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See also: ANTA, Anta, ȧnta, äntä, -anta, anta-, -anță, and antą

English

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Etymology

From Latin antae (“pilasters”)

The walls within red rectangles are antae.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈæn.tə/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)

Noun

anta (plural antae or antas)

  1. (architecture) A kind of pier that terminates the walls of the naos, a kind of post or pillar on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple.

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Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

Probably from Latin antae (“jamb”); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language

Pronunciation

Noun

anta m (plural antas)

  1. dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark
    Synonyms: arca, forno
  2. large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls
    Synonym: chanto

Derived terms

References

  • “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
  • “anta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
  • “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
  • “anta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
  • “anta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “anta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

Hausa

Pronunciation

Noun

antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)

  1. Alternative spelling of hanta

Indonesian

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈanta/
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta

Etymology 1

From Sanskrit अन्त (antá, “disposition, essence”).

Noun

anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)

  1. (archaic) character, nature.
    Synonyms: sifat, tabiat

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta, “you”).

Pronoun

anta

  1. (informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours
Alternative forms
Synonyms

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

  • anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
  • coen (slang, East Java)
  • ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • kamu (intimate)
  • ko, kowe (informal, Java)
  • kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
  • lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
  • mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

Etymology 3

From Belitung Malay .

Noun

anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)

  1. rice dirt.

Further reading

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈan.ta/
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Hyphenation: àn‧ta

Etymology 1

From Latin antae f pl.

Noun

anta f (plural ante)

  1. door (of furniture)
  2. shutter (of window)
  3. sash (of window)
  4. panel
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Etymology 2

From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (“forty”), cinquanta (“fifty”), sessanta (“sixty”), settanta (“seventy”), ottanta (“eighty”), and novanta (“ninety”).

Noun

anta m pl (plural only)

  1. (informal) forties, fifties, sixties, ... (in someone's age)

Anagrams

Japanese

Romanization

anta

  1. Rōmaji transcription of あんた

Ludian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *antadak. Cognates include Finnish antaa and Veps antta.

Pronunciation

Verb

anta

  1. (transitive) to give
  2. (auxiliary) to allow

Conjugation

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

References

  • Juho Kujola (1944) Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 10
  • M. Pahomov (2022) “anta”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎, Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 16

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

an- +‎ ta; from Danish antage. Calque of German annehmen.

Verb

anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)

  1. to assume, presume
  2. to accept, approve

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Pali

Alternative forms

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit अन्त (anta).

Noun

anta m or n

  1. end
  2. goal
  3. top

Declension

Declension table of "anta" (masculine)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)antoantā
Accusative (second)antaṃante
Instrumental (third)antenaantehi or antebhi
Dative (fourth)antassa or antāya or antatthaṃantānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)antasmā or antamhā or antāantehi or antebhi
Genitive (sixth)antassaantānaṃ
Locative (seventh)antasmiṃ or antamhi or anteantesu
Vocative (calling)antaantā

Derived terms

Noun

anta n

  1. intestine, tharm

Declension

Declension table of "anta" (neuter)
Case \ NumberSingularPlural
Nominative (first)antaṃantāni
Accusative (second)antaṃantāni
Instrumental (third)antenaantehi or antebhi
Dative (fourth)antassa or antāya or antatthaṃantānaṃ
Ablative (fifth)antasmā or antamhā or antāantehi or antebhi
Genitive (sixth)antassaantānaṃ
Locative (seventh)antasmiṃ or antamhi or anteantesu
Vocative (calling)antaantāni

Descendants

  • Khmer: អន្តៈ (ʼɑntaʼ)

References

  1. ^ Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 39.

Polish

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin antae.

Pronunciation

Noun

anta f

  1. (architecture, Ancient Greece) anta

Declension

Declension of anta
singular plural
nominative anta anty
genitive anty ant
dative ancie antom
accusative antę anty
instrumental antą antami
locative ancie antach
vocative anto anty

Further reading

  • anta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

anta

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese anta, borrowed from Latin antās pl.

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

  1. (architecture) anta
  2. (archaeology) dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)
    Synonym: dólmen
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Arabic لَمْتَة (lamta).

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

  1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)
    Synonym: tapir

Noun

anta m or f by sense (plural antas)

  1. (Brazil, figuratively) a stupid person
    Você é uma anta!
    You are an idiot!

Spanish

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Etymology

From ante.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈanta/
  • Rhymes: -anta
  • Syllabification: an‧ta

Noun

anta f (plural antas)

  1. female equivalent of ante; moose, elk
  2. (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)
    Synonyms: tapir, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

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Swedish

Etymology

Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake.

Pronunciation

Verb

anta (present antar, preterite antog, supine antagit, imperative anta)

  1. to assume, to suppose
    Anta att X är tre. Då är noll gånger X lika med noll.
    Assume that X is three. Then zero times X equals zero.
    Om vi antar att han är skyldig så kommer det bli jäkligt svårt att få honom fälld
    If we assume he's guilty, it will be damn hard to get him convicted
  2. to guess, to suppose
    Det kommer rök ur kaffebryggaren, så jag antar att det är dags att köpa en ny
    There's smoke coming out of the coffee maker, so I guess it's time to buy a new one
  3. to accept an offer
    Schackspelaren antog erbjudandet om remi efter att ha funderat på det
    The chess player accepted the offer of a draw after having thought about it
  4. (especially in the past participle) to accept (to a school, etc.)
    Jag har blivit antagen till Harvard!
    I've been accepted to Harvard!

Conjugation

Conjugation of anta (class 6 strong)
Active Passive
Infinitive anta antas
Supine antagit antagits
Imperative anta —
Imper. plural1 antan —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative antar antog antas antogs
Ind. plural1 anta antogo antas antogos
Subjunctive2 anta antoge antas antoges
Participles
Present participle antagande
Past participle antagen
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

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Tagalog

Pronunciation

Noun

antá or anta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜆ)

  1. rancidity; rancid odor
    Synonym: (Marinduque) angal

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “anta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Votic

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈɑntɑː/,
  • Rhymes: -ɑntɑː
  • Hyphenation: an‧ta

Verb

anta

  1. to give

Inflection

Conjugation of anta (type III-3/anta, nt-nn gradation)
Indicative
Present Perfect
positive negative positive negative
1st singular annõn en annõ 1st singular õõn antõnnu en õõ antõnnu
2nd singular annõd ed annõ 2nd singular õõd antõnnu ed õõ antõnnu
3rd singular annõb eb annõ 3rd singular on antõnnu eb õõ antõnnu
1st plural annõmmõ emmä annõ 1st plural öõmmõ antõnnu emmä õõ antõnnu
2nd plural annõttõ että annõ 2nd plural õõttõ antõnnu että õõ antõnnu
3rd plural annõta eväd annõ 3rd plural õlla annõttu eväd õõ annõttu
impersonal annõta eväd annõ impersonal õlla annõttu eväd õõ annõttu
Imperfect Pluperfect
positive negative positive negative
1st singular annin en antõnnu 1st singular õlin antõnnu —
2nd singular annid ed antõnnu 2nd singular õlid antõnnu —
3rd singular anti eb antõnnu 3rd singular õli antõnnu —
1st plural annimmõ emmä antõnnu 1st plural õlimmõ antõnnu —
2nd plural annittõ että antõnnu 2nd plural õlittõ antõnnu —
3rd plural annõtti eväd annõttu 3rd plural õlti annõttu —
impersonal annõtti eväd annõttu impersonal õlti annõttu —
Conditional
Present Perfect
positive negative positive negative
1st singular antaizin en antaizʹ 1st singular õllõizin antõnnu en õllõizʹ antõnnu
2nd singular antaizid ed antaizʹ 2nd singular õllõizid antõnnu ed õllõizʹ antõnnu
3rd singular antaizʹ eb antaizʹ 3rd singular õllõizʹ antõnnu eb õllõizʹ antõnnu
1st plural antaizimmõ emmä antaizʹ 1st plural õllõizimmõ antõnnu emmä õllõizʹ antõnnu
2nd plural antaizittõ että antaizʹ 2nd plural õllõizittõ antõnnu että õllõizʹ antõnnu
3rd plural annõttaizʹ eväd annõttaizʹ 3rd plural õltaizʹ annõttu eväd õltaizʹ annõttu
impersonal annõttaizʹ eväd annõttaizʹ impersonal õltaizʹ annõttu eväd õltaizʹ annõttu
Imperative
Present
positive negative
1st singular — —
2nd singular annõ elä annõ
3rd singular antõgo elko antõgo
1st plural — —
2nd plural antaga elka antaga
3rd plural antõgod —
impersonal — —
Nominal forms
Infinitives Participles
active passive
1st anta present antõjõ1) —
2nd illative antõma past antõnnu annõttu
inessive antõmõz 1) also used as the agent noun
elative antõmassõ
abessive antõmattõ

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

Yilan Creole

Etymology

From Japanese あんた (anta).

Pronoun

anta

  1. you (second person singular pronoun)

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  • Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎, pages 513-532
  • Chien Yuehchen (2018) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの人称代名詞”, in 日本語の研究‎, volume 14, number 4

Yoruba

àǹtà

Pronunciation

Noun

àǹtà

  1. savannah monitor

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