tah

tah

See also: -tah, -TAH, -tʼah, and täh

Translingual

Symbol

tah

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Tahitian.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Tahitian terms

Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtah/ [ˈtʌh]
  • Hyphenation: tah

Pronoun

táh

  1. this, these (feminine; proximal to the speaker)

Declension

        Declension of táh      
absolutive táh
predicative táha
subjective táh
genitive tahtí
  Postpositioned forms
l-case táhal
k-case táhak
t-case táhat
h-case táhah

See also

Afar demonstrative pronouns
masculine feminine
proximal to the speaker(s) áh táh
proximal to the spoken to amáh tamáh
distal wóh tóh
very distal wóttih

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Ahtna

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *tαh (among, during). Compare Navajo -tah (among), Lower Tanana ti (during).

Postposition

tah (third-person singular form ucaghan)

  1. among
    dghelaay tah zdaahe/she stays among the mountains
  2. amidst
  3. during
  4. the times when
  5. the places where

Usage notes

  • Tah is the stressed form; ta is the unstressed form.
  • Definitions 4 and 5 function as the plural of -de.

Derived terms

  • cʼelataha (willow catkin)
  • -datahi (property)
  • -engestah (nostrils)
  • -naaytah (human body)
  • niłdentah (sometimes)
  • ta- (among)
  • taniidze (middle)
  • titahen (orphan)
  • tlʼatahen (lastborn child)
  • tsaeʼtah (later on)

References

  • Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 325-326

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech těh, from Proto-Slavic *tęgъ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtax]
  • Hyphenation: tah
  • Rhymes: -ax

Noun

tah m inan

  1. pull (act of pulling)
    Antonym: tlak
  2. move, step (in accomplishing a plan)
  3. stroke (a line made with a brush)
  4. move, turn (act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game)
    Jsi na tahu.It's your turn.

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of tah – see (“to paste to; to stick on”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of ).

Malay

Etymology

Clipping of entah.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtah/ [ˈt̪ah]

Interjection

tah

  1. (colloquial) apheretic form of entah

References

  • Hoogervorst, Tom (2015), “Malay youth language in West Malaysia”, in NUSA[2], volume 58, number 3, →DOI, archived from the original on 26 April 2025, page 29

Mizo

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *tak, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *tək.

Verb

tah

  1. to weave

Further reading

Old Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (13th CE) /ˈtaɣ/
  • IPA(key): (15th CE) /ˈtax/

Noun

tah m inan

  1. alternative form of těh

Declension

References

Patpatar

Noun

tah

  1. water

Sumerian

Romanization

tah

  1. romanization of 𒈭 (taḫ)

Yola

Etymology

From Dutch thee.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /taː/

Noun

tah

  1. tea

References

  • Diarmaid Ó Muirithe (1990), “A Modern Glossary of the Dialect of Forth and Bargy”, in lrish University Review[3], volume 20, number 1, Edinburgh University Press, page 161