mat

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See also MAT, Mat., mât, mať, mạt, and maț

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English [edit]

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Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Old English matte, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew מיטה \ מִטָּה (mitá, “bed, couch”)).

Noun [edit]

mat (plural mats)

mat
  1. A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.
    Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.
  2. A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.
    They put mats on the table during mealtimes.
  3. (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.
    The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.
  4. A thickly tangled mess, of hair etc.
    a mat a hair
  5. A thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.
  6. A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.

Derived terms [edit]

Translations [edit]

foot wiping device
protector
athletics: protective pad
thickly tangled mess
border around frame
thin layer of fiber as reinforcement
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Verb [edit]

mat (third-person singular simple present mats, present participle matting, simple past and past participle matted)

  1. (transitive) To cover, protect or decorate with mats.
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  2. (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
    • Dryden
      And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.

Translations [edit]

cover, protect, decorate with mats
form a thick tangled mess

Anagrams [edit]

Albanian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Albanian *mata, from pre-Albanian *mn̥to, from Proto-Indo-European *men ‘mountain’ (compare Welsh mynydd, Latin mōns, Avestan mati).

Noun [edit]

mat m

  1. shore
  2. river bank

Breton [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Proto-Celtic *mati- (compare Irish maith).

Pronunciation [edit]

Adjective [edit]

mat

  1. good

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Czech [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Paneuropean word, from Persian شاه مات (šāh māt, “the king died”).

Noun [edit]

mat m

  1. checkmate

Declension [edit]

    declension of mat
singular plural
nominative mat maty
genitive matu matů
dative matu matům
accusative mat maty
vocative mate! maty!
locative matu matech
instrumental matem maty

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Dutch [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Middle Dutch matte, borrowed from Latin matta, which is borrowed from Phoenician. Cognates include English mat and German Matte.[1]

Noun [edit]

mat f (plural matten, diminutive matje)

  1. rug, mat
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Etymology 2 [edit]

From Middle Dutch mat (“checkmate”), borrowed from Old French mat, borrowed from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king is dead”).[1] Cognate to English checkmate.

Noun [edit]

mat m (plural matten)

  1. checkmate
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Etymology 3 [edit]

From Middle Dutch mat, borrowed from Old French mat, from Latin mattus (“depressed”).[1] See also French mat (adjective).

Adjective [edit]

mat (comparative matter, superlative matst)

  1. matte, not reflecting light
  2. dull, uninteresting
Declension [edit]
Declension of mat
positive comparative superlative
attributive predicative/adverbial
predicative/adverbial mat matter
neuter
singular		 indefinite mat matter
definite matte mattere matste matst, matste
common singular matte mattere matste matste
plural matte mattere matste matste
partitive mats matters

Verb [edit]

mat

  1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of matten
  2. imperative of matten

Etymology 4 [edit]

See Dutch meten.

Verb [edit]

mat

  1. singular past indicative of meten

References [edit]

  • “mat” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
  • Notes:
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J. de Vries & F. de Tollenaere, "Etymologisch Woordenboek", Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, Utrecht, 1986 (14de druk)

Anagrams [edit]

French [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Probably from Latin mattus, whence Italian matto.[1]

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ma/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Homophone: ma

Adjective [edit]

mat m (feminine mate, masculine plural mats, feminine plural mates)

  1. matt
  2. pale

Etymology 2 [edit]

Abbreviation of the French expression échec et mat, from Persian شاه مات (shah mat, “the king is ambushed”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Adjective [edit]

mat m (feminine mate, masculine plural mats, feminine plural mates)

  1. checkmated

Noun [edit]

mat m (plural mats)

  1. checkmate

References [edit]

  • Notes:
  1. ^ 2009, Jacqueline Picoche; Jean-Claude Rolland, “mat”, in Dictionnaire étymologique du français (in French), Paris: Dictionnaires Le Robert:

Anagrams [edit]

Gothic [edit]

Romanization [edit]

mat

  1. See 𐌼𐌰𐍄

Icelandic [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

mat n (genitive singular mats, plural möt)

  1. (usually uncountable) evaluation

Declension [edit]

declension of mat
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative mat matið möt mötin
accusative mat matið möt mötin
dative mati matinu mötum mötunum
genitive mats matsins mata matanna

Lojban [edit]

Rafsi [edit]

mat

  1. rafsi of mapti.

Luxembourgish [edit]

Preposition [edit]

mat

  1. with

Norwegian [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse matr. Cognates include: Danish mad, Swedish mat, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats), Old English mete (English meat).[1]

Noun [edit]

mat m

  1. food

See also [edit]

References [edit]

  1. ^ Alf Torp, "Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok", Oslo 1992 (reprint), ISBN 82-90520-17-4

Old Irish [edit]

Verb [edit]

mat

  1. third-person plural present subjunctive of masu

Polish [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

From Arabic مات (māt), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât).

Noun [edit]

mat m

  1. checkmate
Declension [edit]
    declension of mat
singular plural
nominative mat maty
genitive mata matów
dative matowi matom
accusative mata maty
instrumental matem matami
locative macie matach
vocative macie maty

Etymology 2 [edit]

From Dutch maat

Noun [edit]

mat m

  1. mate (a ship's officer)
  2. mate (in naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer)
Declension [edit]
    declension of mat
singular plural
nominative mat maci
genitive mata matów
dative matowi matom
accusative mata matów
instrumental matem matami
locative macie matach
vocative macie maci

Etymology 3 [edit]

From German matt

Noun [edit]

mat m

  1. matt, matte, dull colour or surface
Declension [edit]
    declension of mat
singular only
nominative mat
genitive matu
dative matowi
accusative mat
instrumental matem
locative macie
vocative macie
Derived terms [edit]

Etymology 4 [edit]

Noun [edit]

mat

  1. Genitive plural form of mata

Romansch [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin marītus.

Noun [edit]

mat m

  1. boy

Slovak [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Arabic, from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king is left unable to escape”).

Noun [edit]

mat m (genitive matu, plural maty)

  1. The final move in a chess game, the checkmate.

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Swedish [edit]

Pronunciation [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse matr.

Noun [edit]

mat c

  1. food

Declension [edit]

Declension of mat
uncountable uncountable
Common indefinite definite
nominative mat maten
genitive mats matens

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References [edit]

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