tatami
See also: tàtàmǐ
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Japanese 畳 (tatami).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittatami (plural tatamis or tatami)
- Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
- 1964, John Berryman, chapter 31, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 35:
- Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts,
- 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 2:
- Small tools are spread on the tatami: a razor knife, a sprue cutter, curls of emery paper.
- A unit of area equal to a standard-sized tatami mat, approximately 1.65 square metres.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editstraw matting in Japanese houses
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Anagrams
editBasque
editEtymology
editUltimately from Japanese 畳 (tatami).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittatami inan
- tatami
- 2001 December 28, Goienkaria, number 47, page 47:
- Bigarren solairuan gimnasioa eta tatami gela jarriko dituzte.
- On the second floor, a gym and a tatami room will be installed.
Declension
editDeclension of tatami (inanimate, ending in vowel)
indefinite | singular | plural | |
---|---|---|---|
absolutive | tatami | tatamia | tatamiak |
ergative | tatamik | tatamiak | tatamiek |
dative | tatamiri | tatamiari | tatamiei |
genitive | tatamiren | tatamiaren | tatamien |
comitative | tatamirekin | tatamiarekin | tatamiekin |
causative | tatamirengatik | tatamiarengatik | tatamiengatik |
benefactive | tatamirentzat | tatamiarentzat | tatamientzat |
instrumental | tatamiz | tatamiaz | tatamiez |
inessive | tatamitan | tatamian | tatamietan |
locative | tatamitako | tatamiko | tatamietako |
allative | tatamitara | tatamira | tatamietara |
terminative | tatamitaraino | tatamiraino | tatamietaraino |
directive | tatamitarantz | tatamirantz | tatamietarantz |
destinative | tatamitarako | tatamirako | tatamietarako |
ablative | tatamitatik | tatamitik | tatamietatik |
partitive | tatamirik | — | — |
prolative | tatamitzat | — | — |
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
edittatami
Declension
editInflection of tatami (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | tatami | tatamit | |
genitive | tatamin | tatamien | |
partitive | tatamia | tatameja | |
illative | tatamiin | tatameihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | tatami | tatamit | |
accusative | nom. | tatami | tatamit |
gen. | tatamin | ||
genitive | tatamin | tatamien | |
partitive | tatamia | tatameja | |
inessive | tatamissa | tatameissa | |
elative | tatamista | tatameista | |
illative | tatamiin | tatameihin | |
adessive | tatamilla | tatameilla | |
ablative | tatamilta | tatameilta | |
allative | tatamille | tatameille | |
essive | tatamina | tatameina | |
translative | tatamiksi | tatameiksi | |
abessive | tatamitta | tatameitta | |
instructive | — | tatamein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading
edit- “tatami”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
Anagrams
editFrench
editNoun
edittatami m (plural tatamis)
Further reading
edit- “tatami”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
editEtymology
editFrom Japanese 畳 (tatami, “tatami mat”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittatami (plural tatami-tatami, first-person possessive tatamiku, second-person possessive tatamimu, third-person possessive tataminya)
Further reading
edit- “tatami” 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.
Japanese
editRomanization
edittatami
Polish
editPronunciation
editNoun
edittatami m pers
Spanish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Japanese 畳 (たたみ (tatami).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edittatami m (plural tatamis)
Further reading
edit- “tatami”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Japanese
- English terms derived from Japanese
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English indeclinable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- English terms with quotations
- Basque terms derived from Japanese
- Basque terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Basque/ami
- Rhymes:Basque/ami/3 syllables
- Basque lemmas
- Basque nouns
- Basque inanimate nouns
- Basque terms with quotations
- Finnish terms borrowed from Japanese
- Finnish terms derived from Japanese
- Finnish 3-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑtɑmi
- Rhymes:Finnish/ɑtɑmi/3 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- Indonesian terms borrowed from Japanese
- Indonesian terms derived from Japanese
- Indonesian 3-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- id:Sports
- Japanese non-lemma forms
- Japanese romanizations
- Polish 3-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio links
- Rhymes:Polish/ami
- Rhymes:Polish/ami/3 syllables
- Polish non-lemma forms
- Polish noun forms
- Spanish terms borrowed from Japanese
- Spanish terms derived from Japanese
- Spanish 3-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/ami
- Rhymes:Spanish/ami/3 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns