vaat

From Middle Dutch vate, the plural of vat (“pot, jar, barrel”) (modern vat).

• IPA^(key): /vaːt/

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• Hyphenation: vaat
• Rhymes: -aːt

vaat f (uncountable)

1. (dirty) dishes, washing-up

• afwas

• vaatdoek
• vaatwasser

vaat (neuter vaatt, definite singular and plural vaate)

1. obsolete typography of våt

From Ottoman Turkish وعد‎ (va'd), Arabic وَعْد‎ (waʕd).

• IPA^(key): /va.atʲ/, /vaːtʲ/

vaat (definite accusative vaadi, plural vaatler)

1. promise

• vaate

From Middle English vaat, from Old English fæt, from Proto-West Germanic *fat.

vaat

1. vat, dish, noggin or small vessel.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 74