# gata
## English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Armenian գաթա (gatʻa).

#### Alternative forms

* kata, katah (from Western Armenian pronunciation)
* gatah

#### Noun

gata (plural gatas)
* A kind of pastry in Armenia and some neighboring countries.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Noun

gata (plural gatas)
* (South Africa, slang) A police officer.

### Anagrams

* Agta

## Albanian
### Noun

gata
* inflection of gatë:
** definite nominative singular
** indefinite nominative/accusative plural

## Balinese
### Romanization

gata
* Romanization of ᬕᬢ
* Romanization of ᬖᬝ

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: ga‧ta
* IPA: /ɡaˈta/ [ɡaˈta]

### Noun

gatá
* knife used for harvesting rice

#### See also

* balisong
* daga
* kutsilyo
* lanseta
* minasbad
* palas
* sanggot
* sundang
* tabak

## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin catta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈɡa.tə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈɡa.ta]
* Audio (Valencia):(file)

### Noun

gata f (plural gates)
* female equivalent of gat

### Adjective

gata f sg
* feminine singular of gat

## Fijian
### Etymology

Cognate with Proto-Polynesian *ŋata (compare Maori ngata, Samoan gata, Tongan ngata and Niuean gata), earlier *ŋʷata, from Proto-Oceanic *mwata (“snake”) (compare Western Fijian ŋwata and Lewo mwata).

### Noun

gata
* snake, serpent

## Hiligaynon
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀataq.

### Noun

gatâ
* coconut milk

## Icelandic
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈkaːta/
* Rhymes: -aːta

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

#### Noun

gata f (genitive singular götu, nominative plural götur)
* street, road

##### Derived terms

* aðalgata
* gatnamót
* götustrákur

### Etymology 2

From gat (“hole”).

#### Verb

gata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative gataði, supine gatað)
* (transitive) to pierce through
* (transitive) specifically, to punch a hole in (using a perforator)
* (intransitive, informal) to be stumped (be unable to answer a question)

##### Derived terms

* gatari

## Japanese
### Romanization

gata
* Rōmaji transcription of がた

## Masbatenyo
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *ʀataq.

### Noun

gatâ
* coconut milk

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Alternative forms

* gaten

### Noun

gata m or f
* definite feminine singular of gate

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

gata f (definite singular gata, indefinite plural gater or gator, definite plural gatene or gatone)
* definite singular of gate
* (pre-2012) alternative form of gate

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɑː.tɑ/

### Noun

gāta
* genitive plural of gāt

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ. Likely from the oblique stem *gǫtu of an earlier form *gǫtva, as morphologically gata does not straightforwardly derive from the Proto-Germanic form.

### Noun

gata f (genitive gǫtu, plural gǫtur)
* street, road

#### Related terms

* gat

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: gata
* Faroese: gøta
* Norwegian Nynorsk: gate, gote, gotu; (dialectal) gutu, goto, gatu, gato
* Old Swedish: gata
** Swedish: gata
** → Finnish: katu
* Old Danish: gatæ
** Danish: gade
*** Norwegian Bokmål: gate
* → Middle English: gate
** Scots: gate
** English: gait, gate
* → Lithuanian: gatvė

### References

* ↑ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

## Old Swedish
### Alternative forms

* ᚵᛆᛏᛆ

### Etymology

From Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

### Noun

gata f
* street, road

#### Descendants

* Swedish: gata
* → Finnish: katu

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀕𑀢 (Brahmi script)
* गत (Devanagari script)
* গত (Bengali script)
* ගත (Sinhalese script)
* ဂတ or ၷတ (Burmese script)
* คต or คะตะ (Thai script)
* ᨣᨲ (Tai Tham script)
* ຄຕ or ຄະຕະ (Lao script)
* គត (Khmer script)
* 𑄉𑄖 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit गत (gata).

### Adjective

gata
* past participle of gacchati (“to go”), with active sense.

#### Derived terms

* apagata

## Portuguese
### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese gata, from Late Latin catta.

#### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -atɐ
* IPA: /ˈɡa.tɐ/
* Hyphenation: ga‧ta

#### Noun

gata f (plural gatas)
* female cat
* (slang) very beautiful woman

##### Derived terms

* gatinha (diminutive)
* gatona (augmentative)

##### Related terms

* gato m

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

gata
* inflection of gatar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Romagnol
### Noun

gata f (plural gat)
* feminine of gat (“cat”)

## Romanian
### Etymology

Origin disputed. Possibly from Proto-Slavic *gotovъ. The word can also be found in Albanian, compare Albanian gati (which, like the Romanian, is also invariable). Alternatively, the word may be of ultimate Paleo-Balkanic or Albanian origin.

### Pronunciation

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

### Adjective

gata m or f or n (indeclinable)
* ready, willing
* done
    Synonym: terminat

#### Related terms

* găti

### Adverb

gata
* readily, willingly

### References

* ↑ Paliga, Sorin (2024) An Etymological Dictionary of the Romanian Language, New York: Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 297

## Serbo-Croatian
### Noun

gata (Cyrillic spelling гата)
* genitive singular of gat

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin catta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡata/ [ˈɡa.t̪a]
* Audio (Spain):(file)
* Rhymes: -ata
* Syllabification: ga‧ta

### Noun

gata f (plural gatas)
* female equivalent of gato (“cat”); she-cat, molly, queen, female cat
* carjack, jack

#### Derived terms

* a gatas

### Further reading

* “gato”, 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

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Swedish gata, from Old Norse gata, from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɡɑːˌta/
* Audio; “en gata”:(file)

### Noun

gata c
* a street
** 1937, Evert Taube (lyrics and music), “Fritiof och Carmencita [Fritiof and Carmencita]”‎:Samborombón, en liten by förutan gata. Den ligger inte långt från Rio de la Plata. Nästan i kanten av den blåa Atlanten, och med Pampas bakom sig, många hundra gröna mil. Dit kom jag ridande en afton i april, för jag ville dansa tango.Samborombón, a small village without a street. It is located not far from Rio de la Plata. Almost at the edge of the blue Atlantic, and with Pampas behind it [itself], many hundred green miles. There [thither, to there] I came riding one evening in April, because I wanted to tango.
** 1967, “Lyckliga gatan [[The] Happy Street]”, Britt Lindeborg (lyrics), Adriano Celentano (music)‎performed by Anna-Lena Löfgren:Lyckliga gatan, du finns inte mer. Du har försvunnit med hela kvarter. Tystnat har leken, tystnat har sången. Högt över marken svävar betongen. När jag kom åter var allt så förändrat. Trampat och skövlat, fördärvat och skändat. Skall mellan dessa höga hus en dag stiga en sång, lika förunderlig och skön som den, vi hört en gång?[The] Happy Street, you no longer exist. You have disappeared with entire neighborhoods [blocks]. Gone silent has the play, gone silent has the song. High above the ground the concrete hovers. When I came back ["came again" – somewhat dated or poetic], everything was so changed. Trampled and devastated, ruined and desecrated. Shall ["skall" is synonymous with "ska" except matching "shall" in tone] between these tall buildings one day rise a song, as wondrous and fair as the one we [have] once heard?

#### Usage notes

Often turns into gatu- (gata + -u-) as a prefix in compounds.

#### Hyponyms

* bakgata
* gågata
* huvudgata
* kraftledningsgata
* mångata
* sidogata
* stadsgata
* tvärgata

#### Derived terms

* cykelgata
* fägata
* gatbeläggning
* gatbredd
* gatbuller
* gatflicka
* gathus
* gathörn
* gatkamomill
* gatkrasse
* gatlopp
* gatlykta
* gatläggare
* gatläggning
* gatpojke
* gatskylt
* gatsmuts
* gatsopare
* gatsten
* gatstrykare
* gatstump
* gatuadress
* gatuarbete
* gatubarn
* gatubelysning
* gatubeläggning
* gatubild
* gatubredd
* gatubrunn
* gatubuller
* gatuchef
* gatudemonstration
* gatudirektör
* gatudörr
* gatufest
* gatufrid
* gatuförsäljare
* gatuförsäljning
* gatuhus
* gatukontor
* gatukors
* gatukorsning
* gatukravaller
* gatukök
* gatuliv
* gatumark
* gatumiljö
* gatumusik
* gatumusikant
* gatumusiker
* gatumynning
* gatunamn
* gatunge
* gatunivå
* gatunämnd
* gatunät
* gatuoroligheter
* gatuparkering
* gatuplan
* gatupplopp
* gatuprostitution
* gatureglering
* gaturenhållning
* gaturum
* gatuskylt
* gatusmart
* gatustrid
* gatustånd
* gatusystem
* gatuteater
* gatutrafik
* gatutrafikant
* gatuunderhåll
* gatuupplopp
* gatuvimmel
* gatuvåld
* gatvimmel
* på öppen gata
* vintergata

### References

* gata in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* gata in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* gata in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

### Anagrams

* agat, taga

## Tagalog
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *gatəq, *ʀataq. Compare Hiligaynon gata, Isnag xatta, and Masbatenyo gata.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ɡaˈtaʔ/ [ɡɐˈt̪aʔ]
* Rhymes: -aʔ
* Syllabification: ga‧ta

### Noun

gatâ (Baybayin spelling ᜄᜆ)
* coconut milk
* (dialectal) plant juice or extract

#### Derived terms

* bunsong gata
* gataan
* gatain
* ginataan
* ginatan
* gumata
* kakanggata
* pulot-gata
* tagagata
* tagapaggata

#### Related terms

* dagta

#### See also

* kinunot
* santan

### Further reading

* “gata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

### Anagrams

* atag, taga, Agta, taga-

## Tokelauan
### Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *ŋata. Cognates include Hawaiian naka and Maori ngata.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈŋa.ta]
* Hyphenation: ga‧ta

### Noun

gata
* snake

### References

* R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎, Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 138