hat

Abbreviation of English Haitian Creole.

hat

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Haitian Creole.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Haitian Creole terms

 hat on Wikipedia

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /hæt/

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• Rhymes: -æt

From Middle English hat, from Old English hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz (“hat”), from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to guard, cover, care for, protect”).

Cognate with North Frisian hat (“hat”), Danish hat (“hat”), Swedish hatt (“hat”), Icelandic hattur (“hat”), Finnish hattu (“hat”), Latin cassis (“helmet”), Lithuanian kudas (“bird's crest or tuft”), Avestan 𐬑𐬀𐬊𐬛𐬀 (xaoda, “hat”), Persian خود (xud, “helmet”), Welsh cadw (“to provide for, ensure”). Compare also hood.

hat (plural hats)

2. (clothing) A covering for the head, often in the approximate form of a cone, dome or cylinder closed at its top end, and sometimes having a brim and other decoration.
   • 1913, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, chapter II, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., , , →OCLC, page 0091:

     There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

   • 2009, “Cool Guys Don’t Look at Explosions”‎performed by Andy Samberg, Will Ferrell, and J. J. Abrams:

     Denzel walks. Will Smith walks. Mark Wahlberg is wearing a hat!

3. (figuratively) A particular role or capacity that a person might fill.
   • 1980 March 3, Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, “The Official Visit”, in Yes Minister, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds):

     It's all a matter of hats, Minister.

   • 1993, Susan Loesser, A Most Remarkable Fella: Frank Loesser and the Guys and Dolls in His Life: A Portrait by His Daughter, Hal Leonard Corporation, published 2000, →ISBN, page 121:

     My mother was wearing several hats in the early fifties: hostess, scout, wife, and mother.

4. (figuratively) Any receptacle from which names or numbers are pulled out in a lottery.
   1. (figuratively, by extension) The lottery or draw itself.

      We're both in the hat: let's hope we come up against each other.

5. (video games) A hat switch.
   • 2002, Ernest Pazera, Focus on SDL, page 139:

     The third type of function allows you to check on the state of the joystick's buttons, axes, hats, and balls.

6. (typography, nonstandard, rare) The háček symbol.
   • 1997 October 6th, “Patricia V. Lehman” (user name), rec.antiques (Usenet newsgroup), “Re: Unusual Mark – made in Cechoslovakia”, Message ID: <[email protected]>#1/1

     I’lll have to leave it up to antiques experts to tell you when objects were marked that way, but I can tell you it’s called a “hacek” (with the hat over the “c” and pronounced “hacheck”.) It is used to show that a “c” is pronounced as “ch” and an “s” as “sh.” Sometimes linguists just call it the “hat.”

7. (programming, informal) The caret symbol ^.
8. (Should we delete⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (Internet slang) User rights on a website, such as the right to edit pages others cannot.
9. (Cambridge University slang, obsolete) A student who is also the son of a nobleman (and so allowed to wear a hat instead of a mortarboard).
   • 1830, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 32, in Paul Clifford:

     I knew intimately all the 'Hats' in the University, and I was henceforth looked up to by the 'Caps,' as if my head had gained the height of every hat that I knew.

• (student and nobleman): gold hatband, tuft

• See also Thesaurus:headwear

• Sranan Tongo: ati

• take one's hat off to

hat (third-person singular simple present hats, present participle hatting, simple past and past participle hatted)

1. (transitive) To place a hat on.
   • 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     After the maids had hatted and gloved the girls, the carriage was summoned and I was carted around one church after another.

2. (transitive) To appoint as cardinal.
   • 1929 December 2, “Five New Hats”, in Time:

     It was truly a breathtaking rise. From the quiet school, Pope Pius XI had jumped Father Verdier over the heads of innumerable Bishops, made him Archbishop of Paris. Soon he was to be hatted a Prince of the Church and put in charge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.

3. (intransitive) To shop for hats.
   • 1920, Katharine Metcalf Roof, The Great Demonstration, page 122:

     We might just go hatting this afternoon

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, : Olympia Press, →OCLC:

     Watt's need of semantic succour was at times so great that he would set to trying names on things, and on himself, almost as a woman hats.

hat

1. (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) simple past of hit

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

• hat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• ATH, aht, tha

hat

1. third-person singular present indicative of haban

From Old Norse hattr, hǫttr.

• IPA^(key): /had/, ,

hat c (singular definite hatten, plural indefinite hatte)

1. hat

• IPA^(key): /hat/

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• Rhymes: -at

hat

1. third-person singular present of haben

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• Rhymes: -ɒt

From Proto-Uralic *kutte. Cognates include Finnish kuusi, Northern Mansi хо̄т (hōt), Northern Khanty хәт (hət).

hat

2. six

(Non-institutionalized adjectival compounds with single-element numerals ):
hatezres, hatmilliós, hatmilliárdos, hatbilliós; hatméteres, hatcentis, hatkilós, hatdekás, hatgrammos, hattonnás, hatliteres; hatwattos, hatamperes; hatperces, hatórás, hatórai, hatórányi, hatnapi, hatnapos, hathetes, hatheti, hatéves, hatévi, hathavi; hatpercenként, hatóránként, hatnaponta, hatnaponként, hathetente, hathetenként, hathavonta, hathavonként, hatévente, hatévenként; hatfokos, hatfokú, hatirányú, hatoldalas, hatoldalú, hatkötetes, hatdimenziós, hatszázalékos, hatkerekű, hatfős, hatfőnyi, hatnyelvű, hatgyerekes / hatgyermekes, hattagú, hatelemű, hatrészes, hatemeletes, hatrétegű, hatszintes, hatablakos, hatajtós, hatüléses, hatjegyű, hatpontos, hatszavas, hatbetűs, hatsoros; hatforintos, hatdolláros, hateurós; hatlábú, hatágú, hatfejű, hatkezű, hatkarú, hatszemű, hatfülű, hatlevelű.

From Proto-Uralic *kattɜ- (“to penetrate, go ahead, move somewhere”). The suffix -hat/-het originated from this verb. First attested in c. 1372.

hat

2. (intransitive, obsolete) to get, arrive at, pass, progress towards (a certain location)

   Synonyms: hatol, ér, jut

   • 1863, János Arany, Rege a csodaszarvasról (The Legend of the Wondrous Hunt, translated by E.D. Butler)

     Süppedékes mély tavaknak / Szigetére ők behatnak.

     An island fair to reach, they pass / Through treacherous pool and deep morass.

4. (intransitive, archaic or literary) to enter, penetrate

   Synonym: hatol

6. (intransitive) to take effect, to be effective, to work

   Synonyms: hatásos, működik, beválik

8. (intransitive) to affect, to have influence, to act (on something -ra/-re)

   Synonyms: kihat, érint, befolyásol

10. (intransitive) to seem, appear (as something -nak/-nek)

    Synonyms: tűnik, látszik

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• (six): hat in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• (to take effect): hat in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /hat̪ˠ/

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

hat

1. h-prothesized form of at

From Proto-Turkic *at.

• IPA^(key): , , , ,
• (Mansûrâbâdî, Tâlxâbî, Xaltâbâdî) IPA^(key):
• (Xarrâbî) IPA^(key):

hat (definite accusative hatı, plural hatlar)

1. horse

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1971) Khalaj Materials, Indiana University, →ISBN
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1980) Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1988) Grammatik des Chaladsch (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, →OCLC
• https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lxforms.php?lx=klj

From Sanskrit हस्त (hasta).

hat ?

1. (anatomy) hand

• Eric Anonby, Hassan Mohebi Bahmani (2014) “Shipwrecked and Landlocked: Kholosi, an Indo-Aryan Language in South-west Iran”, in Cahier de Studia Iranica xx‎, pages 13-36

• IPA^(key): /haːt/

hat

1. inflection of hunn:
   1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative
   2. second-person plural preterite indicative

hat

1. inflection of haen:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

hat (plural haat)

1. dog

From Old English hæt, hætt, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.

• hatt, hatte, hæt

• IPA^(key): /hat/

hat (plural hattes or hatten)

1. A hat or cap; a piece of headgear or headwear.
2. A helmet; a hat used as armour.
3. (rare) A circlet or tiara; a ring-shaped piece of headgear.
4. (rare) A circle of foam or mist.
5. (rare) An area of hilly woodland.

• Scots: hat, hatt, hate, hait
• English: hat
  • Sranan Tongo: ati
• → Irish: hata
• → Manx: edd
• → Scottish Gaelic: ad

• “hat, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 18 July 2018.

hat

1. alternative form of hate

From Old Frisian hit.

hat

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring, Sylt) it (third-person singular neuter personal pronoun)
2. (Föhr-Amrum) she (third-person singular feminine personal pronoun)

• In Mooring and Sylt Frisian, this form is now rarely used. It is replaced with et (unstressed) or the demonstrative dåt, dit (stressed).
• On Föhr and Amrum, hat is chiefly used of female persons. In the original neuter sense it is similarly replaced with at and det.

• (it): at, et, 't (reduced forms)
• (she): 't (reduced form), jü (Mooring, Sylt)

Norwegian Bokmål Wikipedia has an article on:

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From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata or hatene)

1. hatred, hate

• hatefull
• hater

• hate (verb)

hat

1. imperative of hate

• “hat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːt/

From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz. Akin to English hate.

hat n (definite singular hatet, indefinite plural hat, definite plural hata)

1. hatred, hate

hat

1. imperative of hate

• “hat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /xɑːt/,

From Proto-West Germanic *hait.

hāt (comparative hātra, superlative hātost)

2. hot
   • 10th century, The Seafarer:

     þonne hē be clifum cnossað. · Calde ġeþrungen
     wǣron mīne fēt, · forste ġebunden,
     caldum clommum, · þǣr þā ċeare sēofedun.
     Hāt ymb heortan · hungor innan slāt
     merewērġes mōd. · Þæt sē mon ne wāt

     then it beats near cliffs. My feet were
     squeezed by cold, bound by frost,
     with cold fetters, when there we bemoaned
     sorrows. Hot about heart, hunger within tore
     a sea-weary mind. The man didn't know that,

• ceald

• hātheort
• hǣtan
• hǣtu

• Middle English: hot, hote, hoot, hoote, hoth, whote, hate, hatte (northern)
  • English: hot
  • Geordie English: het
  • Scots: hat, hait, hate
  • Yola: hoat, hote, hoate

From hātan.

hāt n

2. a promise

Strong a-stem:

• ġehāt (much more common)

• English: hote, hot, hate, hat

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:

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From Old Norse hatr, from Proto-Germanic *hataz.

• IPA^(key): /hɑːt/

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hat n (uncountable)

1. hate, hatred
   • 1982, Lustans Lakejer, “Diamanter ”, in Diamanter / Sång om syrsor ‎:

     Jag ska börja bli elak. Jag ska odla mitt hat. För om hatet är tillräckligt kallt, så ser man världen så klart. Och jag ska skapa intriger. Jag ska inte gå att lita på. För om dom vet att jag går bakom deras rygg, så känner dom sig så små.

     I'm going to start being mean. I'm going to cultivate my hatred. For if the hatred is cold enough, you see the world so clearly. And I will create intrigue . I will not be able to trust. For if they know that I go behind their backs , they feel so small.

   • 1995, De Lyckliga Kompisarna, “Hat som hobby ”, in Sagoland ‎:

     Hat och hat och hat, men vad gör du av din kärlek? Hat och hat och hat, men vad gör du av din kärlek? Spänn av och låt din längtan sippra fram.

     Hate and hate and hate, but what do you do with your love? Hate and hate and hate, but what do you do with your love? Relax and let your longing seep out.

• hatbrott
• judehat
• rashat

• hata
• hatare
• hatisk

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

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

hat

1. four

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*Sepat”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• Fransiskus Monteiro (1985) Kamus Tetun-Indonesia (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan

From English hat.

hat

1. hat

From English hard.

hat

1. hard
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:19:

     Na bai yu wok hat tru long kisim kaikai bilong yu na tuhat bai i kamap long pes bilong yu. Na bai yu hatwok oltaim inap yu dai na yu go bek long graun. Long wanem, mi bin wokim yu long graun, na bai yu go bek gen long graun.”

     →New International Version translation

• hatpela
• hatwok

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish خط, borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).

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hat (definite accusative hattı, plural hatlar)

1. line

   Sigfried hattı ― Siegfried line

2. writing

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).

hat (definite accusative haty, plural hatlar)

1. letter (written message)

• “hat” in Enedilim.com
• “hat” in Webonary.org

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *gatь.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Hyphenation: hat
• Syllabification: hat

hat m inan (diminutive haćik or hatk)

1. pond (natural or man-made)

• “hat” in Soblex