gata

English

Alternative forms

• kata, katah (from Western Armenian pronunciation)
• gatah

Etymology

Borrowed from Armenian գաթա (gatʻa).

Noun

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Gata (food)

Wikipedia

gata (plural gatas)

1. A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.

Translations

Anagrams

• Agta

Balinese

Romanization

gata

1. Romanization of ᬕᬢ
2. Romanization of ᬖᬝ

Bikol Central

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ga‧ta
• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈta/,

Noun

gatá

1. knife used for harvesting rice

See also

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic)
• IPA^(key): (Valencian)

• Audio (Valencian)

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Noun

gata f (plural gates)

1. female equivalent of gat

Adjective

gata f sg

1. feminine singular of gat

Fijian

Etymology

Cognate with Proto-Polynesian *ŋata (compare Maori ngata, Samoan gata, Tongan ngata and Niuean gata), earlier *ŋʷata, from Proto-Oceanic *mwata (“snake”) (compare Western Fijian ŋwata and Lewo mwata).

Noun

gata

1. snake, serpent

Hiligaynon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀataq.

Noun

gatâ

1. coconut milk

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːta/
• Rhymes: -aːta

Etymology 1

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

Noun

gata f (genitive singular götu, nominative plural götur)

1. street, road

Declension

Derived terms

• aðalgata
• gatnamót
• götustrákur

Etymology 2

From gat (“hole”).

Verb

gata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gataði, supine gatað)

1. (transitive) to pierce through
2. (transitive) specifically, to punch a hole in (using a perforator)
3. (intransitive, informal) to be stumped (be unable to answer a question)

Conjugation

Derived terms

• gatari

Japanese

Romanization

gata

1. Rōmaji transcription of がた

Masbatenyo

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀataq.

Noun

gatâ

1. coconut milk

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• gaten

Noun

gata m or f

1. definite feminine singular of gate

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

gata f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater or gator, definite plural gatene or gatone)

1. definite singular of gate
2. (pre-2012) alternative form of gate

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Likely from the oblique stem *gǫtu of an earlier form *gǫtva, as morphologically gata does not straightforwardly derive from the Proto-Germanic form.

Noun

gata f (genitive gǫtu, plural gǫtur)

1. street, road

Declension

Descendants

• Icelandic: gata
• Faroese: gøta
• Norwegian Nynorsk: gate, gote, gotu; (dialectal) gutu, goto, gatu, gato
• Old Swedish: gata
  • Swedish: gata
  • → Finnish: katu
• Old Danish: gatæ
  • Danish: gade
    • Norwegian Bokmål: gate
• → Middle English: gate
  • Scots: gate
  • English: gait, gate
• → Lithuanian: gatvė

References

Old Swedish

Alternative forms

• ᚵᛆᛏᛆ

Etymology

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

Noun

gata f

1. street, road

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: gata
• → Finnish: katu

Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit गत (gata).

Adjective

gata

1. past participle of gacchati (“to go”), with active sense.

Declension

Derived terms

• apagata

Portuguese

Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese gata, from Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -atɐ

• Hyphenation: ga‧ta

Noun

gata f (plural gatas)

1. female cat
2. (slang) very beautiful woman

Derived terms

• gatinha (diminutive)
• gatona (augmentative)

Related terms

• gato m

Etymology 2

Verb

gata

1. inflection of gatar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Romagnol

Noun

gata f (plural gat)

1. feminine of gat (“cat”)

Romanian

Etymology

Origin disputed. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *gotovъ. The word can also be found in Albanian, compare Albanian gati (which, like the Romanian, is also invariable). Alternatively, the word may be of ultimate Paleo-Balkanic or Albanian origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡa.ta/

• Audio

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Adjective

gata m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. ready, willing
2. done

   Synonym: terminat

Declension

Related terms

• găti

Adverb

gata

1. readily, willingly

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

gata (Cyrillic spelling гата)

1. genitive singular of gat

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin catta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡata/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ga‧ta

Noun

gata f (plural gatas)

1. female equivalent of gato (“cat”); she-cat, molly, queen, female cat
2. car-jack, jack

Derived terms

Further reading

• “gato”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish gata, from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːˌta/

• audio

  (file)

  ("en gata")

Noun

gata c

1. a street
   • 1937, Evert Taube (lyrics and music), “Fritiof och Carmencita [Fritiof and Carmencita]”:

     Samborombón, en liten by förutan gata. Den ligger inte långt från Rio de la Plata. Nästan i kanten av den blåa Atlanten, och med Pampas bakom sig, många hundra gröna mil. Dit kom jag ridande en afton i april, för jag ville dansa tango.

     Samborombón, a small village without a street. It is located not far from Rio de la Plata. Almost at the edge of the blue Atlantic, and with Pampas behind it , many hundred green miles. There I came riding one evening in April, because I wanted to tango.

   • 1967, “Lyckliga gatan [ Happy Street]”, Britt Lindeborg (lyrics), Adriano Celentano (music), performed by Anna-Lena Löfgren:

     Lyckliga gatan, du finns inte mer. Du har försvunnit med hela kvarter. Tystnat har leken, tystnat har sången. Högt över marken svävar betongen. När jag kom åter var allt så förändrat. Trampat och skövlat, fördärvat och skändat. Skall mellan dessa höga hus en dag stiga en sång, lika förunderlig och skön som den, vi hört en gång?

     Happy Street, you no longer exist. You have disappeared with entire neighborhoods . Gone silent has the play, gone silent has the song. High above the ground the concrete hovers. When I came back , everything was so changed. Trampled and devastated, ruined and desecrated. Shall between these tall buildings one day rise a song, as wondrous and fair as the one we once heard?

Usage notes

Often turns into gatu- (gata + -u-) as a prefix in compounds.

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

• gata in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• gata in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• gata in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• agat, taga

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gatəq, *ʀataq. Compare Hiligaynon gata, Isnag xatta, and Masbatenyo gata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡaˈtaʔ/,
• Hyphenation: ga‧ta

Noun

gatâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ)

1. coconut milk
2. (dialectal) plant juice or extract

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• santan

Further reading

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

Tokelauan

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *ŋata. Cognates include Hawaiian naka and Maori ngata.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ga‧ta

Noun

gata

1. snake

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 138