tax

== Translingual == === Etymology === Clipping of English Tamki with x as a placeholder. === Symbol === tax (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tamki. === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Tamki terms == English == === Pronunciation === enPR: tăks, IPA(key): /tæks/ Homophone: tacks Rhymes: -æks === Etymology 1 === From Middle English taxe, from Middle French taxe, from Medieval Latin taxa, from Latin taxō (“to appraise, value, estimate; (medieval) to tax”). Doublet of task. Displaced native Old English gafol, which was also the word for “tribute” and “rent”. ==== Noun ==== tax (countable and uncountable, plural taxes) Money or goods collected by a government (or an entity to whom the government has delegated this power, e.g. in tax farming) to fund itself and its services, for example by levying a charge on income, purchases (sales), property or harvest, other than that money which is collected by the government in exchange for specific goods (e.g. the purchase of surplus vehicles). Synonyms: impost, tribute, contribution, duty, toll, rate, assessment, exaction, custom, demand, levy Antonym: subsidy A charge (of money, food, labor, etc) collected by a person, organization, etc; something required (exacted) from someone who is (really or notionally) under the control of the taxer, such as a contribution or service. (figurative, uncountable) A burdensome demand; ===== Hyponyms ===== ===== Coordinate terms ===== ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Tok Pisin: takis→ Rotokas: takisi → Urdu: ٹَیکْس (ṭaiks) ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English taxen, from Anglo-Norman taxer (“to impose a tax”), from Latin taxāre (“to handle, to censure, to appraise, to compute”). ==== Verb ==== tax (third-person singular simple present taxes, present participle taxing, simple past and past participle taxed) (transitive) To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). (transitive) To impose and collect a tax on (something). (transitive) To make excessive demands on. (transitive) To accuse. (transitive) To examine accounts in order to allow or disallow items. ===== Derived terms ===== taxable taxation ===== Translations ===== === Anagrams === ATX, Axt, xat == Latin == === Alternative forms === tuxtax === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtaks] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtaks] === Interjection === tax an onomatopoeia expressing the sound of blows, whack, crack === References === “tax”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tax”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “tax”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers == Lower Tanana == === Stem === tax Verbal stem occurring in the following root, aspect, and mode combinations: == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Noun ==== tax alternative form of taxe === Etymology 2 === ==== Verb ==== tax alternative form of taxen == Northern Kurdish == === Etymology === Borrowed from Armenian թաղ (tʻaġ). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /tɑːx/ === Noun === tax f (Arabic spelling تاخ) district, neighborhood, quarter district, region === References === Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1973), “թաղ (1)”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume II, Yerevan: University Press, page 143b Chyet, Michael L. (2003), “tax”, in Kurdish–English Dictionary‎[3], with selected etymologies by Martin Schwartz, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, page 598 Jaba, Auguste; Justi, Ferdinand (1879), “تاغ”, in Dictionnaire Kurde-Français [Kurdish–French Dictionary], Saint Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, page 92b == Swedish == === Etymology === Borrowed from German Dachs(hund). First attested in 1825. === Pronunciation === Homophone: tacks === Noun === tax c a dachshund (dog breed) ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== pansartax === References === “tax”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “tax”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “tax”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)