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See also: thā, THA, -tha, þa, þá, thá, and thả

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Thai, from Thai ไทย (tai).

Symbol

tha

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Thai.

See also

English

Etymology 1

In parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire where [aʊ] became [aː] and then shortened in an unstressed thou.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ða/, lengthened to /ðaː/ only when stressed.
  • Rhymes: -ɑː

Pronoun

tha

  1. (Northern England, dialectal) Pronunciation spelling of thou.
    • 1937, Homer, The Odyssey:
      " [] Stay thee where tha bist, sit down on thi property; what's the sense of wanderen over the barren sea and maybe happenen an accident?"

Etymology 2

Article

tha

  1. (US, African-American Vernacular) Eye dialect spelling of the.
    Synonym: da

Anagrams

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Anguthimri

Verb

tha

  1. (Mpakwithi) tie

References

  • Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 415

Caolan

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ.

Pronunciation

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Noun

tha

  1. eye

Fingallian

Etymology

From Middle English þe, from Old English þē m (the, that, demonstrative pronoun).

Article

tha

  1. the

Mbariman-Gudhinma

Verb

tha

  1. tie

References

  • Claire Bowern, Harold James Koch, Australian Languages: Classification and the Comparative Method (2004), page 415

Old Dutch

Adverb

thā

  1. then

References

  • Dr. Tack P, Proeve van Oudnederfrankische Grammatica, 84.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Middle Irish at·tá, from Old Irish at·tá. Cognate with Irish and Manx ta.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ha/, (emphatic) /haː/
  • (Harris) IPA(key): /hɑ/, (emphatic) /hɑː/
  • Hyphenation: tha

Verb

tha

  1. independent present of bi: am, is, are
    Tha mi pòsda.I'm married.
    Tha mi à Colbhasa.I am from Colonsay.
    Tha mi a' smaoineachadh gu bheil.I am thinking so.
    Tha thu fadalach.You are late.
    Tha an duine anns an taigh.The man is in the house.
    Tha duine anns an taigh.There is a man in the house.
    Tha daoine anns an taigh.There are men in the house.

Usage notes

  • Tha is used as an affirmative answer to questions formed with bheil or eil:
    A bheil thu toilichte?Tha.Are you happy? —Yes.
  • When linking the subject of a sentence with a complement consisting of a noun phrase ("somebody is somebody", "somebody is something", "something is something"), the verb is is used:
    Tha mise anns an t-seòmar.I am in the room.
    Is mise Dòmhnall.I am Donald.

References

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “tha”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Mark, Colin (2003), “bi”, in The Gaelic–English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 75
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “attá”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
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South Slavey

Etymology

Cognates include Dogrib wha.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [θà(ʔ)]
  • Hyphenation: tha

Noun

tha (stem -dha-)

  1. tentpole

Inflection

More information singular, plural ...

1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings
and the object is singular.
2) Used when the previous condition does not apply.

References

  • Keren Rice (1989), A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 38

Tày

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *p.taːᴬ.

Pronunciation

Noun

tha (Nôm form 𥃸, 𥅂)

  1. eye

References

  • Dương Nhật Thanh; Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003), Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày] (in Tày and Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học xã hội [Social Sciences Publishing House]
  • Hoàng Văn Ma; Lục Văn Pảo; Hoàng Chí (2006), Từ điển Tày-Nùng-Việt [Tay-Nung-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Từ điển Bách khoa Hà Nội
  • Lương Bèn (2011), Từ điển Tày-Việt [Tay-Vietnamese dictionary] (in Vietnamese), Thái Nguyên: Nhà Xuất bản Đại học Thái Nguyên
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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (SV: ). See also thả.

    Verb

    tha (, )

    1. to forgive
      trời không dung, đất không thathe act in question is abhorrently egregious / the person in question has committed an unforgivable act (literally, “the sky doesn't tolerate, the earth doesn't forgive”)
    2. to let go out of police custody or detention
    Derived terms

    Etymology 2

      Sino-Vietnamese word from .

      Verb

      tha (, , , )

      1. (of animals) to carry with the mouth
        Cọp tha mồi.
        The tiger drags its prey.
      2. (of people) to drag a nuisance around or to bring it to where it is not wanted
        Sao cứ tha ba cái đồ nhôm nhựa về nhà nhỉ !?
        Why the hell do you keep bringing scrap back home!?
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      Welsh

      Pronunciation

      Preposition

      tha

      1. alternative form of fatha (like)

      Adverb

      tha

      1. alternative form of fatha (kind of)

      Yola

      Article

      tha

      1. alternative form of a (the)
        • 1927, “YOLA ZONG O BARONY VORTH”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 132, line 3:
          Thaay paaced awi up to tha Cross o Shad
          They paced away up to the Cross of the Shad,

      References

      • Kathleen A. Browne (1927), “THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD.”, in Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of lreland (Sixth Series), volume 17, number 2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 132

      Zulu

      Alternative forms

      Etymology 1

      From Proto-Bantu *-jɪ́ta (to call).

      Verb

      -thá

      1. (transitive) to name, to nickname
      2. (transitive) to choose, to pick, to select
      Inflection
      More information positive, negative ...
      Derived terms

      Etymology 2

      From Proto-Bantu *-jìta.

      Verb

      -tha

      1. (transitive) to funnel, to inject (an enema)
      Inflection
      More information positive, negative ...

      References

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