# tha
## Translingual
### Symbol

tha
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Thai.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Thai terms

## English
### Etymology 1

In parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire where [aʊ] became [aː] and then shortened in an unstressed thou.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ða/, lengthened to /ðaː/ only when stressed.
* Rhymes: -ɑː

#### Pronoun

tha
* (Northern England, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of thou.
** 1937, Homer, The Odyssey:" […] Stay thee where tha bist, sit down on thi property; what's the sense of wanderen over the barren sea and maybe happenen an accident?"

### Etymology 2
#### Article

tha
* (US, African-American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of the.
    Synonym: da

### Anagrams

* ATH, HAT, aht, hat

## Anguthimri
### Verb

tha
* (Mpakwithi) tie

### References

* Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 415

## Caolan
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

tha
* eye

## Fingallian
### Etymology

From Middle English þe, from Old English þē m (“the, that”, demonstrative pronoun).

### Article

tha
* the

## Mbariman-Gudhinma
### Verb

tha
* tie

### References

* Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 415

## Old Dutch
### Adverb

thā
* then

#### References

* Dr. Tack P, Proeve van Oudnederfrankische Grammatica, 84.

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Middle Irish at·tá, from Old Irish at·tá. Cognate with Irish tá and Manx ta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ha/, (emphatic) /haː/
* (Harris) IPA: /hɑ/, (emphatic) /hɑː/
* Hyphenation: tha

### Verb

tha
* independent present of bi: am, is, are
    Tha mi pòsda. ― I'm married.
    Tha mi à Colbhasa. ― I am from Colonsay.
    Tha mi a' smaoineachadh gu bheil. ― I am thinking so.
    Tha thu fadalach. ― You are late.
    Tha an duine anns an taigh. ― The man is in the house.
    Tha duine anns an taigh. ― There is a man in the house.
    Tha daoine anns an taigh. ― There are men in the house.

#### Usage notes

* Tha is used as an affirmative answer to questions formed with bheil or eil:
    A bheil thu toilichte? —Tha. ― Are you happy? —Yes.
* When linking the subject of a sentence with a complement consisting of a noun phrase ("somebody is somebody", "somebody is something", "something is something"), the verb is is used:
    Tha mise anns an t-seòmar. ― I am in the room.
    Is mise Dòmhnall. ― I am Donald.

### References

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “tha”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Colin Mark (2003) “bi”, in The Gaelic-English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 75
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “attá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## South Slavey
### Etymology

Cognates include Dogrib wha.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [θà(ʔ)]
* Hyphenation: tha

### Noun

tha (stem -dha-)
* tentpole

#### Inflection

$^{1)}$ Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular. $^{2)}$ Used when the previous condition does not apply.

### References

* Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 38

## Tày
### Etymology

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ.

### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [tʰaː˧˧]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [tʰaː˦˥]

### Noun

tha (𥃸, 𥅂)
* eye

#### References

* Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎ (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội
* Hoàng Văn Ma, Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Chí (2006) Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
* Lương Bèn (2011) Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary]‎ (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên

## Vietnamese
### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [tʰaː˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [tʰaː˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [tʰaː˧˧]

### Etymology 1

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 赦 (SV: xá). See also thả.

#### Verb

tha • (他, 赦)
* to forgive
    trời không dung, đất không tha ― the act in question is abhorrently egregious / the person in question has committed an unforgivable act (literally, “the sky doesn't tolerate, the earth doesn't forgive”)
* to let go out of police custody or detention

##### Derived terms

* buông tha
* dung tha
* tha thứ

### Etymology 2

Sino-Vietnamese word from 拖.

#### Verb

tha • (拕, 拖, 搓, 牠)
* (of animals) to carry with the mouth
    Cọp tha mồi.The tiger drags its prey.
* (of people) to drag a nuisance around or to bring it to where it is not wanted
    Sao cứ tha ba cái đồ nhôm nhựa về nhà nhỉ !?Why the hell do you keep bringing scrap back home!?

## Welsh
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /θa/

### Preposition

tha
* Alternative form of fatha (“like”)

### Adverb

tha
* Alternative form of fatha (“kind of”)

## Yola
### Etymology

Cognate with Scots tha.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ðeː/

### Article

tha
* Alternative form of a (“the”)
** 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 3:Thaay paaced awi up to tha Cross o ShadThey paced away up to the Cross of the Shad,

### References

* Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 132

## Zulu
### Alternative forms

* -etha

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ta (“to call”).

#### Verb

-thá
* (transitive) to name, to nickname
* (transitive) to choose, to pick, to select

##### Derived terms

* into

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Bantu *-jìta.

#### Verb

-tha
* (transitive) to funnel, to inject (an enema)

##### Inflection
### References

* C. M. Doke, B. W. Vilakazi (1972) “tha”, in Zulu-English Dictionary, →ISBN: “tha”