tal

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tal"

Languages (34)

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Amal

Noun

tal

1. woman

References

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan tal, from Latin tālis. Compare Occitan tal, French tel, Spanish tal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtal]

Adjective

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tals)

1. such (like this, that)

   Synonym: semblant

Alternative forms

• aital (obsolete)

Derived terms

• com a tal
• i tal
• tal com
• tal dit tal fet
• tal faràs, tal trobaràs
• tal i tal
• tal qual
• talment

 

Adverb

tal

1. like that, in that way

Derived terms

• per tal de
• per tal que
• tal com

Pronoun

tal

1. anything, whatever

References

• “tal” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tal”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tal” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tal” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Cimbrian

Noun

tal n

1. valley

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Coatepec Nahuatl

Pronoun

tal

1. you

Crimean Tatar

Noun

tal

1. willow

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą (“number”), cognate with Norwegian Bokmål tall, Swedish tal, Dutch tal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tal/, [ˈtˢal]

Noun

tal n (singular definite tallet, plural indefinite tal)

1. number
2. figure
3. digit
4. numeral
5. (after a multiple of 100) Denoting a century.

   Han levede i 1800-tallet.

   He lived in the 19th century.

Declension

Declension of tal

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tal	tallet	tal	tallene
genitive	tals	tallets	tals	tallenes

References

• “tal” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːˀl/, [ˈtˢæˀl]

Verb

tal

1. imperative of tale

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tal, from Old Dutch *tal, from Proto-West Germanic *tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑl

Determiner

tal

1. (~ van) numerous, many, lots

   Je hebt tal van mogelijkheden - You have lots of possibilities

Noun

tal n (plural tallen)

1. a number
2. a quantity

Usage notes

Tal is almost never used to say 'number', getal and nummer are used instead.

Derived terms

• aantal
• jaartal
• overtal
• talloos
• talrijk
• tiental
• tweetal
• viertal

Anagrams

• alt, lat

Eastern Durango Nahuatl

Noun

tal

1. land

Epigraphic Mayan

Verb

tal

1. to come

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰɛaːl/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːl

Noun

tal n (genitive singular tals, plural tøl)

1. number
2. (grammar) number

Declension

n5	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tal	talið	tøl	tølini
accusative	tal	talið	tøl	tølini
dative	tali	talinum	tølum	tølunum
genitive	tals	talsins	tala	talanna

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tal, from Latin talis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈtal]

Pronoun

tal

1. such

   Nunca tal vin ― I've never seen such [a thing]

Derived terms

• talmente

Adjective

tal m or f (plural tales)

1. such

   Nunca tal cousa vin ― I've never seen such a thing

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “tal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “tal”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “tal”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “tal”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “tal”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Highland Puebla Nahuatl

Noun

tal

1. land

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰaːl/
• Rhymes: -aːl

Noun

tal n (genitive singular tals, nominative plural töl)

1. speech, talk, the act of talking
2. a conversation
3. count, number

   Mennirnir voru hundrað talsins.

   The men were a hundred all told.

Declension

Declension of tal (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tal	talið	töl	tölin
accusative	tal	talið	töl	tölin
dative	tali	talinu	tölum	tölunum
genitive	tals	talsins	tala	talanna

See also

• búktal
• vita ekki aura sinna tal (“to wallow in money”)
• taka engu tali (“to be beyond description”)
• berast í tal (“to crop up in a conversation, to be mentioned”)
• færa í tal (“to bring something up”)
• ná tali af (“to get to talk to something”)
• vera á tali (“of a phone; to be engaged, to be busy”)
• viðtal
• talsetja
• talsetning

Italian

Determiner

tal (apocopated)

1. Apocopic form of tale

Maltese

Root
t-w-l
9 terms

Etymology

From Arabic طَالَ (ṭāla).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtaːl/

Verb

tal (imperfect jtul, past participle mitul, verbal noun tul)

1. to become long, to become prolonged, to last

   Synonym: dam

Conjugation

Conjugation of tal

		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
perfect	m	talt	talt	tal		talna	taltu	talu
	f			talet
imperfect	m	ntul	ttul	jtul		ntulu	ttulu	jtulu
	f			ttul
imperative			tul				tulu

Mangas

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tāl/

Noun

tal

1. sun

References

• Blench, Robert; Bulkaam, Michael (2021) An Introduction to Mantsi, a South Bauchi language of Central Nigeria. University of Cambridge.

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

tal

1. sour

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Verb

tal

1. imperative of tale

Etymology 2

Noun

tal n (definite singular talet, indefinite plural tal, definite plural tala or talene)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2005; superseded by tall

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tʰɐ̞ːl], [tʰɐ̞ːɽ]

Noun

tal n (definite singular talet, indefinite plural tal, definite plural tala)

1. number, numeral

Derived terms

• dødstal
• folketal
• romartal
• talrik

See also

• tall (Bokmål)

References

• “tal” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *tālu, from Proto-Germanic *tēlō (“deception, deceit, persecution”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“to take aim, calculate, damage, count”). Cognate with Latin dolus (“deception, strategem, trap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑːl/

Noun

tāl f

1. evil-speaking, calumny, disparagement, slander
2. (religious) blasphemy
3. reproach
4. scorn, derision, mocking

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	tāl	tāla, tāle
accusative	tāle	tāla, tāle
genitive	tāle	tāla
dative	tāle	tālum

Derived terms

• tǣlan

Related terms

• tǣl
• *tǣle
• tǣlnes

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *dalą, whence also Old English dæl, Old Norse dalr.

Noun

tal n or m

1. valley

Descendants

• Middle High German: tal
  • Alemannic German: Tall
  • German: Tal
  • Hunsrik: Daal
  • Luxembourgish: Dall
  • Mòcheno: tol
  • Pennsylvania German: Daal
  • Yiddish: טאָל (tol)

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *talą (“number, speech”). Cognate with Old English tæl, Old Saxon gital.

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑl/

Noun

tal n (genitive tals, plural tǫl)

1. a talk, parley, conversation
   • Ólafs saga Helga 87, in 1830, Þ. Guðmundsson, C. C. Rafn, Þ. Helgason, Fornmanna sögur, Volume IV. Copenhagen, page 196:

     […] kom hún enn til konúngs, ok sátu þau jarl öll samt á tali, […]

     […] but she came to the king, and yet sat all the jarls in talks, […]

2. speech, language
   • Stjórn 61, in 1862, C. R. Unger, Stjórn: gammelnorsk Bibelhistorie: fra Verdens Skabelse til det babyloniske Fangenskab. Christiania, page 204:

     Sneri hann þa nafni Josephs ok kalladi hann heimsins hialpara upp aa Egiptalandz tal ok tungu.

     He turned then, speaking Joseph's name and calling him home for help in speech and tongue of Egyptian lands.

3. a tale, number, enumeration
   • Barlaams Saga 137, in 1851, R. Keyser, C. R. Unger, Barlaams ok Josaphats saga. Christiania, page 133:

     Hon er oc i tale með oðrum himintunglum, […]

     She is in that number with other heavenly bodies, […]

4. (especially in compounds) a tale, list, series
   • Gulaþings-lög 301, in 1846, E. Hertzberg, Norges gamle love indtil 1387, Volume I. Christiania, page 99:

     […] þa ſkolo fara a þing oc bioða ſic i tal með oðrom monnom.

     […] then shall go to the Thing and enter the lists with other men.

Declension

  Declension of tal (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tal	talit	tǫl	tǫlin
accusative	tal	talit	tǫl	tǫlin
dative	tali	talinu	tǫlum	tǫlunum
genitive	tals	talsins	tala	talanna

Derived terms

Terms derived from tal

• talandi (“elocution”)
• talhlýðinn (“credulous”)
• talvíss (“wise in numbers”)
• talsverðr (“worth counting, considerable”)

Related terms

• tala (“talk, speech”)
• tala (“to talk, speak”)
• tali (“teller, counter”)

Descendants

• Danish: tal n
• Elfdalian: tal n
• Faroese: tal n
• Icelandic: tal n
• Norwegian Bokmål: tall n
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tal n
• Swedish: tal n (Old Swedish tal)

References

• “tal”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tal in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• tal in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Pipil

Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl tlālli (“land”)

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /ˈtaːl/
• (Izalco) IPA^(key): /ˈtal/
• (Jicalapa) IPA^(key): /ˈtaɬʲ/

Noun

tāl (plural tālmet or tajtāl)

1. land, ground

   Tiktukat ne shupanmil keman ne tal waktuk

   For the rainy season, we plant the corn when the ground has dried up

2. earth, dirt, soil

   Tikwiwitat iwan tal pal tiktukat ka senkak

   We uproot it keeping some soil (on the roots) to plant it somewhere else

3. terrain, field, region, country

   Ashan ne Nawat semaya munutza tik ini tal

   Now Nawat (Pipil) is only spoken in this country

Pochutec

Etymology

Compare Classical Nahuatl tlālli (“land”).

Noun

tal

1. land

Polish

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtal/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tal

Noun

tal m inan

1. thallium (chemical element, Tl, atomic number 81)

Declension

Declension of tal

	singular
nominative	tal
genitive	talu
dative	talowi
accusative	tal
instrumental	talem
locative	talu
vocative	talu

Further reading

• tal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese tal, from Latin tālis, from Proto-Indo-European *tód (“demonstrative pronoun”). Displaced collateral form atal.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈtaw/ [ˈtaʊ̯]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtal/ [ˈtaɫ]

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈtal/ [ˈtaɫ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈta.li/

• Homophone: tau (Brazil)
• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: tal

Determiner

tal m or f (plural tais)

1. such

Derived terms

• e tal
• que tal

Noun

tal m or f by sense (plural tais)

1. one

   Percebi que ele era o tal. ― I realised he was the one.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:tal.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French thalle.

Noun

tal n (plural taluri)

1. thallus

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tal	talul		taluri	talurile
genitive-dative	tal	talului		taluri	talurilor
vocative	talule			talurilor

Spanish

Alternative forms

• atal (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin tālis. Compare French tel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtal/ [ˈt̪al]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: tal

Adjective

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tales)

1. such

   No hay tal cosa como los monstruos.

   There's no such thing as monsters.

Pronoun

tal m or f (masculine and feminine plural tales)

1. such

   Es la jefa, y es importante que la trates como tal.

   She's the boss, and it's important that you treat her as such.

Derived terms

• a tal punto que
• como si tal cosa
• como tal
• con tal de
• con tal que
• hasta tal punto que
• no haber tal
• otro de tal
• qué tal
• tal como
• tal cual vez
• tal día como hoy
• tal o cual
• tal para cual
• tal por cual
• tal vez
• tal y como
• talmente
• voto a tal
• y tal

 

Further reading

• “tal”, 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
• “tal” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish tal, from Old Norse tal, from Proto-Germanic *talą.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Noun

tal n

1. (mathematics) number

   Hyponyms: naturligt tal, heltal, rationellt tal, reellt tal, komplext tal, hyperkomplext tal, superreellt tal, bråktal, blandat tal, kardinaltal, defekt tal, perfekt tal, primtal, sammansatt tal, vänskapliga tal, ymnigt tal, algebraiskt tal, transcendent tal

   reellt tal

   real number

2. (school) An exercise involving calculations given to the pupil, especially at lower levels.

   Hur många tal fick ni i matteläxa idag?

   How many math exercises did you have as homework today?

3. speech; the ability to use vocalizations to communicate
4. speech; a long oral message given publicly
5. (as a suffix) around (for round numbers)

   ett 30-tal demonstranter

   around 30 protesters

6. (as a suffix, in the definite "talet") the specified decade, century, or (rarely) millennium

   åttiotalet / 80-talet

   the eighties

   nollnolltalet / 00-talet

   the 00s

   1890-talet

   the 1890s

   det sena 60-talet

   the late sixties

   artonhunradratalet / 1800-talet

   the nineteenth century

Declension

Declension of tal

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	tal	tals
	definite	talet	talets
plural	indefinite	tal	tals
	definite	talen	talens

Derived terms

• avtal
• brandtal
• flyttal
• komma på tal
• komma till tals
• medeltal
• otal
• talande (tungomålstalande)
• talare
• talför
• talförmåga
• tungotal
• vara tal om

 

Related terms

• tala
• tälja

See also

• -årsåldern
• tvåtusental

References

• tal in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tal in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tal in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• lat, lat.

Tatar

Noun

tal

1. willow

Tzotzil

Pronunciation

• (Zinacantán) IPA^(key): /tʰäl/

Verb

tal

1. (intransitive) to come

   ¿Bu likemot tal?

   Where do you come from?

   (literally, “Where have you come?”)

Synonyms

• (Zinacantán) yul

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• talel

References

• Laughlin, Robert M. (1975) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of San Lorenzo Zinacantán. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.
• Laughlin, Robert M. [et al.] (1988) The Great Tzotzil Dictionary of Santo Domingo Zinacantán, vol. I. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Welsh

Etymology 1

Early modern borrowing of English tall

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tal/

Adjective

tal (feminine singular tal, plural talion, equative taled, comparative talach, superlative talaf)

1. tall

Antonyms

• byr

Derived terms

• taldra

Etymology 2

Proto-Celtic *talos, from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂- (“ground, bottom”). Compare Irish talamh, Latin tellūs, Sanskrit तल (tala).

Alternative forms

• tâl

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːl/

Noun

tal m (plural talau or taloedd)

1. end, edge
2. forehead, brow, eyebrow

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taːl/

Noun

tal m (plural taliadau)

1. Alternative spelling of tâl (“pay, payment”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of tal

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tal	dal	nhal	thal

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

West Frisian

Etymology

Probably ultimately related to taal (“language”), which see. Cognate with Dutch tal, English tale, German Zahl.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɔl/

Noun

tal n (plural tallen)

1. number, amount

   Synonym: oantal

2. (grammar) grammatical number

Derived terms

• iental
• meartal

Further reading

• “tal”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yucatec Maya

Verb

tal (intransitive)

1. Obsolete spelling of taal.