gata

Borrowed from Armenian գաթա (gatʻa).

• kata, katah (from Western Armenian pronunciation)
• gatah

gata (plural gatas)

1. A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.

gata (plural gatas)

1. (South Africa, slang) A police officer.

• Agta

gata

1. inflection of gatë:
   1. definite nominative singular
   2. indefinite nominative/accusative plural

• IPA^(key): /ɡatə/
• Hyphenation: ga‧ta

From Sanskrit गत (gata, “gone”).

gata (Balinese script ᬕᬢ)

1. to be gone

From Sanskrit घट (ghaṭa, “pot”).

gata (Balinese script ᬖᬝ)

1. pot

• Hyphenation: ga‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈta/ [ɡaˈta]

gatá

1. knife used for harvesting rice

Inherited from Late Latin catta.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡa.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈɡa.ta]

• Audio (Valencia):

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gata f (plural gates)

1. female equivalent of gat

gata f sg

1. feminine singular of gat

Cognate with Proto-Polynesian *ŋata (compare Maori ngata, Samoan gata, Tongan ngata and Niuean gata), earlier *ŋʷata, from Proto-Oceanic *mwata (“snake”) (compare Western Fijian ŋwata and Lewo mwata).

gata

1. snake, serpent

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀataq.

gatâ

1. coconut milk

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːta/
• Rhymes: -aːta

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

gata f (genitive singular götu, nominative plural götur)

1. street, road

• aðalgata
• gatnamót
• götustrákur

From gat (“hole”).

gata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gataði, supine gatað)

1. (transitive) to pierce through
2. (transitive) specifically, to punch a hole in (using a perforator)
3. (intransitive, informal) to be stumped (be unable to answer a question)

• gatari

gata

1. Rōmaji transcription of がた

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀataq.

gatâ

1. coconut milk

• gaten

gata m or f

1. definite feminine singular of gate

gata f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater or gator, definite plural gatene or gatone)

1. definite singular of gate
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of gate

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː.tɑ/

gāta

1. genitive plural of gāt

From Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Likely from the oblique stem *gǫtu of an earlier form *gǫtva, as morphologically gata does not straightforwardly derive from the Proto-Germanic form.^[1]

gata f (genitive gǫtu, plural gǫtur)

1. street, road

• gat

• Icelandic: gata
• Faroese: gøta
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gate, gote, gotu; (dialectal) gutu, goto, gatu, gato
• Old Swedish: gata
  • Swedish: gata
  • → Finnish: katu
• Old Danish: gatæ
  • Danish: gade
    • Norwegian Bokmål: gate
• → Middle English: gate
  • Scots: gate
  • English: gait, gate
• → Lithuanian: gatvė

• ᚵᛆᛏᛆ

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

gata f

1. street, road

• Swedish: gata
• → Finnish: katu

Inherited from Sanskrit गत (gata).

gata

1. past participle of gacchati (“to go”), with active sense.

• apagata

From Old Galician-Portuguese gata, from Late Latin catta.

• Rhymes: -atɐ

• Hyphenation: ga‧ta

gata f (plural gatas)

1. female cat
2. (slang) very beautiful woman

• gatinha (diminutive)
• gatona (augmentative)

• gato m

gata

1. inflection of gatar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

gata f (plural gat)

1. feminine of gat (“cat”)

Origin disputed. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *gotovъ. The word can also be found in Albanian, compare Albanian gati (which, like the Romanian, is also invariable). Alternatively, the word may be of ultimate Paleo-Balkanic or Albanian origin.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ta/

• Audio:

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gata m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. ready, willing
2. done

   Synonym: terminat

• găti

gata

1. readily, willingly

gata (Cyrillic spelling гата)

1. genitive singular of gat

Inherited from Late Latin catta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡata/ [ˈɡa.t̪a]

• Audio (Spain):

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• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ga‧ta

gata f (plural gatas)

1. female equivalent of gato (“cat”): she-cat, molly, queen, female cat
2. carjack, jack

• “gato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

From Old Swedish gata, from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːˌta/

• Audio; “en gata”:

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gata c

1. a street
   • 1937, Evert Taube, “Fritiof och Carmencita [Fritiof and Carmencita]”‎^[2]:

     Samborombón, en liten by förutan gata. Den ligger inte långt från Rio de la Plata. Nästan i kanten av den blåa Atlanten, och med Pampas bakom sig, många hundra gröna mil. Dit kom jag ridande en afton i april, för jag ville dansa tango.

     Samborombón, a small village without a street. It is located not far from Rio de la Plata. Almost at the edge of the blue Atlantic, and with Pampas behind it [itself], many hundred green miles. [To] there [thither] I came riding one evening in April, because I wanted to tango.

   • 1967, “Lyckliga gatan [[The] Happy Street]”, Britt Lindeborg (lyrics), Adriano Celentano (music)‎^[3]performed by Anna-Lena Löfgren:

     Lyckliga gatan, du finns inte mer. Du har försvunnit med hela kvarter. Tystnat har leken, tystnat har sången. Högt över marken svävar betongen. När jag kom åter var allt så förändrat. Trampat och skövlat, fördärvat och skändat. Skall mellan dessa höga hus en dag stiga en sång, lika förunderlig och skön som den, vi hört en gång?

     [The] Happy Street, you no longer exist. You have disappeared with entire neighborhoods [blocks]. Gone silent has the play, gone silent has the song. High above the ground the concrete hovers. When I came back ["came again" – somewhat dated or poetic], everything was so changed. Trampled and devastated, ruined and desecrated. Shall ["skall" is synonymous with "ska" except matching "shall" in tone] between these tall buildings one day rise a song, as wondrous and fair as the one we [have] once heard?

Often turns into gatu- (gata + -u-) as a prefix in compounds.

• gata in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gata in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gata in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• agat, taga

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gatəq, *ʀataq. Compare Hiligaynon gata, Isnag xatta, , Masbatenyo gata, and Tausug gata'.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɡaˈtaʔ/ [ɡɐˈt̪aʔ]
• Rhymes: -aʔ
• Syllabification: ga‧ta

gatâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ)

1. coconut milk
2. (dialectal) plant juice or extract

• “gata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

• atag, taga, Agta, taga-

From Proto-Polynesian *ŋata. Cognates include Hawaiian naka and Maori ngata.

• IPA^(key): [ˈŋa.ta]
• Hyphenation: ga‧ta

gata

1. snake

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[4], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 138