Roots › م-و-ت
The Arabic root م-و-ت (m-w-t)
Form I verb مَاتَ: to die
20 words in the dictionary are built from م-و-ت, including verbs in Forms I, II, IV, X. Each verb is listed with the nouns that come from it: its verbal noun (masdar), its participles, and words derived from it.
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Verbs and the nouns that come from them
to die
to be empty, to be or become unoccupied (of land, a city, etc.); to dead end, to have no outlet (of a road); to be unused, to be untrodden (of a road)
to die off; to make die, let perish, to kill, to cause the death of
to cause to die; to mortify (one's desires, e.g. through asceticism)
to sacrifice oneself, to risk one's life; to fight desperately, to make desperate efforts; to fight to the death
causing death, fatal, deadly, lethal
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