taa
Translingual
Symbol
taa
See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Lower Tanana terms
English
Etymology 1
From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).
Noun
taa (plural taas)
- A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.
Etymology 2
Noun
taa (plural taas)
- The letter ت in the Arabic script.
Etymology 3
Interjection
taa
- Alternative form of ta (“thanks”).
Anagrams
Ao
Etymology
From te- (nominalizer) + a-a (“to pay wages”).
Noun
taa
- (Chungli) wage
Aukan
Etymology 1
Adjective
taa
Derived terms
- taa taa (“different”)
Etymology 2
Noun
taa
- tar (black substance; pitch)
References
- Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)
Esperanto
Etymology
Ultimately from ǃXóõ tâa ǂàã (literally “people's language”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtaa/
- Rhymes: -aa
- Syllabification: ta‧a
Adjective
taa (accusative singular taan, plural taaj, accusative plural taajn)
- (la taa) clipping of la taa lingvo (“the Taa language”)
Finnish
Etymology 1
taka (“back, rear”) + -(k) (k-lative singular)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑːˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ː(ʔ)]
- Rhymes: -ɑː
- Syllabification(key): taa
- Hyphenation(key): taa
Postposition
taa [with genitive] (dialectal, poetic)
- (of movement) (to) behind
- Se laskeutui metsän taa. ― It landed behind the forest.
Inflection
Declension of taka-
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Cannot take a possessive suffix.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Derived terms
Related terms
- See the inflection table.
- taka
- taka-
- tausta
- taempi
- takimmainen
Further reading
- “taa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
Etymology 2
From Proto-Finnic *taa, from Proto-Uralic *ta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑː/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ː]
- Rhymes: -ɑː
- Syllabification(key): taa
- Hyphenation(key): taa
Pronoun
taa (dialectal, Eastern Finnish)
Determiner
taa (dialectal, Eastern Finnish)
Usage notes
In the Savonian dialects, per usual rules, this pronoun takes the form toa/tua; the latter should not be confused with western dialectal forms of tuo.
Inflection
The plural form is naa. The singular stem is generally based on the inflection of taa like maa, but plural forms display more variation; most often, they are from a plural stem like naai- (nuai-).
Alternative forms
- tai (obsolete, Western Finnish)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Gagauz
Etymology
From earlier taha, from Old Anatolian Turkish دَاخِی (daḫi), دَخِی (daḫi), from Proto-Turkic *takï, whence also da and dä. Compare Turkish daha, de, da, dahi; Azerbaijani daha, də, da and archaic dəxi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑː/
Adverb
taa
- forms comparitives of the following adjective or adverb, more, -er.
- 1938, Mihail Ciachir, Dicționar Gagauzo (Tiurco) - Român Pentru Gagauzii Din Basarabia, page 1:
- Laflâc gagauzcea (tiurccea) hem romândja (moldovandja) Bessarabiealâ gagauzlar icin - gagauzlarân eardâmdjisâ taa colai iurenmeea român dilini hem taa ei laf-etmeea dei românja (moldovândja)
- Gagauz(Turkish) and Romanian (Moldovan) dictionary for Bessarabian Gagauz people - helper of the Gagauz people to learn the Romanian language easier and to better speak Romanian (Moldovan)
- yet, still
- so far, as yet
- even
- more, else
Further reading
- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 76
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “taa”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 454
Greenlandic
Etymology
From Proto-Eskimo *taʁu. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.
Pronunciation
Noun
taa
Interjection
taa
- listen!; what is that?; I tut!
References
Lutuv
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [tāā]
Verb
taa
- to be small
References
- Kelly Harper Berkson, Amanda Bohnert, Sui Hnem Par (2022), “Consonant Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures[2], volume 3, number 1
Nzadi
Noun
tàá (plural tàá)
Coordinate terms
Further reading
- Crane, Thera; Larry Hyman; Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011), A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN
Swahili
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɑː/
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Etymology 1
From earlier *tala, from an unknown source (possibly Indian).
Noun
taa class IX (plural taa class X)
Descendants
Etymology 2
Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).[1]
Noun
taa class IX (plural taa class X)
References
- ^ Baldi, Sergio (30 November 2020), Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 194 Nr. 1731
Tetum
Etymology
From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.
Verb
taa
References
- “taa”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
Ye'kwana
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [taː]
Ideophone
taa
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “taa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[3], Lyon