"tatami" meaning in English

See tatami in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /təˈtɑːmi/ Forms: tatamis [plural], tatami [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 畳 (tatami). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ja|畳|tr=tatami}} Japanese 畳 (tatami) Head templates: {{en-noun|s|tatami}} tatami (plural tatamis or tatami)
  1. Straw matting, in a standard size, used as a floor covering in Japanese houses. Wikipedia link: tatami Derived forms: tatamied Translations (straw matting in Japanese houses): 榻榻米 (tàtàmǐ) (Chinese Mandarin), 疊席 (Chinese Mandarin), 叠席 (diéxí) (Chinese Mandarin), tatami [feminine, neuter] (Czech), tatamo (Esperanto), tatami (Finnish), tatami [masculine] (French), Tatami [feminine] (German), tatami (Hungarian), (tatami) (alt: たたみ) (Japanese), たたみ (tatami) (Japanese), 다다미 (dadami) (Korean), तातामि (tātāmi) [feminine] (Marathi), tatami [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), tatamimatte [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), تاتامی (tâtâmi) (Persian), tatame [masculine] (Portuguese), тата́ми (tatámi) [masculine, neuter] (Russian), тата̀ми [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tatàmi [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), tatami [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "straw matting in Japanese houses",
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