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From French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, dead).

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Mayotte

  1. An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar.
    • 2024 December 15, Sam Jones, “Hundreds feared dead as Cyclone Chido devastates French island of Mayotte”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      At least several hundred people are feared to have been killed after the worst cyclone in almost a century ripped through the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on Saturday, uprooting trees, tearing houses apart and pounding the impoverished archipelago’s already weak infrastructure.
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Mayotte

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

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Czech

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Unadapted borrowing from French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, dead).

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  • IPA(key): [ˈmajot]
  • Hyphenation: Ma‧yotte

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Mayotte n (indeclinable, relational adjective mayottský)

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

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  • Mayotte”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

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Mayotte f

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

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  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /majˈɔ.t͡ʃi/ [maɪ̯ˈɔ.t͡ʃi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /majˈɔ.te/ [maɪ̯ˈɔ.te]

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Mayotte

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

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Mayotte

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

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Mayotte n (genitive Mayottes)

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)