maat
See also: Maat
English
Etymology
From Afrikaans maat (“mate, buddy”).
Noun
maat (plural maats)
- (South Africa, slang) mate; buddy
- 2007, William Higham, The Hammarskjold Killing, page 226:
- A lot of my maats went west.
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Anagrams
- AAMT
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch maat.
Noun
maat (plural maats)
- mate, buddy
Descendants
- → English: maat
Dutch
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aːt
Etymology 1
From older mate, which still exists in parallel with this form. From Middle Dutch mate, from Old Dutch *māta, from Proto-Germanic *mētō.
Noun
maat f (plural maten, diminutive maatje n)
- size, measure.
Derived terms
- maatbeker
- maatgevend
- maatglas
- maatpak
- maatregel
- maatstaf
- matig
- kindermaat
- kledingmaat
Related terms
- meten
Etymology 2
From a borrowing of Middle Low German māt, māte, from Old Saxon *gimato, cognate with Old High German gimazzo, English mate.
Noun
maat m (plural maten or maats, diminutive maatje n)
- mate, buddy
- shipmate etc.
Derived terms
- maatschap
- maatschappij
- teammaat
Related terms
- mattie
Descendants
- Afrikaans: maat
- → English: maat
- → Sranan Tongo: mati (via the diminutive)
- → Dutch: mattie
Finnish
Noun
maat
- Nominative plural form of maa.
Volapük
Noun
maat (plural maats)
- (nautical) mast
Declension
declension of maat
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | maat | maats |
| genitive | maata | maatas |
| dative | maate | maates |
| accusative | maati | maatis |
| vocative 1 | o maat! | o maats! |
| predicative 2 | maatu | maatus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only