Arabic edit

Root
م و ت (m-w-t)

Etymology edit

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-. Cognate with Hebrew מֵת (mét), Aramaic מית (mīt), Tigrinya ሞተ (motä), Egyptian mwt.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaːta/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aːt

Verb edit

مَاتَ (māta) I, non-past يَمُوتُ‎ (yamūtu)

  1. to die
    Synonyms: هَلَكَ (halaka), تُوُفِّيَ (tuwuffiya); see also Thesaurus:مات

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

مَاتَ (māta) I, non-past يَمُوتُ‎ (yamūtu)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

مَاتَ (māta) I, non-past يَمَاتُ‎ (yamātu)

  1. (archaic, dialectal) to die
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 19:23:
      فَأَجَاءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَا لَيْتَنِي مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes edit

  • This conjugation sometimes occurs in the Quran, particularly the past forms with -i- in some manners of recitation.

Conjugation edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Cowan, W. (1960). Arabic evidence for Proto-Semitic*/awa/and*/ō. Language, 60-62.

Baluchi edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Iranian *máHtā (compare Persian مادر (mâdar), Pashto مور (mor), Northern Kurdish mak, Avestan 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (mātar)), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *máHtā (compare Sanskrit मातृ (mā́tṛ), Hindi माता (mātā)), from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr.

Noun edit

مات (mát)

  1. mother

See also edit

Egyptian Arabic edit

Root
م و ت
1 term

Etymology edit

From Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

Pronunciation edit

IPA(key): [ˈmæːt]

Verb edit

مات (māt) I (non-past يموت (yimūt))

  1. to die

Conjugation edit

Malay edit

Noun edit

مات (Rumi spelling mata, plural مات-مات or مات۲, informal 1st possessive ماتکو, 2nd possessive ماتمو, 3rd possessive ماتڽ)

  1. Jawi spelling of mata

Moroccan Arabic edit

Root
م و ت
3 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

مات (māt) I (non-past يموت (ymūt), verbal noun موت (mūt), active participle مايت (māyit))

  1. (intransitive) to die

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of مات
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m متت (mutt) متتي (mutti) مات (māt) متنا (mutna) متتوا (muttu) ماتوا (mātu)
f ماتت (mātet)
non-past m نموت (nmūt) تموت (tmūt) يموت (ymūt) نموتوا (nmūtu) تموتوا (tmūtu) يموتوا (ymūtu)
f تموتي (tmūti) تموت (tmūt)
imperative m موت (mūt) موتوا (mūtu)
f موتي (mūti)

North Levantine Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Arabic ماتَ (māta).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

مات (māt) I (non-past يموت (ymūt))

  1. to die
  2. (figurative) to die, to do something extremely, to death
    وين كنت لهلأ؟ أنا متت من الخوف!
    wayn kint la-hallaʔ? ʔana mitit mn il-ḵawf!
    Where have you been? I was scared to death!

Etymology 2 edit

From French maths.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

مات (mātm or f

  1. (Lebanon) math, mathematics (especially as a school subject)

Ottoman Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Persian مات.

Noun edit

مات (mat)

  1. (chess) checkmate

Descendants edit

  • Turkish: mat

References edit

Persian edit

Etymology edit

According to Watkins, related to Arabic مات (māt, to die).[1] However, compare Sanskrit मात (māta, traversed, measured across), past participle of मा () (verbal root), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mimáHti, *mimHati, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁-; see मिमीते (mimīte, to mark off).[2]

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? māt
Dari reading? māt
Iranian reading? mât
Tajik reading? mot

Adjective edit

مات (mât)

  1. amazed
  2. astonished

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ checkmate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
  2. ^ Monier Williams (1899) “مات”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, [], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page .

South Levantine Arabic edit

Root
م و ت
3 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

مات (māt) I (present بموت (bimūt))

  1. to die
    Synonym: توفّى (twaffa)
  2. (+ في) to love
    بموت في أغانيهمبصير بدّي أرقص لحالي.
    bamūt fi ʔaḡānīhom — baṣīr biddi ʔarʔoṣ la-ḥāli
    I love their songs — I start wanting to dance on my own.

Conjugation edit

    Conjugation of مات (māt)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m متت (mutt) متت (mutt) مات (māt) متنا (mutna) متتو (muttu) ماتو (mātu)
f متتي (mutti) ماتت (mātat)
present m بموت (bamūt) بتموت (bitmūt) بموت (bimūt) منموت (minmūt) بتموتو (bitmūtu) بيموتو (bimūtu)
f بتموتي (bitmūti) بتموت (bitmūt)
subjunctive m اموت (amūt) تموت (tmūt) يموت (ymūt) نموت (nmūt) تموتو (tmūtu) يموتو (ymūtu)
f تموتي (tmūti) تموت (tmūt)
imperative m موت (mūt) موتو (mūtu)
f موتي (mūti)