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English
Etymology
From Middle English tall, talle, tal (“seemly, becoming, handsome, good-looking, excellent, good, valiant, lively in speech, bold, great, large, big”), from Old English *tæl, ġetæl (“swift, ready, having mastery of”), from Proto-Germanic *talaz (“submissive, pliable, obedient”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol-, *del- (“to aim, calculate, adjust, reckon”).
Cognate with Scots tal (“high, lofty, tall”), Old Frisian tel (“swift”), Old Saxon gital (“quick”), Old High German gizal (“active, agile”), Gothic 𐌿𐌽𐍄𐌰𐌻𐍃 (untals, “indocile, disobedient”).
The Oxford English Dictionary notes: "The sense development is remarkable, but is paralleled more or less by that of other adjectives expressing estimation, such as buxom, canny, clean, clever, cunning, deft, elegant, handsome, pretty, proper; German klein, as compared with English clean, presents the antithesis to modern tall as compared to tall in early Middle English. It has been conjectured that in the sense 'high of stature' it is a different word, adopted from the Welsh tal in some sense; but the latter is, according to Professor Rhŷs, merely a 16th-century borrowing of the English word (in Owen Pughe's Dictionary erroneously mixed up with the genuine Welsh word tal (“end, brow, forehead”), with which it has no possible connection.)"
Pronunciation
Adjective
tall (comparative taller, superlative tallest)
- (of a person) Having a vertical extent greater than the average. For example, somebody with a height of over 6 feet would generally be considered to be tall.
- Antonym: short
Being tall is an advantage in basketball.
1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps, […] , and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.
- (of a building, etc.) Having its top a long way up; having a great vertical (and often greater than horizontal) extent; high.
- Antonyms: low, low-rise, short
- (of a story) Hard to believe, such as a tall story or a tall tale.
1870, The Cornhill Magazine, volume 21, page 9:"That's tall talk."
"Not an inch taller than the truth."
- (chiefly US, of a cup of coffee) Smaller than grande, usually 8 ounces (~ 230 ml).
- Coordinate terms: grande, venti
- (obsolete) Obsequious; obedient.
- (obsolete) Seemly; suitable; fitting, becoming, comely; attractive, handsome.
- (obsolete) Bold; brave; courageous; valiant.
- (archaic) Fine; proper; admirable; great; excellent.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
of a person
- Afrikaans: lank (af)
- Aklanon: mataas
- Albanian: i gjatë (sq)
- Arabic: طَوِيل (ar) (ṭawīl)
- Chadian Arabic: طويل (tawīl)
- Egyptian Arabic: طويل (ṭawīl, ṭowīl)
- Hijazi Arabic: طويل (ṭawīl)
- Armenian: բարձրահասակ (hy) (barjrahasak)
- Aromanian: analtu (roa-rup)
- Assamese: ওখ (ükh), হটঙা (hotoṅa)
- Asturian: altu (ast)
- Azerbaijani: uzun (az), uca (az)
- Belarusian: высо́кі (be) (vysóki)
- Bengali: লম্বা (bn) (lomba)
- Bikol Central: lampyagaw
- Breton: bras (br)
- Brunei Malay: tinggi, jagau
- Bulgarian: висо́к (bg) (visók)
- Burmese: လံဗား (my) (lamba:)
- Catalan: alt (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 高 (gou1)
- Eastern Min: 悬 (geing)
- Hokkien: 懸/悬 (zh-min-nan) (kuân)
- Mandarin: 高 (zh) (gāo)
- Chuvash: ҫӳллӗ (śüllĕ)
- Czech: vysoký (cs)
- Danish: høj (da)
- Dutch: lang (nl), groot (nl)
- Erzya: донга (donga)
- Esperanto: alta (eo), altkreska
- Estonian: pikk (et), kõrge (et)
- Extremaduran: artu
- Faroese: høgur, háur
- Finnish: pitkä (fi), kookas (fi)
- French: grand (fr)
- Galician: alto (gl)
- Georgian: მაღალი (maɣali)
- German: groß (de), lang (de)
- Greek: ψηλός (el) (psilós)
- Ancient: εὐμήκης (eumḗkēs)
- Guaraní: yvate
- Haitian Creole: wo
- Hebrew: גָּבוֹהַּ \ גָּבֹהַּ (he) (gavóah)
- Hindi: ऊँचा (hi) (ū̃cā), लम्बा (hi) (lambā)
- Hungarian: magas (hu)
- Icelandic: hár (is)
- Indonesian: tinggi (id)
- Italian: alto (it)
- Japanese: 高い (ja) (たかい, takai), 背が高い (せがたかい, se ga takai) (predicative), 背の高い (せのたかい, se no takai) (attributive)
- Kazakh: биік (kk) (biık), ұзын (kk) (ūzyn)
- Khmer: ខ្ពស់ (km) (kpʊəh)
- Korean: 키가 크다 (kiga keuda) (predicative), 키가 큰 (kiga keun) (attributive)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دِرێژ (dirêj)
- Laki: دِریژ (dirîj)
- Northern Kurdish: dirêj (ku)
- Southern Kurdish: دِریژ (dirîj)
- Kyrgyz: бийик (ky) (biyik)
- Lao: ສູງ (sūng)
- Latgalian: gars
- Latin: altus (la), prōcērus
- Latvian: garš (lv)
- Lithuanian: aukštas (lt)
- Livonian: pitkā, kuordõ
- Macedonian: висок (visok)
- Malay: tinggi (ms)
- Maltese: twil
- Maori: hūroaroa
- Maranao: malekeiog
- Marathi: उंच (uñċa)
- Mongolian: өндөр (mn) (öndör)
- Neapolitan: auto
- Nepali: अग्लो (ne) (aglo)
- Ngazidja Comorian: -le
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: høy (no)
- Pashto: جګ (jëg)
- Persian: بلند (fa) (boland), الدنگ (fa) (aldang)
- Polish: wysoki (pl)
- Portuguese: alto (pt)
- Quechua: hatun (qu)
- Romanian: înalt (ro)
- Russian: высо́кий (ru) (vysókij), ро́слый (ru) (róslyj)
- Sanskrit: उच्च (sa) (ucca)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вѝсок
- Roman: vìsok (sh)
- Slovak: vysoký (sk)
- Slovene: visòk (sl)
- Spanish: alto (es)
- Swahili: refu (sw)
- Swedish: lång (sv), hög (sv)
- Tagalog: matangkad
- Tajik: қаддароз (qaddaroz), қадбаланд (qadbaland)
- Tamil: உயரமான (uyaramāṉa)
- Tatar: биек (biyek)
- Thai: สูง (th) (sǔung)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: uzun (tr)
- Turkmen: belent (tk), uzyn
- Ukrainian: висо́кий (uk) (vysókyj)
- Urdu: اونچا (ū̃cā)
- Uzbek: baland (uz), uzun (uz)
- Venetian: alt (vec)
- Vietnamese: cao (vi) (高 (vi))
- Welsh: tal (cy)
- White Hmong: siab
- Zhuang: sang
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- Afrikaans: hoog (af)
- Arabic: طَوِيل (ar) (ṭawīl)
- Egyptian Arabic: طويل (ṭawīl)
- Hijazi Arabic: طويل (ṭawīl), عالي (ʕāli)
- Armenian: բարձր (hy) (barjr)
- Aromanian: analtu (roa-rup)
- Assamese: ওখ (ükh)
- Azerbaijani: hündür (az), uca (az), yüksək (az)
- Belarusian: высо́кі (be) (vysóki)
- Bengali: উঁচু (bn) (ũcu)
- Bikol Central: halangkaw (bcl)
- Breton: uhel (br)
- Brunei Malay: tinggi
- Bulgarian: висо́к (bg) (visók)
- Burmese: မြင့် (my) (mrang.)
- Catalan: alt (ca)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 高 (gou1)
- Hokkien: 懸/悬 (zh-min-nan) (kuân)
- Mandarin: 高 (zh) (gāo)
- Czech: vysoký (cs)
- Danish: høj (da)
- Dutch: hoog (nl)
- Esperanto: alta (eo)
- Estonian: kõrge (et)
- Faroese: høgur, háur
- Finnish: korkea (fi)
- French: haut (fr)
- Galician: alto (gl) m
- Georgian: მაღალი (maɣali)
- German: hoch (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: μακρός (makrós)
- Guaraní: yvate
- Hebrew: גָּבוֹהַּ \ גָּבֹהַּ (he) (gavóah)
- Hindi: ऊँचा (hi) (ū̃cā), लम्बा (hi) (lambā)
- Hungarian: magas (hu)
- Irish: ard (ga)
- Italian: alto (it)
- Japanese: 高い (ja) (たかい, takai)
- Javanese: dhuwur (jv)
- Kazakh: зәулім (zäulım)
- Korean: 높다 (ko) (nopda)
- Latin: altus (la), prōcērus
- Latvian: augsts (lv)
- Livonian: kuordi, kuordõ
- Macedonian: висок (visok)
- Malay: tinggi (ms)
- Maranao: malekeiog
- Marathi: उंच (uñca)
- Neapolitan: auto
- Ottoman Turkish: یوكسك (yüksek)
- Pashto: لوړ (ps) (lwaṛ), جګ (jëg)
- Persian: بلند (fa) (boland)
- Polish: wysoki (pl)
- Portuguese: alto (pt)
- Romanian: înalt (ro)
- Russian: высо́кий (ru) (vysókij)
- Sanskrit: उच्च (sa) (ucca)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: вѝсок
- Roman: vìsok (sh)
- Slovak: vysoký (sk)
- Slovene: visòk (sl)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wusoki
- Spanish: alto (es)
- Swahili: refu (sw)
- Swedish: hög (sv)
- Tagalog: matayog (tl)
- Tajik: баланд (tg) (baland)
- Tamil: உயரமான (uyaramāṉa)
- Telugu: పొడుగు (te) (poḍugu)
- Thai: สูง (th) (sǔung)
- Turkish: uzun (tr), yüksek (tr)
- Ukrainian: висо́кий (uk) (vysókyj)
- Urdu: لمبا (lambā)
- Venetian: alt (vec)
- Vietnamese: cao (vi) (高 (vi))
- Zhuang: sang
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Translations to be checked
Noun
tall (plural talls)
- (possibly nonstandard) Someone or something that is tall.
1912, George Francis Atkinson, Botany for High Schools, Henry Holt and Company:But in the second generation of hybrids (from seed of the first) talls and dwarfs were both present, and in the proportion of twelve talls to four dwarfs.
2009, Arianne Cohen, The Tall Book: A Celebration of Life from on High, page 197:The industries that best accommodate talls are those that have faced personal injury lawsuits.
2018 June 5, Chris Robinson, “Fremantle Dockers defender Alex Pearce faces fitness test on injured ankle”, in The West Australian:Fremantle remains unsure about the status a pair of key talls ahead of a defining clash with Adelaide at Optus Stadium.
- A clothing size for taller people.
- Do you have this in a tall?
- A tall serving of a drink, especially one from Starbucks, which contains 12 ounces.
References
- ^ Oxford English Dictionary T, p. 57.
- “tall”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Albanian
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *talna, related to Lithuanian tylù (“to become silent”), Old Irish tuilid (“to sleep”), Proto-Slavic *toliti (“to persuade, to make quiet”).
Verb
tall (aorist talla, participle tallur)
- to ridicule, mock
- to deride, laugh at
Derived terms
References
Aragonese
Etymology
From Latin talis.
Pronoun
tall
- such
Breton
Adjective
tall
- Hard mutation of dall.
Catalan
Etymology
Deverbal from tallar.
Pronunciation
Noun
tall m (plural talls)
- cutting edge
- edge (of a page)
- cut, slice
- cutaway (of a guitar)
- (golf) cut
Further reading
- “tall” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Estonian
Etymology 1
Noun
tall (genitive talle, partitive talle)
- lamb
Declension
Note: the short plural forms from illative onward are almost never used.
Etymology 2
Noun
tall (genitive talli, partitive talli)
- horse stable
Declension
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse tal (“talk, speech, number”), from Proto-Germanic *talą (“number, speech”).
Noun
tall n (definite singular tallet, indefinite plural tall, definite plural talla or tallene)
- number, numeral, figure
Derived terms
See also
References
- “tall” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
tall f (definite singular talla or talli, indefinite plural taller, definite plural tallene)
- (pre-2012) alternative form of toll
Old Irish
Adverb
tall
- there
- Is bec ndi dechur fil etarru siu ⁊ tall. ― There is little difference between them here and there.
- then
- amal du·ratsat sacaird tall bendachta forsin popul ― as the priests had blessed the people then
Descendants
Determiner
tall
- that (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article)
- a tadall tall ― that visit
Synonyms
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse þǫll. Cognate with Jamtish toll, Icelandic þöll.
Pronunciation
Noun
tall c
- pine, Scots pine tree, Pinus sylvestris
Declension
Synonyms
Related terms
See also
Further reading
Anagrams