Dictionary

tatami en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /təˈtɑːmi/

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (tatami).

Meanings

1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses.
   • Heny Hankovitch, con guítar, / did a short Zen pray, / on his tatami in a relaxed lotos / fixin his mind on nuffin, rose-blue breasts, 1964, John Berryman, chapter 31, in 77 Dream Songs, New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, page 35:
   • Small tools are spread on the tatami: a razor knife, a sprue cutter, curls of emery paper. 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 2:
2. A unit of area equal to a standard-sized tatami mat, approximately 1.65 square metres.

Forms

Deriveds

tatamied

Translations (20)

ja 畳 (straw matting in Japanese houses) · cmn 疊席 /叠席 (straw matting in Japanese houses) · nb tatamimatte (straw matting in Japanese houses) · ko 다다미 (straw matting in Japanese houses) · sh тата̀ми (straw matting in Japanese houses) · sh tatàmi (straw matting in Japanese houses) · pt tatame (straw matting in Japanese houses) · fa تاتامی (straw matting in Japanese houses) · cmn 榻榻米 (straw matting in Japanese houses) · ja たたみ (straw matting in Japanese houses) · es tatami (straw matting in Japanese houses) · de Tatami (straw matting in Japanese houses) · fi tatami (straw matting in Japanese houses) · hu tatami (straw matting in Japanese houses) · ru тата́ми (straw matting in Japanese houses) · mr तातामि (straw matting in Japanese houses) · fr tatami (straw matting in Japanese houses) · cs tatami (straw matting in Japanese houses) · eo tatamo (straw matting in Japanese houses) · nb tatami (straw matting in Japanese houses)