How to say "to die" in Arabic
CognateMeaningto die
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
مَاتَ
mātaמאת
مات
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
מת
metمِت
How the two words are related
Cognate
Same Semitic root, same meaning — you already know this word.
Arabic root
م-و-تHebrew root
מ-ו-תmāta is Hebrew מת, both from the same Semitic root מ-ו-ת that also gives מוות, death, and Arabic mawt. In spoken Levantine the diphthong flattens, mōt — Hebrew flattened it all the way to מת.
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On the street
How people actually say it in the spoken dialects, where it differs from the standard word.
Levantine · Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria
مَات
mātמאתSpoken Levantine keeps the same form; the diphthong in related nouns like mawt often flattens to mōt.
Egyptian · Cairo and the Nile Delta
مَات
mātמאתCairo: māt.
Moroccan · Morocco — Casablanca, Rabat, Fes
مَات
mātמאתDarija: māt.
In a phrase
مَاتَ الرَّجُل الْعَجُوز
māta ar-rajul al-ʿajūzמאת א-רג'ל אל-עג'וזThe old man died