tent

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English

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tent

Wikipedia

A tent (pavilion)

Pronunciation

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enPR: tĕnt, IPA ^(key): /tɛnt/
- (pin–pen merger ) IPA ^(key): /tɪnt/
  - Homophone: tint
Audio (US ): (file)
Audio (US , Inland Northern American ): (file)
Rhymes: -ɛnt
Homophone: tint (pin–pen merger )

Etymology 1

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From Middle English tente , borrowed from Old French tente , from Vulgar Latin *tenta ("tent"), from the feminine of Latin tentus , ptp. of tendere ("to stretch, extend"), or contracted from *tendita as an alternate past participle. Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt ("tent, tilt"), from Old English teld ("tent"). Compare Spanish tienda ("store, shop; tent").

Noun

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tent (plural tents )

A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.
We were camping in a three-man tent.

We bought a new tent that can be put up in five seconds, but it took about twenty minutes to take it down and pack it away.
(archaic ) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
(Scotland ) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
- 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
  A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.
A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.
- 2013, Nathan Lapointe, A Strange New World:
  [...] feeling his erection making a tent in his pants.

portable lodge

Ahtna: balatgaʼ
Albanian: çadër (sq) m
Ao:
- Chungli Ao: süki
Arabic: خَيْمَة (ar) f (ḵayma)
Egyptian Arabic: خيمة f (ḵēma)

Hijazi Arabic: خيمة f (ḵēma)
Armenian: վրան (hy) (vran)
Assamese: তম্বু (tombu), তামীঘৰা (tamighora), ডেৰা (dera), ৰভা (robha), চায়না (sayona)
Avar: чадир (čadir)
Azerbaijani: çadır (az) , alaçıq (az)
Bashkir: сатыр (satır)
Basque: karpan
Belarusian: пала́тка f (palátka), шацёр m (šacjór), намёт m (namjót)
Bengali: তাম্বু (bn) (tambu), তাঁবু (bn) (tãbu)
Bulgarian: пала́тка (bg) f (palátka), ша́тра (bg) f (šátra), ша́тър (bg) m (šátăr)
Burmese: တဲ (my) (tai:)
Catalan: tenda (ca) f
Chechen: четар (četar)
Chichewa: hema
Chinese:
Mandarin: 帳篷 / 帐篷 (zh) (zhàngpéng), 帳幕 / 帐幕 (zh) (zhàngmù), 帳棚 / 帐棚 (zh) (zhàngpéng)
Chuvash: чатӑр (čat̬ăr)
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian: hema
Crimean Tatar: çadır , çalaş , şatır (northern dialect), şalaş (northern dialect)
Czech: stan (cs) m
Danish: telt (da) n
Dutch: tent (nl) m
Egyptian:

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Elfdalian: telt n
Esperanto: tendo
Estonian: telk
Faroese: tjald n
Finnish: teltta (fi)
French: tente (fr) f, (military slang, colloquial) guitoune (fr)
Friulian: tinde f
Galician: tenda (gl) f
Georgian: კარავი (ka) (ḳaravi)
German: Zelt (de) n
Greek: σκηνή (el) f (skiní)
Ancient Greek: σκηνή f (skēnḗ)

Doric Greek: σκανά f (skaná)
Greenlandic: tupeq
Hausa: laima
Hebrew: אוהל / אֹהֶל (he) m (óhel)
Hindi: ख़ैमा m (xaimā), डेरा (hi) m (ḍerā), तंबू (hi) m (tambū), शामियाना (hi) m (śāmiyānā)
Hungarian: sátor (hu)
Icelandic: tjald (is) n
Indonesian: tenda (id) , kemah (id)
Ingrian: maja
Irish: puball m
Old Irish: pupall m
Italian: tenda (it) f
Japanese: テント (ja) (tento); (archaic) 幕屋 (まくや, makuya), 天幕 (ja) (てんまく, tenmaku)
Kalmyk: нәәхн (nääxn)
Kashmiri: خٟمہٕ (khụ̄mụ), تۆمب (tomb)
Kazakh: шатыр (šatır)
Khmer: តង់ (tɑng), តង់ត្ណិ (tɑng)
Korean: 텐트 (ko) (tenteu), 천막(天幕) (ko) (cheonmak)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: چادر (ckb) (çadir)

Northern Kurdish: çadir (ku) , kon (ku) m
Kyrgyz: чатыр (ky) (catır)
Lak: чятир (čaʕtir)
Lao: ຜ້າເຕັ້ນ (phā ten), ກະໂຈມ (lo) (ka chōm), ຜາມ (phām), ຜາມຜ້າ (phām phā), ເຕັນ (ten), ຕູບຜ້າ (tūp phā)
Latin: tabernāculum n, tentōrium n
Latvian: telts f
Lingala: éma
Lithuanian: palapinė f
Luxembourgish: Zelt n
Macedonian: шатор m (šator)
Malay: khemah (ms) , tenda , ceteri
Malayalam: കൂടാരം (ml) (kūṭāraṁ)
Maltese: tinda f
Manchu: ^{(please verify)} ᠮᠠᡳᡴᠠᠨ (maikan)
Manx: booage f, bwaag f, paalan , ynragh
Māori: tēneti
Marathi: तंबू m (tambū)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: майхан (mn) (maixan)

Mongolian script: ᠮᠠᠶᠢᠬᠠᠨ (mayiqan)
Navajo: níbaal
Nepali: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: telt (no) n

Nynorsk: telt n
Occitan: tenda (oc) f
Old English: teld n
Old Norse: tjald n
Ossetian: цатыр (catyr)
Pannonian Rusyn: шатор m (šator)
Pashto: خېمه (ps) f (xema)
Persian:
Dari: خَیمَه (fa) (xayma), چَادَر (fa) (čādar), گُیَان (fa) (guyān)

Iranian Persian: خِیمِه (fa) (xeyme), چادُر (fa) (čâdor), گُیان (fa) (goyân)
Plautdietsch: Zelt f
Polish: namiot (pl) m
Portuguese: tenda (pt) f, barraca (pt) f (Brazil)
Prasuni: žima
Romanian: cort (ro) n
Romansh: tenda f
Russian: пала́тка (ru) f (palátka), шатёр (ru) m (šatjór)
Sami:
Northern Sami: goahti
Sardinian: denda f
Scottish Gaelic: pùball m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ша̏тор m

Latin: šȁtor (sh) m
Sherpa: གུར (gur)
Shor: шадыр (şadır)
Slovak: stan m
Slovene: šotor (sl) m
Sorbian:
Upper Sorbian: stan m
Southern Altai: чадыр (čadïr)
Spanish: tienda (es) f, toldo (es) m, carpa (es) f
Swahili: hema (sw)
Swedish: tält (sv) n
Tajik: хайма (tg) (xayma), чодир (čodir)
Tamil: கூடாரம் (ta) (kūṭāram)
Tatar: чатыр (tt) (çatır)
Telugu: గుడారము (te) (guḍāramu), టెంటు (ṭeṇṭu)
Thai: กระโจม (th) (grà-joom), เต็นท์ (th) (dtén)
Tibetan: གུར (gur)
Turkish: çadır (tr) , çerge (tr) , otağ (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: چادر (çadır), خیمه (hayme)
Turkmen: çadyr
Ugaritic: 𐎀𐎅𐎍 (ảhl)
Ukrainian: наме́т (uk) m (namét), шатро́ (uk) n (šatró)
Urdu: خَیمَہ m (xaima), ڈیرا m (ḍerā), شامِیانَہ m (śāmiyāna), تَن٘بُو m (tambū)
Uyghur: چېدىر (chëdir)
Uzbek: chodir (uz) , palatka (uz)
Vietnamese: lều (vi)
Volapük: tänad (vo)
Welsh: lluest , lluesty , pabell (cy) , pall
Yiddish: געצעלט n (getselt), בײַדל n (baydl), פּאַלאַטקע f (palatke)
Yup'ik: pelatekaq
Zazaki: çadır

representation used as bearing

Verb

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tent (third-person singular simple present tents , present participle tenting , simple past and past participle tented )

(intransitive ) To go camping.
We’ll be tenting at the campground this weekend.
(cooking ) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
(intransitive ) To form into a tent-like shape.
The sheet tented over his midsection.
Synonym of fumigate .

Translations

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to go camping

Danish: telte
Galician: acampar
Portuguese: acampar (pt)
Swedish: tälta (sv)

Etymology 2

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From Middle English tent ("attention"), aphetic variation of attent ("attention"), from Old French atente ("attention, intention"), from Latin attenta , feminine of attentus , past participle of attendere ("to attend"). Compare tend , from an aphetic variation of attend

Verb

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tent (third-person singular simple present tents , present participle tenting , simple past and past participle tented )

(archaic , UK , Scotland , dialect ) To attend to; to heed.
- 14th century, anonymous, The Romance of Syr Tryamoure
  He let hur have wemen at wylle,
  To tent hur, and that was skylle,
  And brought hur to bede
(archaic , UK , Scotland , dialect ) To guard; to hinder.
- 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 167:
  The poor lass was sitting bemoaning herself - "Were it nae for thy girning face, I would knock the big, winnow the corn, and grun the meal," - "Lowse the cradle-band," said the child, "and tent the neighbours, and I'll work yere work."

Noun

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tent (plural tents )

(archaic , UK , Scotland , dialect ) Attention; regard, care.
- a. 1451, John Lydgate, The Prohemy of a Marriage betwixt and Olde Man and a Yonge Wife, and the Counsail &c.:
  Lo ! lo ! my frend , take tent to this womman
(archaic ) Intention; design.
- a. 1300, anonymous author, Cursor Mundi:
  A-pon þe feild his fader went
  And soght abel wit al his tent

Etymology 3

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From Middle English tente ("a probe"), from Middle French tente , deverbal of tenter , from Latin tentāre ("to probe, test"), alteration of temptāre ("to test, probe, tempt").

Noun

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tent (plural tents )

(medicine ) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
(medicine ) A probe for searching a wound.

Verb

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tent (third-person singular simple present tents , present participle tenting , simple past and past participle tented )

(medicine , sometimes figurative ) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.
to tent a wound
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, "The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke", in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [...] (First Folio), London: [...] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
  I'll tent him to the quick.

Etymology 4

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From Spanish tinto ("deep-colored"), from Latin tīnctus , past participle of tingo ("to dye"). More at tinge . Doublet of tint and tinto . Compare claret ("French red wine"), also from color.

Noun

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tent (plural tents )

(archaic ) A kind of red wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain.
Synonyms: tent wine , tinta

Coordinate terms: claret , hock , sack

References

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"tent", in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

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Nett , nett

Dutch

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch tente , from Old French tente , from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda .

Pronunciation

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IPA ^(key): /tɛnt/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: tent
Rhymes: -ɛnt

Noun

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tent f (plural tenten , diminutive tentje n)

tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
pavillion
Synonym: paviljoen
(informal , Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes; a joint
Synonym: keet