tatami

tatami

See also: tàtàmǐ

English

Portion of a tatami floor in a Japanese-style inn

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (tatami).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /təˈtɑːmi/

Noun

tatami (plural tatamis or tatami)

1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
   • 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 2:

     Small tools are spread on the tatami: a razor knife, a sprue cutter, curls of emery paper.

Derived terms

• tatamied

Translations

straw matting in Japanese houses

Chinese: Mandarin: 榻榻米 (zh) (tàtàmǐ), 疊席／叠席 (diéxí) Czech: tatami (cs) f or n Esperanto: tatamo Finnish: tatami (fi) French: tatami (fr) m German: Tatami (de) f Hungarian: tatami (hu) Japanese: 畳 (ja) (たたみ, tatami), たたみ (ja) (tatami) Korean: 다다미 (ko) (dadami) Marathi: तातामि f (tātāmi) Norwegian: Bokmål: tatami m, tatamimatte m Persian: تاتامی‎ (tâtâmi) Russian: тата́ми (ru) m or n (tatámi) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: тата̀ми m Roman: tatàmi (sh) m Spanish: tatami m

Anagrams

• Tiamat

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Basque

Etymology

Ultimately from Japanese 畳 (tatami).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tatami/, [t̪a.t̪a.mi]

Noun

tatami inan

1. tatami
   • 2001 December 28, Goienkaria, number 47, page 47:

     Bigarren solairuan gimnasioa eta tatami gela jarriko dituzte.

     On the second floor, a gym and a tatami room will be installed.

Declension

Declension of tatami (inanimate, ending in vowel)
	indefinite	singular	plural
absolutive	tatami	tatamia	tatamiak
ergative	tatamik	tatamiak	tatamiek
dative	tatamiri	tatamiari	tatamiei
genitive	tatamiren	tatamiaren	tatamien
comitative	tatamirekin	tatamiarekin	tatamiekin
causative	tatamirengatik	tatamiarengatik	tatamiengatik
benefactive	tatamirentzat	tatamiarentzat	tatamientzat
instrumental	tatamiz	tatamiaz	tatamiez
inessive	tatamitan	tatamian	tatamietan
locative	tatamitako	tatamiko	tatamietako
allative	tatamitara	tatamira	tatamietara
terminative	tatamitaraino	tatamiraino	tatamietaraino
directive	tatamitarantz	tatamirantz	tatamietarantz
destinative	tatamitarako	tatamirako	tatamietarako
ablative	tatamitatik	tatamitik	tatamietatik
partitive	tatamirik	—	—
prolative	tatamitzat	—	—

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Finnish

Etymology

From Japanese 畳 (tatami).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɑtɑmi/, [ˈt̪ɑt̪ɑmi]
• Rhymes: -ɑtɑmi
• Syllabification^(key): ta‧ta‧mi

Noun

tatami

1. tatami

Declension

Inflection of tatami (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		tatami	tatamit
genitive		tatamin	tatamien
partitive		tatamia	tatameja
illative		tatamiin	tatameihin
		singular	plural
nominative		tatami	tatamit
accusative	nom.	tatami	tatamit
	gen.	tatamin
genitive		tatamin	tatamien
partitive		tatamia	tatameja
inessive		tatamissa	tatameissa
elative		tatamista	tatameista
illative		tatamiin	tatameihin
adessive		tatamilla	tatameilla
ablative		tatamilta	tatameilta
allative		tatamille	tatameille
essive		tatamina	tatameina
translative		tatamiksi	tatameiksi
instructive		—	tatamein
abessive		tatamitta	tatameitta
comitative		—	tatameineen

Possessive forms of tatami (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tatamini	tatamimme
2nd person	tatamisi	tataminne
3rd person	tataminsa

Anagrams

• Mattia, maitat, maitta, matita, mitata, mittaa

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French

Noun

tatami m (plural tatamis)

1. tatami

Further reading

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

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Japanese 畳(たたみ) (tatami, “tatami mat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [taˈtami]
• Hyphenation: ta‧ta‧mi

Noun

tatami (plural tatami-tatami, first-person possessive tatamiku, second-person possessive tatamimu, third-person possessive tataminya)

1. (sports) mattress.

   Synonym: matras

Further reading

• “tatami” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

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Japanese

Romanization

tatami

1. Rōmaji transcription of たたみ

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈta.mi/

• Audio

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• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ta‧ta‧mi

Noun

tatami m pers

1. instrumental plural of tata

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (たたみ (tatami)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈtami/ [t̪aˈt̪a.mi]
• Rhymes: -ami
• Syllabification: ta‧ta‧mi

Noun

tatami m (plural tatamis)

1. tatami

Further reading

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