# tent
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: tĕnt, IPA: /tɛnt/
** (pin–pen merger) IPA: /tɪnt/
*** Homophone: tint
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (US, Inland Northern American):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɛnt
* Homophone: tint (pin–pen merger)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”), or contracted from *tendita as an alternate past participle. Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).

#### Noun

tent (plural tents)
* A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
    We were camping in a three-man tent.
    We bought a new tent that can be put up in five seconds, but it took about twenty minutes to take it down and pack it away.
* (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
* (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
** 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.
* A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
** 2013, Nathan Lapointe, A Strange New World:[…] feeling his erection making a tent in his pants.

##### Derived terms

* beer tent
* bell-tent
* bell tent
* bender tent
* big tent
* big-tent
* big tent
* box tent
* cook-tent
* cook tent
* crotch tent
* dog tent
* eastern tent caterpillar
* field tent
* fold like a cheap tent
* fold one's tent
* fumigation tent
* mess tent
* morning tent
* oxygen tent
* pitch a tent
* pup tent
* ridge tent
* shelter tent
* strike the tent
* table tent
* tent bed
* tent camping
* tent caterpillar
* tent embassy
* tent-maker
* tent meeting
* tent peg
* tent pegging
* tent pole
* tentpole
* tent pole movie
* tent revival
* tent rock
* tent-sack
* tree tent
* were you born in a tent
* Zdarsky tent
* Zdarsky tent-sack

##### Translations

Albanian: çadër (sq) m
Arabic: خَيْمَة (ar) f (ḵayma)
Egyptian Arabic: خيمة f (ḵēma)
Hijazi Arabic: خيمة f (ḵēma)
Armenian: վրան (hy) (vran)
Assamese: তম্বু (tombu), তামীঘৰা (tamighora), ডেৰা (dera), ৰভা (robha), চায়না (sayona)
Avar: чадир (čadir)
Azerbaijani: çadır (az), alaçıq (az)
Bashkir: сатыр (satır)
Basque: karpan
Belarusian: пала́тка f (palátka), шацёр m (šacjór), намёт m (namjót)
Bulgarian: пала́тка (bg) f (palátka), ша́тра (bg) f (šátra), ша́тър (bg) m (šátǎr)
Burmese: တဲ (my) (tai:)
Catalan: tenda (ca) f
Chechen: четар (četar)
Chichewa: hema
Chinese:
Mandarin: 帳篷 / 帐篷 (zh) (zhàngpéng)
Crimean Tatar: çadır, çalaş, şatır (northern dialect), şalaş (northern dialect)
Czech: stan (cs) m
Danish: telt (da) n
Dutch: tent (nl) m
Egyptian: (ẖn m)
Elfdalian: telt n
Esperanto: tendo
Estonian: telk
Faroese: tjald n
Finnish: teltta (fi)
French: tente (fr) f, (military slang, colloquial) guitoune (fr)
Friulian: tinde f
Galician: tenda (gl) f
Georgian: კარავი (ka) (ḳaravi)
German: Zelt (de) n
Greek: σκηνή (el) f (skiní)
Ancient: σκηνή f (skēnḗ)
Doric: σκανά f (skaná)
Greenlandic: tupeq
Hausa: laima
Hebrew: אוהל / אֹהֶל (he) m (óhel)
Hindi: ख़ैमा m (xaimā), डेरा (hi) m (ḍerā), तंबू (hi) m (tambū), शामियाना (hi) m (śāmiyānā)
Hungarian: sátor (hu)
Icelandic: tjald (is) n
Indonesian: tenda (id)
Ingrian: maja
Irish: puball m
Italian: tenda (it) f
Japanese: テント (ja) (tento); (archaic) 幕屋 (まくや, makuya), 天幕 (ja) (てんまく, tenmaku)
Kalmyk: нәәхн (nääxn)
Kazakh: шатыр (şatyr)
Khmer: តង់ (tɑng), តង់ត្ណិ (tɑng)
Korean: 텐트 (ko) (tenteu)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چادر (ckb) (çadir)
Northern Kurdish: çadir (ku), kon (ku) m
Kyrgyz: чатыр (ky) (catır)
Lak: чятир (čaˤtir)
Lao: ຜ້າເຕັ້ນ (phā ten), ກະໂຈມ (lo) (ka chōm), ຜາມ (phām), ຜາມຜ້າ (phām phā), ເຕັນ (ten), ຕູບຜ້າ (tūp phā)
Latin: tabernāculum n, tentōrium n
Latvian: telts f
Lithuanian: palapinė f
Luxembourgish: Zelt n
Macedonian: шатор m (šator)
Malay: khemah (ms), tenda, ceteri
Malayalam: കൂടാരം (ml) (kūṭāraṁ)
Manchu: ᠮᠠᡳᡴᠠᠨ (maikan)
Manx: booage f, bwaag f, paalan, ynragh
Maori: tēneti
Marathi: तंबू m (tambū)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: майхан (mn) (majxan)
Mongolian: ᠮᠠᠶᠢᠬᠠᠨ (mayiqan)
Navajo: níbaal
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Ngazidja Comorian: hema
Northern Sami: goahti
Norwegian:
Bokmål: telt (no) n
Nynorsk: telt n
Occitan: tenda (oc) f
Old English: teld n
Old Irish: pupall m
Old Norse: tjald n
Ossetian: цатыр (catyr)
Ottoman Turkish: چادر (çadır), خیمه (hayme)
Pashto: خېمه (ps) f (xema)
Persian: خیمه (fa) (xeyme), چادر (fa) (čâdor), گیان (fa) (goyân)
Plautdietsch: Zelt f
Polish: namiot (pl) m
Portuguese: tenda (pt) f, barraca (pt) f (Brazil)
Prasuni: žima
Romanian: cort (ro) n
Romansch: tenda f
Russian: пала́тка (ru) f (palátka), шатёр (ru) m (šatjór)
Sardinian: denda f
Scottish Gaelic: pùball m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ша̏тор m
Roman: šȁtor (sh) m
Sherpa: གུར (gur)
Shor: шадыр (şadır)
Slovak: stan m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: stan m
Spanish: tienda (es) f, toldo (es) m, carpa (es) f
Swahili: hema (sw)
Swedish: tält (sv) n
Tajik: хайма (tg) (xayma), чодир (čodir)
Tamil: கூடாரத்தில் (kūṭārattil)
Tatar: чатыр (tt) (çatır)
Telugu: గుడారము (te) (guḍāramu), టెంటు (ṭeṇṭu)
Thai: กระโจม (th) (grà-joom), เต็นท์ (th) (dtén)
Tibetan: གུར (gur)
Turkish: çadır (tr), çerge (tr), otağ (tr)
Turkmen: çadyr
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎅𐎍 (ảhl)
Ukrainian: наме́т (uk) m (namét), шатро́ (uk) n (šatró)
Urdu: خَیْمَہ m (xaima), ڈیرا m (ḍerā), شامِیانہ m (śāmiyānā)
Uyghur: چېدىر (chëdir)
Uzbek: chodir (uz), palatka (uz)
Vietnamese: lều (vi)
Volapük: tänad (vo)
Welsh: lluest, lluesty, pabell (cy), pall
Yiddish: געצעלט n (getselt), בײַדל n (baydl), פּאַלאַטקע f (palatke)
Yup'ik: pelatekaq
Zazaki: çadır :

#### Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
* (intransitive) To go camping.
    We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.
* (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
* (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.
    The sheet tented over his midsection.
* Synonym of fumigate

##### Translations
#### See also

* camp
* lean-to
* lodge
* pavilion, pavillion
* pitch
* tarp

### Etymology 2

From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”). Compare tend, from an aphetic variation of attend

#### Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
* (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
** 14th century, anonymous, The Romance of Syr Tryamoure
    He let hur have wemen at wylle, To tent hur, and that was skylle, And brought hur to bede
* (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.

#### Noun

tent (plural tents)
* (archaic, UK, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.
** a. 1451, John Lydgate, The Prohemy of a Marriage betwixt and Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail &c.:Lo ! lo ! my frend , take tent to this womman
* (archaic) Intention; design.
** a. 1300, anonymous author, Cursor Mundi:A-pon þe feild his fader went And soght abel wit al his tent

### Etymology 3

From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tentāre (“to probe, test”), alteration of temptāre (“to test, probe, tempt”).

#### Noun

tent (plural tents)
* (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
* (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

#### Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)
* (medicine, sometimes figurative) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
    to tent a wound
** c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:I'll tent him to the quick.

### Etymology 4

From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tīnctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge. Doublet of tint and tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.

#### Noun

tent (plural tents)
* (archaic) A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
    Synonyms: tent wine, tinta
    Coordinate terms: claret, hock, sack

### References

* “tent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Nett, nett

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tent
* Rhymes: -ɛnt

### Noun

tent f (plural tenten, diminutive tentje n)
* tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
* pavillion
    Synonym: paviljoen
* (informal, Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes; a joint
    Synonym: keet

#### Derived terms

* circustent
* dönertent
* festivaltent
* friettent
* hamburgertent
* hottentottententententoonstelling
* kampeertent
* kebabtent
* kermistent
* loempiatent
* patattent
* pizzatent
* rotitent

#### Descendants

* Negerhollands: tente
* → Sranan Tongo: tenti
** → Caribbean Javanese: thenthi
** → Lokono: tenti

## Middle English
### Adjective

tent
* Alternative form of tenthe

### Noun

tent
* Alternative form of tenthe

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Verb

tent
* past participle of tenne

## Scots
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle English tenth, tenthe.

### Adjective

tent
* tenth

### References

* “tend, adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.
* “tent, adj.1, n.1.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 7 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.

## Southern Kam
### Adjective

tent
* short

## Swedish
### Etymology

Clipping of tentamen. Compare Finnish tentti.

### Noun

tent c
* (Finland, colloquial) exam, examination (test)
    Synonyms: tentamen, tenta

#### Declension

| | | nominative | genitive |
| singular | indefinite | tent | tents |
| singular | definite | tenten | tentens |
| plural | indefinite | tenter | tenters |
| plural | definite | tenterna | tenternas |

#### Derived terms

* tentlitteratur