noun
Meaning 1
A newspaper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, slang
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
blat
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/blæt/
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rhymes with -æt
noun
Meaning 2
The Soviet system of connections and social relationships; one's social or business network (in Russian or Soviet society).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- To open a new business in Russia you need blat.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: guanxi
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Initialism of bacon, lettuce, avocado and tomato: a sandwich made with these main ingredients.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Topics: cooking, food, lifestyle
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To cry, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- Near-synonym: baa (sheep or goat)
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bleat, baa
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
To make a senseless noise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 6
To talk inconsiderately; blab.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
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verb
Meaning 7
To produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument such as a trumpet, trombone, or tuba.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 8
To utter loudly or foolishly; blurt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 9
cry plaintively
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The lambs were bleating
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bleat, blate, baa
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: utter, emit, let out, let loose
History
Etymology
Borrowed from German Blatt (“newspaper”). Doublet of blade.
Borrowed from Russian блат (blat), from Polish blat (“cover, umbrella”) or Yiddish בלאַט (blat, “leaf, list”). Doublet of blade.
Imitative. First attested in 1846 in the intransitive sense of "bleat". Compare English bleat, Old English blǣtan (“to bleat”).
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: ԽԾԲ (XCB) — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Azerbaijani: tapış — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Belarusian: блат (blat) — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Chinese Mandarin: 關係 /关系 (guānxi) — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Finnish: suhteet — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Finnish: verkosto — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Finnish: blat — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Italian: blat — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Polish: blat — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Russian: блат (blat) — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Spanish: blat — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Ukrainian: блат (blat) — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Yiddish: בלאַט (blat) — connections; relationships; one's social or business network (Russia)
- Finnish: inua — to cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat
- Finnish: määkiä — to cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat
- Russian: блеять (blejatʹ) — to cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat
- Finnish: mölistä — to make a senseless noise
- Czech: blábolit — to talk inconsiderately
- Finnish: hölistä — to talk inconsiderately
- Finnish: hölöttää — to talk inconsiderately
- Russian: балаболить (balabolitʹ) — to talk inconsiderately
- Finnish: töräyttää — to produce an overrich or overblown sound on a brass instrument