blat

• Rhymes: -æt

Imitative. First attested in 1846.

blat (third-person singular simple present blats, present participle blatting, simple past and past participle blatted)

1. To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat.
2. To make a senseless noise.
3. To talk inconsiderately.
4. To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.

Borrowed from Russian блат (blat), from Polish blat (“cover, umbrella”) or Yiddish בלאַט‎ (blat, “leaf, list”)

blat (uncountable)

1. Connections; relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).

   To open a new business in Russia you need blat.

   Synonym: guanxi (from Chinese)

• Balt, Balt.

From Medieval Latin blādum, from Frankish *blād (“field produce”), from Proto-Germanic *blēdaz, *blēdō (“flower, leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“to flower; leaf”). Compare French blé.

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈblat/
• Rhymes: -at

blat m (uncountable)

1. wheat

• blat de moro

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

From Old Dutch *blat, from Proto-Germanic *bladą.

blat n

1. leaf
2. page (of a book)
3. panel (in a door)
4. tongue, blade
5. any flat surface or object

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: blad
  • Afrikaans: blad
• Limburgish: blaad

• “blat”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “blat (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

blat m (plural blats)

1. wheat

From Proto-Germanic *bladą, whence also Old Saxon blad, Old English blæd, Old Norse blað. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰl̥h₃oto-, from *bʰleh₃-.

blat n (plural bletir)

1. leaf

• Middle High German: blat
  • Alemannic German: Blatt
  • Central Franconian: Blatt
  • German: Blatt
  • Luxembourgish: Blat
  • Pennsylvania German: Blatt
  • Yiddish: בלאַט‎ (blat)

Borrowed from German Blatt.

blat

1. the flat surface of a table