мад

Mongolian

Mongolian	Cyrillic
ᠮᠠᠳ (mad)	мад (mad)

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmat/
• Syllabification: мад (1 syllable)

Noun

мад • (mad)

1. (chess) checkmate
2. (figurative) a state of total victory in an argument
3. (figurative) a dead-end situation

Derived terms

• мад болох (mad bolox)
• мад тавиулах (mad taviulax)
• мад тавих (mad tavix)
• мад хийх (mad xiix)
• мад цохих (mad coxix)
• мадаас өөр хожилгүй, махнаас өөр хоолгүй (madaas öör xožilgüj, maxnaas öör xoolgüj)

 

Further reading

• “мад”, in Монгол хэлний их тайлбар толь [Dictionary of the Mongolian Language] (in Mongolian), Institute of Linguistics of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2016–present

Ossetian

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *máHtā (compare Persian مادر (mâdar), Baluchi مات (mát), 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 (compare Armenian մայր (mayr), Greek μητέρα (mitéra), Russian мать (matʹ), Italian madre, English mother).

Noun

мад • (mad) (plural мадӕлтӕ)

1. (Iron) mother

   мады лӕг ― mady læg ― stepfather

   Мады Майрӕм ― Mady Majræm ― Virgin Mary

See also

• мадӕ (madæ) (Digor dialect)