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taf

taf is the alternative form of taw.

Meaning of taw

Noun (1)

taw

  1. (obsolete) Tawed leather.

Noun (2)

taw (plural taws)

  1. A favorite marble in the game of marbles.
    • Near the timberyard a squatted child at marbles, alone, shooting the taw with a cunnythumb.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
  2. A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
  3. (square dancing) A dance partner.
    • Walk around your corner; see-saw around your taw.
  4. A favorite person; beloved, partner, spouse.

Noun (3)

taw (plural taws)

  1. The 22nd and last letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Arabic.

See all 14 meanings of taw

Noun capitalized: TAF

TAF (plural TAFs)

  1. Terminal Aerodrome Forecast: a specially encoded weather forecast for a terminal aerodrome
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of TBP-associated factor.

Proper noun (1) capitalized: TAF

TAF

  1. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Turkish Air Force.
  2. (abbreviation, initialism) Initialism of Turkish Armed Forces.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Taf

Taf

  1. A river in Pembrokeshire and Carmarthenshire, West Wales, which flows into Carmarthen Bay.
    • It only remains to notice briefly the branch from Whitland to Cardigan, which for a few miles pursues its tortuous and picturesque course along the valley of the Taf, thence rising by very severe gradients to Crymmych Arms, near to which station is a striking horse-shoe curve.1939 September, T. R. Perkins, “The G.W.R in West Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 202
    • Rhydowen, the next station, 10¼ miles from Whitland, has a goods loop and only a wooden building. The Taf is crossed beyond the station, and the railway passes from Carmarthenshire into Pembrokeshire, but the river is recrossed before Llanfyrnach is reached.1952 July, J. F. Burrell, “The Cardigan Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 483

Forms of taf

pluraltafs
pluralTAFs

Phrases with taf

Questions about taf

What does taf mean?
Taf means terminal Aerodrome Forecast: a specially encoded weather forecast for a terminal aerodrome.
What is taf the alternative form of?
Taf is the alternative form of taw.
What part of speech is taf?
Taf can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of taf?
The plural of taf is tafs.

Words near taf in the dictionary

  1. Taensa
  2. Taensas
  3. taepan
  4. taepans
  5. taepyeongso
  6. taf
  7. tafamidis
  8. Tafarnaubach
  9. tafasitamab
  10. tafazzin
  11. TAFE

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taf (page history and authors); TAF (page history and authors); Taf (page history and authors); taw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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