atta

atta

1. that's the; that's a

Used only in expressions like atta boy and atta girl.

• attaboy, atta boy
• attadog, atta dog
• attagal, attagirl, atta girl

From Hindi आटा (āṭā, “flour, farina, dough”).

atta (uncountable)

1. (India) A type of wholegrain flour from the Indian subcontinent.
   • 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin 2015, p. 7:

     Kabutri, in the meanwhile, had kneaded some atta and rolled out a few real rotis.

• Tata, ta ta, ta-ta, tata

atta

1. Romanization of 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰

atta

1. feminine singular of atto

• tata

From Proto-Indo-European *átta (“father”). Cognates include Hittite 𒀜𒋫𒀸 (attas), Gothic 𐌰𐍄𐍄𐌰 (atta), Old Church Slavonic отьць (otĭcĭ) and Ancient Greek ἄττα (átta).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈat.ta/

atta m (genitive attae); first declension

1. father (term of respect for an old man)

First declension.

• atta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• atta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• atta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• atta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

• āta

From Old Norse átta, from Proto-Germanic *ahtōu, from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw.

ātta

1. eight

• Swedish: åtta

• Alternative forms

  • 𑀅𑀢𑁆𑀢 (Brahmi script)
  • अत्त (Devanagari script)
  • অত্ত (Bengali script)
  • අත‍්ත (Sinhalese script)
  • အတ္တ (Burmese script)
  • อตฺต (Thai script)
  • ᩋᨲ᩠ᨲ (Tai Tham script)
  • អត្ត (Khmer script)

atta

1. vocative singular of attan

atta

1. singular locative of at