Tartan

//ˈtɑːt(ə)n//

Synonyms for "tartan" (83 found)

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Translations

95 translations across 51 languages.

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Akkadian

1 entries
  • 𒌉𒋫𒉡 name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)

Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • Θαρθαν name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)

Arabic

1 entries
  • طرطان noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Aramaic

1 entries
  • ܬܵܪܬܵܢ name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)

Armenian

1 entries
  • թարթան noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Azerbaijani

2 entries
  • Tartan name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Basque

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Bavarian German

1 entries
  • Tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Catalan

3 entries
  • Tartan name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • tartana noun (type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean)
  • tartà noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 花呢格紋 /花呢格纹 noun (pattern used on such fabric)

Cornish

1 entries
  • brith noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Czech

2 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • tartan noun (synthetic resin used for surfacing ramps, running tracks, etc.)

Danish

3 entries
  • skotskternet adj (having a distinctive pattern like that of a tartan)
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • tartan noun (synthetic resin used for surfacing ramps, running tracks, etc.)

Dutch

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • tartano noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Estonian

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Finnish

4 entries
  • skottiruutuinen adj (having a distinctive pattern like that of a tartan)
  • tartaaninen adj (made of tartan)
  • Tartan name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • protestanttijengiläinen noun (young person who is a member of a Protestant gang in Northern Ireland)

French

2 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • tartane noun (type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean)

German

3 entries
  • Turtanu name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • Schottenkaro noun (pattern used on such fabric)
  • Tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Hebrew

2 entries
  • תַּרְתָּן name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • טארטן noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Ido

1 entries
  • tartan-navo noun (type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean)

Irish

1 entries
  • breacán noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Italian

3 entries
  • Turtanu name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • tartana noun (type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean)

Japanese

2 entries
  • タルタン name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • タータン noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Kannada

1 entries
  • ಟಾರ್ಟನ್ noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Korean

1 entries
  • 타르탄 noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Latin

1 entries
  • Tharthan name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • tartanas noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Malay

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Manx

3 entries
  • breck adj (having a distinctive pattern like that of a tartan)
  • breckanagh adj (having a distinctive pattern like that of a tartan)
  • breckan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Norwegian Nynorsk

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Ottoman Turkish

1 entries
  • طرخاندیل noun (type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean)

Persian

1 entries
  • تارتان noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Polish

4 entries
  • tartanowy adj (having a distinctive pattern like that of a tartan)
  • tartan name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • tartan noun (pattern used on such fabric)

Portuguese

3 entries
  • Tartã name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • tartana noun (type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean)
  • tartã noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Romanian

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Russian

3 entries
  • Тартан name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • тарта́н noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • шотла́ндский плед noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Scots

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Scottish Gaelic

2 entries
  • breacan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • tàrtān noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • та̀рта̄н noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Slovak

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Slovene

2 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • škotski karo noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Spanish

3 entries
  • Turtanu name (commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria)
  • tartana noun (type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean)
  • tartán noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Swedish

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Tagalog

1 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Thai

1 entries
  • ทาร์ทัน noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Turkish

2 entries
  • tartan noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)
  • tirhandil noun (type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean)

Ukrainian

1 entries
  • тартан noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Welsh

1 entries
  • plod noun (woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders)

Sample sentences

28 total sentences available.

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We'd suggest a chic upholstered bed with a little tartan fabric.

Source: tatoeba (8293188)

The skirt has a tartan pattern.

Source: tatoeba (11535917)

She inherited a beautiful wool blanket woven in the traditional Black Watch tartan.

Source: tatoeba (13564089)

Her hands trembled […] as she adjusted the scarlet tartan screen or muffler made of plaid, which the Scottish women wore, much in the fashion of the black silk veils still a part of female dress in the Netherlands.

Source: wiktionary

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.