Arabic

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”), مَوْتَة ‎( mawta, “death, demise”)
  • Active participle: مَائِت ‎(māʾit, “dying, mortal”)
  • Passive participle: مَمُوت ‎(mamūt, “lethal, fatal, deadly”)
• 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)
  • Passive participle: مُمَات ‎(mumāt)
• 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”)
• مَوَات ‎(mawāt, “inanimate thing, barren”)
• مَوْتَان ‎(mawtān, “death, plague”)
• مِيتَة ‎(mīta, “manner of death”)
• مَمَات ‎(mamāt, “place of death”)
• مُمَات ‎(mumāt, “antiquated”)

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979), “مات (موت)”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4