مات

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

• IPA^(key): /maː.ta/

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

مَاتَ • (māta) I (non-past يَمُوتُ (yamūtu), verbal noun مَوْت (mawt) or مَمَات (mamāt))

1. to die

   Synonyms: هَلَكَ (halaka), تُوُفِّيَ (tuwuffiya); see also Thesaurus:مات

مَاتَ • (māta) I (non-past يَمَاتُ (yamātu), verbal noun مَوْت (mawt))

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 quotation)

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

مَاتَ • (māta) I (non-past يَمُوتُ (yamūtu), verbal noun مَوَات (mawāt))

1. to be empty, to be or become unoccupied (of land, a city, etc.)
2. to dead end, to have no outlet (of a road)
3. to be unused, to be untrodden (of a road)

• هَلَكَ (halaka)
• تُوُفِّيَ (tuwuffiya)
• نَفَقَ (nafaqa)

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.

مات • (mát)

1. mother

• ماس (más)

From Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmæːt]

مات • (māt) I (non-past يموت (yimūt))

1. to die

مات (plural مات-مات or مات٢)

1. Jawi spelling of mata.‎

From Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

• IPA^(key): /maːt/

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

1. (intransitive) to die

From Arabic ماتَ (māta).

• IPA^(key): [mɛːt], [meːt]

مات • (māt) 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!

From French maths.

• IPA^(key): [mɑːt]

مات • (māt) m or f

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

From Persian مات.

مات • (mat)

1. (chess) checkmate

• Turkish: mat

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “mat1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “مات”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1652

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]

مات • (mât)

1. amazed
2. astonished

• مات کردن (mât kardan)
• شاه مات (šâh mât)

From Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

• IPA^(key): /maːt/, [mæːt]

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مات • (māt) I (present بموت (bimūt))

1. to die

   Synonym: توفّى (twaffa)

   • 2011 November 27, Refaat Alareer, “If I Must Die”, in In Gaza, My Gaza!‎^[2], archived from the original on 27 November 2012; translated as “إذا كان لا بدّ أن أموت”, in @TameemOliveFern, transl., X‎^[3], translation of original in English, 2023 December 9, archived from the original on 8 December 2024:

     إذا كان لا بدّ أن أموت
     فعليكَ أن تحيا
     لِتقصّ قصّتي
     [...]
     إذا كان لا بدّ أن أموت
     لتجعلها تجلبُ الأمل
     لتجعلها قصة

     [original: If I must die,
     you must live
     to tell my story
     [...]
     If I must die
     let it bring hope
     let it be a tale]

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.