moat

See also: möät

English

Etymology

From Middle English mote, from Old French mote (“mound, embankment”); compare also Old French motte (“hillock, lump, clod, turf”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  mota (“a mound, hill, a hill on which a castle is built, castle, embankment, turf”), of (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  origin, perhaps via Old (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *(s)mut- (“dark, dirty”). Cognate with Alemannic German Mott, Mutte (“peat, turf”), Bavarian Mott (“peat, turf”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch dialectal mot (“dust, fine sand”), Saterland Frisian mut (“grit, litter, humus”), Swedish muta (“to drizzle”), Old English mot (“speck, particle”). More at mote, mud, smut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /məʊt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt
• IPA^(key): /moʊt/
• Rhymes: -oʊt
• Homophone: mote

Noun

moat (plural moats)

1. A deep, wide defensive ditch, normally filled with water, surrounding a fortified habitation.
2. (business, figurative) An aspect of a business which makes it more "defensible" from competitors, either because of the nature of its products, services, franchise or other reason. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. A circular lowland between a resurgent dome and the walls of the caldera surrounding it.
4. (obsolete) A hill or mound.

Synonyms

• fosse

Translations

defensive ditch

• Arabic: خَنْدَق m (ḵandaq)
• Armenian: խրամ (hy) (xram)
• Azerbaijani: xəndək (az)
• Belarusian: роў m (roŭ)
• Bulgarian: ров (bg) m (rov)
• Burmese: ကျုံး (my) (kyum:)
• Catalan: fossat (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 護城河／护城河 (zh) (hùchénghé), 护城河 (zh) (hùchénghé), 城壕 (chéngháo), 城河 (zh) (chénghé)

• Chinese Characters: 堑, 塹, 壕, 池, 洫, 濠
• Czech: vodní příkop m, příkop (cs) m
• Danish: voldgrav c
• Dutch: slotgracht (nl) m, gracht (nl) m
• Esperanto: fosaĵo
• Estonian: vallikraav
• Finnish: vallihauta (fi)
• French: douve (fr) f
• Galician: foso m, cárcava f
• Georgian: თხრილი (txrili), გუბი (gubi)
• German: Burggraben (de) m
• Greek: τάφρος (el) f (táfros)
• Hebrew: חֲפִיר (he) (khafir)
• Hindi: खन्दक (hi) (khandak), खाइ (khāi)
• Hungarian: sáncárok (hu), vizesárok (hu)
• Icelandic: kastalasíki n, síki n, virkisgröf f, kastaladíki n, díki (is) n
• Ido: fosato (io)
• Irish: móta m
• Italian: fossato (it) m, fosso (it) m, canale (it) m, canalone m
• Japanese: 堀 (ja) (hori)
• Khmer: ស្នាមភ្លោះ (km) (snaam plʊəh)
• Korean: 해자 (haeja), 호 (ko) (ho)
• Latin: fossa f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: aizsarggrāvis
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: шанец m (šanec)
• Maltese: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: awamate
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: vollgrav (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: vollgrav f

• Occitan: valat (oc) m, doga f
• Persian: خندق (fa) (xandaq), پارگین (fa) (pârgin)
• Polish: fosa (pl) f
• Portuguese: fosso (pt) m
• Romanian: șanț (ro) n
• Russian: ров (ru) m (rov)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: шанац m

  Roman: šanac (sh) m

• Slovak: priekopa f
• Slovene: jarek (sl) m
• Spanish: fosa (es) f, foso (es) m
• Swedish: vallgrav (sv) c, stormgrav c
• Tajik: хандақ (xandaq)
• Tamil: பாதுகாப்பு பள்ளம் (pātukāppu paḷḷam)
• Thai: คูปราสาท (koo bpraasàat), คูเมือง (th) (koo meuang)
• Tibetan: ཆུ་དོང་ལྕགས་རི (chu dong lcags ri)
• Turkish: hendek (tr)
• Ukrainian: рів (uk) m (riv)
• Urdu: خندق (xandaq), کھائی (khāi)
• Uzbek: xandaq (uz)
• Vietnamese: hào (vi), hố (vi)
• Welsh: ffos f

See also

• cunette

Verb

moat (third-person singular simple present moats, present participle moating, simple past and past participle moated)

1. (transitive) To surround with a moat.

Anagrams

• Amto, Mato, Mota, TMAO, atmo, atom, mota, toma

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɑt/, [ˈmo̞ɑ̝t̪]
• IPA^(key): /ˈmoːɑt/, [ˈmo̞ːɑ̝t̪]
• Hyphenation: mo‧at

Noun

moat

1. (deprecated template usage) nominative plural of moa

Anagrams

• mato, omat