Latin iste (< *is-te, with te from *to-).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [tas]

Pronoun

tas (demonstrative, distal) (proximal: šis)

  1. (used as a determiner) that
    kur ir tas zirgs? ― where is that horse?
    kur ir tā vista? ― where is that chicken?
    kur ir tas vecais koks? ― where is that old tree?
    to dienu es ļoti labi atceros ― that day I remember very well
    tai vietā mēs esam jau bijuši ― to that place we have already been
    ko tu lasi tajās jaunajās grāmatās? ― what are you reading in those new books?
  2. (used as a pronoun) that, that one
    tas ir zirgs ― that is a horse
    tā ir vista ― that is a chicken
    tas ir mans tēvs ― that (one) is my father
    tā ir mana māte ― that (one) is my mother
    tie ir mani bērni ― those (ones) are my children
    tās ir manas meitas ― those (ones) are my daughters

Declension

Related terms

  • tā
  • tāds

References

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɐs/

Pronoun

tàs m sg (feminine tà, plural tiẽ, feminine plural tõs)

  1. (used as a determiner) that
    kur̃ yrà tàs arklỹs? ― where is that horse?
    kur̃ yrà tà vištà? ― where is that chicken?
    tą̃ diẽną àš prisi̇̀menu labai̇̃ gerai̇̃ ― that day I remember very well
    tojè viẽtoje mẽs jaũ bùvome ― that place we have already been (to)
    ką̃ tù skaitai̇̃ tosè naujosè knỹgose? ― what are you reading in those new books?

Declension

Livonian

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Latvian tase. Ultimately from French tasse.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɑs/

Noun

tas

  1. cup, teacup
  2. a serving of tea or coffee

Usage notes

Likely to be used with daintier styles of dishware, heavier cups or mugs are likely to be called krūz.

Declension

See also

  • alīztas
  • allitas
  • kaffetas

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *atas.

Noun

tas

  1. height

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tas

  1. passive of ta

Phalura

Etymology

From Sanskrit त (ta, “base of nom.sg.n., all obl.sg and all pl. forms of pron. and pronom. adj”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tas/

Pronoun

tas (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling تس)

  1. him
  2. her
  3. it (rem acc)

Alternative forms

  • tes (Biori)

References

  • Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “tas”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎[3], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
  • Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tas”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طاس (tas) (whence Turkish tas), from Arabic طَاس (ṭās, “bowl, cup”), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt). Doublet of tàcna.

Noun

tȁs m (Cyrillic spelling та̏с)

  1. cymbal
  2. the plate part of a traditional balance or scale
  3. (Eastern Orthodoxy) collection plate

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

See also

  • cìmbal
  • cimbalo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtas/ [ˈt̪as]
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Syllabification: tas

Noun

tas m (plural tases or tas)

  1. small anvil
    Hypernym: yunque

Further reading

  • “tas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Verb

tas

  1. passive infinitive of ta
  2. present passive of ta

Anagrams

  • -ast

Tagalog

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈtas/ [ˈt̪as]
  • Rhymes: -as
  • Syllabification: tas

Adverb

tas (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜐ᜔) (informal)

  1. alternative spelling of ta's

Anagrams

  • tsa, Sta.

Ternate

Etymology

From Indonesian tas, from Dutch tas, from Middle Dutch tasche, Old Dutch *taska, from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtas]

Noun

tas

  1. a bag

References

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طاس (tas), which borrowed this from Arabic طَاس (ṭās, “bowl”) (a shortening of طَسْت (ṭast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of Proto-Iranian *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ-. Cognate with French tasse.

Noun

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

  1. a bowl, typically made of metal.

Declension

References

  • “tas”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

West Makian

Etymology

From Malay tas, from Dutch tas, possibly through Ternate.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t̪as̪/

Noun

tas

  1. bag
  2. handbag

References

  • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[4], Pacific linguistics

White Hmong

Alternative forms

  • tag

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ta˩/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *N-dam(X) (“half (of day)”).

Noun

tas

  1. (in compounds) segments (of days)
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Particle

tas

  1. particle used to indicate completion of an action: done, finished, completed
    Noj tas lawm. ― Finished eating.
  2. an unrestricted post-verbal intensifier commonly duplicated when used
    zoo tas tas ― very very good

Verb

tas

  1. to finish
Derived terms

Usage notes

In practice, the variant pronunciation tag is more commonly used in both speech and writing.

References

  • Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎[5], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 304-5.

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