taa

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Mandarin (, “pagoda”).

Noun

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taa (plural taas)

  1. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.

Etymology 2

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From Arabic تَاء (tāʔ).

Noun

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taa (plural taas)

  1. The letter ت in the Arabic script.

Etymology 3

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Interjection

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taa

  1. Alternative form of ta (thanks)

Anagrams

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Aukan

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Etymology 1

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From English other.

Adjective

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taa

  1. other; another
    taa deianother day, another (some other) time
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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From English tar.

Noun

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taa

  1. tar (black substance; pitch)

References

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Esperanto

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Esperanto Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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Ultimately from ǃXóõ tâa ǂàã (literally people's language).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtaa]
  • Rhymes: -aa
  • Hyphenation: ta‧a

Adjective

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

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

Finnish

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Etymology

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taka +‎ -(k) (k-lative singular)

Pronunciation

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

Postposition

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taa [with genitive] (dialectal, poetic)

  1. (of movement) (to) behind
    Se laskeutui metsän taa.It landed behind the forest.

Inflection

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Cannot take a possessive suffix.

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Derived terms

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compounds
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Further reading

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Anagrams

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Greenlandic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Eskimo *taʁu. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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taa

  1. human being

Interjection

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taa

  1. listen!; what is that?; I tut!
See also: ta

References

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

Nzadi

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Noun

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tàá (plural tàá)

  1. father

Coordinate terms

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Further reading

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  • 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

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /tɑː/
  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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taa (n class, plural taa)

  1. lamp, light
Descendants
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  • Kikuyu: tawa
  • Luganda: etaala
  • Rwanda-Rundi: itara

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).[1]

Noun

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taa (n class, plural taa)

  1. obedience
    Synonym: utii

References

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  1. ^ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) 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

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Etymology

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From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.

Verb

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taa

  1. to chop, to cut up

Ye'kwana

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Pronunciation

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Ideophone

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taa

  1. bam, banging

References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “taa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon