maat

See also: Maat and mAat

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans maat (“mate, buddy”). Doublet of mate.

Noun

maat (plural maats)

1. (South Africa, slang) mate; buddy
   • 2007, William Higham, The Hammarskjold Killing, page 226:

     A lot of my maats went west.

Anagrams

• AAMT

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch maat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɑːt/

Noun

maat (plural maats or maters, diminutive maatjie)

1. mate, buddy

Descendants

• → English: maat

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Dutch

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /maːt/
• Hyphenation: maat
• Rhymes: -aːt

Etymology 1

From older mate, which still exists in parallel with this form. From Middle Dutch mate, from Old Dutch *māta, from Proto-Germanic *mētō.

Noun

maat f (plural maten, diminutive maatje n)

1. measure, size
2. rhythm, beat

Derived terms

• bovenmaats
• confectiemaat
• hemdsmaat
• kindermaat
• kledingmaat
• maatbeker
• maatgevend
• maatglas
• maatkostuum
• maatpak
• maatregel
• maatstaf
• maatwerk
• matig
• ondermaats
• schoenmaat

 

Related terms

• meten

Descendants

• Afrikaans: maat
• Berbice Creole Dutch: mete
• Negerhollands: maat, meet, maet
• → Indonesian: emat
• → Papiamentu: mat

Etymology 2

From a borrowing of Middle Low German māt, māte, from Old Saxon *gimato, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *gamatjô, itself from *ga- (“together”) + *matjô, from *matiz (“food”).

Cognate with Old High German gimazzo, English mate.

Noun

maat m (plural maten or maats, diminutive maatje n)

1. mate, buddy
2. (close) colleague, shipmate etc.
3. low sailor rank

Derived terms

• maatschap
• maatschappij
• koksmaat
• ploegmaat
• scheepsmaat
• teammaat

Related terms

• mattie

Descendants

• Afrikaans: maat
  • → English: maat
• Berbice Creole Dutch: mati
• Negerhollands: maat, maet
• Skepi Creole Dutch: matte
• → Polish: mat
• → Sranan Tongo: mati (via the diminutive)
  • Aukan: mati
    • Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: mati
  • → Dutch: mattie
  • → Kari'na: mati

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Finnish

Noun

maat

1. (deprecated template usage) nominative plural of maa

Anagrams

• tama

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Mansaka

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)zaqat, compare Malay jahat.

Adjective

maat

1. bad

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

maat

1. Alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

Adjective

maat

1. Alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

Etymology 2

Adjective

maat

1. Alternative form of mat (“tired”)

Etymology 3

Verb

maat

1. Alternative form of maten (“to checkmate”)

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Volapük

Noun

maat (nominative plural maats)

1. (nautical) mast

Declension

declension of maat

	singular	plural
nominative	maat	maats
genitive	maata	maatas
dative	maate	maates
accusative	maati	maatis
vocative 1	o maat!	o maats!
predicative 2	maatu	maatus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only