English

Alternative forms

• tash (misspelling)
• 'tache

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /tɑːʃ/, Rhymes: -ɑːʃ
• (US) IPA^(key): /tæʃ/, Rhymes: -æʃ

Noun

tache ‎(plural taches)

1. (informal) Moustache, mustache.

Synonyms

• stache, 'stache

Etymology 2

From French tache spot. See tetchy.

Noun

tache ‎(plural taches)

1. (now rare) A spot, stain, or blemish.
   • 1993, Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet, Dalkey Archive Press, p. 95:

     Alone I cared for our mother who did little else but stare at taches on floor and ceiling.

Etymology 3

See tack ‎(“a kind of nail”).

Noun

tache ‎(plural taches)

1. Something used for taking hold or holding; a catch; a loop; a button.
   • 1611, King James Bible, “xxvi.vi”, in Exodus, Barker edition:

     And thou shalt make fiftie taches of gold, and couple the curtaines together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.

Anagrams

• cheat, teach, Teach, theca

French

Etymology

From Middle French, from Old French tache, taiche, taje ‎(“mark, spot, stain”), from Vulgar Latin *tacca, *tecca, from Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌽𐍃 ‎(taikns, “mark, sign”), from Proto-Germanic *taiknaz, *taikną ‎(“sign, mark”), from Proto-Indo-European *deik'e-, *deig'- ‎(“to show”). Influenced by forms related to Frankish *stakjan, *stakkjan ‎(“to stick, attach”) and Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌺𐍃 ‎(staks, “mark”). See attacher. For levelling and shortening of diphthong ai in taikns compare Old French hanter, hangart, etc. Cognate with Old High German zeihhan ‎(“sign, symbol, feature”), Old English tācn ‎(“sign, marker”). More at token.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taʃ/
• Homophone: tâche (France)
• Rhymes: -aʃ

Noun

tache f ‎(plural taches)

1. blot, stain or smear
2. spot; more or less stain-like mark of a different color
3. (skin) blotch, mark
4. moral depravation
5. annoying or despicable person

Derived terms

Related terms

• tacher
• tacheter

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French attacher ‎(“attach”).

Verb

tache

1. attach

Old French

Etymology

Middle Low German zacke

Alternative forms

• teche
• tesche

Noun

tache f ‎(oblique plural taches, nominative singular tache, nominative plural taches)

1. mark; stain

Descendants

• French: tache

References

• (fr) Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (tache)

Spanish

Verb

tache

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of tachar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of tachar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of tachar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of tachar.