watt

See also: Watt

English

Etymology

Named after Scottish engineer James Watt. For the surname, see Watt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /wɒt/
• (US) enPR: wät, IPA^(key): /wɑt/
• Rhymes: -ɒt
• Homophones: wat, wot; what (Received Pronunciation, wine–whine merger)

Noun

watt (plural watts)

2. In the International System of Units, the derived unit of power; the power of a system in which one joule of energy is transferred per second. Symbol: W

Derived terms

• gigawatt
• kilowatt
• megawatt
• microwatt
• milliwatt
• nanowatt
• picowatt
• terawatt
• watt-hour
• watt-second

Translations

derived unit of power

Afrikaans: watt Albanian: vat (sq) m Amharic: ዋት (wat) Arabic: وَاط m (wāṭ) Armenian: վատտ (hy) (vatt) Asturian: vatiu m, watt m Azerbaijani: vatt Belarusian: ват m (vat) Bengali: ওয়াট (bn) (ōẇaṭ) Bulgarian: ват (bg) m (vat) Burmese: ဝပ် (my) (wap) Catalan: watt (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 瓦特 (zh) (wǎtè) Czech: watt (cs) Danish: watt n Dutch: watt (nl) m Esperanto: vatto, ŭato, vato Estonian: vatt Faroese: watt n Finnish: watti (fi) French: watt (fr) m Galician: vatio (gl) m, watt (gl) m Georgian: ვატი (vaṭi) German: Watt (de) n Greek: βατ (el) n (vat) Hebrew: וָאט (he) m (vat) Hindi: वॉट m (vŏṭ), वाट (hi) m (vāṭ) Hungarian: watt (hu) Icelandic: vatt n Ido: wato (io) Inari Sami: wattâ Indonesian: watt (id) Italian: watt (it) m Japanese: ワット (ja) (watto) Kazakh: ватт (vatt) Khmer: វ៉ាត់ (vat) Korean: 와트 (wateu) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: watt Kyrgyz: ватт (ky) (vatt) Lao: ວັດ (lo) (wat) Latvian: vats m Lithuanian: vatas m Macedonian: ват m (vat) Malay: watt Maori: wata Mongolian: Cyrillic: ватт (mn) (vatt) Mongolian: ᠸᠠᠲ᠋ᠲ᠋ (watt) Norwegian: Bokmål: watt m Nynorsk: watt m Pashto: واټ (ps) m Persian: وات (fa) (vât) Polish: wat (pl) m Portuguese: watt (pt) m Romanian: watt (ro) m Russian: ватт (ru) m (vatt) Scottish Gaelic: uàt m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ва̏т m Roman: vȁt (sh) m Sicilian: watt m Slovak: watt m Slovene: vat (sl) m Spanish: vatio (es) m, watt m (wat), watio (es) m (Latin America) Swahili: wati Swedish: watt (sv) c Tagalog: watt Tajik: ватт (tg) (vatt) Tatar: ватт (watt) Thai: วัตต์ (th) (wàt) Turkish: watt Turkmen: watt Ukrainian: ват (uk) m (vat) Urdu: واٹ (ur) m (vāṭ) Uyghur: ۋات (wat) Uzbek: vatt (uz) Vietnamese: watt (vi), oát (vi), oat (vi)

See also

• watt on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ATWT, at. wt., twat

Asturian

Etymology

From English watt.

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Synonyms

• vatiu

Czech

Noun

watt m inan

1. watt (unit of power)

Declension

Declension of watt (hard masculine inanimate)

	singular	plural
nominative	watt	watty
genitive	wattu	wattů
dative	wattu	wattům
accusative	watt	watty
vocative	watte	watty
locative	wattu	wattech
instrumental	wattem	watty

Further reading

• “watt”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “watt”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʋɒt], [ʋɑt]

• Audio:

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• Homophones: wad, wat

Noun

watt m (plural watts, diminutive wattje n)

1. watt

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wat/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio (Switzerland (Valais)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Homophone: ouate

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

Further reading

• “watt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Noun

watt m (plural watts)

1. watt

   Synonym: vatio

Hungarian

 watt on Hungarian Wikipedia

Etymology

From English watt, named after Scottish engineer James Watt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvɒtː]

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: watt
• Rhymes: -ɒtː

Noun

watt (plural wattok)

1. watt (derived unit of power)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)

	singular	plural
nominative	watt	wattok
accusative	wattot	wattokat
dative	wattnak	wattoknak
instrumental	wattal	wattokkal
causal-final	wattért	wattokért
translative	wattá	wattokká
terminative	wattig	wattokig
essive-formal	wattként	wattokként
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	wattban	wattokban
superessive	watton	wattokon
adessive	wattnál	wattoknál
illative	wattba	wattokba
sublative	wattra	wattokra
allative	watthoz	wattokhoz
elative	wattból	wattokból
delative	wattról	wattokról
ablative	wattól	wattoktól
non-attributive possessive – singular	watté	wattoké
non-attributive possessive – plural	wattéi	wattokéi

Possessive forms of watt

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	wattom	wattjaim
2nd person sing.	wattod	wattjaid
3rd person sing.	wattja	wattjai
1st person plural	wattunk	wattjaink
2nd person plural	wattotok	wattjaitok
3rd person plural	wattjuk	wattjaik

Derived terms

• wattnyi
• wattos

Compound words

• wattfogyasztás
• wattmérő
• wattóra

Related terms

• kilowatt
• megawatt

Further reading

• watt in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.