вата

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вата • (vata)

1. (obsolete) father-in-law (wife's father)

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• Heikki Paasonen, Kaino Heikkilä, Martti Kahla (1990-1996) “vata”, in H. Paasonens Mordwinisches Wörterbuch [Heikki Paasonen's Dialect Dictionary of the Mordvinian Languages]‎, Helsinki: Suomalais-ugrilainen seura, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): [ˈvata]

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вата • (vata) f

1. cotton wool

Akin to Even ота (ota).

вата (vata)

1. wave

Borrowed from German Watte or French ouate.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvatə]

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ва́та • (váta) f inan (genitive ва́ты, nominative plural ва́ты, genitive plural ват, relational adjective ва́тный, diminutive ва́тка)

1. absorbent cotton, cotton wool, wadding, batting

   на ва́те ― na váte ― wadded, padded

   пальто́ на ва́те ― palʹtó na váte ― wadded coat

2. (cloth) drugstore cotton
3. glass wool
4. (slang, derogatory, collective, politics) Russian nationalists (compare ватник)

• ватин (vatin)
• ва́тник (vátnik)
• вышива́та (vyšiváta)
• са́харная ва́та (sáxarnaja váta)

• → Kildin Sami: ва̄та (vāta)
• → Yakut: баата (baata)

• бязь (bjazʹ)
• во́льта (vólʹta)
• сати́н (satín)
• си́тец (sítec)
• хлопок (xlopok)
• хлопчатобумажная ткань (xlopčatobumažnaja tkanʹ)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “вата”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress

Borrowed from German Watte, from Dutch watten, from French ouate, of unknown origin.

• IPA^(key): /ʋâta/

ва̏та f (Latin spelling vȁta)

1. cotton wool

• IPA^(key): [ˈʋatɐ]

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ва́та • (váta) f inan (genitive ва́ти, nominative plural ва́ти, genitive plural ват)

1. absorbent cotton, cotton wool, wadding

• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “вата”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka