مات

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مات

  • /maː.ta/
  • /moːt/ Central Asia

Rhymes with -aːt

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From Proto-Semitic *mawut-. Cognate with Hebrew מֵת (mét), Aramaic מית (mīt), Tigrinya ሞተ (motä), Egyptian mwt. False cognate of Malay and Indonesian mati and all its Austronesian cognates.

verb مَاتَ · māta · يَمَاتُ · مَوْت · مَائِت

  1. archaic, dialectal to die فَأَجَاءَهَا الْمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذْعِ النَّخْلَةِ قَالَتْ يَا لَيْتَنِي مِتُّ قَبْلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسْيًا مَّنسِيًّا

Similar: مَاتَ, تُوُفِّيَ, هَلَكَ, قَضَى نَحْبَهُ, نَفَقَ (nafaqa), اِنْتَقَلَ إِلَى الرَّفِيقِ الْأَعْلَى, اِنْتَقَلَ إِلَى جِوَارِ رَبِّهِ, اِنْتَقَلَ إِلَى دَارِ الْقَرَارِ, اِنْتَقَلَ إِلَى رَحْمَةِ اللّٰهِ, أَسْلَمَ رُوحَهُ, خَلَا, فَنِيَ, فَطَسَ, وَافَاهُ الْأَجَلُ, رَحَلَ

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In English

  • die to stop living
  • checkmate said when making the conclusive move in chess

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"مات." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ar/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {مات},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AA},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

The meanings are in English: this language's words come from the English Wiktionary. From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Recordings from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own free license: Ar-مات.ogg.