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Abbreviation of English Fante.

fat

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

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A fat cat

From Middle English fat, from Old English fǣtt (“fatted, fat”), from Proto-West Germanic *faitid (“fatted”), originally the past participle of the verb *faitijan (“to make fat”), from *fait (“fat”).

fat (comparative fatter, superlative fattest)

  1. (sometimes derogatory) Carrying more fat than usual on one's body; plump; not lean or thin.
    The fat man had problems going through the door.
    The fattest pig should yield the most meat.
    • 1932, New Orleans (La.) Board of Health, Vox Sanitatis
      While Hennessey is pouring the milk, the fat guy with the big pot-belly, will come over and write a lot of junk in his little book.
    • 1976 September 29, Richard Flaste, “Viewing Childhood As it Is”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      […] Ruth‐ellen Stark and Elizabeth Ryan are about ten times fatter, but even they can't compare to Bruce…”
    • 1994, Craig Brown, The hounding of John Thomas:
      And there he stood, as uncouth as ever, naked as the day he was born, but fatter and chinnier and even more self-satisfied […]
    • 2014, Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces, Cinco Puntos Press, →ISBN, page 46:
      Because, really, who would like the fat girl? Sebastian said I was crazy for thinking that.
  2. Thick; large.
    The fat wallets of the men from the city brought joy to the peddlers.
    • 1861, Charles James Lever, A Day's Ride:
      The thickest salmon, the curdiest trout, the fattest partridge, and the most tender woodcock smoked on his board, and, rumor said, cooked with a delicacy that more pretentious houses could not rival.
  3. Bulbous; rotund.
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
      So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  4. Bountiful.
  5. Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich (said of food).
  6. (obsolete) Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.
  7. Fertile; productive.
    a fat soil; a fat pasture
    • 1974, “Which Way Africa”, performed by Tunji Oyelana:
      Land was fatter, soil was rich, hands were many
  8. Rich; producing a large income; desirable.
    a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job
    • 1882, Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences:
      now parson of Troston, a fat living in Suffolk
  9. Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      , "Why Christ's Doctrine was Rejected"
      persons grown fat and wealthy by a long and successful imposture
  10. (dated, printing) Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.
    a fat take; a fat page
  11. (golf) Being a shot in which the ground is struck before the ball.
  1. (theater) Of a role: significant; major; meaty.
  1. (slang) Being greatly or substantially such; real.
  1. (music) Having a full or rich sound with strong bass and low-midrange presence.
  2. (computing) Carrying additional data or functionality.
    a fat pointer
  3. Alternative form of phat.

carrying a larger than normal amount of fat on one's body — see also chubby

thick

bountiful

From Middle English fat, fatt, fatte, from the adjective above, and possibly from Old English fǣt (“fat”, recorded once), from Proto-West Germanic *fait, from Proto-Germanic *faitą, *faitaz (“fat”).

fat (usually uncountable, plural fats)

  1. (uncountable) A specialized animal tissue with high lipid content, used for long-term storage of energy: fat tissue.
    Hyponym: blubber
    Mammals that hibernate have plenty of fat to keep them warm during the winter.
    1. Such tissue as food: the fatty portion of (or trimmings from) meat cuts.
      Ask the butcher for a few pounds of fat for our greens.
  2. (countable) A lipid that is solid at room temperature, which fat tissue contains and which is also found in the blood circulation; sometimes, a refined substance chemically resembling such naturally occurring lipids.
    Dietary fat is not the evil that it was once misapprehended to be; carbs are increasingly recognized as a bigger driver of atherosclerosis via chronic insulin resistance and the vascular processes that cascade from it.
    • 2018, Kristin Lawless, Formerly known as food, →ISBN, page 32:
      In fact, the fats that are most stable and least likely to oxidize with heat are the highly saturated fats we've long been told to avoid—lard, tallow, butter, and coconut and palm oils.
  3. That part of an organization deemed wasteful.
    We need to trim the fat in this company
  4. (slang) An erection.
    I saw Daniel crack a fat.
  5. (golf) A poorly played shot where the ball is struck by the top part of the club head. (see also thin, shank, toe)
  6. The best or richest productions; the best part.
    to live on the fat of the land
  7. (dated, printing) Work containing much blank, or its equivalent, and therefore profitable to the compositor.
  8. (informal, derogatory) A fat person.
    • 1996, Roger Stone, "Local Swing Fever", highlighted by National Enquirer in September 1996 and Daily Mail in January 2019
      Prefer military, bodybuilders, jocks. No smokers or fats please.
  9. (Australia) A beef cattle fattened for sale.
    • 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 7:
      Before riding over to the fats we'll have a look about us.

specialized animal tissue — see also blubber

refined substance chemically resembling the oils in animal fat

that part of an organization deemed wasteful

Translations to be checked

fat (third-person singular simple present fats, present participle fatting, simple past and past participle fatted)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To make fat; to fatten.
  2. (intransitive, archaic) To become fat; to fatten.
  3. (transitive, golf) To hit (a golf ball) with a fat shot.
    • 2019 April 2, Rick Reilly, How and why President Trump cheats at golf — even when he’s playing against Tiger Woods‎[2], archived from the original on 29 March 2022:
      “On this one hole, Donald hits his second and fats it into the water,” Faxon remembers. “But he quickly says to me, ‘Hey, throw me another ball; they weren’t looking.’ So I do. But he fats that one into the water, too. So he drives up and drops where he should’ve dropped the first time and hits it on the green.”

to make fat; to fatten

From Middle English fat, from Old English fæt (“vat, vessel, jar, cup, casket, division”), from Proto-Germanic *fatą (“vessel”), from Proto-Indo-European *pod- (“vessel”). Cognate with Dutch vat (“barrel, vessel”), German Fass (“barrel, drum”), Swedish fat (“barrel, dish, cask”). See vat.

fat (plural fats)

  1. (obsolete) A large tub or vessel for water, wine, or other liquids; a cistern.
    • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 4, page 429:
      In 1431 New College purchases brewing vessels, under the names of a mash fat, for 6s. 10d., a wort fat for 2s., a 'Gilleding' tub for 2s. 6d., and two tunning barrels at 8d. each, a leaden boiler for 24s., another for 12s., and a great copper beer pot for 13s. 4d.
  2. (obsolete) A dry measure, generally equal to nine bushels.

From French fat (“conceited person”).

fat (plural fats)

  1. A fop or dandy.
    • 1853, Charlotte Brontë, Villette:
      I took my revenge on this ‘fat’, by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could.
    • 1921, DH Lawrence, Women in Love, Vintage, published 2008, page 288:
      Ursula was amazed and indignant at the way he made small-talk; he was adept as any fat in Christendom.

Borrowed from Latin fātum.[1] Jolk claims a derivation from Gothic fadi-.[2]

fat m (plural fate, definite fati, definite plural fatet)

  1. luck

  2. chance
    Synonyms: shans, rast, mundësi

  3. fate

  4. destiny
    Synonym: psorë

  5. spouse

  6. ^ Schumacher, Stefan; Matzinger, Joachim (2013), Die Verben des Altalbanischen: Belegwörterbuch, Vorgeschichte und Etymologie (Albanische Forschungen; 33) (in German), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, page 211

  7. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “fat”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 94

From Proto-Halmahera-Cenderawasih *pat, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *pat, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fat

  1. four

From Latin fātum.

fat m (uncountable)

  1. fate, destiny

From Latin fatuus.

fat (feminine fada, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fades)

  1. bland, insipid
    Synonym: insuls

fat

  1. clear, transparent

Borrowed from French fat (“conceited; dandy”), from Latin fatuus.

fat m (plural fatten or fats, diminutive fatje n)

  1. dandy, a man obsessed with his looks
    Synonyms: dandy, pronker, saletjonker

From Old Norse fat.

fat n (genitive singular fats, plural føt)

  1. dish, plate
    Synonym: tallerkur

From Old Occitan fat, from Latin fatuus.

fat (feminine fate, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)

  1. conceited

From Latin factus.

fat

  1. past participle of fâ

fat

  1. done, made
  2. ripe

From Latin factum.

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fat m (plural fats)

  1. fact, deed

fat

  1. bright white

From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.

fat n (genitive singular fats, nominative plural föt)

  1. vat
  2. item of clothing

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fat

  1. four

fat m (plural fac)

  1. fact

fat m (feminine singular fata, masculine plural fats, feminine plural fates)

  1. done

From Old English fæt, from Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą.

fat (plural fattes or faten)

  1. vessel

From Old English fǣtt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid.

fat

  1. fattened, fatted

From Old Frisian fatt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid. Cognates include West Frisian fet and German fett.

fat (comparative fater, superlative fatst)

  1. (Sylt) fat

Inflection of fat (Sylt dialect)

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From Old Norse fat.

fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural **fat or fater, definite plural fata or fatene)

  1. plate, dish
  2. barrel, drum, cask

From Old Norse fat, Proto-Germanic *fatą.

fat n (definite singular fatet, indefinite plural **fat, definite plural fata)

  1. plate, dish
  2. barrel, drum, cask

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fat

  1. imperative of fata

From Proto-West Germanic *fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą.

fat n

  1. barrel
  2. container

Declension of fat (neuter a-stem noun)

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nominative fat fat
accusative fat fat
genitive fates fato
dative fate faton
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From Proto-West Germanic *fait. Cognates include Old Saxon *fēt and Old Norse feitr.

fat m

  1. fat

From Proto-Germanic *fatą.

fat n

  1. vessel, cup

fat

  1. past participle of fêr (“to do”)

From Old Frisian fatt, from Proto-West Germanic *faitid. Cognates include West Frisian fet and German fett.

fat (masculine fatten, feminine, plural or definite fatte, comparative fatter, superlative fatst)

  1. fat
  2. fattened

Borrowed from Italian fatto.

fat m

  1. story
    • 2010, Rino John Gliosca, Bonifacio en Amérique:
      Drugi fat ka vami hočam povidat je do jenga čeljada ka sa zovaša Bonifač.
      Another story that I want to tell you is about a person who was called Bonifacio.
    • 2010, Natalina Spadanuda, Le renard et le loup:
      È, lisice su semaj furb, kana na tuna fata!
      Ha, foxes are always clever, like in all the stories!

From Old Norse fat, from Proto-Germanic *fatą, from Proto-Indo-European *pod-.

fat n

  1. saucer; a small dish
  2. plate, platter (for serving food rather than eating from)
  3. barrel (oil or wine), cask, keg (beer)
  4. barrel; a unit of volume, usually referring to the oil barrel of 158.9873 liters

fat

  1. sick

fat

  1. to ferment
  2. to become

From Proto-Philippine *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fat

  1. four

From German Vater or English father.

fat (genitive fata, plural fats)

  1. father
    • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: VI:
      Fat olsik sevom utosi, kelosi neodols, büä plekols ome.
      Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.
    • 1932, Arie de Jong, Leerboek der Wereldtaal, page 13:
      Fat obik ed olikan binoms flens.
      My father and yours are friends.

fat

  1. to shelter

Omar Ka (2018), Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, →ISBN, page 19

From Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *əpat, from Proto-Austronesian *Səpat.

fat

  1. four

From Chinese 發 (OC *pad).

fat (Sawndip forms 𭡚 or 抾 or 𱍞, 1957–1982 spelling **fat)

  1. to distribute; to issue; to pay out
    fat gungcienz
    to pay out wages
  2. to develop; to grow
    Gij haeux neix fat ndaej vaiq.
    These seedlings grow quickly.