chat

chat

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃæt/
  • Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

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

Verb

chat (third-person singular simple present chats, present participle chatting, simple past and past participle chatted)

  1. To be engaged in informal conversation.
  2. To talk more than a few words.
  3. (transitive) To talk of; to discuss.
  4. (informal, slang, often as chatting) To chat shit (to speak nonsense, to lie).
    Don't listen to me, I'm chatting.
  5. To exchange text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, as if having a face-to-face conversation.
    1. (by extension, Philippines) To send a text message via Facebook Messenger instead of via SMS.
Derived terms
Translations

Noun

chat (countable and uncountable, plural chats)

  1. (countable, uncountable) Informal conversation.
  2. (countable, uncountable) An exchange of text or voice messages in real time through a computer network, resembling a face-to-face conversation.
    Internet Relay Chat
  3. (Internet, uncountable, with or without "the") A chat room, especially (in later use) one accompanying a videoconference or live stream.
    1. (metonymically, originally video games) The entirety of users, viewed collectively, in a chat room, especially the chat room accompanying a live stream.
    2. (by extension, nonstandard, humorous) Familiar term of address for users on social media other than a chat room, as in "guys."
  4. (countable) Any of various small Old World passerine birds in the muscicapid tribe Saxicolini or subfamily Saxicolinae that feed on insects.
  5. (countable) Any of several small Australian honeyeaters in the genus Epthianura.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Compare chit (“small piece of paper”), and chad.

Noun

chat

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

References

Etymology 3

Unknown.

Noun

chat (plural chats)

  1. (mining, local use) Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
Translations

Etymology 4

From thieves' cant.

Alternative forms

  • chatt

Noun

chat (plural chats)

  1. (British, Australia, New Zealand, 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.'

Etymology 5

Noun

chat (plural chats)

  1. Alternative form of chaat

Anagrams

  • ACTH, Cath, cath, cath., tach

Antillean Creole

Etymology

From French chat.

Noun

chat

  1. cat

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃɛt/
  • Hyphenation: chat
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English chat.

Noun

chat m (plural chats, diminutive chatje n)

  1. chat (online conversation)
  2. chat (online conversation platform)
Derived terms
  • chatgesprek
  • chatten

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

chat

  1. inflection of chatten:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

Anagrams

  • acht

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

  • chàt (ORB, narrow)

Etymology

Inherited from Late Latin cattus.

Noun

chat m (plural chats) (ORB, broad)

  1. male cat
    Coordinate term: chata f

References

  • chat in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • chat in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃa/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Homophone: chats

Noun

chat m (plural chats, feminine chatte)

  1. cat (feline)
  2. (male) cat, tom, tomcat
  3. tag, tig (children’s game)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • cataire
Descendants
  • Louisiana Creole: sha

See also

  • haret
  • matou
  • minet
  • minou
  • mistigri

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tʃat/

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

  1. (Internet) chat (online discussion)
    Synonym: tchat
Derived terms
  • chatter
  • chater
  • chatteur
  • chateur

Further reading

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

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French chat, chatte.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃat/

Noun

chat

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

Derived terms

  • chat boure
  • chat kay
  • chat mawon

Hokkien

Iban

Etymology

From Hokkien 漆 (chhat).

Noun

chat

  1. paint (substance)

Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xat̪ˠ/

Noun

chat m

  1. Lenited form of cat.

Italian

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Hyphenation: chàt

Noun

chat f (invariable)

  1. chat (informal conversation via computer)
Derived terms
  • chattare
See also
  • chiacchierata

Etymology 2

From Somali [Term?].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Hyphenation: chàt

Noun

chat m (invariable)

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

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

Derived from English chat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃat/

Verb

chat

  1. to talk about, to discuss
    Synonym: taak

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

  • French: chat

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

  • chatt

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡ʃætː/

Noun

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

  1. (Internet) a chat

References

  • “chat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Alternative forms

  • cat, kat (Picardy, Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃat/, (northern) /ˈkat/

Noun

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

  1. cat (animal)

Related terms

  • chate

Descendants

  • Bourguignon: chait
  • Champenois: chait (Troyen), tait (Rémois)
  • Franc-Comtois: tchait
  • Middle French: chat
    • French: chat
  • Lorrain: tchat
  • Norman: cat
  • Picard: cat
  • Poitevin-Saintongeais: chat
  • Walloon: tchet

Polish

Etymology 1

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʂat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: chat
  • Homophones: czad, Czad, czat

Noun

chat m inan (related adjective chatowy)

  1. (Internet) Alternative spelling of czat
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxat/
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: chat

Noun

chat f

  1. genitive plural of chata

Further reading

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

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

Pronunciation

Noun

chat m (plural chats)

  1. (Internet) chat room
    Synonym: (chiefly Brazil) bate-papo

Further reading

  • “chat”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

Noun

chat n (uncountable)

  1. chat (online)

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English chat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃat/ [ˈt͡ʃat̪]
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: chat

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 [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃat/ [ˈt͡ʃat̪̚]
    • IPA(key): (no yod coalescence) /ˈtsat/ [ˈt͡sat̪̚]
  • Rhymes: -at
  • Syllabification: chat

Noun

chat (Baybayin spelling ᜆ᜔ᜐᜆ᜔) (Internet)

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

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • “chat”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
  • “chat”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English chat.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /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

Declension

Derived terms

  • chatleşmek

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