татах

May be compared with Proto-Turkic *tart-, see Turkish tartmak.
Sense "to smoke, to inhale" is a semantic loan from Chinese 抽 (chōu, “to draw”).

• (Ulaanbaatar) IPA^(key): /tʰatʰəx/, [ˈtḁtɐχ]

татах • (tatah) (Mongolian spelling ᠲᠠᠲᠠᠬᠤ (tataqu))

1. to pull, to drag
2. to fasten, to tighten, to draw together
3. to restrain
4. to draw (a rope, a line)
5. to contract, to cramp, to twitch (of an organ)
6. to dig (a ditch)
7. to mince, to grind

   татсан мах ― tatsan mah ― ground meat

8. to mend (clothing)
9. to inhale

   тамхи татах ― tamhi tatah ― to smoke (tobacco)

10. to fold up, to gather up
11. to play (a string, wind instrument)
12. to levy (conscripts, taxes)
13. to involve (someone in an event)
14. (weather) to appear

    манан татах ― manan tatah ― for fog to settle in

15. to attract, to entice
16. to weight (to be equal in weight to)
17. (computing) to download

• IPA^(key): [ˈtatəx]

та́тах • (tátax) m anim pl

1. prepositional plural of та́та (táta)