taa

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
• 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 2023-07-03

• -ata, aat

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

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 (n class, plural taa)

1. lamp, light

• → Kikuyu: tawa
• → Luganda: etaala
• → Rwanda-Rundi: itara

Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).^[1]

taa (n class, plural taa)

1. obedience

   Synonym: utii

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.

taa

1. to chop, to cut up

• IPA^(key): [taː]

taa

1. bam, banging

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “taa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon