# taa
## English
### Etymology 1

From Mandarin 塔 (tǎ, “pagoda”).

#### Noun

taa (plural taas)
* A kind of pagoda in China and Japan.

### Etymology 2

From Arabic تَاء (tāʔ).

#### Noun

taa (plural taas)
* The letter ت in the Arabic script.

### Etymology 3
#### Interjection

taa
* Alternative form of ta (“thanks”)

### Anagrams

* -ata, AAT, ATA, âta

## Aukan
### Etymology 1

From English other.

#### Adjective

taa
* other; another
    taa dei ― another day, another (some other) time

##### Derived terms

* taa taa (“different”)

### Etymology 2

From English tar.

#### Noun

taa
* tar (black substance; pitch)

### References

* Aukan-English Dictionary (SIL)

## Esperanto
### Etymology

Ultimately from ǃXóõ tâa ǂàã (literally “people's language”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtaa]
* Rhymes: -aa
* Hyphenation: ta‧a

### Adjective

taa (accusative singular taan, plural taaj, accusative plural taajn)
* (la taa) clipping of la taa lingvo (“the Taa language”)

## Finnish
### Etymology

taka +‎ -(k) (k-lative singular)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɑːˣ/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝ː(ʔ)]
* Rhymes: -ɑː
* Hyphenation: taa

### Postposition

taa [with genitive] (dialectal, poetic)
* (of movement) (to) behind
    Se laskeutui metsän taa. ― It landed behind the forest.

#### Inflection

Declension of taka-
noun case
singular
pluraladverbial form
singular
plural
nominative
taka-
–superessive
genitive
–delative
partitive
takaa
–sublative
accusative
–lative
taas taa
inessive
–temporal
elative
–causative
illative
–multiplicative
adessive
–distributive
ablative
–temp. dist.
takaisin
allative
–prolative
taitse
essive
takana
–situative
translative
taakse
–oppositive
abessive
instructive
comitative
Cannot take a possessive suffix.

#### Synonyms

* taakse

#### Antonyms

* eteen, edelle

#### Derived terms

* taapäin

#### Related terms

* See the inflection table.
* taka
* taka-
* tausta
* taempi
* takimmainen

### Further reading

* “taa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

### Anagrams

* -ata, aat

## Gagauz
### Etymology

From earlier taha, from Old Anatolian Turkish دَاخِی (daḫi), دَخِی (daḫi), from Proto-Turkic *takï, whence also da and dä. Compare Turkish daha, de, da, dahi; Azerbaijani daha, də, da and archaic dəxi.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑː/

### Adverb

taa
* forms comparitives of the following adjective or adverb, more, -er.
** 1938, Mihail Ciachir, Dicționar Gagauzo (Tiurco) - Român Pentru Gagauzii Din Basarabia, page 1:Laflâc gagauzcea (tiurccea) hem romândja (moldovandja) Bessarabiealâ gagauzlar icin - gagauzlarân eardâmdjisâ taa colai iurenmeea român dilini hem taa ei laf-etmeea dei românja (moldovândja)Gagauz(Turkish) and Romanian (Moldovan) dictionary for Bessarabian Gagauz people - helper of the Gagauz people to learn the Romanian language easier and to better speak Romanian (Moldovan)
    taa eni ― newer
    taa gözäl ― more beautiful
* yet, still
* so far, as yet
* even
* more, else

### Further reading

* Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 76
* N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “taa”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 454

## Greenlandic
### Etymology

From Proto-Eskimo *taʁu. Cognates include Sirenik tarex, Alutiiq taru, and Inupiaq tau.

### Pronunciation

* (Nuuk) IPA: /taa/, [təː]

### Noun

taa
* human being

### Interjection

taa
* listen!; what is that?; I tut!

#### References

* DAKA
* (noun): taa in Katersat
* (interjection): taa in Katersat

## Lutuv
### Pronunciation

IPA: [tāā]

### Verb

taa
* to be small

### References

* Kelly Harper Berkson, Amanda Bohnert, Sui Hnem Par (2022) “Consonant Sounds in Hnaring Lutuv”, in Indiana Working Papers in South Asian Languages and Cultures‎, volume 3, number 1

## Nzadi
### Noun

tàá (plural tàá)
* father

#### Coordinate terms

* màá

### Further reading

* Crane, Thera, Larry Hyman, Simon Nsielanga Tukumu (2011) A grammar of Nzadi [B.865]: a Bantu language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɑː/
* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Etymology 1

From earlier *tala, from an unknown source (possibly Indian).

#### Noun

taa class IX (plural taa class X)
* lamp, light

##### Descendants

* → Kikuyu: tawa
* → Luganda: etaala
* → Rwanda-Rundi: itara

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic طَاعَة (ṭāʕa).

#### Noun

taa class IX (plural taa class X)
* obedience
    Synonym: utii

### References

* ↑ Baldi, Sergio (2020 November 30) Dictionary of Arabic Loanwords in the Languages of Central and East Africa (Handbuch der Orientalistik; Erste Abteilung: Der Nahe und der Mittlere Osten; 145), Leiden • Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 194 Nr. 1731

## Tetum
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *taʀaq.

### Verb

taa
* to chop, to cut up

## Ye'kwana
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [taː]

### Ideophone

taa
* bam, banging

### References

* Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “taa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎, Lyon