taa

taa

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Lower Tanana.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Lower Tanana terms

From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).

taa (plural taas)

1. A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.

Borrowed from Arabic تَاء (tāʔ).

taa (plural taas)

1. The letter ت in the Arabic script.

taa

1. Alternative form of ta (“thanks”).

• -ata, AAT, ATA, âta

From English other.

taa

1. other; another

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

• taa taa (“different”)

From English tar.

taa

1. tar (black substance; pitch)

• Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)

From te- (nominalizer) +‎ a-a (“to pay wages”).

taa

1. wage

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaa/
• Rhymes: -aa
• Syllabification: ta‧a

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

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

taka (“back, rear”) +‎ -(k) (k-lative singular)

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

taa [with genitive] (dialectal, poetic)

1. (of movement) (to) behind

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

Cannot take a possessive suffix.

• taakse

• eteen, edelle

• See the inflection table.
• taka
• taka-
• tausta
• taempi
• takimmainen

• “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

From Proto-Finnic *taa, from Proto-Uralic *ta.

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

taa (dialectal, Eastern Finnish)

1. this, that (medial between tämä and tuo)

taa (dialectal, Eastern Finnish)

1. this, that (medial between tämä and tuo)

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.

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-).

• tai (obsolete, Western Finnish)

• -ata, aat

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.

• IPA^(key): /tɑː/

taa

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

   taa eni ― newer

   taa gözäl ― more beautiful

   • 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)

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

• 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

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

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /taa/, [təː]

taa

1. human being

taa

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

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

• IPA^(key): [tāā]

taa

1. to be small

• 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

tàá (plural tàá)

1. father

• màá

• 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

• IPA^(key): /tɑː/

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

taa class IX (plural taa class X)

1. lamp, light

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

Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).^[1]

taa class IX (plural taa class X)

1. obedience

   Synonym: utii

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.

taa

1. to chop, to cut up
2. (horticulture) to hoe
3. to slit, to slice

• “taa”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026

• IPA^(key): [taː]

taa

1. bam, banging

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