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• mātā

Borrowed from Sanskrit माता (mātā), nom.sg. of मातृ (mātṛ, “mother”).^[1] Doublet of mater and mother.

mata (plural matas) (India)

1. A respectful title for a female spiritual leader or for a wife, mother, or grandmother of a male spiritual leader.
2. A Hindu goddess.

   • 1995, Amita Baviskar, In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts Over Development in the Narmada Valley, Bombay,  […]: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 98:

     While possession is usually limited to Bhilala men, the mata entered women too, endowing them with the power of clairvoyance, enabling them to identify the evil spirits or daakans in their midst. The mata spoke through the possessed, forecasting the future, directing people and events for her proper propitiation.

3. A mother (also used as a term of address for a woman).

• “mata”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *maCa. Compare Malay mata (“eye”).

mata

1. (anatomy) eye

• “Entry #”, in 阿美語中部方言辭典 [Dictionary of the Central Dialect of Amis]‎^[3] (in Chinese), Taiwan: Council of Indigenous Peoples, 2021

mata

1. be ripe

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

mata

1. inflection of matar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

mata

1. Romanization of ᬫᬢ
2. Romanization of ᬫᬢ᭄ᬢ
3. Romanization of ᬫᬣ

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): /maˈta/ [maˈta]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta

matá (Basahan spelling ᜋᜆ)

1. (anatomy) eye
2. instance of getting hit in the eye

matá (plural marata, Basahan spelling ᜋᜆ)

1. awake

   Antonyms: turog, katurog

2. conscious

   Synonyms: aram, marigmat

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. (anatomy) eye

From Proto-Malayic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): /maˈta/

mata

1. eye (organ)
2. the sharp edge of a blade, edge (as opposed to spine)
3. point (knife)

• biji mata
• bulu mata
• kelupak mata

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. (anatomy) eye

From Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈma.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈma.ta]

Probably an extension of Late Latin matta (“mat”), i.e. "mat-like growth of plants".

mata f (plural mates)

1. bush, shrub

   Synonym: arbust

2. mastic (tree)

   Synonym: llentiscle

3. thicket

   Synonym: bosc

• matoll

• matafaluga

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mata

1. inflection of matar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “mata” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mata”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “mata” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mata” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

First attested in Antonio Pigafetta's Relazione del primo viaggio intorno al mondo—detailing the first circumnavigation of the world between 1519 and 1522.

• Hyphenation: ma‧ta
• IPA^(key): /maˈta/ [mɐˈt̪a]

mata (Badlit spelling ᜋᜆ)

1. (anatomy) an eye; an organ through which animals see
2. an eye of a pineapple
3. (mahjong) the extra pair of tiles in most winning hands

mata (Badlit spelling ᜋᜆ)

1. to awake; to wake up
2. to eye; to observe carefully

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:mata.

• amat

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

mata

1. Alternative spelling of má·t̪a

• Greenburg, Language in the Americas

Inherited from Spanish matar (“to kill”).

matá

1. to kill
2. to close; to wink (of one's eyes)

mata

1. (Northern dialect) little brother

• Corresponding words in standard Crimean Tatar: kadâ, qardaş.

• bata

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

mata

1. awakened; awake

• IPA^(key): [ˈmata]

mata

1. masculine singular present transgressive of mást

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Mongolic *umarta-, see Mongolian мартах (martax).

• IPA^(key): /mɑˈtʰɑ/

mata

1. to forget

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Chamic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): /mə.taː/

mata (Akhar Thrah spelling ꨟꨓꨩ)

1. eye (organ)

• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*maCa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Old Norse mata

mata (third person singular past indicative mataði, third person plural past indicative mataðu, supine matað)

1. to feed

From Proto-Central-Pacific *mata, from Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. face (part of the body)
2. eye (organ)

mata

1. third-person singular past historic of mater

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From a substrate language. Compare mato.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmatɐ]

mata m (plural matas)

1. (now rare) forest, woodland
2. bush, shrub

• Mata
• Matamá

Back-formation from matar

• IPA^(key): [ˈmatɐ]

mata m (plural matas)

1. kill (act of killing)

   Synonym: matanza

mata

1. inflection of matar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mata”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mata”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mata”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mata”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mata”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

mata

1. to be sharp

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Oceanic [Term?] (compare Hawaiian maka, Maori mata), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mətaq (compare Chamorro mata', Indonesian mentah, Malagasy manta, Malay mentah).

mata

1. raw (uncooked)

From Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)
2. colour, hue
3. lamp or lantern, any object used to shed light
4. any sort of opening such as a lid or entrance, eye of needle

mata

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐌰

From Portuguese matar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu mata.

mata

1. to kill

• IPA^(key): /màː.táː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [màː.táː]

mā̀tā f (plural mātā, possessed form mā̀tar̃)

1. woman
2. wife

• mace

• IPA^(key): /máː.táː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [máː.táː]

mātā

1. plural of mata
2. plural of mace

mata

1. eye

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. (anatomy) eye (organ)

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *mataR.

mata (plural mamta)

1. metate (grinding stone)
2. gizzard

• Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 39
• Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 237

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Malayic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From matur (“food”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːta/
• Rhymes: -aːta

mata (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative mataði, supine matað)

1. to feed (a baby), to spoonfeed [with accusative]

• mötun (“feeding”)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

Inherited from Malay mata, from Proto-Malayic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmata/ [ˈma.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ma‧ta

mata (plural mata)

1. eye (an organ through which animals perceive surroundings via light)
2. eye (a loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, etc.)
3. eye (a part from which plant shoots grow; a reproductive bud)
4. a gap between two lines

   Near-synonym: sela

6. blade (the part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts)

   Synonym: bilah

7. (figurative, uncommon) an important part of something
8. (figurative, uncommon) center

   Synonym: pusat

The plural form mata-mata is rarely used (except in some compounds), since this word itself often have a dual or plural meaning in its literal sense "eye". The singular meaning for that can be specified with satu (“one”) or sebelah (“adjacent, next, next to”). While its senses other than "eye" can use bagian-bagian ("parts") for explicit plurality.

• “mata” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

matá

1. (anatomy) eye

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

mata

1. Rōmaji transcription of また

mata

1. Romanization of ꦩꦠ

From Portuguese matar.

mata

1. to kill

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /maˈta/ [mʌˈta]
• Rhymes: -a
• Syllabification: ma‧ta

matá

1. (anatomy) eye (the organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): /məˈta/ [məˈtä]

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Bantu *màtáì. Hinde (1904) records mata as an equivalent of English spittle in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also “Ulu dialect” (spoken then from Machakos to coastal area) of Kamba matta, “Nganyawa dialect” (spoken then in Kitui District) of Kamba utta and Swahili mate as its equivalents.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /mata/

mata class 6

1. saliva^[2]

(Proverbs)

• (kanua) karĩ mata gatiagaga wa kuuga

(Nouns)

• rũta class 11

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaːta]

mata

1. (anatomy) eye (organ)
2. (anatomy) face

   Synonym: ngora

• Allahverdi Verdizade (2019) “mata”, in Lamboya word list‎^[4], Leiden: LexiRumah

mata m

1. genitive singular of mats

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

matá

1. (anatomy) eye

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmata]

mata (Lontara spelling ᨆᨈ)

1. (anatomy) eye (organ)

From Proto-Malayic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

Sense of mesh from semantic evolution of 'eye' > 'hole, orifice'

• (Johor-Selangor) IPA^(key): /matə/
• (Riau-Lingga) IPA^(key): /mata/
• Rhymes: -atə, -tə, -ə
• Rhymes: -ta

mata (Jawi spelling مات, plural mata-mata, informal 1st possessive mataku, 2nd possessive matamu, 3rd possessive matanya)

1. eye (organ)
2. edge (of an axe, a knife, etc.)

   Synonym: bilah

3. hole (of a needle, net, etc.)
4. eye (of a potato)
5. (archaic) mesh of a net
6. shoot, sprout (of root/stem tuber)
7. grade, step
8. centre, centre point
9. fountainhead, source (of income, water, etc.)

   Synonyms: punca, sumber

10. mark, score (gained in a contest, exam, etc.)

    Synonym: poin (Indonesian)

11. item
12. (archaic) all types of dishes and food (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?)

• (organ): ain / عين

• air mata / اءير مات
• anak mata / انق مات
• bulu mata / بولو مات
• cenderamata / چندرامات
• cermin mata / چرمين مات
• kaca mata / کاچ مات
• mata air / مات اءير
• mata angin / مات اڠين
• matahari / ماتاهاري
• mata kail / مات کاءيل
• mata kucing / مات کوچيڠ
• mata-mata / مات٢
• mata pelajaran / مات ڤلاجرن
• mata wang / مات واڠ

• > Indonesian: mata (inherited)

• Wilkinson, Richard James (1901) “مات mata”, in A Malay-English dictionary, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh limited, page 594
• Wilkinson, Richard James (1932) “mata”, in A Malay-English dictionary (romanised), volume II, Mytilene, Greece: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis, pages 113-4
• "mata" in Kamus Dewan, Fourth Edition, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, →ISBN, 2005.

• “mata” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Polynesian *mata (cognate with Hawaiian maka and Tahitian mata),^[1] Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata (cognate with Malay mata), from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.^[2][3]

For sense of point, see also Malay mata (e.g. mata lembing for the point of a spear); similarly for sense of mesh (e.g. mata pukat).^[4] Sense of headland is broadening from sense of point merging with analogy of related body parts with similar semantic overlap like ihu “nose”.^[5]

mata

1. eye (organ of sight)

   Synonyms: karu, whatu

2. edge, point, tip

   Synonyms: tara, koi, koinga

3. (archaic) face

   Synonyms: nohi, kanohi

4. surface

   Synonyms: kahu, papa

5. headland

   Synonyms: ihu, koi, rae, kūrae, tūmū

6. mesh (of a net)

   Synonyms: tākekenga, papa, raumata

From Proto-Polynesian *mata (compare with Hawaiian maka, Tokelauan mata, Tongan mata and Samoan mata),^[1] from Proto-Oceanic *mataq, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mataq (compare with Malay mentah), from Proto-Austronesian *moto.^[2][3]

mata

1. raw (uncooked)

   Synonym: ota

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “mata”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 216
• “mata” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. (anatomy) eye

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

matá

1. (anatomy) eye

matá

1. awake

   Antonym: turog

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. (anatomy) eye

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

mata

1. eye

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

matá

1. eye (organ)

• matet

mata

1. inflection of mate:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): /mata/

mata

1. eye (organ)
2. meshes (of a net)
3. stone (set in a ring, etc)

• Javanese: ꦩꦠ (mata)

From Proto-Germanic *matōną.

mata

1. (transitive) To feed; nourish

• matask

• matr

• Danish: made
• Elfdalian: måtå
• Faroese: mata
• Gutnish: mate
• Icelandic: mata
• Norn: meta
• Norwegian: mate
• Swedish: mata
• → Middle French: amadouer
  • French: amadouer

Inherited from Sanskrit मृत (mṛta).

mata

1. dead^[1]
2. past participle of marati (“to die”)^[2]

• amata

Inherited from Sanskrit मत (mata).

mata

1. past participle of maññati (“to think”)^[3]

mata n

1. opinion, view^[1]

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Portuguese matar and Spanish matar and Kabuverdianu mata.

mata

1. to kill

• IPA^(key): /ˈma.ta/
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ma‧ta

Perhaps a learned borrowing from Late Latin matta.

mata f (diminutive matka)

1. mat (floor pad)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mata m animal

1. genitive/accusative singular of mat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mata m pers

1. genitive/accusative singular of mat

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mata

1. third-person singular present of matać

• mata in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• mata in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. (anatomy) eye

• Rhymes: -atɐ
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta

From Old Galician-Portuguese mata, possibly from Late Latin matta (“reed mat”).

mata f (plural matas)

1. woods, forest (collection of trees)

• matta (obsolete)

• (woods): see Thesaurus:floresta

Deverbal from matar.

mata m (uncountable)

1. (Portugal, games) dodgeball

   Synonym: jogo do mata

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mata

1. inflection of matar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

mata

1. story

• Norma Toland, Donald Toland, Reference Grammar of the Karo/Rawa Language (1991)

From an alteration of dumneata.

mata

1. (regional, familiar) you (singular)

   Synonym: matale

• tu
• dumneavoastră
• voi

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ˈta/, [ma.ˈta]

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Polynesian *mata. Cognates include Hawaiian maka and Tokelauan mata.

mata

1. eye

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

Borrowed from Spanish, perhaps from Late Latin matta.

mata

1. (Campidanese) tree

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

matá

1. (anatomy) eye

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

• IPA^(key): /ˈmata/ [ˈma.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ata
• Syllabification: ma‧ta

Perhaps from Late Latin matta (“floormat, doormat”).

mata f (plural matas)

1. shrub

   Synonym: arbusto

2. sprig
3. mastic tree, Pistacia lentiscus

   Synonyms: lentisco, mata charneca

4. (Colombia, Venezuela, Cuba, Dominican Republic) plant (organism of the kingdom Plantae)

   Synonyms: planta, vegetal

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

mata

1. inflection of matar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “mata”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Old Swedish mata, from mat (“food”) +‎ -a.

• IPA^(key): /²mɑːta/
• Rhymes: -²ɑːta

mata (present matar, preterite matade, supine matat, imperative mata)

1. to feed (give food to, usually of an animal or of actively feeding someone (like a small child))

   Synonym: (more general) föda (“feed (provide with nutrition)”)

   mata hönsen

   feed the chickens

   mata bebisen med en sked

   feed the baby with a spoon

   Får man mata djuren?

   Are you allowed to feed the animals?

   ligga på en divan och bli matad med druvor

   lie on a divan and be fed [with] grapes

2. (figuratively) to feed (with something other than food)

   matas med propaganda

   be fed [with] propaganda

   Mata inte trollen

   Don't feed the trolls

3. (often with a particle like in or ut) to feed, to enter

   Hon matade in uppgifterna i databasen

   She entered the data [pieces of information] into the database

   Skrivaren måste ha gått sönder. Den matar ut pappren ett efter ett så fort jag satt i dem.

   The printer must be broken. It spits out the papers, one by one, as fast as I've put them in.

• mata in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mata in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mata in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• tama

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.
Compare Japanese 目(め) (me, “eye”) / 眼(め) (me, “eye”) + 戸(と) (to, “door”) = 窓(まど) (mado, “window”).^[1]

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /maˈta/ [mɐˈt̪a]
    • Rhymes: -a
  • IPA^(key): /maˈtaʔ/ [mɐˈt̪aʔ] (obsolete)
• Syllabification: ma‧ta

matá (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜆ)

1. eye

• “mata”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*maCa”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• tama

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Vanikoro *mata, from Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): /mata/

mata

1. eye, gaze
2. face
3. hole, opening, passage

• François, Alexandre. 2021. Teanu dictionary (Solomon Islands). Dictionaria 15. 1-1877. DOI:10.5281/zenodo.5653063. – entry mata.
• François, Alexandre. 2021. Online Teanu–English dictionary, with equivalents in Lovono and Tanema. Electronic files. Paris: CNRS. – entry mata.
• Lackey, W.J.. & Boerger, B.H. (2021) “Reexamining the Phonological History of Oceanic's Temotu subgroup”, in Oceanic Linguistics.

mata

1. unripe

• IPA^(key): [ˈma.ta]
• Hyphenation: ma‧ta

From Proto-Polynesian *mata. Cognates include Hawaiian maka and Samoan mata.

mata

1. eye
2. (in the plural) face
3. point (extremity of a sharp object)
4. cutting edge
5. (in the plural) glasses, spectacles

mata

1. (intransitive) to look
2. (transitive) to see
3. (transitive) to wear (glasses)

From Proto-Polynesian *mata. Cognates include Hawaiian maka and Samoan mata.

mata

1. (stative) to be raw
2. (stative) to be young

• R. Simona, editor (1986), Tokelau Dictionary‎^[5], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 222

From Proto-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Oceanic *mata, from Proto-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Central-Eastern Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• IPA^(key): /ma.ta/

mata

1. eye (organ)

• IPA^(key): [ˈmata]

mata

1. not

   Kèku wënchi mata kuwatuu?

   Why don't you know?

• Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “mata”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

matá

1. (anatomy) eye

   Synonym: matalsok

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

• Hyphenation: ma‧ta
• IPA^(key): /maˈta/, [maˈta]

matá

1. (anatomy) eye

   Synonym: nalusok

matá

1. awake

   Antonyms: katurog, katuspok

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

matá

1. eye (organ)

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. (anatomy) eye

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

mata

1. eye (organ)

From Proto-Philippine *mata, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *mata, from Proto-Austronesian *maCa.

matá

1. (anatomy) eye (organ)
2. knot (in wood)

mata

1. raw (of food)