ماتم

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ماتَم (mātam), from Arabic مَأْتَم (maʔtam).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɑː.t̪əm/

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• Rhymes: -əm
• Hyphenation: ما‧تَم

Noun

ماتَم • (mātam) m (Hindi spelling मातम)

1. mourning, grief

   Synonym: سوگ (sog)

2. lamentation, beating the chest
3. (by extension) regret, sorrow
4. a women's gathering for a good deed or bad occasion
5. (Shia Islam) ritual mourning (for Imam Hussain's martydom)

Declension

Declension of ماتم
	singular	plural
direct	ماتَم (mātam)	ماتَم (mātam)
oblique	ماتَم (mātam)	ماتَموں (mātamō̃)
vocative	ماتَم (mātam)	ماتَمو (mātamō)

Further reading

• “ماتم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “ماتم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ماتم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

Ushojo

Etymology

Borrowed from Urdu ماتَم (mātam), from Classical Persian ماتَم (mātam), from Arabic مَأْتَم (maʔtam).

Noun

ماتم (mātam)

1. mourning ceremony