tartan

Etymology 1
Blend of, from , and Middle French , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans and some Scottish families and institutions having their own distinctive patterns.
 * 2) The pattern associated with such material.
 * 3) An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.

Translations

 * Catalan: tartà
 * Cornish: brith
 * Danish: tartan
 * Esperanto: tartano
 * French:
 * Irish: breacán
 * Manx: breckan
 * Polish:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: шотла́ндский плед
 * Scottish Gaelic: tartan
 * Slovene: škotski karo
 * Spanish: tartán
 * Welsh: plod


 * German: Schottenkaro
 * Polish:

Adjective

 * 1) Having a pattern like a tartan.
 * 2)  Scottish.
 * 1)  Scottish.
 * 1)  Scottish.

Translations

 * Danish: skotskternet
 * Finnish: skottiruutuinen
 * Manx: breck, breckanagh
 * Polish: tartanowy

Verb

 * 1)  To clothe in tartan.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from, from , of uncertain origin.

Noun

 * 1) A type of one-masted lateen-sailed vessel used in the Mediterranean.
 * 2) * 1877,, Ellen E. Frewer (translator), Hector Servadac, Part 2, Chapter X: Market Prices in Gallia,
 * Hakkabut hereupon descended into the hold of the tartan, and soon returned, carrying ten packets of tobacco, each weighing one kilogramme, and securely fastened by strips of paper, labelled with the French Government stamp.
 * 1) * 1896,, Rodney Stone, Chapter IV: The Peace of Amiens,
 * When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans, with wine, food, and powder.
 * 1)  A kind of long covered carriage.

Translations

 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Ido:
 * Italian: tartana
 * Ottoman Turkish: طرخاندیل
 * Polish: tartana
 * Spanish: tartana
 * Turkish:

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern
 * 2)  synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) tartan woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of intersecting orthogonal coloured stripes, associated with Scottish Highlanders.
 * 2) A kilt or cloak made of tartan.

Usage notes
Neuter gender is usually preferred for the mass noun denoting the fabric while masculine is preferred for countable nouns, but the distinction is not observed as clearly for this word as it is for other terms that are both mass nouns and countable nouns.

Etymology 1
, from, from , , from , from , from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) clothing made of such fabric
 * 1) clothing made of such fabric
 * 1) clothing made of such fabric

Etymology
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Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) tartan