chat

Енглески

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /t͡ʃæt/

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• Риме: -æt

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of chatter. The bird sense refers to the sound of its call.

Verb

chat

1. To be engaged in informal conversation.

   She chatted with her friend in the cafe.

   I like to chat over a coffee with a friend.

2. To talk more than a few words.

   I met my old friend in the street, so we chatted for a while.

3. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.

   They chatted politics for a while.

   • 2014, Lenny Smith, Choices, page 43:

     We would get totally stoned and usually drunk too and chat a load of nonsense into the small hours.

4. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.

   Do you want to chat online later?

Translations

Noun

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1. (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess‎^[1]:

     Reg liked a chat about old times and we used to go and have a chinwag in the pub.

   It'd be cool to meet up again soon and have a quick chat.

   1. A conversation to stop an argument or settle a situation.
2. An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
3. (Internet) A chat room.
   • 1997, Meg Booker, The Insider's Guide to America Online (page 256)

     While there are chats for various interest groups (games, Internet, sports), you can also […]

4. (metonymically, typically with definite article, video games) The entirety of users in a chat room or a single member thereof.

   The Chat just made a joke about my poor skillz.

5. Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Lua грешка in Модул:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.. or subfamily Lua грешка in Модул:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.. that feed on insects.
6. Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.^[1]

Noun

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1. A small potato, such as is given to swine.

References

Etymology 3

Origin unknown.

Noun

chat

1. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 441:

     Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.

Translations

Etymology 4

From thieves' cant.

Alternative forms

• chatt

Noun

chat

1. (British, Australia, NZ, World War I military slang) A louse (small, parasitic insect).
   • 1977, Mary Emily Pearce, Apple Tree Lean Down, page 520:

     'Do officers have chats, then, the same as us?'

     'Not the same, no. The chats they got is bigger and better, with pips on their shoulders and Sam Browne belts.'

   • 2007, How Can I Sleep when the Seagull Calls? →ISBN 978-1-4357-1811-1, page 18:

     May a thousand chats from Belgium crawl under their fingers as they write.

   • 2013, Graham Seal, The Soldiers' Press: Trench Journals in the First World War, →ISBN, page 149:

     Trench foot was a nasty and potentially fatal foot disease commonly caused by these conditions, in which chats or body lice were the bane of all.

Etymology 5

Noun

chat

1. Alternative form of chaat

Anagrams

• ACTH, Cath, cath, cath., tach ^{(alphagram acht)}

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Antillean Creole

Etymology

From Француски chat.

Noun

chat

1. cat

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /tʃɛt/

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• Hyphenation: chat
• Риме: -ɛt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Енглески chat.

Noun

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1. chat (online conversation)
2. chat (online conversation platform)

Derived terms

• chatten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

chat

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of chatten
2. imperative of chatten

Anagrams

• acht

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Француски

Etymology 1

From Middle French chat, from Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /ʃa/

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Noun

chat m (plural chats, feminine chatte)

1. cat (feline)
   • 1910, Henry-D. Davray & B. Kozakiewicz (tr.), La Guerre dans les airs, translation of The War in the Air by H. G. Wells, page 335:

     Soudain, d’un seul élan, cela se précipita sur lui, avec un miaulement plaintif et la queue droite. C’était un jeune chat, menu et décharné, qui frottait sa tête contre les jambes de Bert, en ronronnant.

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2. (male) cat, tom, tomcat
3. tag, tig (children’s game)

Derived terms

Related terms

• cataire

See also

• haret
• matou
• minet
• minou
• mistigri

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Енглески chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /tʃat/

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. (Internet) chat (online discussion)

   Синоним: tchat

Derived terms

• chatter
• chater
• chatteur
• chateur

Further reading

• “chat” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Haitian Creole

Etymology

From Француски chat, chatte.

Noun

chat

1. cat
2. (colloquial) thief
3. pussy (genitals)

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Iban

Etymology

From Min Nan 漆 (chhat).

Noun

chat

1. paint (substance)

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Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /xat̪ˠ/

Noun

chat m

1. Шаблон:ga-lenition of

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Италијански

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Енглески chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /ˈt͡ʃat/
• Риме: -at
• Hyphenation: chàt

Noun

chat f (plural #)

1. chat (informal conversation via computer)

Derived terms

• chattare

See also

• chiacchierata

Etymology 2

From Somali [Терм?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /ˈkat/
• Риме: -at
• Hyphenation: chàt

Noun

chat m (plural #)

1. chat (leaf chewed by people in North Africa and the Middle East)

   Синоним: khat

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French chat, from Late Latin cattus.

Noun

chat m (plural chats or chatz, feminine singular chatte, feminine plural chattes)

1. cat (animal)

Descendants

• Француски: chat

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• chatt

Etymology

Borrowed from Енглески chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /t͡ʃætː/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

chat m (definite singular chaten, indefinite plural chatar, definite plural chatane)

1. (Internet) a chat

References

• Шаблон:R:ND

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Old French

Alternative forms

• cat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)
• kat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Noun

chat m (oblique plural chaz or chatz, nominative singular chaz or chatz, nominative plural chat)

1. cat (animal)

Related terms

• chate

Descendants

• Middle French: chat
  • Француски: chat

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Polish

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.

Pronunciation

Lua грешка in Модул:IPA at line 94: Must now supply a table of arguments to format_IPA_full(); first argument should be that table, not a language object.

Noun

chat m inan

1. (Internet) Alternative spelling of czat.

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

Lua грешка in Модул:IPA at line 94: Must now supply a table of arguments to format_IPA_full(); first argument should be that table, not a language object.

Noun

chat f

1. генитива множине of chata

Further reading

• chat in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• chat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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Португалски

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(кључ): /ˈʃat(ʃ)(i)/, /ˈʃɛt(ʃ)(i)/

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. (Internet) chat room

   Синоним: (chiefly Brazil) bate-papo

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Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.

Noun

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1. chat Галицијски

Declension

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Шпански

Etymology

Borrowed from Енглески chat.

Pronunciation

(Castilian)

• (Latin America)
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Noun

chat m (plural chats)

1. chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)
2. chat, chat room

Derived terms

Further reading

• “chat” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.

Noun

chat

1. chat Галицијски

Derived terms

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Турски

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing из Енглески chat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(кључ): /tʃet/

Noun

chat (definite accusative chati, plural chatler)

1. chat (exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network)
2. chat room

Derived terms

• chatleşmek

Declension

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