עָאֲתָא, (= עַוְתָא; עֲויֵ) crookedness, perverseness, wrong. Targ. Prov. XII, 21 דע׳ (not זע׳). Ib. XV, 16. Ib. IV, 24 (ed. Lag. עָתָא, Ms. עַוְתָא); a. fr.