maat

See also: Maat

English

Etymology

From Afrikaans maat (“mate, buddy”).

Noun

maat (plural maats)

  1. (South Africa, slang) mate; buddy
    • 2007, William Higham, The Hammarskjold Killing, page 226:
      A lot of my maats went west.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch maat.

Noun

maat (plural maats)

  1. mate, buddy

Descendants

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)

  1. size, measure.
Derived terms

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)

  1. mate, buddy
  2. shipmate etc.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: maat
  • → Sranan Tongo: mati (via the diminutive)

Finnish

Noun

maat

  1. Nominative plural form of maa.

Volapük

Noun

maat (plural maats)

  1. (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
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