# tata
## English
### Etymology 1

Probably hypocoristic, circa 1823.

#### Interjection

tata
* Alternative form of ta ta

### Etymology 2

Probably ultimately from baby-talk and related to teat, tit. Possibly borrowed through French tette, of Germanic origin, and/or Old English titt. Compare Dutch tiet and German Zitze.

#### Pronunciation

* Audio (US):(file)

#### Noun

tata (plural tatas)
* (slang) Alternative form of ta-ta (“breast”)

### Anagrams

* atta

## Aeka
### Noun

tata
* paternal aunt

### References

Greenhill, Simon (2017). "Language: Aeka". TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea. Retrieved July 7, 2017.

## Amanab
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑtɑ/

### Noun

tata
* pig

### References

* Andy Minch. Amanab grammar essentials. 1992.

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taˈta/ [taˈta]
* Hyphenation: ta‧ta

### Noun

tatá (Basahan spelling ᜆᜆ)
* (dated) door
    Synonyms: puwerta, pinto

#### Derived terms

* tatahan

## Cebuano
### Etymology 1

Compare tatay.

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ta‧ta
* IPA: /ˈtata/ [ˈt̪a.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -a

#### Noun

tata
* a familiar address to one's father

### Etymology 2

Reduplication of ta, from initial clipping of bata.

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ta‧ta
* IPA: /taˈta/ [t̪ɐˈt̪a]
* Rhymes: -a

#### Noun

tata
* (childish) a familiar address to a child

### Etymology 3

Compare tastas

#### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ta‧ta
* IPA: /ˈtataʔ/ [ˈt̪a.t̪ɐʔ]
* Rhymes: -a

#### Verb

tata
* to wear out

## Central Huasteca Nahuatl
### Noun

tata
* father.

## Central Tarahumara
### Noun

tata
* father

## Chavacano
### Etymology

Inherited from Spanish tata (“daddy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtata/, [ˈt̪a.t̪a]
* Hyphenation: ta‧ta

### Noun

tata
* father

## Classical Nahuatl
### Etymology

Perhaps imitative, though compare tahtli (“father”) and Spanish taita (“dad”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈta.ta]

### Noun

tata (animate)
* A child's word for his father; dad, daddy.
** 1571, Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, f. 111v. col. 1:Taita. padre delos niños. tata.Taita. the children's father. tata.
** Idem, f. 91r. col. 1.
    Tata. por tayta,padre [dize el niño.]
       Tata. from tayta, father, says the child.

#### Synonyms

* tahtli

### References

* Alonso de Molina (1571) Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, Editorial Porrúa, pages 11v, 91r

## Crimean Tatar
### Noun

tata
* elder sister

## French
### Etymology

Expressive variant of tante (“aunt”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.ta/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tata f (plural tatas)
* (childish) auntie
    Les enfants, aujourd’hui on va voir tata !Kids, today we're going to see auntie!

### Noun

tata m (plural tatas)
* (chiefly Canada, vulgar) imbecile, idiot, bastard, wanker, dickhead

### Further reading

* “tata”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Fula
### Noun

tata o (plural tataaji ɗi) (ka)
* (Pular, Pulaar) tata (a defensive city wall)

### References

* Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

## Guaraní
### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

tata
* fire

## Hungarian
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɒtɒ]
* Hyphenation: ta‧ta
* Rhymes: -tɒ

### Noun

tata (plural taták)
* (possibly offensive) uncle, old man, fogey (used to speak of or address old men humorously or disparagingly)
* (informal, dialectal) father, dad

#### Declension
### Further reading

* tata in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay tata, from Javanese ꦠꦠ (tata), from Old Javanese tatā (“arrangement, ordering; fixed order, rule”), from Pali tathā (“in this way”), from Sanskrit तथा (tathā, “in that manner”). Doublet of titi.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Indonesian) IPA: /ˈtata/ [ˈt̪a.t̪a]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: ta‧ta

### Noun

tata (plural tata-tata)
* order, arrangement
    Synonyms: susunan, tataan, tatanan
* system
    Synonym: sistem

### Verb

tata (active menata, passive ditata)
* to organize, arrange
    Synonyms: atur, susun
* (figurative, of a relationship) to build
    Synonym: bangun

#### Derived terms

* penata (“organizer, arranger”)
* penataan (“the act of organizing, arrangement”)
* tataan (“order, arrangement”)
* tertata (“organized, arranged”)

#### Compounds

* tata acara
* tata adab
* tata bahana
* tata bahasa
* tata bangunan
* tata berkas
* tata boga
* tata buku
* tata busana
* tata cahaya
* tata cara
* tata gerha
* tata graha
* tata guna
* tata hidang
* tata hidup
* tata hubungan
* tata hukum
* tata istilah
* tata kalimat
* tata kelola
* tata kerja
* tata kota
* tata krama
* tata laku
* tata latar
* tata letak
* tata lingkungan
* tata muka
* tata nama
* tata negara
* tata olah
* tata panggung
* tata perang
* tata rambut
* tata rias
* tata ruang
* tata sinar
* tata surya
* tata susila
* tata susunan
* tata tanam
* tata tertib
* tata ulang prosenium
* tata urut
* tata urutan
* tata warna

### Further reading

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

## Italian
### Etymology

From Latin tata.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ta/
* Rhymes: -ata
* Hyphenation: tà‧ta

### Noun

tata f (plural tate) (childish)
* governess (or any young woman looking after children)
* big sister
* (regional) Form of address for an older male, especially:
** one's father, daddy, papa
** an older brother
** any man, especially if young, taking care of the child

### Anagrams

* atta

## Javanese
### Romanization

tata
* Romanization of ꦠꦠ

## Kituba
### Noun

tata
* father

## Latin
### Etymology

From Proto-Italic *tata, from Proto-Indo-European *tata-, ultimately onomatopoeic, mimicking baby talk.
Compare the similar atta, and also Cornish tat, tas, Breton tad and Breton tata, Ancient Greek τατᾶ (tatâ), τέττα (tétta), Bulgarian та́тко (tátko), Sanskrit तात (tāta), Kamkata-viri tót, tó, Tregami tát, Waigali tati.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈta.ta/, [ˈt̪ät̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈta.ta/, [ˈt̪äːt̪ä]

### Noun

tata m (genitive tatae); first declension
* dad, daddy, a term used by children for their father

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Eastern Romance:
** Aromanian: tatã, tati
** Istro-Romanian: tåtĕ
** Megleno-Romanian: tată
** Romanian: tată (“father, dad”)
* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Dalmatian: tuota, teta
** Italian: tata, tato
*** → Cimbrian: tatta
*** → Mòcheno: tata
** Neapolitan: tata
* Old Occitan:
** Old Catalan: taita (“dad”)
*** Catalan: tata (“dad, brother”) (dialectal)
* Rhaeto-Romance:
** Romansch: tat (“grandfather”) (dialectal)
* Gallo-Romance:
** Old French: taie
* West Iberian:
** Portuguese: tatá
** Old Spanish: taita (“dad”)
*** Spanish: tata, tato, taita

### References

* "tata", in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* "tata", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Lingala
### Noun

tata class 1 (plural batata class 2)
* father
* man

## Marshallese
### Pronunciation

* (phonetic) IPA: [tˠɑːdˠɑ], (enunciated) [tˠɑ tˠɑ]
* (phonemic) IPA: /tˠæɰtˠæɰ/
* Bender phonemes: {tahtah}

### Determiner

tata
* superlative particle; most

### References

* Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

## Mauritian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tata/

### Etymology 1

From Tamil தாத்தா (tāttā).

#### Noun

tata
* grandfather
    Synonym: granper

### Etymology 2

From kaka, from French caca.

#### Noun

tata
* (usually childish) poo, excrement

#### Verb

tata (medial form tata)
* (usually childish) to poo, defecate

## Mbyá Guaraní
### Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní tata.

### Noun

tata
* fire

## Mòcheno
### Etymology

From Italian tata, from Latin tata (“dad, daddy”), of onomatopoeic origin.

### Noun

tata m
* father

### References

* Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
* “tata” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

## Neapolitan
### Etymology

From Latin tata.

### Noun

tata
* father, dad

#### Synonyms

* papa, pate

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Spanish tata.

### Noun

tata
* father

## Phuthi
### Verb

-tata
* to hurry

#### Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

## Polish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: ta‧ta

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tata.

#### Noun

tata m pers
* (informal) dad
    Synonyms: tato, ojciec

##### Derived terms

* tata z mamą

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

tata m pers
* genitive/accusative singular of tato

### Further reading

* tata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
* tata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Quechua
### Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tata (“dad, daddy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.ta/

### Noun

tata
* father
    Synonyms: yaya, tayta
    Coordinate term: mama (“mother”)
* sir, mister
    Synonym: tayta
    Coordinate term: mama (“madam, lady”)
* lord, and by extension God
    Synonym: (arcaic) yaya

#### Usage notes

The use of tata over tayta is chiefly South Bolivian.

#### Derived terms

* hatun tata

## Raga
### Etymology

Compare Tagalog tatay.

### Noun

tata
* father

## Salar
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tʰata]

### Verb

tata
* to gather

### References

* Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “tata”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 46

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *tata.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tâta/
* Hyphenation: ta‧ta

#### Noun

tȁta m (Cyrillic spelling та̏та)
* dad, daddy
    Synonyms: babo, ćaća, ćale, tajo, Synonym: tatek

##### Declension
#### Further reading

* “tata”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

tata (Cyrillic spelling тата)
* genitive/accusative singular of tat

## Slavomolisano
### Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian tata.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tâːtḁ/

### Noun

tata m
* dad, father

#### Declension
### References

* Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale)., pp. 394

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtata/ [ˈt̪a.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: ta‧ta

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tata. Compare taita.

#### Noun

tata m (plural tatas)
* (colloquial, Latin America, Philippines) daddy; dad, a term used by children for their father
* (colloquial) nanny
    Synonyms: niñera, criada
* (colloquial, Chile) grandfather, a term used by children for their grandfather
    Synonym: abuelo

##### Coordinate terms

* nana

##### Derived terms

* mató tunco tu tata

### Etymology 2

Feminine form of tato.

#### Noun

tata f (plural tatas, masculine tato, masculine plural tatos)
* (colloquial) big sister

### Etymology 3

From teta.

#### Noun

tata f (plural tatas)
* (colloquial, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) breasts

### Further reading

* “tata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swahili
### Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-tat- (“to entangle, be entangled”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Verb

-tata (infinitive kutata)
* to tangle

#### Conjugation

Conjugation of -tata :
| Positive present | -natata |
| Subjunctive | -tate |
| Negative | -tati |
| Imperative singular | tata |
Infinitives :
| Positive | kutata |
| Negative | kutotata |
Imperatives :
| Singular | tata |
| Plural | tateni |
Tensed forms :
| Habitual | hutata |
| Positive past | positive subject concord + -litata |
| Negative past | negative subject concord + -kutata |
| Positive future | positive subject concord + -tatata |
| Negative future | negative subject concord + -tatata |
| Negative subjunctive | positive subject concord + -sitate |
| Positive present conditional | positive subject concord + -ngetata |
| Negative present conditional | positive subject concord + -singetata |
| Positive past conditional | positive subject concord + -ngalitata |
| Negative past conditional | positive subject concord + -singalitata |
| Perfect | positive subject concord + -metata |
| "Already" | positive subject concord + -meshatata |
| "Not yet" | negative subject concord + -jatata |
| "If/When" | positive subject concord + -kitata |
| "If not" | positive subject concord + -sipotata |
| Consecutive | katata / positive subject concord + -katata |
| Consecutive subjunctive | positive subject concord + -katate |
Relative forms :
Some forms not commonly seen in modern Standard Swahili are absent from the table. See Appendix:Swahili verbs for more information. :

#### Derived terms

* Verbal derivations:
** Conversive: -tatua (“to untangle, to disentangle”)
* Nominal derivations:
** matata (“trouble, problems”)
** utata (“complication”)

### Noun

tata
* plural of utata

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1

Possibly borrowed from Philippine Spanish tata (“daddy”), compare tatay.

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtata/ [ˈt̪aː.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: ta‧ta

#### Noun

tata (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆ)
* (archaic) term of address used for one's father
    Synonyms: tatay, tatang, itay, tay, ama, amang, papa
* (archaic) respectful term of address used for an older man
    Synonyms: manong, mang, mama
* (dialectal) term of address used for an uncle
    Synonyms: tiyo, tito

##### Coordinate terms

* nana

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈtataʔ/ [ˈt̪aː.t̪ɐʔ], /taˈtaʔ/ [t̪ɐˈt̪aʔ]
* Rhymes: -ataʔ, -aʔ
* Syllabification: ta‧ta

#### Noun

tatà or tatâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆ)
* small, thin cut made on the edge of something to indicate a mark or sign (as in measuring or counting)
    Synonyms: gatgat, gatla, tiyab, gatlang
* cut used as a foothold in climbing (made on the trunk of a tree, on a steep rock, etc.)
    Synonyms: bakat, uka, kutab
* (obsolete) act of splitting by marking (as when one splits the husk to make a coconut a drinking vessel)
* (obsolete) tree with several cut marks

##### Derived terms

* ipagtata
* magtata
* pagtataan
* tataan
* tumata

### Etymology 3
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /taˈta/ [t̪ɐˈt̪a]
* Rhymes: -a
* Syllabification: ta‧ta

#### Noun

tatá (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆ)
* (obsolete) shriek of a mouse

##### Derived terms

* magtatata
* tatahan
* tatata-tata
* tumata

### Etymology 4
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /taˈtaʔ/ [t̪ɐˈt̪aʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: ta‧ta

#### Noun

tatâ (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜆ)
* (obsolete) name of the Baybayin letter ᜆ, corresponding to "ta"

#### See also

* ta

### Further reading

* “tata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila
** page 156: “Chillar) Tata (pc) el raton”
** page 564: “T) Tata (pc) letra que vſa el [Tagalo en] ſu. A.b.c .|. tata yaon .|. ᜆ. gumava ca dito nang tata ſa iniong ſulat, haz aqui vna .t. de bueſtra eſcritura, ſaſa yari indi tata. s. es eſta [que no] t.”

### Anagrams

* at-at, atat

## Tarifit
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

tata f (Tifinagh spelling ⵜⴰⵜⴰ, plural tatiwin)
* chameleon

## Ternate
### Etymology 1

May be the same as the second etymology. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈta.ta]

#### Noun

tata
* a splint

### Etymology 2

May be the same as the first etymology.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈta.ta]

#### Noun

tata (Jawi تاتة)
* a kind of cylindrical basket generally made of bamboo strips, historically used to transport fruit and betel nut

### References

* Frederik Sigismund Alexander de Clercq (1890) Bijdragen tot de kennis der Residentie Ternate, E.J. Brill
* Rika Hayami-Allen (2001) A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia, University of Pittsburgh

## Tetum
### Verb

tata
* to bite

## Thao
### Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *əsa.

### Numeral

tata
* one

#### Synonyms

* taha

## Tokelauan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈta.ta]
* Hyphenation: ta‧ta

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *te-qa-ta.

#### Determiner

tata
* (alienable, definite) my

##### Usage notes

* tata is commonly used in place of taku to arouse the listener’s sympathy about some predicament that one is in.

##### See also

$^{1)}$ Sympathetic

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Polynesian *tata. Cognates include Tuvaluan tata and Samoan tata.

#### Noun

tata
* A kind of fish trap, consisting of a wooden frame that can be closed by pulling a rope.

### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 375

## Yogad
### Etymology

Akin to Ibanag tadday.

### Numeral

tatá
* one

## Yoruba
### Etymology

Of ideophonic origin

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tā.tā/

### Noun

tata
* grasshopper
    Synonyms: aláǹpara, ẹlẹ́ǹgà, edólo, kòkòrò