different between tam vs mat

English

Etymology 1

Short for tam o'shanter.

Noun

tam (plural tams)

1. Synonym of tam o'shanter, a type of cap.

Etymology 2

From the Cantonese pronunciation of ?

Noun

tam (plural tams)

1. Synonym of picul, a unit of weight, particularly in Cantonese contexts.

Anagrams

• AMT, ATM, MAT, MTA, Mat, Mat., TMA, amt, amt., atm, mat, mat.

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (t?mm).

Adverb

tam

1. (of a task to be completed) done; finished; complete

2. completely, really

Etymology 2

From Arabic ?????? (?a?m).

Noun

tam (definite accusative tam?, plural tamlar)

1. taste

   Synonym: dad

Declension

Further reading

• “tam” in Obastan.com.

Chewong

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?m/

Noun

tam

1. water

References

• Howell, S. (1984). Society and cosmos: Chewong of peninsular Malaysia. p. 128.
• Kruspe, N. (2009). Ceq Wong vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmoor, U. (eds.). World Loanword Database.

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

tam

1. teeming, full

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[2], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Adverb

tam

1. there (in or at that place or location)
2. there (to or into that place)

Antonyms

• (to or into that place): zp?t, zpátky

Derived terms

• tamní
• tam?jší
• tamtudy

Further reading

• tam in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• tam in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Etymology

From Old Danish tam, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh?-.

Adjective

tam

1. tame

Inflection

References

• “tam” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *tam, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?m/
• Rhymes: -?m

Adjective

tam (comparative tammer, superlative tamst)

1. tame, not wild
2. (figuratively) boring, unexciting, bland

Inflection

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tam

Anagrams

• mat

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tam.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Adverb

tam

1. as (in comparison), so (followed by an adj.)

See also

• kam (“than, as, to (in comparison)”)

Kabyle

Etymology

From Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Numeral

tam (feminine tamet)

1. eight

   Synonym: tmanya

Kashubian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronoun

tam

1. there

Lashi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Verb

tam

1. to make something level

References

• Hkaw Luk (2017) A grammatical sketch of Lacid?^[3], Chiang Mai: Payap University (master thesis)

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *téh?m, accusative of *séh?, feminine of *só. Confer with its masculine form Latin tum, as in cum-quam.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /tam/, [t?ä??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tam/, [t??m]

Adverb

tam (not comparable)

1. so, so much, to such an extent, to such a degree

Usage notes

Often coupled with quam

1. Such that "tam x, quam y" = "so x, as y"

Often "tips off" a subjunctive clause of result.

Derived terms

• tamen
• tamquam
• tandem
• tantus

Related terms

Descendants

• French: tant
• Italian: tanto
• Old Portuguese: tan
• Portuguese: tam, tão
• Spanish: tamaño, tan

References

• tam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tam in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• tam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[4], London: Macmillan and Co.

Latvian

Pronoun

tam

1. to that; dative singular masculine form of tas

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tam]

Adverb

tam

1. there (in that place)

Further reading

• tam in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• tam in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Adjective

tam

1. Alternative form of tame (“tame”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tam

1. (Northern, after d or t) Alternative form of þem (“them”)

Northern Kurdish

Etymology 1

From Arabic ?????? (?a?m).

Noun

tam ?

1. taste

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t???m]

Adverb

tam

1. precisely, exactly

Etymology 3

From Old Anatolian Turkish ???? (d?am).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [t??m]

Noun

tam ?

1. house, building, structure

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tamr

Adjective

tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)

1. tame, domesticated

Related terms

• temme

References

• “tam” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tamr

Adjective

tam (neuter singular tamt, definite singular and plural tamme)

1. tame, domesticated

Related terms

• temja, temje

References

• “tam” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Alternative forms

• tom

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tamaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?m/

Adjective

tam

1. tame

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: tame, tam
  • English: tame
  • Scots: tame

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tam/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronoun

tam

1. there

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

tam f

1. genitive plural of tama

Further reading

• tam in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• tam in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Adverb

tam (not comparable)

1. Obsolete spelling of tão

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Adverb

tam (Cyrillic spelling ???)

1. (Kajkavian, regional) there

Synonyms

• tamo

Slovak

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tam/

Adverb

tam

1. there
2. thither

Synonyms

• (thither): ta

Antonyms

• (there): tu
• (thither): sem

References

• tam in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tám/

Adverb

t?m

1. there, in that place

Further reading

• “tam”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish tamber, from Old Norse tamr, from Proto-Germanic *tamaz, from Proto-Indo-European *demh?-.

Adjective

tam (comparative tamare, superlative tamast)

1. tame (not wild), domesticated

Declension

Related terms

• tämja

Anagrams

• mat, mat.

Tatar

Noun

tam

1. wall

Turkish

Adjective

tam (comparative daha tam, superlative en tam)

1. complete, absolute

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *tamo.

Adverb

tam

1. there

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [ta?m??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [ta?m??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [ta?m??]

Etymology 1

Sino-Vietnamese word from ? (“three”).

Numeral

tam

1. (Sino-Vietnamese) three
2. third; thirdly

See also

• (native) ba

Etymology 2

From Proto-Vietic *k-sa?m. Cognate with Thavung sa?m¹, Kuy s??m, Khmu [Cuang] h??m.

The term was probably already archaic by the time it started to be written down and was only attested in the compound ????? (anh tam, “elder brother and younger sibling”).

Numeral

tam • (?)

1. (obsolete) younger sibling

Zazaki

Noun

tam n

1. taste

Derived terms

• bêtam
• tamey
• tamin
• tamkar
• tam kerden
• tamser
• tam kerd??

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