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nat

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English

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Etymology 1

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Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).

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nat (plural nats)

  1. A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.
    • 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 175:
      They greatly dread evil "Nats" or spirits, to whom they attribute every possible misfortune or illness.

Etymology 2

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Reduced form of naught.

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nat (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Not. [14th–17th c.]
    • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheard's Pipe:
      And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there.

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Abbreviation of natural logarithm.

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nat (plural nats)

  1. A logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms.
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nat (plural nats)

  1. (colloquial, US) Clipping of natatorium.

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Aromanian

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Etymology

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From Latin nātus (“born”). Compare Romanian nat (“personal, individual”).

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nat m

  1. child
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Catalan

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Catalan nat, from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“begotten, produced”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth”).

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nat (feminine nada, masculine plural nats, feminine plural nades)

  1. born
    Synonym: nascut

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Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Danish nat, from Old Norse nátt, nótt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

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nat c (singular definite natten, plural indefinite nætter)

  1. night (period between sunset and sunrise)

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Declension of nat
common
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative nat natten nætter nætterne
genitive nats nattens nætters nætternes

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Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch nat, from Old Dutch nat, from Proto-West Germanic *nat, from Proto-Germanic *nataz.

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  • IPA(key): /nɑt/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: nat
  • Rhymes: -ɑt

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nat (comparative natter, superlative natst)

  1. wet
    Na de regen was het gras nat en modderig.
    After the rain, the grass was wet and muddy.
    Trek een jas aan, anders word je nat in de regen.
    Put on a coat, or you'll get wet in the rain.
    De hond kwam terug van zijn wandeling met natte poten.
    The dog came back from his walk with wet paws.
    We moesten schuilen voor de natte sneeuw.
    We had to take shelter from the wet snow.
    De kinderen kwamen binnen met natte kleren na het spelen in de regen.
    The children came inside with wet clothes after playing in the rain.

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Declension of nat
uninflected nat
inflected natte
comparative natter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial nat natter het natst
het natste
indefinite m./f. sing. natte nattere natste
n. sing. nat natter natste
plural natte nattere natste
definite natte nattere natste
partitive nats natters —

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Descendants

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  • Berbice Creole Dutch: nati
  • Negerhollands: nat
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: nat
  • → Aukan: nati

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nat n (uncountable)

  1. moisture

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Jingpho

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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nat

  1. to burn

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t) (“ill; evil spirit”).

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nat

  1. ghost; god; spirit

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  • Xu, Xijian (徐悉艰), Xiao, Jiacheng (肖家成), Yue, Xiangkun (岳相昆), Dai, Qingxia (戴庆厦) (1983 December) “nat”, in 景汉辞典 [Jingpho-Chinese Dictionary], Kunming: Yunnan Nationalities Publishing House, page 557

Latin

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Verb

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nat

  1. third-person singular present active indicative of nō

Maia

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Noun

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nat

  1. rain

Middle English

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Adverb

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nat

  1. Alternative form of not
    • 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boethius and Troilus
      And at the laste, yif that any wight wene a thing to ben other weyes thanne it is, it is nat only unscience, but it is deceivable opinioun ful diverse and fer fro the sothe of science.

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nat

  1. Alternative form of not

Old English

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nāt

  1. first/third-person singular present indicative of nytan
  2. first/third-person singular present indicative of nitan

Old Swedish

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Etymology

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From Old Norse nátt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts.

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nāt f

  1. night

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Declension of nāt (consonant stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative nāt nāttin nǣtter nǣtrina(r), -rena(r)
accusative nāt nāttina, -ena nǣtter nǣtrina(r), -rena(r)
dative nāt nāttinni, -inne nāttum, -om nāttumin, -omen
genitive nātta(r) inna(r) nātta nāttanna

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“begotten, produced”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth”). The meaning in Romanian developed from that of "offspring" or "progeny" in relation to the parent. Compare Aromanian nat (“child”), also Occitan nada (“girl”).

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nat m (plural nați)

  1. (uncommon, popular) person, individual
    Synonyms: om, persoană, individ, ins
  2. (uncommon, popular) kinsman, relative
    Synonyms: rudă, rudenie

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Declension of nat
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) nat natul (niște) nați nații
genitive/dative (unui) nat natului (unor) nați naților
vocative natule naților
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Singpho

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Etymology

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From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *na-(n/t).

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nat

  1. spirit

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Tzotzil

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nat

  1. deep
    ti nat uk'ume ― the deep stream
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Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English nat.

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Adverb

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nat

  1. not
    • 1867, “ABOUT AN OLD SOW GOING TO BE KILLED”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 106:
      Gooude var nat oan dhing, niether treesh ar thraame;
      Good for not one thing; neither for the trace, nor the car.

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  • nad (“had not”)

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 58
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