мате

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

• IPA^(key): [mɐˈtɛ]
• Rhymes: -tɛ
• Hyphenation^(key): ма‧те

мате́ • (maté) n (uncountable)

1. maté (beverage, herb, plant)

• “мате”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2014
• “мате”, in Речник на българския език [Dictionary of the Bulgarian Language] (in Bulgarian), Chitanka, 2010

• мета (meta), мета- (meta-), тема (tema)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmatʲe]

ма́те • (máte) m inan

1. prepositional singular of мат (mat)

Borrowed from Spanish mate.

• ма́тэ (mátɛ) (rare, nonstandard)

• IPA^(key): [mɐˈtɛ] (phonetic respelling: матэ́)
• IPA^(key): [ˈmatɛ] (phonetic respelling: ма́тэ)

мате́ or ма́те • (matɛ́ or mátɛ) m inan (indeclinable)

1. maté (plant, herb, beverage, but unlike in Spanish usually not the vessel from which the beverage is consumed)

Usually pronounced with stress on the second syllable (possibly borrowed through French), rarely with stress on the first syllable (as in Spanish).

• → Armenian: մատե (mate)