vata

From Arabic وَطْء (waṭʔ)

vata m

1. plain, lowland

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 465

Borrowed from German Watte,^[1][2] from Dutch watten, from French ouate, of unknown origin.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvata]

vata f

1. cotton wool (absorbent cotton)

• “vata”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “vata”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

From Proto-Central Pacific *vata, from Proto-Oceanic *pataʀ, ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *pataʀ. Compare Hawaiian haka and Maori whata.

vata

1. shelf, loft, platform.

• Schütz, Albert J. and Komaitai, Rusiate T. (1968) Lessons in Fijian (with the assistance of Ayako Yasuda)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɑtɑ/, [ˈʋɑ̝t̪ɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ɑtɑ
• Hyphenation^(key): va‧ta

From Proto-Finnic *vata, borrowed from Proto-Germanic *wadaz (compare Swedish vad, Old Norse vaðr).

vata

1. a type of small seine (fishing net)

Unknown. Compare Karelian vata. One proposal is that it is a Germanic borrowing, akin to Old Norse vátr.^[1]

vata

1. (dialectal) chickweed, common chickweed (Stellaria media)
2. water chickweed (Myosoton aquaticum)

• -tava

Borrowed from English watt.

vata m (genitive singular vata, nominative plural vatanna)

1. watt

• vatacht f (“wattage”)
• vatuair f (“watt-hour”)

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “vata”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From German Watte.

vata f (plural vatos)

1. cotton wool (absorbent cotton)

• cukraus vata (“candy floss”)

vata

1. box
2. suitcase, trunk
3. measure (set quantity)

• vata in Malagasy dictionaries at malagasyword.org

Probably inherited from Sanskrit वत (vata), though Vedic Sanskrit used बत (bata) instead.

vata

1. surely, certainly, indeed, alas!

Used as part of an exclamation.

In form inherited from Sanskrit वृत (vṛta) but with meaning corresponding to Sanskrit व्रत (vrata, “vow”); both derived from the same root, Sanskrit वृ (vṛ).

vata m or n

1. religious duty

   Synonym: vatta

• Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “vata”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

Borrowed from German Watte, from Dutch watten, from French ouate, of unknown origin.

• IPA^(key): /ʋâta/

vȁta f (Cyrillic spelling ва̏та)

1. cotton wool

   Synonym: (Croatia) blazinica

vata f (plural vatas)

1. female equivalent of vato

From Proto-Oceanic *pat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

• IPA^(key): /βata/

vata

1. four

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Ross, Malcolm D. (2016) Andrew Pawley, editor, The lexicon of Proto-Oceanic: Volume 5, People: body and mind, Canberra: Australian National University, →ISBN, →OCLC; republished as Meredith Osmond, editor, (Please provide a date or year)
• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 368

vata

1. genitive singular of vat