matar
Portuguese
/mɐ.ˈtaɾ/, /ma.ˈta(ʁ)/
verb
Definitions
- to kill to cause to die
- (figurative) to kill; to eradicate; to destroy
- (figurative) to kill to cause extreme pain, distress or exhaustion in
- (transitive) to kill to write a story that conveys the death of
- (figurative) to satisfy, to satiate, to quench to fulfil an emotional or physiological need
- (figurative) to break one's back to make a great effort
- (colloquial) to spend [a period of time] doing unimportant things
- (Brazil) to skip not to be present in a class
- (informal) to solve to find the solution to a mystery
- (Brazil) to consume something entirely (especially an alcoholic drink); to knock down
- (sports) to stop a moving ball
- (cue sports) to pocket to cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table
Etymology
Inherited from Old Portuguese matar inherited from Latin mactō, mactāre, *mattāre derived from Arabic مَاتَ (die).
Origin
Arabic
مَاتَ
Gloss
die
Concept
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Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- matafunda English
- *mattāre Latin
- funda Latin
- mactāre Latin
- mactō Latin
- mactō, mactāre Latin
- Matajudíos Spanish, Castilian
- Matamoros Spanish, Castilian
- matabichos Spanish, Castilian
- mataburros Spanish, Castilian
- matacandelas Spanish, Castilian
- matacucarachas Spanish, Castilian
- matacán Spanish, Castilian
- matador Spanish, Castilian
- matahombres Spanish, Castilian
- matahormigas Spanish, Castilian
- matamarcianos Spanish, Castilian
- matamoscas Spanish, Castilian
- matapolicías Spanish, Castilian
- matar Spanish, Castilian
- matarratas Spanish, Castilian
- matasanos Spanish, Castilian
- matasellos Spanish, Castilian
- matasuegras Spanish, Castilian
- mataviejos Spanish, Castilian
- matón Spanish, Castilian
- rematar Spanish, Castilian
- matador Portuguese
- matadouro Portuguese
- matança Portuguese
- rematar Portuguese
- مَاتَ Arabic
- matar Galician
- شاه مات Persian
- matar Old Portuguese
- mat Slovak
- mata Papiamentu
- matadó Papiamentu
- mata Kabuverdianu
- matadór Kabuverdianu
- مات Moroccan Arabic
- mata Guinea-Bissau Creole
- مات Egyptian Arabic
- mata Chavacano
- matá Indo-Portuguese
- מאת Judeo-Arabic