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Skat

Skat

See also: skat and Skät

German

Proper noun

Skat

  1. a type of card game played with 3 players, popular in Germany

skat

skat

See also: Skat and Skät

English

Noun

skat (countable and uncountable, plural skats)

  1. A trick-taking card game for three players, popular in Germany.
  2. A widow of two cards in the game of skat.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse skattr.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skat/, [sɡ̊ad̥]

Noun

skat c (singular definite skatten, plural indefinite skatte)

  1. treasure

Inflection

Noun

skat c (singular definite skatten, plural indefinite skatter)

  1. tax

Inflection


Old Saxon

Etymology

From Germanic: cognate with Old Frisian skett ‘money, cattle’, Old English sceatt, Dutch schat, Old High German scaz (German Schatz ‘treasure’), Old Norse skattr (Danish skat, Icelandic skattur, Norwegian skatt), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍄𐍄𐍃 (skatts).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /s̺kɑt/

Noun

skat m

  1. treasure, money, wealth
  2. tax

Derived terms


Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Skat, from Italian scasto.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skât/

Noun

skȁt m (Cyrillic spelling ска̏т)

  1. a type of card game played with 3 players, popular in Germany

References

  • skat” in Hrvatski jezični portal