anta

From Latin antae (“pilasters”)

The walls within red rectangles are antae.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæn.tə/

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anta (plural antae or antas)

1. (architecture) A kind of pier that terminates the walls of the naos, a kind of post or pillar on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple.

• in antis

• “anta”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• AANT, Anat, Nata, Tana, anat., naat, taan, tana

• ante

Probably from Latin antae (“jamb”); alternatively from a substrate Indo-European language[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈanta̝/

anta m (plural antas)

1. dolmen, menhir, megalith; landmark

   Synonyms: arca, forno

2. large vertical stone used in the construction of drystone walls

   Synonym: chanto

• Anta
• Antas
• Antas de Ulla
• Antela
• Antelo

• “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “anta” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “anta” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “anta” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “anta” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ʔán.tàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔán.tàː]

antā̀ f (possessed form antàr̃)

1. Alternative spelling of hanta

• IPA^(key): /ˈanta/
• Hyphenation: an‧ta

From Sanskrit अन्त (antá, “disposition, essence”).

anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)

1. (archaic) character, nature.

   Synonyms: sifat, tabiat

Borrowed from Arabic أَنْتَ (ʔanta, “you”).

anta

1. (informal) Second-person singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Indonesian informal second-person pronouns:

• anta (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• antum (informal, mainly used by Muslim community)
• coen (slang, East Java)
• ente (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• kamu (intimate)
• ko, kowe (informal, Java)
• kon, koen (colloquial, East Java)
• lu, lo, loe, elu (informal, mainly used by Betawi ethnic group)
• mika, mike (informal, Eastern Sumatra)

From Belitung Malay [Term?].

anta (first-person possessive antaku, second-person possessive antamu, third-person possessive antanya)

1. rice dirt.

• “anta” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ta/
• Rhymes: -anta
• Hyphenation: àn‧ta

From Latin antae f pl.

anta f (plural ante)

1. door (of furniture)
2. shutter (of window)
3. sash (of window)
4. panel

• sportello
• pannello

From the suffix -anta common to quaranta (“forty”), cinquanta (“fifty”), sessanta (“sixty”), settanta (“seventy”), ottanta (“eighty”), and novanta (“ninety”).

anta m pl (plural only)

1. (informal) forties, fifties, sixties, ... (in someone's age)

• Tana, nata, tana

anta

1. Rōmaji transcription of あんた

From Proto-Finnic *antadak. Cognates include Finnish antaa and Veps antta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑntɑ/
• Rhymes: -ɑntɑ
• Hyphenation: an‧ta

anta

1. (transitive) to give
2. (auxiliary) to allow

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• Juho Kujola (1944) Lyydiläismurteiden sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 10
• M. Pahomov (2022) “anta”, in Lüüdi-venän, venä-lüüdin sanakirdʹ‎, Helsinki: Lüüdilaine Siebr, →ISBN, page 16

an- +‎ ta; from Danish antage. Calque of German annehmen.

anta (imperative anta, present tense antar, passive antas, simple past antok, past participle antatt, present participle antakende)

1. to assume, presume
2. to accept, approve

• antagelig, antakelig
• antagelse, antakelse

• “anta” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Inherited from Sanskrit अन्त (anta).

anta m or n[1]

1. end
2. goal
3. top

• kāranta (“final sound of word”)

anta n

1. intestine, tharm

• Khmer: អន្តៈ (ʼɑntaʼ)

Borrowed from Latin antae.

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ta/

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• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: an‧ta

anta f

1. (architecture, Ancient Greece) anta

• anta in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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• Homophone: Anta
• Rhymes: -ɐ̃tɐ
• Hyphenation: an‧ta

anta

From Old Galician-Portuguese anta, borrowed from Latin antās pl.

anta f (plural antas)

1. (architecture) anta
2. (archaeology) dolmen (prehistoric megalithic tomb)

   Synonym: dólmen

From Arabic لَمْتَة (lamta).

anta f (plural antas)

1. tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae)

   Synonym: tapir

anta m or f by sense (plural antas)

1. (Brazil, figuratively) a stupid person

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:idiota

   Você é uma anta!

   You are an idiot!

From ante.

• IPA^(key): /ˈanta/ [ˈãn̪.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -anta
• Syllabification: an‧ta

anta f (plural antas)

1. female equivalent of ante; moose, elk
2. (Bolivia) tapir (large odd-toed ungulate with a long prehensile upper lip of the family Tapiridae.)

   Synonyms: tapir, anteburro, sachavaca, danta, ante

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

Apocopic form of antaga, calqued from Middle Low German annemen or German annehmen. All compounds with the verb ta have gone through apocope and those forms are now the standard ones, see also avta/avtaga, inta/intaga and överta/övertaga. Cognate with Danish antage, Norwegian Bokmål anta, Norwegian Nynorsk anta, antake, antaka. Morphologically the same as native Swedish åta (åtaga) and English ontake.

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anta (present antar, preterite antog, supine antagit, imperative anta)

1. to assume, to suppose

   Anta att X är tre. Då är noll gånger X lika med noll.

   Assume that X is three. Then zero times X equals zero.

   Om vi antar att han är skyldig så kommer det bli jäkligt svårt att få honom fälld

   If we assume he's guilty, it will be damn hard to get him convicted

2. to guess, to suppose

   Det kommer rök ur kaffebryggaren, så jag antar att det är dags att köpa en ny

   There's smoke coming out of the coffee maker, so I guess it's time to buy a new one

3. to accept an offer

   Schackspelaren antog erbjudandet om remi efter att ha funderat på det

   The chess player accepted the offer of a draw after having thought about it

4. (especially in the past participle) to accept (to a school, etc.)

   Jag har blivit antagen till Harvard!

   I've been accepted to Harvard!

• antagning
• antagande

• anta in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• anta in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• anta in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• anta in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

• anat, anat.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔanˈta/ [ʔɐnˈta], /ˈʔanta/ [ˈʔan.tɐ]
• Rhymes: -a, -anta
• Syllabification: an‧ta

antá or anta (Baybayin spelling ᜀᜈ᜔ᜆ)

1. rancidity; rancid odor

   Synonym: (Marinduque) angal

• “anta”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

From Proto-Finnic *antadak.

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈɑntɑː/, [ˈɑntɑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑntɑː
• Hyphenation: an‧ta

anta

1. to give

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn

From Japanese あんた (anta).

anta

1. you (second person singular pronoun)

• nta

• antataci

• Chien Yuehchen (2015) “The lexical system of Yilan Creole”, in New Advances in Formosan Linguistics‎, pages 513-532
• Chien Yuehchen (2018) “日本語を上層とする 宜蘭クレオールの人称代名詞”, in 日本語の研究‎, volume 14, number 4

• IPA^(key): /à.ŋ̀.tà/

àǹtà

1. savannah monitor

• awọ́nrínwọ́n
• awọ̀n
• àlégbà