staart

• IPA^(key): /staːrt/

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• Hyphenation: staart
• Rhymes: -aːrt

From Middle Dutch stert, stāert, from Old Dutch *stert, from Proto-Germanic *stertaz.

staart m (plural staarten, diminutive staartje n)

1. A tail on an animal.
2. An object dangling like an animal's tail.
3. A tailpiece, part at the end of something.
4. (uncountable) The last part or section of a sequence, the end.
5. A pigtail, string of hair.

- plant - & animal species

• Afrikaans: stert
• Negerhollands: steert

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

staart

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of staren
2. (archaic) plural imperative of staren

• straat