tas

tas (plural tasses)

1. Alternative spelling of tass.

• S.A.T., Sta., ats, ast, Sat., Sta, sta, S. A. T., AST, sat, Ast, ATs, sat., ATS, Sat, at's, TSA, SAT, T(S/A), as't, -ast, STA

From Arabic طَاس (ṭās), ultimately from Middle Persian tšt'. Doublet of teşt.

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

1. a small tub or bason
2. basin (a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall)

• tasa düşmək

From Persian طاس (tâs), from Middle Persian tʾs (tās, “die, dice”).

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

1. (backgammon) match (a series of games, played until one player reaches three points, for example by winning three single games (oyuns), or a single game and a gammon (mars).)

tas

1. three

   Dios Sap, Dios Cot, Dios Espiritu Santo, tas persona, cayca Dios üeñec. (18th century catechism)

   Dios Padre, Dios Hijo, Dios Espíritu Santo. Tres personas, pero un solo Dios nomás. (translation by Bausami, 1975)

   God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Three persons but only one God.

From Old Cornish tat, from Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos. Cognate with Breton and Welsh tad.

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [taːz]
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [tæːz]

tas m (plural tasow)

1. father, dad

   Synonym: sira

• IPA^(key): [ˈtas]

tas

1. second-person singular imperative of tasit

• IPA^(key): /tɑs/

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• Hyphenation: tas
• Rhymes: -ɑs

From Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Old Dutch *taska, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *taska, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Compare Old High German tasca (modern German Tasche), Middle Low German taske, English tasse.

tas f (plural tassen, diminutive tasje n)

1. bag

   Synonym: zak

• (obsolete) tasch

• Jersey Dutch: tās, tos
• → Aukan: tasi
• → Caribbean Hindustani: tás
• → Kari'na: tasy
• → Indonesian: tas
  • → Ternate: tas

From French tasse, from Arabic طَاس (ṭās) (a shortening of طَسْت (ṭast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt).

tas f (plural tassen, diminutive tasje n)

1. (Belgium) cup (like a cup of coffee or tea)

• (cup): kop, kopje, mok, jat

From Middle Dutch tas, tasse, from Old Dutch *tas, *tasso, compare Old English tas and English tass (from Frankish), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“pile, heap”), Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”).

tas m

1. (dialectal) heap

• sta

Inherited from Middle French [Term?], from Old French tas (“heap, mass”), from Frankish *tas (“mass”), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“heap, mow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”).

Akin to Middle Dutch tas, tasse (“heap, pile”) (Dutch tas), Middle Low German tas (“heap, stack of wheat or other grain, mow”), Old English tas (“heap, mow of corn or hay”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dais (“heap”), Scots dass, Welsh dâs.

• IPA^(key): /ta/ ~ /tɑ/

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tas m (plural tas)

1. heap, pile
   • 1964, “Sacré Charlemagne”, Robert Gall (lyrics), Georges Liferman (music)‎^[2]:

     Il faut apprendre à compter et faire des tas de dictées.

     One has to learn to calculate and do heaps of dictations.

   • 2001, Alain Souchon, “La vie ne vaut rien”:

     Il a demandé leur avis à des tas de gens ravis / Ravis, de donner leur avis sur la vie

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (colloquial, dialectal) thing

• tasser

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

• STA

From French tasse (“cup”).

• IPA^(key): /tas/

tas

1. cup

From Dutch tas, from Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Old Dutch *taska, from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Compare Old High German tasca (modern German Tasche), Middle Low German taske, English tasse.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtas/
• Hyphenation: tas

tas (plural tas-tas)

1. bag

• → Ternate: tas

• “tas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Borrowed from Dutch tas, from Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Old Dutch *taska, from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ.

• Hyphenation: tas

tas

1. bag; backpack

   Synonym: ransel

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”), part of the paradigm of *só, *séh₂, *tód (“this, that”).

Cognates include Lithuanian tàs, Old Prussian stas (< *sa + *tas), Sudovian tas, Old Church Slavonic тъ (tŭ), Ukrainian and Russian тот (tot), Bulgarian тъй (tǎj), Czech and Polish ten, Sanskrit तद् (tad), Ancient Greek τό (tó), Latin iste (< *is-te, with te from *to-).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtas]

tas (demonstrative, distal) (proximal: šis)

1. (used as a determiner) that

   kur ir tas zirgs? ― where is that horse?

   kur ir tā vista? ― where is that chicken?

   kur ir tas vecais koks? ― where is that old tree?

   to dienu es ļoti labi atceros ― that day I remember very well

   tai vietā mēs esam jau bijuši ― to that place we have already been

   ko tu lasi tajās jaunajās grāmatās? ― what are you reading in those new books?

2. (used as a pronoun) that, that one

   tas ir zirgs ― that is a horse

   tā ir vista ― that is a chicken

   tas ir mans tēvs ― that (one) is my father

   tā ir mana māte ― that (one) is my mother

   tie ir mani bērni ― those (ones) are my children

   tās ir manas meitas ― those (ones) are my daughters

• tā
• tāds

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɐs/

tàs m sg (feminine tà, plural tiẽ, feminine plural tõs)

1. (used as a determiner) that

   kur̃ yrà tàs arklỹs? ― where is that horse?

   kur̃ yrà tà vištà? ― where is that chicken?

   tą̃ diẽną àš prisi̇̀menu labai̇̃ gerai̇̃ ― that day I remember very well

   tojè viẽtoje mẽs jaũ bùvome ― that place we have already been (to)

   ką̃ tù skaitai̇̃ tosè naujosè knỹgose? ― what are you reading in those new books?

Likely borrowed from Latvian tase. Ultimately from French tasse.

• IPA^(key): /tɑs/

tas

1. cup, teacup
2. a serving of tea or coffee

Likely to be used with daintier styles of dishware, heavier cups or mugs are likely to be called krūz.

• alīztas
• allitas
• kaffetas

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *atas.

tas

1. height

tas

1. passive of ta

From Sanskrit त (ta, “base of nom.sg.n., all obl.sg and all pl. forms of pron. and pronom. adj”).

• IPA^(key): /tas/

tas (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling تس)

1. him
2. her
3. it (rem acc)

• tes (Biori)

• Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “tas”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[3], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tas”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طاس (tas) (whence Turkish tas), from Arabic طَاس (ṭās, “bowl, cup”), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt). Doublet of tàcna.

tȁs m animacy unspecified (Cyrillic spelling та̏с)

1. cymbal
2. the plate part of a traditional balance or scale
3. (Eastern Orthodoxy) collection plate

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• cìmbal
• cimbalo

• IPA^(key): /ˈtas/ [ˈt̪as]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: tas

Borrowed from French tas.

tas m (plural tases or tas)

1. small anvil

   Hypernym: yunque

• 'tás

tas

1. (colloquial) aphetic form of estás

• “tas”, 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

tas

1. passive infinitive of ta
2. present passive of ta

• -ast

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈtas/ [ˈt̪as]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: tas

tas (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜐ᜔) (informal)

1. alternative spelling of ta's

• tsa, Sta.

From Indonesian tas, from Dutch tas,^[1] from Middle Dutch tasche, Old Dutch *taska, from Frankish, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ.

• IPA^(key): [ˈtas]

tas

1. a bag

From Ottoman Turkish طاس (tas), which borrowed this from Arabic طَاس (ṭās, “bowl”) (a shortening of طَسْت (ṭast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of Proto-Iranian *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ-. Cognate with French tasse.

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

1. a bowl, typically made of metal.
   • 2005, Saffet Ulusoy, Aklımda kalanlar, page 66:

     Meğer bu tas ve içindeki su, yemek yedikten sonra içine ellerini sokup yıkamaya yarıyormuş.

     Apparently this bowl and the water in it served to dip your hands in and wash them after the meal.

• “tas”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

From Malay tas, from Dutch tas, possibly through Ternate.

• IPA^(key): /t̪as̪/

tas

1. bag
2. handbag

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[4], Pacific linguistics

• tag

• IPA^(key): /ta˩/

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *N-dam(X) (“half (of day)”).^[1]

tas

1. (in compounds) segments (of days)

tas

1. particle used to indicate completion of an action: done, finished, completed

   Noj tas lawm. ― Finished eating.

2. an unrestricted post-verbal intensifier commonly duplicated when used

   zoo tas tas ― very very good

tas

1. to finish

In practice, the variant pronunciation tag is more commonly used in both speech and writing.

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[5], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 304-5.