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.

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)

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

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

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

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

taka +‎ -(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

• -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, 2003–2025

• IPA^(key): [taː]

taa

1. bam, banging

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