م و ت

م و ت

See also: موت‎

Arabic

Etymology

From Proto-Semitic *mawut-.

Root

م و ت • (m-w-t)

1. related to death

Derived terms

Verbs and verb derivatives

• Form I: مَاتَ‎ (māta, “to die, perish, subside”)
  • Verbal noun: مَوْت‎ (mawt, “death, demise”), مَمَات‎ (mamāt, “death, demise”)
  • Active participle: مَائِت‎ (māʾit, “dying, mortal”), مَيِّت‎ (mayyit, “dying, mortal”), مَيْت‎ (mayt, “dying, mortal”)
• Form I: مَاتَ‎ (māta)
  • Verbal noun: مَوَات‎ (mawāt)
• Form II: مَوَّتَ‎ (mawwata, “to make die, let perish, kill, cause the death of”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمْوِيت‎ (tamwīt)
  • Active participle: مُمَوِّت‎ (mumawwit)
  • Passive participle: مُمَوَّت‎ (mumawwat)
• Form IV: أَمَاتَ‎ (ʾamāta, “to make die, let perish, kill, cause the death of; to mortify, suppress”)
  • Verbal noun: إِمَاتَة‎ (ʾimāta, “killing, mortification”)
  • Active participle: مُمِيت‎ (mumīt, “lethal, fatal, deadly”)
  • Passive participle: مُمَات‎ (mumāt, “antiquated”)
• Form VI: تَمَاوَتَ‎ (tamāwata, “to pretend to be dead or weak, to be sluggish”)
  • Verbal noun: تَمَاوُت‎ (tamāwut)
  • Active participle: مُتَمَاوِت‎ (mutamāwit)
• Form X: اِسْتَمَاتَ‎ (istamāta, “to seek death, risk death, fight desperately”)
  • Verbal noun: اِسْتِمَاتَة‎ (istimāta, “death defiance, desperate struggle”)
  • Active participle: مُسْتَمِيت‎ (mustamīt, “death-defying, reckless; martyr”)

Nouns and other parts of speech

• مَيِّت‎ (mayyit, “lifeless, inanimate, dead”), مَيْت‎ (mayt)
  • مَيْتَة‎ (mayta, “corpse”)
• مَوْتَة‎ (mawta, “death”)
• مُوتَة‎ (mūta, “fainting, swoon”)
• مَوَات‎ (mawāt, “inanimate thing, barren region”)
• مِيتَة‎ (mīta, “manner of death”)
• مَمَات‎ (mamāt, “place of death”)
• مَوَتَان‎ (mawatān, “inanimate goods, dead stock, lands and houses as opposed to beasts or slaves”)
• مَوْتَان‎ (mawtān, “inexcitable, dead, dull, not sprightly”)
• مَوْتَان‎ (mawtān, “death, plague”) (inter-Semitic borrowing)

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881), “م و ت”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes (in French), volume 2, Leiden: E. J. Brill, pages 622-623
• Freytag, Georg (1837), “م و ت”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 218–219
• Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “م و ت”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1165
• Lane, Edward William (1863), “م و ت”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 2741–2742
• Wehr, Hans (1979), “مات (موت)‎”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 1091