tatami
See also: tàtàmǐ
English
    

Portion of a tatami floor in a Japanese-style inn
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /təˈtɑːmi/
Noun
    
tatami (plural tatamis or tatami)
- Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
- 1964, John Berryman, chapter 31, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 35:- Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts,
 
- 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
    
Translations
    
straw matting in Japanese houses
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Anagrams
    
Basque
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /tatami/ [t̪a.t̪a.mi]
- Rhymes: -ami
- Hyphenation: ta‧ta‧mi
Noun
    
tatami inan
- 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 | — | — | 
Finnish
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /ˈtɑtɑmi/, [ˈt̪ɑ̝t̪ɑ̝mi]
- Rhymes: -ɑtɑmi
- Syllabification(key): ta‧ta‧mi
Declension
    
| Inflection of tatami (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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| 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 | ||
| abessive | tatamitta | tatameitta | ||
| instructive | — | tatamein | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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Further reading
    
- “tatami”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
    
    
Further reading
    
- “tatami”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Indonesian
    
    
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)
Further reading
    
- “tatami” 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.
Polish
    
    Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /taˈta.mi/
- Audio - (file) 
- Rhymes: -ami
- Syllabification: ta‧ta‧mi
Spanish
    
    
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): /taˈtami/ [t̪aˈt̪a.mi]
- Rhymes: -ami
- Syllabification: ta‧ta‧mi
Further reading
    
- “tatami”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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