tarot

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹoʊ/
  • (Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ(ə)ɹoʊ/
• (NZ (rarely)) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹɔt/
• Rhymes: -æɹəʊ
• Homophone: taro

tarot (countable and uncountable, plural tarots)

1. (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
   • 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.

     […] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.

   • 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [1]

     They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.

     As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.

   • 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [2]

     In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; […]

2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

• tarot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Ratto, Tatro, ottar, rotta, tator, torat, torta, troat

• tarok

tarot c (singular definite tarotten, plural indefinite tarotter)

1. tarot

• “tarot” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “tarok” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from Italian tarocco.

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʁo/
• Homophones: taraud, tarauds, taro

tarot m (plural tarots)

1. tarot

• taroté
• taroter
• tarotier

• “tarot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• rotât

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco.

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.rɔt/
• Rhymes: -arɔt
• Syllabification: ta‧rot

tarot m inan

1. (card games) tarot

   Synonym: tarok

2. (cartomancy) tarot (any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination)

   Synonym: tarok

• tarot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French tarot.

• IPA^(key): /ta.ˈrot/
• Rhymes: -ot
• Hyphenation: ta‧rot

tarot n (uncountable)

1. tarot

• “tarot”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

From French tarot, from Italian tarocchi.

tarot m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling тарот)

1. tarot (card game)

• IPA^(key): /taˈɾot/ [t̪aˈɾot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: ta‧rot

tarot m (plural tarots)

1. tarot

• “tarot”, 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

• torta, trató, trato, trotá, trota

Borrowed from French tarot.

tarot c

1. tarot

• tarotkort
• tarotlek

• tarot in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

• torta