mat

• (UK) enPR: măt, IPA^(key): /mæt/
• (US) enPR: măt, IPA^(key): /mæt/, [mæʔ(t̚)]

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• Homophones: Matt, matte
• Rhymes: -æt

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

mat (plural mats)

a mat

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

   Wipe your feet on the mat before coming in.

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

   They put mats on the table during mealtimes.

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

   The high jumper cleared the bar and landed safely on the mat.

4. A thickly tangled mess.

   a mat of hair; a mat of weeds

5. A thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame.

   the mat of a daguerreotype

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

   Iceland moss growing in a mat

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.

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

     And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.

Compare matte.

• matt

mat

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

A clipped form of matinee.

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".

A clipped form of material.

mat (plural mats)

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

   To make a luck potion, you need several rare herbs as mats.

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

From Proto-Albanian *mata, from pre-Albanian *mn̥to, from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to tower, stand out”) (compare Welsh mynydd, Latin mōns, Avestan mati (mati)).[1]

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

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

• (sandy beach): ranishtë

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

• IPA^(key): /maːd/

mat

1. good

• ma

Paneuropean word, from Persian شاه مات‎ (šāh māt, “the king died”).

• IPA^(key): /mat/

mat m

1. checkmate

• IPA^(key): /mɑt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑt

From Middle Dutch matte, borrowed from Latin matta. Cognates include English mat and German Matte.[1]

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

1. rug, mat
2. (hairstyle) mullet

• deurmat
• turnmat

• placemat

From Middle Dutch mat (“checkmate”), borrowed from Old French mat, borrowed from Persian شاه مات‎ (šâh mât, “the king is dead”).[1] Cognate to English checkmate.

mat n (plural matten)

1. checkmate

• schaakmat

From Middle Dutch mat, borrowed from Old French mat, from Latin mattus (“depressed”).[1] See also French mat (adjective).

mat (comparative matter, superlative matst)

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

mat

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

See Dutch meten.

mat

1. singular past indicative of meten

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

• tam

• mât (Modenese, Reggiano)

• Hyphenation: mat

mat m (plural mat) (Mirandolese)

1. insane

• matùs (Carpigiano)

From the noun matur.

• IPA^(key): /mɛaːt/
• Rhymes: -ɛaːt
• Homophone: mæt

mat

1. accusative singular of matur.

• amt

Probably from Latin mattus, which is from madere; see Italian matto.[1]

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

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

1. matt
2. pale

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

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

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

1. checkmated

mat m (plural mats)

1. checkmate

• Notes:

• AMT

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

From Proto-Celtic *matis (compare Welsh and Breton mad, Cornish mas).

mat

1. good

mat

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐍄

• IPA^(key): /maːt/
• Rhymes: -aːt

mat n (genitive singular mats, nominative plural möt)

1. (usually uncountable) evaluation

• meta (“to evaluate”)

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

• IPA^(key): /mɑt/

  Rhymes: -ɑt

mat

1. with

• ouni

mat

1. earth

From Serbo-Croatian mati.

mat f

1. mother

• Ivica Peša Matracki and Nada Županović 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).

mat

1. nominative plural of mii

IPA^(key): /maːt/, [mɑːt̻]

Rhymes: -aːt

From Old Norse matr. Cognates include: Danish mad, Swedish mat, Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats), Old English mete (English meat).[1]

mat m (definite singular maten, uncountable)

1. food

• mate

• føde
• næring

mat

1. imperative of mate

• “mat” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse matr.

mat m (definite singular maten, uncountable)

1. food

• “mat” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

mat m (oblique and nominative feminine singular mate)

1. checkmated; in checkmate

mat

1. third-person plural present subjunctive of masu

• IPA^(key): /mat/

From Arabic مَات‎ (māt), from Persian شاه مات‎ (šâh mât).

mat m anim

1. checkmate

Borrowed from Dutch maat.

mat m pers

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

Borrowed from German matt.

mat m inan

1. matt, matte, dull colour or surface

• matowy

mat

1. genitive plural of mata

• mat in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Latin marītus.

• IPA^(key): [mat]

mat m

1. boy

From Arabic [Term?], from Persian شاه مات‎ (šâh mât, “the king is dead”).

• IPA^(key): /mat/

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.

• matový

• šach-mat

• mat in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk

• tam
• tma

mat m (plural mats)

1. mat (for exercise)

From Old Norse matr, from Proto-Germanic *matiz, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d-.

• IPA^(key): /mɑːt/

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mat c

1. food

• mat in Svenska Akademiens ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

From English mat.

mat

1. sitting or sleeping mat

• IPA^(key): /mat/

mat (plural mats)

1. marriage, wedlock, matrimony

• matan
• matikön
• matön