atta

English

Etymology 1

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Contraction

atta

1. that's the; that's a

Usage notes

Used principally in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

Alternative forms

• thatta

Derived terms

• attaboy, atta boy
• attadog, atta dog
• attagal, attagirl, atta girl

Etymology 2

From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).

Noun

atta (countable and uncountable, plural attas)

1. (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 7:

     Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.

   • 2020, Shruti Swamy, A House Is a Body: Stories, Algonquin Books:

     The little bits of atta on her hands turned the water a milky white and that was all she could offer to her children’s hunger.

Anagrams

• Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

Akkadian

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *ʔanta m (“thou”). Cognate with Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta) and Biblical Hebrew אַתָּה (ʔattɔ́).

Pronunciation

• (Old Babylonian) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/

Pronoun

atta

1. you, thou (second-person masculine singular personal pronoun, nominative case)

   𒀀𒈾𒆪 𒅇 𒀜𒋫 [anāku u atta] ― a-na-ku u₃ at-ta ― you and I (literally, “I and you”)

See also

Chickasaw

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw atta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /at.ta/

Verb

atta (singular subject)

1. (active voice, intransitive) to be born
2. (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to live in

   Oklahommaꞌ ishattatok. ― You have lived in Oklahoma.

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• ashwa (dual subject)
• *asha, áyyaꞌsha (tri-plural)

Choctaw

Verb

atta

1. to live

Crimean Tatar

Noun

atta

1. locative singular of at

Gothic

Romanization

atta

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/
• Rhymes: -atta
• Hyphenation: àt‧ta

Adjective

atta

1. feminine singular of atto

Anagrams

• tata

Japanese

Romanization

atta

1. Rōmaji transcription of あった

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/,

Noun

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

1. father (term of respect for an old man)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Sicilian: tatà
• Neapolitan: (archaic) tatà, (Apulia) attène

  Tarantino: (/⁠attánə⁠/, “dad”)

References

• “atta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• atta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “atta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Old Frisian

Alternative forms

• aththa, atha, eththa

Etymology

Proto-West Germanic *attō (“father”).

Noun

atta m

1. father

Descendants

• North Frisian: ate, aatj, taatje, tääte
• West Frisian: heit

References

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ata, āta

Etymology

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

Numeral

ātta

1. eight

Descendants

• Swedish: åtta

Pali

Alternative forms

• Alternative forms

  • 𑀅𑀢𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
  • अत्त (Devanagari script)
  • অত্ত (Bengali script)
  • අත‍්ත (Sinhalese script)
  • အတ္တ or ဢတ္တ or ဢတ်တ (Burmese script)
  • อตฺต or อัตตะ (Thai script)
  • ᩋᨲ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
  • ອຕ຺ຕ or ອັຕຕະ (Lao script)
  • អត្ត (Khmer script)
  • 𑄃𑄖𑄴𑄖 (Chakma script)

Noun

atta

1. vocative singular of attan

Sicilian

Noun

atta f

1. Alternative form of gatta

Turkish

Noun

atta

1. singular locative of at

Yagara

Pronoun

atta

1. I

References

• State Library of Queensland, ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES OF THE GREATER BRISBANE AREA, 16 March 2015.