Mayotte

English

Etymology

From French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, dead).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /maɪˈɒt/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Proper noun

Mayotte

  1. 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.

Translations

Further reading

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Mayotte

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

Derived terms

  • Mayottees

Czech

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, dead).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmajot]
  • Hyphenation: Ma‧yotte

Proper noun

Mayotte n (indeclinable, relational adjective mayottský)

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

Further reading

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.jɔt/
  • Audio:(file)

Proper noun

Mayotte f

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

See also

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /majˈɔ.t͡ʃi/ [maɪ̯ˈɔ.t͡ʃi]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /majˈɔ.te/ [maɪ̯ˈɔ.te]

Proper noun

Mayotte ?

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

Swahili

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Mayotte

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)

Swedish

Proper noun

Mayotte n (genitive Mayottes)

  1. Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)