Mayotte
English
Etymology
From French Mayotte, from Arabic مَيِّت (mayyit, “dead”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /maɪˈɒt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒt
Proper noun
Mayotte
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
Territorial Collectivity of Mayotte
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Further reading
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Mayotte
- 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)
- Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)
Further reading
- “Mayotte”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma.jɔt/
Audio: (file)
Proper noun
Mayotte f
- 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]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /majˈɔ.tɨ/
Proper noun
Mayotte ?
- Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)
Swahili
Pronunciation
Audio (Kenya): (file)
Proper noun
Mayotte
- 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)
- Mayotte (an archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar)