See also: م و ت

Arabic edit

Etymology edit

Verbal noun of مَاتَ (māta, to die, to perish), from م و ت (m-w-t). Compare Akkadian 𒁁 (mūtum, death), Ugaritic 𐎎𐎚 (mt, death), Aramaic ܡܘܬܐ, Hebrew מָוֶת (mávet, death), Amharic ሞት (mot, death) and Egyptian mt

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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mawt/
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Noun edit

مَوْت (mawtm

  1. verbal noun of مَاتَ (māta) (form I)
  2. death
    Antonym: حَيَاة (ḥayāh)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 4:78:
      أَيۡنَمَا تَكُونُوا۟ يُدۡرِككُّمُ ٱلۡمَوۡتُ وَلَوۡ كُنتُمۡ فِي بُرُوجࣲ مُّشَيَّدَةࣲ
      ʾaynamā takūnū yudrikkumu l-mawtu wa-law kuntum fī burūjin mušayyadatin
      Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, even if you should be within towers of lofty construction.
  3. demise

Declension edit

Synonyms edit

Descendants edit

  • Gulf Arabic: موت (mōt)
  • Maltese: mewt
  • Moroccan Arabic: موت (mūt)
  • Azerbaijani: mövt
  • Chagatai: موت
  • Hindustani: maut
  • Malay: maut
  • Ottoman Turkish: موت (mevt)
  • Persian: موت (mowt)
  • Swahili: mauti

Verb edit

مَوَّتَ (mawwata) II, non-past يُمَوِّتُ‎ (yumawwitu)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) to die off
  2. (transitive) to make die, let perish, to kill, to cause the death of

Conjugation edit

Gulf Arabic edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Arabic مَوْت (mawt).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

موت (mōtm (dual موتين (mōttēn), plural موتات (mōtāt))

  1. death
    Synonym: وفاة (wafāt)
    Antonym: حياة (ḥayāt)
    مسألة حياة وموت
    masʾalat ḥayāt u mōt
    A matter of life and death

Etymology 2 edit

From Arabic مَوَّتَ (mawwata).

Pronunciation edit

  • (Kuwait) IPA(key): /ˈməwːət/

Verb edit

موت (mawwat) II (non-past يموت (ymawwit))

  1. to cause to die, to kill
    Synonym: ذبح (ḏibaḥ)
    Antonym: احيى (aḥya)

Hijazi Arabic edit

Root
م و ت
1 term

Etymology 1 edit

From Arabic مَوْت (mawt).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

موت (mōtm (dual موتتين (mōtatēn), plural موتات (mōtāt))

  1. death
    Synonym: وفاة (wafā(t))
    Antonym: حياة (ḥayā)

See also edit

  • موتة (mōta, life in video games)

Etymology 2 edit

From Arabic مَوَّت (mawwat).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

موت (mawwat) II (non-past يِمَوِّت (yimawwit), verbal noun تَمْويت (tamwīt), passive participle مُميت (mumīt))

  1. to cause to die, to kill
    Synonyms: ذَبَح (dabaḥ), قَتَل (gatal), قَتَّل (gattal)
Conjugation edit
    Conjugation of موت (mawwat)
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
past m موتت (mawwatt) موتت (mawwatt) موت (mawwat) موتنا (mawwatna) موتتوا (mawwattu) موتوا (mawwatu)
f موتتي (mawwatti) موتت (mawwatat)
non-past m أموت (ʔamawwit) تموت (timawwit) يموت (yimawwit) نموت (nimawwit) تموتوا (timawwitu) يموتوا (yimawwitu)
f تموتي (timawwiti) تموت (timawwit)
imperative m موت (mawwit) موتوا (mawwitu)
f موتي (mawwiti)

Etymology 3 edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

موت (mūt)

  1. second-person masculine singular imperative of مات (māt)

Persian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْت (mawt).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? mawt
Dari reading? mawt
Iranian reading? mowt
Tajik reading? mavt

Noun edit

Dari موت
Iranian Persian
Tajik мавт

موت (mowt) (plural موت‌ها (mowt-hâ) or اموات (amvât))

  1. death
    Synonyms: فنا, فوت, اجل, درگذشت, مرگ, ممات, وفات, میر
    Antonyms: حیات, زندگی, زندگانی

South Levantine Arabic edit

Root
م و ت
3 terms

Etymology edit

From Arabic مَوْت (mawt).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

موت (mōtm

  1. death

Urdu edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Arabic مَوْت (mawt).

Noun edit

موت (mautf (Hindi spelling मौत)

  1. death
  2. demise
  3. mortality

Etymology 2 edit

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀼𑀢𑁆𑀢 (mutta), from Sanskrit मूत्र (mū́tra), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *múHtram, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *muH-. Cognate with Sindhi مُٽُ (muṭu), Rajasthani मूत (mūt), Punjabi ਮੂਤਰ (mūtar).

Noun edit

مُوت (mūtm (Hindi spelling मूत)

  1. urine
Synonyms edit