tatami

Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (tatami).

• IPA^(key): /təˈtɑːmi/

tatami (plural tatamis or tatami)

1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
   • 1964, John Berryman, chapter 31, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 35:

     Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts,

   • 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 2:

     Small tools are spread on the tatami: a razor knife, a sprue cutter, curls of emery paper.

2. A unit of area equal to a standard-sized tatami mat, approximately 1.65 square metres.

• Tiamat

Ultimately from Japanese 畳 (tatami).

• IPA^(key): /tatami/ [t̪a.t̪a.mi]
• Rhymes: -ami, -i
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta‧mi

tatami inan

1. tatami
   • 2001 December 28, Goienkaria, number 47, page 47:

     Bigarren solairuan gimnasioa eta tatami gela jarriko dituzte.

     On the second floor, a gym and a tatami room will be installed.

From Japanese 畳 (tatami).

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑtɑmi/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝t̪ɑ̝mi]
• Rhymes: -ɑtɑmi
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧ta‧mi
• Hyphenation^(key): ta‧ta‧mi

tatami

1. tatami

• “tatami”, 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

• Mattia, maitat, maitta, matita, mitata, mittaa

tatami m (plural tatamis)

1. tatami

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

From Japanese 畳(たたみ) (tatami, “tatami mat”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /taˈtami/ [t̪aˈt̪a.mi]
• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ta‧ta‧mi

tatami (plural tatami-tatami)

1. (literal) tatami: straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
2. (sports) mattress

   Synonym: matras

• “tatami” 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.

tatami

1. Rōmaji transcription of たたみ

• IPA^(key): /taˈta.mi/

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• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ta‧ta‧mi

tatami m pers

1. instrumental plural of tata

Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (たたみ (tatami).

• IPA^(key): /taˈtami/ [t̪aˈt̪a.mi]
• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ta‧ta‧mi

tatami m (plural tatamis)

1. tatami

• “tatami”, 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