maat

From Afrikaans maat (“mate, buddy”). Doublet of mate.

maat (plural maats)

1. (South Africa, slang) mate; buddy
   • 2007, William Higham, The Hammarskjold Killing, page 226:

     A lot of my maats went west.

Learned borrowing from Egyptian mꜣꜥt (“truth, righteousness, justice”).

maat (uncountable)

1. (philosophy, historical) The ancient Egyptian concept of justice, order, and harmony.

• AAMT

From Dutch maat.

• IPA^(key): /mɑːt/

maat (plural maats or maters, diminutive maatjie)

1. mate, buddy

• → English: maat

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• IPA^(key): /maːt/
• Hyphenation: maat
• Rhymes: -aːt

From older mate, from Middle Dutch mate, from Old Dutch *māta, from Proto-West Germanic *mātu, from Proto-Germanic *mētō.

maat f (plural maten, diminutive maatje n)

1. measure, size
2. (music) measure, bar
3. (music) rhythm, beat

• The dative form mate persists in fixed expressions such as met mate and in welke mate, although the distinction between this dative and the identical old nominative has become muddled.

• mate

• meten

• Afrikaans: maat
• Berbice Creole Dutch: mete
• Negerhollands: maat, meet, maet
• → Indonesian: emat
• → Papiamentu: mat

From a borrowing of Middle Low German māt, māte, from Old Saxon *gimato, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *gamatjô, itself from *ga- (“together”) + *matjô, from *matiz (“food”).^[1][2]

Cognate with Old High German gimazzo, English mate.

maat m (plural maten or maats, diminutive maatje n)

1. mate, buddy

   Synonym: mattie

2. (close) colleague, shipmate etc.
3. low sailor rank
4. (law, business) partner (in a business venture)

   Synonyms: vennoot, compagnon, partner

• Afrikaans: maat
  • → English: maat
• Berbice Creole Dutch: mati
• Negerhollands: maat, maet
• Skepi Creole Dutch: matte
• → Polish: mat
• → Sranan Tongo: mati (via the diminutive)
  • Aukan: mati
    • Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: mati
  • → Dutch: mattie
  • → Kari'na: mati

maat

1. nominative plural of maa

• tama

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)zaqat, compare Malay jahat.

maat

1. bad

maat

1. alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

maat

1. alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

maat

1. alternative form of mat (“tired”)

maat

1. alternative form of maten (“to checkmate”)

maat

1. water

maat (nominative plural maats)

1. (nautical) mast