rats

• IPA^(key): /ɹæts/

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• Rhymes: -æts

rats

1. plural of rat

rats

1. (informal) Expression of annoyance or disgust; damn, darn. [from 1886]
2. (informal) Expression of disbelief.
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     "It's damned clever - fair puzzles 'em every time. How d'ye get them?" "I tell you I don't. It's outside myself." "Rats! You can tell me, Tom. I'm Griffiths, the safe man."

rats

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of rat

• give a rats

• tars, sart, ARTS, arts., tsar, tars-, ARTs, Sart, srat, Srta., star, RAST, Arts, stra., Srta, arts, astr-, TSRA, RTAs, Star, TRAs

rats

1. plural of rat

rats n

1. indefinite genitive singular of rat
2. indefinite genitive plural of rat

Clipping of ratjetoe.

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rats m (uncountable)

1. (dated) A dish consisting of a hodgepodge of (leftover) vegetables and mashed potatoes, associated with soldiers.

   Synonym: hutspot

• IPA^(key): /ʁa/

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rats m

1. plural of rat

• arts, star, tsar, tars

From Proto-Baltic *retas. Cognates include Latvian rets and Lithuanian retas.

• IPA^(key): [ˈrat͡s]
• Hyphenation: rats

rats

1. rare

• Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN

From Proto-Indo-European *ret(h), *rot(h). Cognates include Lithuanian rãtas (“wheel”), Sanskrit रथ (ratha, “chariot”), Old High German rad (“wheel”) (German Rad (“wheel”)), Latin rota (“wheel”) (Portuguese roda, Spanish rueda, Italian ruota, Romanian roată, French roue), Albanian rreth (“hoop, circle, wheel rim”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ɾats]

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rats m (1st declension)

1. wheel (circular device that rotates on its axis)

   stūres rats ― steering wheel

   dzirnavu rats ― millwheel

   spara rats, spararats ― flywheel

   ķēdes pārvada rats ― chain wheel

   laimes rats ― the wheel of fortune

   pagriezt atpakaļ , apturēt vēstures ratu ― to turn back, to stop the wheel of history

2. (only plural) cart, carriage (small wheeled vehicle drawn by animals)

   jūgt zirgu ratos ― to harness a horse to a cart

   vienjūga, divjūga rati ― a one-, a two-horse cart or carriage

   smagie rati ― heavy cart

   rati ar gumijas riteņiem ― a cart with rubber wheels

• ritenis

rats

1. nominative plural of rat