taa

See also: Appendix:Variations of "taa"

English

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

1. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.

Etymology 2

From Arabic تَاء (tāʔ).

Noun

taa (plural taas)

1. The letter ت in the Arabic script.

Etymology 3

Interjection

taa

1. Alternative form of ta (“thanks”)

Anagrams

• -ata, AAT, ATA, âta

Aukan

Etymology 1

From English other.

Adjective

taa

1. other; another

   taa dei ― another day, another (some other) time

Derived terms

• taa taa (“different”)

Etymology 2

From English tar.

Noun

taa

1. 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
• Hyphenation: ta‧a

Adjective

taa (accusative singular taan, plural taaj, accusative plural taajn)

1. (la taa) clipping of la taa lingvo (“the Taa language”)

Finnish

Etymology

taka +‎ -(k) (k-lative singular)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ː(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation^(key): taa

Postposition

taa [with genitive] (dialectal, poetic)

1. (of movement) (to) behind

   Se laskeutui metsän taa. ― It landed behind the forest.

Inflection

Declension of taka- noun case singular plural adverbial form singular plural nominative taka- – superessive – – genitive – – delative – – partitive takaa – sublative – – accusative – – lative taas taa – inessive – – temporal – – elative – – causative – – illative – – multiplicative – – adessive – – distributive – – ablative – – temp. dist. – takaisin allative – – prolative taitse – essive takana – situative – – translative taakse – oppositive – – abessive – – instructive – – comitative – –

Cannot take a possessive suffix.

Synonyms

• taakse

Antonyms

• eteen, edelle

Derived terms

compounds

• taapäin

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 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• -ata, aat

Gagauz

Etymology

From earlier *daha, from Old Anatolian Turkish دَاخِی (daḫi), دَخِی (daḫi), from Proto-Turkic *takï, whence also da and dä. The irregular devoicing of the initial /d/ may be explained as an attempt at avoiding homophony with daa (“mountain”). Compare Turkish daha, de, da, dahi; Azerbaijani daha, də, da and archaic dəxi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑː/

Adverb

taa

1. forms comparitives of the following adjective or adverb, more, -er.

   taa eni

   newer

   taa gözäl

   more beautiful

2. yet, still
3. so far, as yet
4. even
5. 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

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /taa/, [təː]

Noun

taa

1. human being

Interjection

taa

1. listen!; what is that?; I tut!

See also: ta

References

• DAKA
• (noun): taa in Katersat
• (interjection): taa in Katersat

Lautu Chin

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [tāā]

Verb

taa

1. 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)

1. father

Coordinate terms

• màá

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):

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Etymology 1

From earlier *tala, from an unknown source (possibly Indian).

Noun

taa class IX (plural taa class X)

1. lamp, light

Descendants

• → Kikuyu: tawa
• → Luganda: etaala
• → Rwanda-Rundi: itara

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).

Noun

taa class IX (plural taa class X)

1. obedience

   Synonym: utii

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.

Verb

taa

1. to chop, to cut up

Ye'kwana

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taː]

Ideophone

taa

1. bam, banging

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “taa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[3], Lyon