tarot

See also: Tarot

English

Tarot cards.

Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco. Compare tarok, German Tarock.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹoʊ/
• (NZ (rarely)) IPA^(key): /ˈtæɹɔt/
• Rhymes: -æɹəʊ
• Homophone: taro

Noun

tarot (countable and uncountable, plural tarots)

1. (singular or plural) A card game played in various different variations.
   • 1987, Hans Hahn, “Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge,” in Unified Science, Brian McGuiness ed.

     […] it is not that I cannot convince him, but that I must refuse to go on talking with him, just as I shall refuse to go on playing tarot with a partner who insists on taking my fool with the moon.

   • 1996, Jan Potocki, The Manuscript Found in Saragossa [1]

     They took me to her and then we all came back to the portal, where we started playing tarot.

     As we were engrossed in this game, which requires quite a lot of attention, a well-dressed man appeared and seemed to examine us all closely, first one then another.

   • 2001, Donald Davidson, Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation [2]

     In explaining what it is to play tarot we could not leave out of account the rules that define the game; […]

2. Any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination.

Derived terms

• tarosophist
• tarosophy
• tarotist
• tarotologist
• tarotology

Translations

card game

• Bulgarian: таро n (taro)
• Catalan: tarot m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔羅牌 / 塔罗牌 (zh) (tǎluó pái), 塔羅 / 塔罗 (zh) (tǎluó), 意大利紙牌 / 意大利纸牌 (Yìdàlì zhǐpái)

• Czech: taroky m pl
• Danish: tarot n
• Esperanto: tarokoj
• Finnish: tarot (fi), tarokki
• French: tarot (fr) m
• Friulian: taroc m
• Georgian: ტარო (ṭaro)
• German: Tarot m or n
• Greek: ταρό n (taró)
• Hindi: टैरो (ṭairo)
• Hungarian: tarot (hu)
• Italian: tarocco (it) m
• Japanese: タロット (ja) (tarotto)
• Korean: 타로 (taro)
• Persian: تارو (fa) (târo) , تاروت (târot)
• Polish: tarot (pl) m, tarok m
• Portuguese: tarô (pt) m
• Russian: таро́ (ru) n (taró)
• Serbo-Croatian: тарот m, tarot (sh) m
• Turkish: tarot (tr)

individual card

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塔羅牌 / 塔罗牌 (zh) (tǎluó pái), 塔羅卡 / 塔罗卡 (zh) (tǎluó kǎ)

• Esperanto: taroko
• Finnish: tarot-kortti
• French: carte de tarot f, tarot (fr) m
• German: Tarotkarte f
• Greek: ταρό n (taró)
• Hungarian: tarotkártya
• Japanese: タロット (ja) (tarotto), タロットカード (ja) (tarottokādo)
• Russian: ка́рта таро́ f (kárta taró), таро́ (ru) n (taró)

See also

• cartomancy

Further reading

• tarot on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Ratto, Tatro, ottar, rotta, tator, torat, torta, troat

Danish

Alternative forms

• tarok

Noun

tarot c (singular definite tarotten, plural indefinite tarotter)

1. tarot

Declension

Declension of tarot

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tarot	tarotten	tarotter	tarotterne
genitive	tarots	tarottens	tarotters	tarotternes

Further reading

• “tarot” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “tarok” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian tarocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ʁo/
• Homophones: taraud, tarauds, taro

Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

1. tarot

Derived terms

• taroté
• taroter
• tarotier

Further reading

• “tarot”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• rotât

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot, from Italian tarocco.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈta.rɔt/
• Rhymes: -arɔt
• Syllabification: ta‧rot

Noun

tarot m inan

1. (card games) tarot

   Synonym: tarok

2. (cartomancy) tarot (any of the set of 78 playing cards (divided into five suits, including one of permanent trumps), often used for mystical divination)

   Synonym: tarok

Declension

Declension of tarot

	singular
nominative	tarot
genitive	tarota
dative	tarotowi
accusative	tarot
instrumental	tarotem
locative	tarocie
vocative	tarocie

Derived terms

nouns

• tarocista
• tarocistka

Further reading

• tarot in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta.ˈrot/
• Rhymes: -ot
• Hyphenation: ta‧rot

Noun

tarot n (uncountable)

1. tarot

Declension

Declension of tarot

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	tarot	tarotul
genitive-dative	tarot	tarotului
vocative	tarotule

References

• “tarot”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From French tarot, from Italian tarocchi.

Noun

tarot m (Cyrillic spelling тарот)

1. tarot (card game)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /taˈɾot/ [t̪aˈɾot̪]
• Rhymes: -ot
• Syllabification: ta‧rot

Noun

tarot m (plural tarots)

1. tarot

Derived terms

• tarotista

Further reading

• “tarot”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Anagrams

• torta, trató, trato, trotá, trota

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tarot.

Noun

tarot c

1. tarot

Derived terms

• tarotkort
• tarotlek

Further reading

• tarot in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker

Anagrams

• torta