# tarot
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtæɹəʊ/
* (US) IPA: /ˈtæɹoʊ/
* (NZ (rarely)) IPA: /ˈtæɹɔt/
* Rhymes: -æɹəʊ
* Homophone: taro

### Noun

tarot (countable and uncountable, plural tarots)
* (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
** 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.
    […] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.
** 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
    They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.
    As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.
** 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
    In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; […]
* Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

#### Derived terms

* tarosophist
* tarosophy
* tarotist
* tarotologist
* tarotology

#### See also

* cartomancy

### Further reading

* tarot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* Ratto, Tatro, ottar, rotta, tator, torat, torta, troat

## Danish
### Alternative forms

* tarok

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

tarot c (singular definite tarotten, plural indefinite tarotter)
* tarot

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “tarot” in Den Danske Ordbog
* “tarok” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tarocco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.ʁo/
* Homophones: taraud, tarauds, taro

### Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)
* tarot

#### Derived terms

* taroté
* taroter
* tarotier

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* rotât

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈta.rɔt/
* Rhymes: -arɔt
* Syllabification: ta‧rot

### Noun

tarot m inan
* (card games) tarot
    Synonym: tarok
* (cartomancy) tarot (any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination)
    Synonym: tarok

#### Derived terms

* tarocista
* tarocistka

### Further reading

* tarot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ta.ˈrot/
* Rhymes: -ot
* Hyphenation: ta‧rot

### Noun

tarot n (uncountable)
* tarot

#### Declension
### References

* tarot in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From French tarot, from Italian tarocchi.

### Noun

tarot m (Cyrillic spelling тарот)
* tarot (card game)

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /taˈɾot/ [t̪aˈɾot̪]
* Rhymes: -ot
* Syllabification: ta‧rot

### Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)
* tarot

#### Derived terms

* tarotista

### Further reading

* “tarot”, 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

### Anagrams

* torta, trató, trato, trotá, trota

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot.

### Noun

tarot c
* tarot

#### Derived terms

* tarotkort
* tarotlek

### Further reading

* tarot in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

### Anagrams

* torta