# مات
## Arabic
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maː.ta/
* Audio:(file)
** (Central Asia) IPA: /mōt/
* Rhymes: -aːt

### Verb

مَاتَ • (māta) I (non-past يَمُوتُ (yamūtu), verbal noun مَوْت (mawt) or مَمَات (mamāt))
* to die
    Synonyms: هَلَكَ (halaka), تُوُفِّيَ (tuwuffiya); see also Thesaurus:مات

#### Conjugation
### Verb

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

#### Usage notes

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

#### Conjugation
### Verb

مَاتَ • (māta) I (non-past يَمُوتُ (yamūtu), verbal noun مَوَات (mawāt))
* to be empty, to be or become unoccupied (of land, a city, etc.)
* to dead end, to have no outlet (of a road)
* to be unused, to be untrodden (of a road)

#### Conjugation
### See also

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

### References

* ↑ Cowan, W. (1960). Arabic evidence for Proto-Semitic*/awa/and*/ō. Language, 60-62.

## Baluchi
### Etymology

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.

### Noun

مات • (mát)
* mother

### See also

* ماس (más)

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

### Pronunciation

IPA: [ˈmæːt]

### Verb

مات • (māt) I (non-past يموت (yimūt))
* to die

#### Conjugation

$^1$ The future tense can be prefixed with either هـ (ha-) or حـ (ḥa-) depending on the speaker.

## Malay
### Noun

مات (Rumi spelling mata, plural مات-مات or مات٢, informal 1st possessive ماتکو, 2nd possessive ماتمو, 3rd possessive ماتڽ)
* Jawi spelling of mata‎

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːt/

### Verb

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

#### Conjugation
## North Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic ماتَ (māta).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɛːt], [meːt]

#### Verb

مات • (māt) I (non-past يموت (ymūt))
* to die
* (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!

### Etymology 2

From French maths.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mɑːt]

#### Noun

مات • (māt) m or f
* (Lebanon) math, mathematics (especially as a school subject)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

From Persian مات.

### Noun

مات • (mat)
* (chess) checkmate

#### Descendants

* Turkish: mat

### References

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

## Persian
### Etymology

According to Watkins, related to Arabic مات (māt, “to die”). 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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [mɑːt]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mɑːt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [mɑːt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [mɑːt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [mɔːt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [mɒːt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [mɔt̪]

### Adjective

مات • (mât)
* amazed
* astonished

#### Derived terms

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

### References

* ↑ “checkmate”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
* ↑ Monier Williams (1899) “مات”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, […], new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page म.

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic مَاتَ (māta).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /maːt/, [mæːt]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

### Verb

مات • (māt) I (present بموت (bimūt))
* to die
    Synonym: توفّى (twaffa)
** 2023 December 9 [2011 November 27], Refaat Alareer, “إذا كان لا بدّ أن أموت”, in TameemOliveFern, transl., X‎, translation of If I Must Die (in English):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]
* (+ في) to love
    بموت في أغانيهم — بصير بدّي أرقص لحالي.bamūt fi ʔaḡānīhom — baṣīr biddi ʔarʔoṣ la-ḥāliI love their songs — I start wanting to dance on my own.