grat

See also: Grat, GRAT, grât, grät, and gråt

English

Etymology

Shortening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹæt/

• Audio (Australia):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -æt

Noun

grat (plural grats)

1. (slang) A gratuity or tip.

Related terms

• autograt

Anagrams

• Targ, gart

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin grātus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈɡɾat]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

Adjective

grat (feminine grata, masculine plural grats, feminine plural grates)

1. (of a sensation) nice, pleasant

Derived terms

• gratament
• malgrat

Noun

grat m (plural grats)

1. taste, preference

   Synonym: gust

   no és del meu grat ― it's not to my taste

Further reading

• “grat”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “grat”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “grat” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “grat”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡrat/

Verb

grat

1. supine of graś

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• gråt (Goesharde)
• grot (Halligen)
• groot (Heligoland)
• grut (Mooring)
• gurt (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian grāt, from Proto-West Germanic *graut, from Proto-Germanic *grautaz (“big, large”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to rub; to stroke; to grind; to remove”). Cognates include West Frisian grut.

Adjective

grat (comparative grater, superlative gratst) (Föhr-Amrum)

1. big, great, large.
2. tall

   Hü grat beest?

   How tall are you?

Inflection

Inflection of grat (Föhr-Amrum dialect)

	masculine		feminine / neuter	plural
	indefinite	definite
positive
predicative / adverbial	grat
attributive	graten	grat		grat
independent				graten
partitive	grats			—
comparative
predicative / adverbial	grater
attributive	grateren	grater		grater
independent				grateren
partitive	graters			—
superlative
predicative / adverbial	am gratsten
attributive	—	gratst		gratst
independent				gratsten

Polish

Alternative forms

• grot (Zagórze)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle High German geræte (“equipment”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡrat/

• (Lesser Poland):
  • (Przemyśl) IPA^(key): [ˈɡrat]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -at
• Syllabification: grat
• Homophones: grad, Grad

Noun

grat m animal

1. (informal, derogatory) piece of junk; useless or broken item

   Synonyms: rupieć, złom

2. (informal, derogatory) clunker, decrepit car

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:gruchot

3. (colloquial or dialectal, Przemyśl, usually in the plural) gear, equipment

   Synonyms: sprzęt, manele

Declension

Declension of grat

	singular	plural
nominative	grat	graty
genitive	grata	gratów
dative	gratowi	gratom
accusative	grat, grata	graty
instrumental	gratem	gratami
locative	gracie	gratach
vocative	gracie	graty

Further reading

• “grat”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “grat”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)
• Aleksander Saloni (1908), “grat”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne‎^[3] (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 334

Scots

Verb

grat

1. simple past tense of greet

Sundanese

Etymology

From Dutch graad. Displaced by darajat.

Noun

grat (Sundanese spelling ᮌᮢᮒ᮪)

1. (obsolete) degree
   • 1930, “Elmoe Palak”, in Volksalmanak Soenda XII, Bale Poestaka, Panonpoë, Boelan, djeung Bentang, page 363:

     Tah saoepama kitoe, teu kalawan dibedjaan koe batoer oge, oedjoeg-oedjoeg njaho bae, jen bentang-bentang teh oenggal heuleut 24 djam, sok ngeser sagrat (1°) ka koelon.

     [Tah saupama kitu, teu kalawan dibéjaan ku batur ogé, ujug-ujug nyaho baé, yén béntang-béntang téh unggal heuleut 24 jam, sok ngésér sagrat (1°) ka kulon.]

     So, without being told by anyone else, you would realize that for every 24 hours, the stars will shift one degree (1°) to the west.