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English
Noun
tav (plural tavs)
- Alternative form of taw (Semitic letter)
Anagrams
Danish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
tav
- past tense of tie
Finnish
Etymology
From Phoenician .
Pronunciation
Noun
tav
- taw (twenty-second letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
Declension
Anagrams
Northern Kurdish
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *tāpás, from Proto-Indo-European *tep-. Cognate with Sanskrit तपस् (tapas, “heat, fire”), Persian آفتاب (âftâb, “sun”), Persian تاب (tâb, “heat, warmth”), Ormuri تووه (“sun”), Latin tepidus (“warm”), Russian тёплый (tjóplyj, “warm”), Old Armenian տապ (tap, “heat”).
Pronunciation
Noun
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هەتاو (hetaw)
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tav f (Arabic spelling تاڤ)
- sunshine, sun, sunlight,
- Synonym: roj
References
- Chyet, Michael L. (2003) “tav”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary, with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 597
White Hmong
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tamX (“rib”).
Noun
tav (classifier: tus)
- (anatomy) rib
- Neeg muaj 12 tug tav. ― A human has 12 ribs.
- side, horizontal
Etymology 2
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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Not mentioned by Ratliff at all. These meanings may be etymologically separate from each other and from Etymology 1. Are some of these Sinitic borrowings?”
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Verb
tav
- to herd animals, drive animals with a stick
- Nws mus tav nyuj noj zaub. ― He herds the cows to feed on grass.
- to lay down across
- Ib tug nab pw tav kev. ― A snake laid across the trail.
- to prune, trim
- Nws tav cov ntsis zaub. ― She prunes the growth of the vegetable.
Noun
tav
- a period of time
- txog tav no ― until now
- tav twg? ― when?
- Tav twg kuj tau. ― Any time will be all right.
Derived terms
References
- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 305-6.
- Jaisser, Annie, Ratliff, Martha, Riddle, Elizabeth, Strecker, David, Vang, Lopao, Vang, Lyfu (1995) Hmong For Beginners, Center for Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley, page 271.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 283.