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English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: m?t, IPA^(key): /mæt/
• (US) enPR: m?t, IPA^(key): /mæt/, [mæ?(t?)]
• Homophones: Matt, matte
• Rhymes: -æt

Etymology 1

From Middle English matte, from Old English meatte, from Late Latin matta, from Punic or Phoenician (compare Hebrew ???? \ ??????? (mitá, “bed, couch”)).

Noun

mat (plural mats)

1. A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering.

2. A small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster.

3. (athletics) A floor pad to protect athletes.

4. A thickly tangled mess.

5. A thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material.
6. A thin surface layer; superficial cover.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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.
2. (intransitive) To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.

   • And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare matte.

Alternative forms

• matt

Noun

mat

1. (coppersmithing) An alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc.; white metal.

Etymology 3

A clipped form of matinee.

Noun

mat (plural mats)

1. (dated slang) Abbreviation of matinee (“performance at a theater”).
   • 1898, The Hotel/Motor Hotel Monthly, Vol. 6, page 27:

     A gents' toilet room might be found in a house that caters for the cheaper class of theatrical patronage, where the slangy language of the "goin' to the mat this aft?" style prevails. A gents toilet room is not found in the Southern Hotel. It either "men's" or "gentlemen's".

Etymology 4

A clipped form of material.

Noun

mat (plural mats)

1. (video games, slang) A material or component needed for a crafting recipe.

Etymology 5

Noun

mat (plural mats)

1. Alternative spelling of matte (“decorative border around a picture”)

Etymology 6

Noun

mat (plural mats)

1. (printing) Short for matrix.

Anagrams

• AMT, ATM, MTA, TAM, TMA, amt, amt., atm, tam

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/

Noun

mat (Kana spelling ??)

1. (mainly in compounds) woman, female
2. wife

Synonyms

• menoko

Antonyms

• (woman): okkayo (“man”)
• (wife): hoku (“husband”)

Derived terms

• matne (“female”)

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *mata, from pre-Albanian *mn?to, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to tower, stand out”) (compare Welsh mynydd, Latin m?ns, Avestan mati (mati)).

Noun

mat m (indefinite plural mate, definite singular mati, definite plural matet)

1. seacoast
2. riverbank
3. sandy shore, sandy beach

Synonyms

• (sandy beach): ranishtë

References

Atong (India)

Etymology

Cognate with Garo mat/Garo mat-. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Noun

mat

1. wild animal

Derived terms

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Breton

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?d/

Adjective

mat

1. good

Related terms

• ma

Mutation

Catalan

Noun

mat m (plural mats)

1. checkmate

Derived terms

• escac i mat

Czech

Etymology

Paneuropean word, from Persian ??? ???? (š?h m?t, “the king died”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/

Noun

mat m

1. checkmate

Declension

Derived terms

Danish

Adjective

mat (neuter mat, plural and definite singular attributive matte)

1. dull, not shiny
2. tired

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/
• Hyphenation: mat
• Rhymes: -?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch matte, borrowed from Latin matta. Cognates include English mat and German Matte.

Noun

mat m or f (plural matten, diminutive matje n)

1. rug, mat
2. (hairstyle, chiefly diminutive) mullet

Derived terms

• deurmat
• hangmat
• kokosmat
• mattenklopper
• muismat
• rietmat
• slaapmat
• turnmat

Related terms

• placemat

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mat n (plural matten)

1. checkmate

Related terms

• schaakmat

Etymology 3

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

Adjective

mat (comparative matter, superlative matst)

1. matte, not reflecting light
2. dull, uninteresting

Inflection

Derived terms

• matglas

Verb

mat

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

Etymology 4

See Dutch meten.

Verb

mat

1. singular past indicative of meten

References

• “mat” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]
• Notes:

Anagrams

• tam

Emilian

Alternative forms

• mât (Modenese, Reggiano)

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: mat

Noun

mat m (plural mat) (Mirandola)

1. insane

Synonyms

• matùs (Carpigiano)

Faroese

Etymology

From the noun matur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?a?t/
• Rhymes: -?a?t
• Homophone: mæt

Noun

mat

1. accusative singular of matur.

Anagrams

• amt

French

Etymology 1

Probably from Latin mattus, which is from madere; see Italian matto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma/
• Rhymes: -a
• Homophone: ma

Adjective

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

1. matt
2. pale

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/
• Rhymes: -at
• Homophones: mate, matent, mates, matte, mattent, mattes, math, maths

Adjective

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

1. checkmated

Noun

mat m (plural mats)

1. checkmate

Derived terms

• échec et mat

References

• Notes:

Anagrams

• AMT

Further reading

• “mat” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Garo

Noun

mat

1. squirrel

Prefix

mat

1. prefix for mammals

Gothic

Romanization

mat

1. Romanization of ????????????

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

Noun

mat n (genitive singular mats, nominative plural möt)

1. (usually uncountable) evaluation

Declension

Related terms

• meta (“to evaluate”)

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

mat

1. inflection of matur:
   1. indefinite accusative singular
   2. indefinite dative singular

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German mit, from Proto-Germanic *midi. Cognate with German mit, Dutch met, West Frisian mei, Icelandic með.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?t/

  Rhymes: -?t

Preposition

mat

1. with

Antonyms

• ouni

Maricopa

Noun

mat

2. earth

Marshallese

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [m??t?]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /m?æt?/
• Bender phonemes: {mat}

Etymology 1

From Proto-Micronesian *masu, from Proto-Oceanic *masu?, contraction of Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mabosu?, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *b?su?, from Proto-Austronesian *b?su?. Cognate with Tongan mahu (“abound in food”).

Adjective

mat

1. full (after eating), satiated

Etymology 2

Adjective

mat

1. cooked

References

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Northern Sami

Pronoun

mat

1. nominative plural of mii

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ma?t/, [m??t?]

Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mat m (definite singular maten, uncountable)

1. food

Derived terms

Related terms

• mate

See also

• føde
• næring

Etymology 2

Verb

mat

1. imperative of mate

References

• “mat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse matr.

Noun

mat m (definite singular maten, uncountable)

1. food

Derived terms

References

• “mat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old French

Adjective

mat m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mate)

1. checkmated; in checkmate

Old Irish

Verb

mat

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of masu

Paipai

Noun

mat

1. land

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/

Etymology 1

From Arabic ????? (m?t), from Persian ??? ???? (šâh mât).

Noun

mat m anim

1. checkmate

Declension

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Dutch maat.

Noun

mat m pers

1. mate (a ship's officer)
2. mate (in naval ranks, a non-commissioned officer)

Declension

Etymology 3

Borrowed from German matt.

Noun

mat m inan

1. matt, matte, dull colour or surface

Declension

Derived terms

• matowy

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

mat

1. genitive plural of mata

Further reading

• mat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French mat.

Adjective

mat m or n (feminine singular mat?, masculine plural ma?i, feminine and neuter plural mate)

1. matte

Declension

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin mar?tus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mat]

Noun

mat m

1. boy

Semai

Etymology

From Proto-Aslian *mat, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *mat (“eye”). Cognate with Khmer ???? (m??t), Mon ??? (mòt), Vietnamese m?t, Car Nicobarese mat.

Noun

mat

1. eye

References

Slavomolisano

Etymology

From Serbo-Croatian mati.

Noun

mat f

1. mother

Declension

References

• Ivica Peša Matracki and Nada Županovi? Filipin (2014), Changes in the System of Oblique Cases in Molise Croatian Dialect.
• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

Slovak

Etymology

From Arabic ?????? (m?ta) in Persian ??? ???? (šâh mât, “the king is dead”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/

Noun

mat m (genitive singular matu, nominative plural maty, genitive plural matov, declension pattern of dub)

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

Declension

Derived terms

• matový

Related terms

• šach-mat

References

• mat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

Anagrams

• tam
• tma

Spanish

Etymology

From English mat.

Noun

mat m (plural mats)

1. mat (for exercise)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse matr, from Proto-Germanic *matiz, from Proto-Indo-European *meh?d-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??t/

Noun

mat c

1. food

Declension

Derived terms

References

• mat in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• tam

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English mat.

Noun

mat

1. sitting or sleeping mat

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mat/

Noun

mat (nominative plural mats)

1. marriage, wedlock, matrimony

Declension

Derived terms

• matan
• matikön
• matön

English

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (q?t).

Noun

qat (usually uncountable, plural qats)

1. Alternative form of khat, a psychoactive stimulant obtained from the plant Catha edulis.

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *kat.

Noun

qat (definite accusative qat?, plural qatlar)

1. layer
   1. bed (a deposit of ore, coal, etc).
2. floor, storey
3. (theater) circle (a curved upper tier of seats in a theater)
4. fold (on fabric, paper)
5. -fold (times)

Declension

Derived terms

• göyün yeddinci qat? (“seventh heaven”)

Further reading

• “qat” in Obastan.com.

Dutch

Alternative forms

• kat

Pronunciation

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (q?t)

Noun

qat m (uncountable)

1. khat, a psychoactive stimulant obtained from the plant Catha edulis.

French

Alternative forms

• khat

Noun

qat m (plural qats)

1. khat; qat

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ????.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /q??t/

Noun

qat f

1. floor (storey/story)

Tatar

Noun

qat

1. Latin spelling of ??? (qat, “layer”)