tatami

English

English Wikipedia has an article on:

tatami

Wikipedia

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (tatami).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈtɑːmi/

Noun

tatami (plural tatamis or tatami)

1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
   • 1964, John Berryman, chapter 31, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 35:

     Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts,

   • 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 2:

     Small tools are spread on the tatami: a razor knife, a sprue cutter, curls of emery paper.

Derived terms

• tatamied

Translations

Anagrams

• Tiamat

Basque

Etymology

Ultimately from Japanese 畳 (tatami).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tatami/
• Rhymes: -ami
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta‧mi

Noun

tatami inan

1. tatami
   • 2001 December 28, Goienkaria, number 47, page 47:

     Bigarren solairuan gimnasioa eta tatami gela jarriko dituzte.

     On the second floor, a gym and a tatami room will be installed.

Declension

Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 畳 (tatami).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑtɑmi/,
• Rhymes: -ɑtɑmi
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧ta‧mi

Noun

tatami

1. tatami

Declension

Further reading

• “tatami”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• Mattia, maitat, maitta, matita, mitata, mittaa

French

Noun

tatami m (plural tatamis)

1. tatami

Further reading

• “tatami”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 畳(たたみ) (tatami, “tatami mat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta‧mi

Noun

tatami (plural tatami-tatami, first-person possessive tatamiku, second-person possessive tatamimu, third-person possessive tataminya)

1. (sports) mattress.

   Synonym: matras

Further reading

• “tatami” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese

Romanization

tatami

1. Rōmaji transcription of たたみ

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈta.mi/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ta‧ta‧mi

Noun

tatami m pers

1. instrumental plural of tata

Spanish

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:

tatami

Wikipedia ^es

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (たたみ (tatami).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈtami/
• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ta‧ta‧mi

Noun

tatami m (plural tatamis)

1. tatami

Further reading

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