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Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
mát f
- genitive plural of máta
Faroese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Norse mát (‘measure’).
Noun
mát n (genitive singular máts, plural mát)
- measure
- measuring tool / device / instrument
- unit of measurement
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Old Norse mát (‘checkmate’).
Noun
mát n (genitive singular máts, uncountable)
- (chess) checkmate
Declension
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Etymology 3
? From English mate.
Noun
mát n (no declension)
- (in expressions) mate, friend
Hungarian
Etymology
ma + -t
Pronunciation
Noun
mát
- accusative singular of ma
Icelandic
Pronunciation
Noun
mát n (genitive singular máts, nominative plural mát)
- (chess) checkmate
Declension
Declension of mát (neuter)
Derived terms
Pacoh
Etymology
From Proto-Katuic *mat, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *mat.
Pronunciation
Noun
mát
- (anatomy) eye
Vietnamese
Etymology
From Proto-Vietic *t-maːc.
The sense "cray-cray" is possibly also a phono-semantic matching with English mad, although the word is unlikely to be actually derived from English as it has the synonym ấm (“warm”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
mát • (沫, 𠖾, 𩗂, 𫖼)
- (of weather or temperature) cool
- Antonyms: ấm, nóng
- (of food or drink) pleasant, soothing, agreeable, goes down easily
- Synonym: mát ruột
- Antonyms: nóng, nóng ruột
- smoothly ironic
- a little short of the weight shown on the scale
- (slang) cray-cray
- Synonym: ấm
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