ات

Arabic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /.aːt/

Suffix

ـَات • (-āt)

1. Suffix used to pluralize feminine nouns and adjectives ending in ـَة (-a).
2. Suffix used to pluralize non-human nouns.

Azerbaijani

Noun

ات (ət) (definite accusative اتی (əti), plural اتلر (ətlər))

1. Arabic spelling of ət (“meat”)

Declension

Bulgar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *erti, cognate with Turkish idi, Kazakh еді (edı). See also Proto-Turkic *-ti.

Verb

اَتِ (eti)

1. (Volga Bulgar) was, were

   Synonym: اج (eçi)

References

• A Volga Bulgarıan Inscription From 1307 A. Róna-tas, page 164
• Tekin, Talât (1988) Volga Bulgar kitabeleri ve Volga Bulgarcası [Volga Bulgarian Ephitaphs and Volga Bulgarian Language]‎ (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basımevi, →ISBN, pages 182-183

Iraqi Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta).

Pronoun

اتَّ (ʔitta) m

1. you (masculine singular subject pronoun)

   Alternative form: إِنْتَ (ʔinta)

Etymology 2

From Arabic أَنْتِ (ʔanti).

Pronoun

اتِّ (ʔitti) f

1. you (feminine singular subject pronoun)

   Alternative forms: إِنْتِ (ʔinti), إِتِّي (ʔitti), إنتي (ʔinti)

References

• Dictionary of Baghdadi Dialect by Sheikh Jalal Al-Hanafi, part 1, page 65.

Karakhanid

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *at (“horse”).

Cognate with Old Turkic 𐱃 (at, “horse”), Chuvash ут (ut), Khalaj hat, Turkish at (“horse”), Uzbek ot, Bashkir ат (at) and Yakut ат (at).

Noun

اَتْ (at)

1. horse

   قوُشْ قَنَتِنْ اَرْ اَتِنْ ― Quš qanatïn er atïn. ― The bird with its wings, the man with his horse.

Related terms

• اَتْلَنْماقْ (atlānmāq)

Etymology 2

Inherited from Common Turkic *et (“meat”).

Cognate with Turkish et, Bashkir ит (it) and Yakut эт (et).

Noun

اَتْ (et)

1. meat, flesh

   اُلْ اَتْ آسْدٖى ― Ol et asdï̄. ― He hung up meat.

Etymology 3

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ot (“grass”).

Cognate with Chuvash утӑ (ut̬ă), Turkish ot, Bashkir ут (ut) and Yakut от (ot).

Noun

اُتْ (ot)

1. grass, vegetation, herbs, weeds

   اُتْ اُنْدٖى ― Ot ündī. ― The grass grew.

2. (medicine) medicine

   اُتْ اِجْتِمْ ― Ot ičtim. ― I drank the medicine.

3. poison

   بَكْ اَنْكارْ اُتْ بٖيرْدٖى ― Beg aŋār ot bḗrdī. ― The beg gave him poison.

Etymology 4

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ï̄t (“dog”).

Cognate with Chuvash йытӑ (jyt̬ă), Turkish it, Bashkir эт (et) and Yakut ыт (ıt).

Noun

اِتْ (ït)

1. dog

References

• Clauson, Gerard (1972) “”, in An Etymological Dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pages 32-34

Further reading

• al-Kashgarî, Mahmud (1072–1074) Besim Atalay, transl., Divanü Lûgat-it-Türk Tercümesi [Translation of the “Compendium of the languages of the Turks”] (Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları; 521) (in Turkish), 1985 edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurmu Basımevi, published 1939–1943, pages 34-35

Khalaj

Noun

اَت (ət) (definite accusative اَتی, plural اَتلَر)

1. Arabic spelling of ət (“flesh, meat”)

Declension

Kyrgyz

Noun

ات • (at)

1. Arabic spelling of ат (at).

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *et (“meat”).

Noun

ات • (et)

1. meat; flesh

Derived terms

• اتسز (etsiz)
• ات صویو (et suyu)
• ات قوردو (et kurdu)
• دیش اتی (diş eti, “gum, gingiva”)
• قره ات (kara et)
• گیك اتی (geyik eti)

Etymology 2

Noun

ات • (it)

1. alternative spelling of ایت (it, “dog”)

South Levantine Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic ـَات (-āt).

Suffix

ـات • (-āt) f pl

1. Feminine plural suffix

Usage notes

• Most feminine nouns take this plural suffix, but some are irregular (“broken plural”).
• There are also some masculine nouns, especially loanwords, that take this suffix.

See also

• Feminine ending: ـة (-e/-a)
• Masculine plural suffix for nouns referring to people: ـين (-īn)