Appendix:Arabic roots/م و ت

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 (māʔit, “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 (ʔamāta, “to make die, let perish, kill, cause the death of; to mortify, suppress”)
  • Verbal noun: إِمَاتَة (ʔimāta, “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^[1] (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^[2] (in Latin), volume 4, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 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^[3] (in French), volume 2, Paris: Maisonneuve et C^ie, page 1165
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “م و ت”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[4], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 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