nat

Borrowing from Burmese နတ် (nat).

• IPA^(key): /nɑːt/
• Rhymes: -ɑːt

nat (plural nats)

1. A spirit in Burmese mythology, whose cult is followed alongside Buddhism.

Reduced form of naught.

nat (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Not. [14th-17th c.]
   • 1614, William Browne, The Shepheard's Pipe:

     And he a pistle rowned in her eare, / Nat what I want, for I ne came nat there.

Abbreviation of natural logarithm.

nat (plural nats)

1. logarithmic unit of information or entropy, based on natural logarithms

• nit, nepit

• bit, nat, qubit

• -ant, ANT, Ant, Ant., NTA, TAN, TNA, Tan, a'n't, an't, ant, ant-, ant., tan

From Latin nātus (“born”). Compare Romanian nat (“personal, individual”).

nat m

1. child

• nascu

From Old Occitan nat, from Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“begotten, produced”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth”).

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

nat (feminine nada, masculine plural nats, feminine plural nades)

1. born

• nascut

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

From Old Danish nat, from Old Norse nátt, nótt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts, from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts.

• IPA^(key): /nad̥/

nat c (singular definite natten, plural indefinite nætter)

1. night (period between sunset and sunrise)

• natlig

• “nat” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle Dutch nat, from Old Dutch nat, from Proto-Germanic *nataz.

• Rhymes: -ɑt
• IPA^(key): /nɑt/

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nat (comparative natter, superlative natst)

1. wet

• droog

nat n (uncountable)

1. moisture

nat

1. third-person singular present active indicative of nō

nat

1. rain

From Old English *nōht, nāht (“nought, nothing”), short for nōwiht, nāwiht (“nothing”, literally “no thing, no creature”), corresponding to nā (“no”) + wiht (“thing, creature”).

nat

1. not
   • 13??, Geoffrey Chaucer, Boethius and Troilus

     And at the laste, yif that any wight wene a thing to ben other weyes thanne it is, it is nat only unscience, but it is deceivable opinioun ful diverse and fer fro the sothe of science.

From Old Norse nátt, from Proto-Germanic *nahts.

nāt f

1. night

• Swedish: natt

From Latin nātus, from earlier gnātus, from Proto-Italic *gnātos, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós (“begotten, produced”), derived from the root *ǵenh₁- (“to beget, give birth”). The meaning in Romanian developed from that of "offspring" or "progeny" in relation to the parent. Compare Aromanian nat (“child”), also Occitan nada (“girl”).

nat m (plural nați)

1. (uncommon, popular) person, individual
2. (uncommon, popular) kinsman, relative

• (person, individual): om, persoană, individ, ins
• (kinsman, relative): rudă, rudenie

• naște

nat

1. spirit

• Stephen Morey, The Singpho Agentive – Functions and Meanings (2012), p. 12

• IPA^(key): /nätʰ/

nat

1. deep

   ti nat uk'ume - the deep stream

(Verbs)

• natij

(Adjectives)

• natik

(Adjectives & Nouns)

• natil

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.