# fat
## Translingual
### Symbol

fat
* (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Fante.

## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: făt, IPA: /fæt/
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* Rhymes: -æt
* Homophone: phat

### Etymology 1

From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).

#### Adjective

fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)
* Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
    The fat man had trouble getting through the door.
    The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
** 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
    While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.
** 1976 September 29, Richard Flaste, “Viewing Childhood As it Is”, in The New York Times‎:[…] Ruth‐ellen Stark and Elizabeth Ryan are about ten times fatter, but even they can't compare to Bruce…”
** 1994, Craig Brown, The hounding of John Thomas:And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]
** 2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press, →ISBN, page 46:Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.
* Thick; large.
    The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
** 1861, Charles James Lever, A Day's Ride:The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
* Bulbous; rotund.
** 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
* Bountiful.
* Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
* (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 6:10, column 1:Make the heart of this people fat, […]
** 1855 July 21, Ralph Waldo Emerson, letter to Walter Whitman
    making our western wits fat & mean
* Fertile; productive.
** 1974, “Which Way Africa”, performed by Tunji Oyelana:Land was fatter, soil was rich, hands were many
    a fat soil; a fat pasture
* Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
    a fat benefice; a fat office;  a fat job
** 1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences:now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk
* Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
** 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:, "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"
    persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture
* (dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
    a fat take; a fat page
* (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
** 1992, DeDe Owens, Linda K. Bunker, Advanced Golf: Steps to Success, page 81:Hitting a thin shot from a fairway bunker is more productive than hitting a fat shot.
* (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
** 1965, Edmund Fuller, A Pageant of the Theatre, page 131:He is what the theatre calls a “fat” role — a man suddenly confronted by a terrible duty. He is called upon to revenge the murder of his father and to right a wrong against the state.
** 1997, Harold Clurman, On Directing, page 12:He seeks a fat role in a hit show, lest he diminish his market value.
** 2012, Greg Robinson, Larry S. Tajiri, Pacific Citizens, page 9:Joe Hirakawa, formerly of the Seattle Civic Repertory Theatre, was a waterfront peddler in “Madame Butterfly” and had a fat role in “Beauty Parlor,” an indie.
* (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
** 1970-1975, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
    I'd've liked to hang around but the guys were in a fat hurry.
* (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
    fat client
    a fat pointer
* Alternative form of phat
** 2011, Joe Shambro, How to Start a Home-based DJ Business, page 19:This isn't a place to talk about “hitting the decks” and making “fat beats”—you're not selling to an industry peer.

##### Synonyms

* (carrying a larger than normal amount of fat): chubby, chunky, corpulent, lardy (slang), obese, overweight, plump, porky (slang), rotund, tubby, well-fed; see also Thesaurus:obese
* (thick): thick
* (bountiful): bountiful, prosperous

##### Antonyms

* Of sense (antonym(s) of “carrying a larger than normal amount of fat”): lean, skinny, slender, slim, thin

##### Derived terms

* a fat lot
* big fat, big-fat
* big, fat, hairy deal
* big fat zero
* deathfat
* fat acceptance
* fat activist
* fat and happy
* fat arrow
* fat as a fool
* fat as a house
* fat as a pig
* fat-ass
* fatassed
* fat-assed
* fat ball
* fatbeard
* fat beard
* fat bike, fatbike
* fat body
* fatbutt
* fat-buttocked
* fat cat
* fat catshark
* fat cell
* fat city
* fat client
* fat comma
* fat day
* fat dormouse
* fat embolism
* fatface
* fat fantasy
* fat farm
* fat fetishism
* fat-finger
* fat finger
* fat-fingered
* fatfluencer
* fatfuck
* fat fuck
* fathead
* fatheaded
* fat hen
* fat innkeeper
* fat-kidneyed
* fatkini
* fat knot
* fat lava
* fatling
* fat link
* fat lip
* fat logic
* fat lot of good
* fat lute
* fatly
* Fatmerican
* fatmisia
* fatmobile
* fat mouse
* fatness
* fat pants
* fatphobe
* fatphobia
* fatphobic
* fat quarter
* fat rascal
* fat-shame
* fat shame
* fat-shamer
* fat-shaming
* fat shaming
* fatshion
* fatshionista
* fatshit
* fat sleeper
* fatsome
* fatsploitation
* fatspo
* fatstock
* fat suit
* fatsuit
* fat-tail
* fat tail
* fat-tailed
* fat-tailed dunnart
* fat-tailed dwarf lemur
* fat-tailed lemur
* fat-tailed sheep
* fat tax
* fattie
* fattish
* fattism
* fattist
* fatty
* fatware
* fat-witted
* fatwood
* high-fat
* hog fat
* it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings
* laugh and grow fat
* mash-fat
* one fat lady
* overfat
* run to fat
* skinny fat
* small fat
* stick fat
* superfat
* the fat is in the fire
* two fat ladies
* unfat

##### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: fatu

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”).

#### Noun

fat (usually uncountable, plural fats)
* (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
    Hyponym: blubber
    Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
** Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
    Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
* (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
    Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.
** 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 32:In fact, the fats that are most stable and least likely to oxidize with heat are the highly saturated fats we've long been told to avoid—lard, tallow, butter, and coconut and palm oils.
* That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
    We need to trim the fat in this company
* (slang) An erection.
    I saw Daniel crack a fat.
* (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
* The best or richest productions; the best part.
    to live on the fat of the land
* (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
* (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
** 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019
    Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.
* A beef cattle fattened for sale.
** 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 7:Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.

##### Synonyms

* (animal tissue): adipose tissue, lard (in animals; derogatory slang when used of human fat), suet (perivisceral type)
* (substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat): grease, lard
* (fat person): fatty, fatso see also Thesaurus:fat person

##### Derived terms

* animal fat
* antifat
* baby fat
* backfat
* beige fat
* body fat
* bodyfat
* brown fat
* buccal fat extraction
* buccal fat removal
* butterfat
* caul fat
* chew the fat
* crack a fat
* death fat
* deep-fat-fry
* deep-fat fryer
* defat
* fatback
* fatberg
* fatburger
* fat camp
* fat chance
* fat-chewing
* fat content
* fat-free
* fatgraph
* fat is flavor
* fat is flavour
* fatless
* fatlike
* fatliquor
* fatliquoring
* fat of the land
* fat pad
* fat sandwich
* fat-soluble
* fatten
* fat-wash
* fat washing
* fat-washing
* full-fat
* hamfat
* infinifat
* leaf fat
* low-fat
* macaw fat
* marrowfat
* milkfat
* mule fat
* nonfat
* otoba fat
* palm fat
* polyunsaturated fat
* pull someone's fat out of the fire
* pull the fat out of the fire
* puppy fat
* reduced-fat milk
* saturated fat
* the fat hit the fire
* trans fat
* unsaturated fat
* vegetable fat
* white fat
* winterfat
* wool fat
* yellow fat disease

##### Descendants

* Sranan Tongo: fatu

##### Translations

Afrikaans: vet (af)
Albanian: dhjamë (sq)
Apache:
Western Apache: biʼikʼah
Arabic: دُهْن m (duhn), شَحْم m (šaḥm)
Armenian: ճարպ (hy) (čarp)
Aromanian: grãsimi f, grãsime f
Assamese: শকত (xokot)
Azerbaijani: yağ (az), piy (az)
Belarusian: тлушч m (tlušč), жыр m (žyr)
Bengali: চর্বি (bn) (corbi)
Bulgarian: лой (bg) m (loj), тлъстина́ (bg) f (tlǎstiná), мазнина́ (bg) f (mazniná)
Burmese: အဆီ (my) (a.hci)
Buryat: тоһон (tohon)
Carpathian Rusyn: тук m (tuk)
Catalan: greix (ca) m
Cebuano: tambok
Chinese:
Cantonese: 脂肪 (zi$^1$ fong$^1$)
Hokkien: 膩瓤 / 腻瓤 (jī-nn̂g)
Mandarin: 脂肪 (zh) (zhīfáng)
Chuvash: ҫу (śu), ҫӑв (śăv)
Czech: tuk (cs) m
Danish: fedt n
Dutch: vet (nl) n, vetlaag (nl) f
Egyptian: (ḏdꜣ)
Erzya: куя (kuja)
Esperanto: graso (eo)
Estonian: rasv (et)
Even: имсэ (imsə)
Evenki: имуксэ (imuksə)
Faroese: fiti (fo) f
Finnish: rasva (fi), silava (fi), läski (fi)
French: graisse (fr) f
Galician: gordura (gl) f, graxa (gl) f
Georgian: ცხიმი (cximi), ქონი (koni)
German: Fett (de) n
Alemannic German: Schmër m
Greek: λίπος (el) n (lípos)
Ancient: στέαρ n (stéar), πιμελή f (pimelḗ)
Guaraní: kyra
Haitian Creole: mantèg
Hawaiian: mona, momona
Hebrew: שׁוּמָן / שומן (he) m (shumán)
Higaonon: lambo
Hindi: वसा (hi) (vasā), चरबी (hi) f (carbī)
Hinukh: мии (mii)
Hungarian: zsír (hu), háj (hu)
Icelandic: fita (is) f
Ido: graso (io)
Indonesian: lemak (id)
Interlingua: please add this translation if you can
Irish: saill f
Italian: grasso (it) m
Japanese: 脂肪 (ja) (しぼう, shibō), 脂 (ja) (あぶら, abura)
Javanese: ꦒꦗꦶꦃ (jv) (gajih)
Jeju: 지름 (jireum)
Kalmyk: тосн (tosn)
Kannada: ಕೊಬ್ಬು (kn) (kobbu)
Kashubian: tłuszcz, sadło
Kazakh: май (mai)
Khinalug: ми (mi)
Khmer: ខ្លាញ់ (km) (khlañ)
Kikuyu: maguta class 6
Korean: 지방(脂肪) (ko) (jibang)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: بەز (bez)
Northern Kurdish: bez (ku) m
Kyrgyz: май (ky) (may)
Lak: май (may)
Lao: ໄຂມັນ (lo) (khai man)
Latin: adeps m or f
Latvian: tauki (lv) pl
Lezgi: гъери (ġeri)
Linngithigh: ki'
Lithuanian: riebalai pl, taukai pl
Louisiana Creole French: lagrès
Low German: Fett n
Macedonian: маст (mk) f (mast), сало (mk) n (salo)
Maguindanao: lambu'
Malay: lemak (ms)
Manchu: ᠨᡳᠮᡝᠩᡤᡳ (nimenggi), ᡨᠠᡵᡥᡡᠨ (tarhūn)
Mansaka: taba
Maranao: lembo'
Moksha: куя (kujä)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: өөх (mn) (ööx), тос (mn) (tos)
Mongolian: ᠥᠭᠡᠬᠦ (ögekü), ᠲᠣᠰᠤ (tosu)
Nanai: симуксэ (simukse)
Navajo: akʼah
Nepali: बोसो (boso)
Ngazidja Comorian: mafura class 6
Nivkh: тʼом (tʼom)
Norman: graîsse f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: fett (no) n
Nynorsk: feitt n
Occitan: grais (oc) m
Odia: ଚର୍ବି (or) (carbi)
Ojibwe: wiinin
Old English: rysel m
Old Javanese: wuduk
Oromo: cooma
Pali: vasā f
Pannonian Rusyn: масц f (masc), садло n (sadlo)
Pashto: وازګه f (wāzga), څرب m (carb)
Persian:
Iranian Persian: چَرْبی (fa) (čarbi), پیه (fa) (pih), رُوْغَن (fa) (rowğan), وَز (fa) (vaz)
Plautdietsch: Fat (nds) n
Polish: tłuszcz (pl) m
Portuguese: gordura (pt) f, tecido adiposo m
Romanian: grăsime (ro)
Russian: жир (ru) m (žir), са́ло (ru) n (sálo) (colloquial)
Rwanda-Rundi: amavuta class 6
Sanskrit: वसा (sa) f (vásā)
Scottish Gaelic: sult m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ма̑ст f, са̏ло n, ло̑ј m
Roman: mȃst (sh) f, sȁlo (sh) n, lȏj (sh) m
Sicilian: rassu (scn) m, sivu (scn) m, siu (scn) m
Slovak: tuk m
Slovene: mast (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: tucne n
Upper Sorbian: tuk m, tučno n
Spanish: grasa (es) f, crasitud f
Sundanese: gajih
Swahili: mafuta (sw)
Swedish: fett (sv)
Tajik: чарбу (čarbu), пиҳ (pih), равған (tg) (ravġan)
Tamil: கொழுப்பு (ta) (koḻuppu)
Tarantino: gruèsse m
Tarifit: tadunt f
Telugu: కొవ్వు (te) (kovvu)
Tetum: mina
Thai: ไขมัน (th) (kǎi-man)
Tibetan: ཚིལ (tshil), ཞག་ཚིལ (zhag tshil), བཞེས་ཚིལ (bzhes tshil) (honorific)
Tok Pisin: gris
Turkish: yağ (tr)
Turkmen: ýag
Ukrainian: жир m (žyr)
Urdu: چَرْبی f (carbī)
Uyghur: ياغ (ug) (yagh), ماي (may)
Uzbek: yogʻ (uz), may (uz)
Vietnamese: mỡ (vi)
Welsh: braster (cy) m
White Hmong: roj
Yoruba: ọ̀rá
Yámana: ušlamuši
Yiddish: פֿעץ (fets)
Zealandic: vet n, smout m
Zhuang: lauz, lauzhaj
Zulu: amafutha :
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##### See also

* fat on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* lipic
* lipid

#### Verb

fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)
* (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
    kill the fatted calf
* (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
* (transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
** 2019 April 2, Rick Reilly, How and why President Trump cheats at golf — even when he’s playing against Tiger Woods‎, archived from the original on 2022-03-29:“On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”

##### Derived terms

* fat up
* unfattable

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Middle English fat, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.

#### Noun

fat (plural fats)
* (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
** 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joel 2:24, column 1:And the floores ſhall bee full of wheate, and the fats ſhall ouerflowe with wine and oyle.
** 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429:In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.
* (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

##### Synonyms

* vat

##### Derived terms

* dryfat
* keelfat

##### Translations
### See also

* fat choy (etymologically unrelated)

### Anagrams

* AFT, ATF, FTA, TAF, TFA, Taf, aft, aft-, taf

## Albanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin fātum. Jolk claims a derivation from Gothic fadi-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fat]

### Noun

fat m (plural fate, definite fat, definite plural fatet)
* luck
* chance
    Synonyms: shans, rast, mundësi
* fate
* destiny
    Synonym: psorë
* spouse

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Schumacher, Stefan, Matzinger, Joachim (2013) Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 211
* ↑ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “fat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 94

### Further reading

* “fat”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980
* Newmark, L. (1999) “fat”, in Oxford Albanian-English Dictionary‎

## Buli (Indonesia)
### Etymology

From Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

### Numeral

fat
* four

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈfat]
* Rhymes: -at

### Etymology 1

From Latin fātum.

#### Noun

fat m (uncountable)
* fate, destiny

##### Related terms

* fatal

### Etymology 2

From Latin fatuus.

#### Adjective

fat (feminine fada, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fades)
* bland, insipid
    Synonym: insuls

##### Related terms

* fatu

### Further reading

* “fat” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## Chuukese
### Adjective

fat
* clear, transparent

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from French fat (“conceited; dandy”), from Latin fatuus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɑt/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: fat
* Rhymes: -ɑt

### Noun

fat m (plural fatten or fats, diminutive fatje n)
* dandy, a man obsessed with his looks
    Synonyms: dandy, pronker, saletjonker

#### Derived terms

* fatterig
* fattig

## French
### Etymology

From Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fat/
** Audio:(file)
* IPA: /fa/ (dated)

### Adjective

fat (feminine fate, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)
* conceited

#### Related terms

* fatuité

### Further reading

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

### Anagrams

* taf

## Friulian
### Etymology 1

From Latin factus.

#### Verb

fat
* past participle of fâ

#### Adjective

fat
* done, made
* ripe

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

fat m (plural fats)
* fact, deed

##### Related terms

* fâ
* fatôr

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fát/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ɸát]

### Ideophone

fat
* bright white

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /faːt/
* Rhymes: -aːt

### Noun

fat n (genitive singular fats, nominative plural föt)
* vat
* item of clothing

#### Declension
## Kowiai
### Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

### Numeral

fat
* four

## Ladin
### Noun

fat m (plural fac)
* fact

#### Derived terms

* de fat

### Adjective

fat m (feminine singular fata, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)
* done

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old English fæt, from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą.

#### Alternative forms

* faat, vat, vaat, fet, vet

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fat/, /faːt/, /vat/, /vaːt/

#### Noun

fat (plural fattes or faten)
* vessel

##### Descendants

* English: vat, fat
* Scots: fat, vat, vautt
* Yola: vaat, vaate

##### References

* “fā̆t, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2

From Old English fǣtt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid.

#### Alternative forms

* faat, fet, feet, vat, vet

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fat/, /faːt/, /fɛt/, /fɛːt/, /vat/, /vɛt/

#### Adjective

fat
* fattened, fatted

##### Descendants

* English: fat
* Yola: vat

##### References

* “fā̆t, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

## North Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian fatt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid. Cognates include West Frisian fet and German fett.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [fat]

### Adjective

fat (comparative fater, superlative fatst)
* (Sylt) fat

#### Inflection
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse fat.

### Noun

fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat or fater, definite plural fata or fatene)
* plate, dish
* barrel, drum, cask

#### Derived terms

* tefat

### References

* “fat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fɑːt/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse fat, Proto-Germanic *fatą.

#### Noun

fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural fat, definite plural fata)
* plate, dish
* barrel, drum, cask

##### Derived terms

* tefat
* oljefat

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fat
* imperative of fata

### References

* “fat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Frisian

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### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *fait. Cognates include Old Saxon *fēt and Old Norse feitr.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfat/
* Hyphenation: fat

### Noun

fat m
* fat

#### Descendants

* Saterland Frisian: Fat

### References

* Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 28

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fatą.

### Noun

fat n
* vessel, cup

#### Declension
## Romagnol
### Verb

fat
* past participle of fêr (“to do”)

## Saterland Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian fatt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid. Cognates include West Frisian fet and German fett.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fat/
* Hyphenation: fat
* Rhymes: -at

### Adjective

fat (masculine fatten, feminine, plural or definite fatte, comparative fatter, superlative fatst)
* fat
* fattened

#### Related terms

* Fat

### References

* Marron C. Fort (2015) “fat”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

## Slavomolisano
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian fatto.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fât/

### Noun

fat m
* story
** 2010, Rino John Gliosca, Bonifacio en Amérique:Drugi fat ka vami hočam povidat je do jenga čeljada ka sa zovaša Bonifač.Another story that I want to tell you is about a person who was called Bonifacio.
** 2010, Natalina Spadanuda, Le renard et le loup:È, lisice su semaj furb, kana na tuna fata!Ha, foxes are always clever, like in all the stories!

#### Declension
### References

* Breu, W., Mader Skender, M. B. & Piccoli, G. 2013. Oral texts in Molise Slavic (Italy): Acquaviva Collecroce. In Adamou, E., Breu, W., Drettas, G. & Scholze, L. (eds.). 2013. EuroSlav2010: Elektronische Datenbank bedrohter slavischer Varietäten in nichtslavophonen Ländern Europas – Base de données électronique de variétés slaves menacées dans des pays européens non slavophones. Konstanz: Universität / Paris: Lacito (Internet Publication).

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

fat n
* saucer; a small dish
* plate, platter (for serving food rather than eating from)
* barrel (oil or wine), cask, keg (beer)
* barrel; a unit of volume, usually referring to the oil barrel of 158.9873 liters

#### Derived terms

* (saucer): tefat
* (serving dish): serveringsfat, kakfat
* (barrel; container): fatöl

#### Collocations

* ha någons huvud på ett fat (“have someone's head on a platter”)
* det ligger någon i fatet (“it's in someone's plate”) (about something that is, or is by others perceived as, an obstacle (physical or mental) to someone)

### References

* fat in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* fat in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* fat in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* fat in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

## Tày
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

fat
* sick

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

fat
* to ferment
* to become

### References

* 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

## Tboli
### Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

### Numeral

fat
* four

## Volapük
### Etymology

From German Vater or English father.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fat/

### Noun

fat (nominative plural fats)
* father
** 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: VI:Fat olsik sevom utosi, kelosi neodols, büä plekols ome.Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
** 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 13:Fat obik ed olikan binoms flens.My father and yours are friends.

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* fatül
* lefat
* lüfat

## Wolof
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

fat
* to shelter

### References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 19

## Yamdena
### Alternative forms

* fate

### Etymology

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

### Numeral

fat
* four