• Finnish: tsätti
• German: Chat

• Finnish: keskustelu
• German: Gespräch

• ttbc Bulgarian: чат
• Guaraní: ñomongeta (1)
• ttbc Interlingua: conversation, confabulation (1); chat (2)
• ttbc French: discussion (1,3); clavardage, chat (3)
• ttbc Portuguese: conversa, bate-papo (1);
• ttbc Romanian: conversaţie , discuţie
• ttbc Spanish: charla
• Tupinambá: nhomongetá (1)

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

1. In the context of "mining|local use": Mining waste from lead and zinc mines.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 441:

     Frank had been looking at calcite crystals for a while now [...] among the chats or zinc tailings of the Lake County mines, down here in the silver lodes of the Vita Madre and so forth.

Translations

Cantonese

Number

chat

1. seven. → 七

French

Etymology

Late Latin cattus.

Pronunciation

• /ʃa/

Noun

fr-noun m

1. (male) cat, tom, tomcat
2. tag, tig (children's game)

Related terms

• cataire, chataire
• chat-huant
• chatière
• chaton
• chatonner
• chatte
• chattemite
• chatterie
• chat-tigre
• haret
• matou
• minet
• minou
• mistigri

See also

• chat échaudé craint l'eau froide
• quant le chat n'est pas là les souris dansent

Irish

Pronunciation

• lang=ga|[xat̪ˠ]

Noun

1. mutation of cat

Chat may refer to:

Conversation

• Casual conversation.
• Online chat (synchronous conferencing) in an internet chat room or instant messaging system
• Bluechat and Wifichat.
• SMS chat.

Other uses

• Chat (ppp), an automated conversational script with a modem.
• CHAT, an abbreviation of: Choosing Healthplans All Together, the name given to a simulation exercise in which players decide which benefit types they would like to include in their health insurance package, and what level of service ) they prioritize.
• ChAT, choline acetyltransferase; an enzyme that synthesises acetylcholine
• Chat, a kind of bird
• Chat, the waste rocks produced in mining
• The French word for Cat
• Le Chat, a Belgian comic strip
• Khat, a narcotic plant
• Chatgroups Groups Community
• Chats, the way British soldiers referred to delousing in WW1
• Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, a Jewish secondary school in Toronto
• Chat, slang for something bad or used when something bad happens
• Chat, an alternative spelling of the Indian and Pakistani snack food chaat
• CHAT, an abbreviation of: Checklist for Autisim in Toddlers, which is a medical test
• CHAT, "chatting" in the WWI context meant searching for lice infestations while resting in trenches.
• Chat, Kyrgyzstan, a village in Kyrgyzstan

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