maat

From Afrikaans maat (“mate, buddy”). Doublet of mate.

maat (plural maats)

1. (South Africa, slang) mate; buddy
   • 2007, William Higham, The Hammarskjold Killing, page 226:

     A lot of my maats went west.

From Egyptian mꜣꜥt (“truth, righteousness, justice”).

maat (uncountable)

1. (philosophy, historical) the ancient Egyptian concept of justice, order, and harmony.

• AAMT

From Dutch maat.

• IPA^(key): /mɑːt/

maat (plural maats or maters, diminutive maatjie)

1. mate, buddy

• → English: maat

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• IPA^(key): /maːt/
• Hyphenation: maat
• Rhymes: -aːt

From older mate, which still exists in parallel with this form. From Middle Dutch mate, from Old Dutch *māta, from Proto-Germanic *mētō.

maat f (plural maten, diminutive maatje n)

1. measure, size
2. rhythm, beat

• meten

• Afrikaans: maat
• Berbice Creole Dutch: mete
• Negerhollands: maat, meet, maet
• → Indonesian: emat
• → Papiamentu: mat

From a borrowing of Middle Low German māt, māte, from Old Saxon *gimato, of West Germanic origin, from Proto-Germanic *gamatjô, itself from *ga- (“together”) + *matjô, from *matiz (“food”).[1][2]

Cognate with Old High German gimazzo, English mate.

maat m (plural maten or maats, diminutive maatje n)

1. mate, buddy
2. (close) colleague, shipmate etc.
3. low sailor rank

• maatschap
• maatschappij
• koksmaat
• ploegmaat
• scheepsmaat
• teammaat

• mattie

• Afrikaans: maat
  • → English: maat
• Berbice Creole Dutch: mati
• Negerhollands: maat, maet
• Skepi Creole Dutch: matte
• → Polish: mat
• → Sranan Tongo: mati (via the diminutive)
  • Aukan: mati
    • Ndyuka-Trio Pidgin: mati
  • → Dutch: mattie
  • → Kari'na: mati

maat

1. nominative plural of maa

• tama

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(ma-)zaqat, compare Malay jahat.

maat

1. bad

maat

1. Alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

maat

1. Alternative form of mat (“checkmate”)

maat

1. Alternative form of mat (“tired”)

maat

1. Alternative form of maten (“to checkmate”)

maat

1. water

maat (nominative plural maats)

1. (nautical) mast