matá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mata"

Central Tarahumara

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *mataR.

Noun

matá

1. metate (grinding stone)

References

• Hilton, K. Simón (1993) Diccionario tarahumara de Samachique, Chihuahua, México (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 101)‎^[1] (in Spanish), special corrected and updated edition, Tucson: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 18
• Hilton, K. Simón with Shoemaker, Wes (2016) Diccionario tarahumara actualizado‎^[2] (in Spanish), draft edition, SIL International, page 28

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Indo-Portuguese

Etymology

From Portuguese matar (“to kill”), from Old Galician-Portuguese matar, from Latin mactō (“to slaughter; to kill”).

Verb

matá

1. (Diu) to kill (to put to death)
   • 1883, Hugo Schuchardt, Kreolische Studien, volume 3:

     Trasê tamêm um vaquinh bem gord e matá par nós comê e par nós regalá:

     Bring also a small and very fat cow and kill (it) for us to eat and for us to feast on:

See also

• morrê

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Portuguese

Verb

matá

1. Apocopic form of matar; used preceding the pronouns lo, la, los or las
2. Eye dialect spelling of matar, representing Brazil Portuguese.

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Rohingya

Etymology

Cognate with Bengali মাথা (matha).

Noun

matá

1. head

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Spanish

Verb

matá

1. (Latin America) Informal second-person singular (voseo) affirmative imperative form of matar.