Mayotte
English
editEtymology
editFrom French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, “dead”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /maɪˈɒt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒt
Proper noun
editMayotte
- 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.
Related terms
editTranslations
editTerritorial Collectivity of Mayotte
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Further reading
editAfrikaans
editPronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Proper noun
editMayotte
- Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)
Derived terms
editCzech
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, “dead”).
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editMayotte n (indeclinable, relational adjective mayottský)
- Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)
Further reading
edit- “Mayotte”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
French
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editMayotte f
- Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)
See also
editPortuguese
editPronunciation
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Proper noun
editMayotte
- Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)
Swahili
editPronunciation
editProper noun
editMayotte
- Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)
Swedish
editProper noun
editMayotte n (genitive Mayottes)
- 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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