مات

Arabic

Root
م و ت‎ (m-w-t)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmaːta/
  • (file)
    • (Central Asia) IPA(key): /mōt/[1]
  • Rhymes: -aːt

Verb

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

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

Conjugation

Verb

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

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Conjugation

Verb

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 quote)

Usage notes

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

Conjugation

Verb

مَاتَ • (māta) I, non-past يَمِيتُ‎‎ (yamītu)

  1. (obsolete, dialectal) to die

Conjugation

See also

References

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

Baluchi

Etymology

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

مات • (mát)

  1. mother

See also

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic مَاتَ‎ (māta).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): [ˈmæːt]

Verb

مات • (māt) (perfect, imperfect يموت‎ (yimūt), verb form I)

  1. to die

Conjugation

Malay

Noun

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

Root
م و ت‎
3 terms

Etymology

From Arabic مَاتَ‎ (māta).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maːt/

Verb

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

  1. (intransitive) to die

Conjugation

    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

Etymology 1

From Arabic ماتَ‎ (māta).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mɛːt], [meːt]

Verb

مات • (māt) (form 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

From French maths.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mɑːt]

Noun

مات • (māt) m or f

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

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Persian مات‎.

Noun

مات • (mat)

  1. (chess) checkmate

Descendants

  • Turkish: mat

References

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

مات • (mât)

  1. amazed
  2. astonished

Derived terms

References

  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 म.

South Levantine Arabic

Root
م و ت‎

Etymology

From Arabic مَاتَ‎ (māta).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maːt/, [mæːt]
  • (file)

Verb

مات • (māt) (form I, present بموت‎ (bimūt))

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

Conjugation

    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)
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