# anta
## English
### Etymology

From Latin antae (“pilasters”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈæn.tə/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -æntə

### Noun

anta (plural antae or antas)
* (architecture) A kind of pier that terminates the walls of the naos, a kind of post or pillar on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple.

#### Related terms

* in antis

#### Translations
### References

* “anta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Nata, naat, NAAT, anat., AANT, taan, Anat, Tana, tana, Taan

## Akkadian
### Pronoun

anta
* Eblaite form of atta

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* ante

### Etymology

Probably from Latin antae (“jamb”); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈanta̝/

### Noun

anta m (plural antas)
* dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark
    Synonyms: arca, forno
* large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls
    Synonym: chanto

#### Derived terms

* Anta
* Antas
* Antas de Ulla
* Antela
* Antelo

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “anta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “anta”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “anta”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “anta”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “anta”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
* ↑ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “anta”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos

## Hausa
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔán.tàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ʔán.tàː]

### Noun

antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)
* Alternative spelling of hanta

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈanta/
* Hyphenation: an‧ta

### Etymology 1

From Sanskrit अन्त (antá, “disposition, essence”).

#### Noun

anta (plural anta-anta)
* (archaic) character, nature
    Synonyms: sifat, tabiat

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta, “you”).

#### Pronoun

anta
* (informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

##### Alternative forms

* anda
* antum
* ente

##### Synonyms

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:
* anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
* antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
* coen (slang, East Java)
* ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
* kamu (intimate)
* ko, kowe (informal, Java)
* kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
* lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
* mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

### Etymology 3

From Belitung Malay [Term?].

#### Noun

anta (plural anta-anta)
* rice dirt

### Further reading

* “anta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈan.ta/
* Rhymes: -anta
* Hyphenation: àn‧ta

### Etymology 1

From Latin antae f pl.

#### Noun

anta f (plural ante)
* door (of furniture)
* shutter (of window)
* sash (of window)
* panel

##### Synonyms

* sportello
* pannello

### Etymology 2

From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (“forty”), cinquanta (“fifty”), sessanta (“sixty”), settanta (“seventy”), ottanta (“eighty”), and novanta (“ninety”).

#### Noun

anta m pl (plural only)
* (informal) forties, fifties, sixties, ... (in someone's age)

### Anagrams

* Tana, nata, tana

## Japanese
### Romanization

anta
* Rōmaji transcription of あんた

## Kapampangan
### Etymology

Compare Ilocano ania, Kapampangan ana.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ənˈta/ [ənˈtä]

### Pronoun

anta
* (interrogative) where
* (interrogative) what

### Conjunction

anta
* as if

#### See also

* balamu
* nanu
* nukarin

## Ludian
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *antadak. Cognates include Finnish antaa and Veps antta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɑntɑ/
* Rhymes: -ɑntɑ
* Hyphenation: an‧ta

### Verb

anta
* (transitive) to give
* (auxiliary) to allow

#### Conjugation

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* anta suud

### References

* Juho Kujola (1944) Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 10
* M. Pahomov (2022) “anta”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎, Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 16

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

an- +‎ ta; from Danish antage. Calque of German annehmen.

### Verb

anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)
* to assume, presume
* to accept, approve

#### Derived terms

* antagelig, antakelig
* antagelse, antakelse

### References

* “anta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Early Medieval Latin haunta, borrowed from Frankish *haunitha (“disdain, scorn, ridicule”), from Proto-Germanic *hauniþō (“humiliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *kaw- (“to be evil, make evil”). Cognate with French honte.

### Noun

anta f (plural antas)
* (archaic) shame
    Synonym: vergonha

### Further reading

* Diccionari General de la Lenga Occitana, L’Academia occitana – Consistòri del Gai Saber, 2008-2024, page 59.

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀅𑀦𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
* अन्त (Devanagari script)
* অন্ত (Bengali script)
* අන‍්ත (Sinhalese script)
* အန္တ or ဢၼ္တ or ဢၼ်တ (Burmese script)
* อนฺต or อันตะ (Thai script)
* ᩋᨶ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
* ອນ຺ຕ or ອັນຕະ (Lao script)
* អន្ត (Khmer script)
* 𑄃𑄚𑄴𑄖 (Chakma script)

### Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit अन्त (anta).

### Noun

anta m or n
* end
* goal
* top

#### Derived terms

* kāranta (“final sound of word”)

### Noun

anta n
* intestine, tharm

#### Descendants

* Khmer: អន្តៈ (ʼɑntaʼ)

### Adjective

anta
* lowest, inferior
* worst
* last, final
** c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 285; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:गमु इच्चेदस्स धातुस्स अन्तो मकारो च्छो होति वा सब्बासु पच्चयविभत्तीसु।Gamu[ ]iccetassa dhātussa anto makāro ccho hoti vā sabbāsu paccayavibhattīsu.The final m of the root gamu is optionally changed into cch, if any suffix or verbal termination follows:
* extreme
* interior

#### Declension
### References

* 1 2 3 4 Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 39.
* 1 2 3 Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “anta”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

## Polish
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin antae.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈan.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -anta
* Syllabification: an‧ta

### Noun

anta f
* (architecture, Ancient Greece) anta

#### Declension
### Further reading

* anta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Portuguese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈɐ̃.tɐ/
* Audio (Brazil):(file)
* Homophone: Anta
* Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ
* Hyphenation: an‧ta

### Etymology 1

From Old Galician-Portuguese anta, borrowed from Latin antās pl.

#### Noun

anta f (plural antas)
* (architecture) anta
* (archaeology) dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)
    Synonym: dólmen

##### Derived terms

* Anta
* Antas
* Antela
* antela
* Antelas

### Etymology 2

From Arabic لَمْتَة (lamta).

#### Noun

anta f (plural antas)
* tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)
    Synonym: tapir

#### Noun

anta m or f by sense (plural antas)
* (Brazil, figuratively) a stupid person
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota
    Você é uma anta!You are an idiot!

## Spanish
### Etymology

From ante.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈanta/ [ˈãn̪.t̪a]
* Rhymes: -anta
* Syllabification: an‧ta

### Noun

anta f (plural antas)
* female equivalent of ante; moose, elk
* (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)
    Synonyms: tapir, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

### Further reading

* “anta”, 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

Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake.

### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

anta (present antar, preterite antog, supine antagit, imperative anta)
* to assume, to suppose
    Anta att X är tre. Då är noll gånger X lika med noll.Assume that X is three. Then zero times X equals zero.
    Om vi antar att han är skyldig så kommer det bli jäkligt svårt att få honom fälldIf we assume he's guilty, it will be damn hard to get him convicted
* to guess, to suppose
    Det kommer rök ur kaffebryggaren, så jag antar att det är dags att köpa en nyThere's smoke coming out of the coffee maker, so I guess it's time to buy a new one
* to accept an offer
    Schackspelaren antog erbjudandet om remi efter att ha funderat på detThe chess player accepted the offer of a draw after having thought about it
* (especially in the past participle) to accept (to a school, etc.)
    Jag har blivit antagen till Harvard!I've been accepted to Harvard!

#### Conjugation

$^1$ Archaic. $^2$ Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

#### Derived terms

* antagning
* antagande

### References

* anta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* anta in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
* anta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
* anta in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

### Anagrams

* anat, anat.

## Tagalog
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ʔanˈta/ [ʔɐn̪ˈt̪a], /ˈʔanta/ [ˈʔan̪.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -a, -anta
* Syllabification: an‧ta

#### Noun

antá or anta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜆ)
* rancidity; rancid odor
    Synonym: (Marinduque) angal

##### Derived terms

* kaantahan
* maanta
* maantahan
* magpaanta
* paantahin
* umanta

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish anta, feminine of ante, from Andalusian Arabic لمط (lámṭ).

#### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈʔanta/ [ˈʔan̪.t̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -anta
* Syllabification: an‧ta

#### Noun

anta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜆ)
* elk; moose (Alces alces)
    Synonym: alse

##### See also

* usa

### Further reading

* “anta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Cuadrado Muñiz, Adolfo (1972) Hispanismos en el tagalo: diccionario de vocablos de origen español vigentes en esta lengua filipina, Madrid: Oficina de Educación Iberoamericana, page 38

### Anagrams

* taan

## Votic
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

### Pronunciation

* (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA: /ˈɑntɑː/, [ˈɑntɑ]
* Rhymes: -ɑntɑː
* Hyphenation: an‧ta

### Verb

anta
* to give

#### Inflection
### References

* Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

## Yilan Creole
### Etymology

From Japanese あんた (anta).

### Pronoun

anta
* you (second person singular pronoun)

#### Synonyms

* nta

#### Derived terms

* antataci

### References

* Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎, pages 513-532
* Chien Yuehchen (2018) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの人称代名詞”, in 日本語の研究‎, volume 14, number 4

## Yoruba
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /à.ŋ̀.tà/

### Noun

àǹtà
* savannah monitor

#### Related terms

* awọ́nrínwọ́n
* awọ̀n
* àlégbà