موت

See also: م و ت‎

Arabic

Etymology

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

  • IPA(key): /mawt/
  • (file)

Noun

مَوْت • (mawt) m

  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

Synonyms

Descendants

  • Gulf Arabic: موت‎ (mōt)
  • Maltese: mewt
  • Moroccan Arabic: موت‎ (mūt)
  • → Azerbaijani: mövt
  • → Chagatai: موت‎
    • Uyghur: مەۋت‎ (mewt)
    • Uzbek: mavt
  • → Hindustani: maut
  • → Malay: maut
  • → Ottoman Turkish: موت‎ (mevt)
    • Turkish: mevt
  • → Persian: موت‎ (mowt)

Verb

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

Gulf Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic مَوْت‎ (mawt).

Pronunciation

Noun

موت • (mōt) m (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

From Arabic مَوَّتَ‎ (mawwata).

Pronunciation

Verb

موت • (mawwat) (form II, non-past يموت‎ (ymawwit))

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

Hijazi Arabic

Root
م و ت‎

Etymology 1

From Arabic مَوْت‎ (mawt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːt/, [mo̞ːt]

Noun

موت • (mōt) m (dual موتتين‎ (mōtatēn), plural موتات‎ (mōtāt))

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

See also

  • موتة‎ (mōta, “life in video games”)

Etymology 2

From Arabic مَوَّت‎ (mawwat).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mawwat/

Verb

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

  1. to cause to die, to kill
    Synonyms: ذبح‎ (dabaḥ), قتل‎ (gatal)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /muːt/

Verb

موت • (mūt)

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

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَوْت‎ (mawt).

Pronunciation

Noun

Dari موت
Iranian Persian
Tajik мавт (mavt)

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

Root
م و ت‎

Etymology

From Arabic مَوْت‎ (mawt).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːt/, [moːt]
  • (file)

Noun

موت • (mōt) m

  1. death

Urdu

Etymology 1

From Arabic مَوْت‎ (mawt).

Noun

موت • (maut) f (Hindi spelling मौत)

  1. death
  2. demise
  3. mortality

Etymology 2

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

مُوت • (mūt) m (Hindi spelling मूत)

  1. urine
Synonyms
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