maté

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mate" and mate

English

Maté

Alternative forms

• mate, matë

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæteɪ/, /ˈmɑteɪ/
• Rhymes: -æteɪ, -ɑːteɪ

Noun

maté (countable and uncountable, plural matés)

1. (countable) An evergreen tree, Ilex paraguariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.

   Synonyms: yerba mate, yerba

2. (uncountable) A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.

   Synonym: maté tea

   We spent a month in Buenos Aires drinking nothing but maté and Fernet with soda.

3. (countable) A cup of this drink.
4. (countable, uncommon) The container used to prepare this drink, traditionally a small calabash.

   Synonym: gourd

   Coordinate term: bombilla

   • 1856 July–October, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume IV, A. and C. Black, page 194:

     The maté is then filled with yerva, after the bombilla has been placed in position.

Translations

shrub that produces the beverage maté

• Arabic: مَتَّة f (matta)
• Azerbaijani: Paraqvay pirkalı
• Basque: mate (eu)
• Finnish: matee
• German: Matestrauch m
• Guaraní: ka'a (gn)
• Irish: ^{(please verify)} maité m
• Polish: mate (pl) f, yerba mate (pl) f
• Portuguese: erva-mate (pt)
• Quechua: mati wayusa
• Russian: па́дуб парагва́йский m (pádub paragvájskij), парагва́йский чай m (paragvájskij čaj), ма́те (ru) n (mátɛ)
• Spanish: yerba mate (es), yerba (es) f
• Swedish: mate (sv) c, paraguayte n
• Turkish: mate yaprağı

the beverage maté

• Arabic: مَتَة f (mate)
• Armenian: մատե (hy) (mate)
• Aymara: ka'ay
• Basque: mate (eu)
• Bengali: মাতে (mate)
• Bulgarian: мате́ n (maté)
• Burmese: ကွငျဖျော (kwa.ngya.hpyau:)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 馬黛茶／马黛茶 (mǎdàichá), 瑪黛茶／玛黛茶 (mǎdàichá)

• Esperanto: mateo
• Finnish: matee, mate (fi)
• German: Mate (de) m
• Guaraní: ka'ay
• Irish: maité m
• Italian: mate (it) m
• Japanese: マテ茶 (マテちゃ, matecha)
• Persian: ماته
• Polish: mate (pl) f, yerba mate (pl) f
• Portuguese: chimarrão (pt), mate (pt)
• Quechua: mati
• Russian: ма́те (ru) m (mátɛ)
• Sicilian: mati m
• Spanish: mate (es), yerba (es) f, yerba mate (es) f
• Swedish: mate (sv) c, paraguayte c
• Turkish: mate çayı

Further reading

• mate (beverage) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• AEMT, ATEM, Atem, META, Meta, Tame, Team, Tema, meat, meta, meta-, tame, team

Asturian

Verb

maté

1. first-person singular indefinite preterite indicative of matar

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmatɛː]
• Rhymes: -atɛː
• Hyphenation: ma‧té

Noun

maté n (indeclinable)

1. maté

   čaj maté ― maté tea

Further reading

• “maté”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
• “maté”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “maté”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati (“gourd”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma.te/

Noun

maté m (plural matés)

1. maté

Etymology 2

Participle

maté (feminine matée, masculine plural matés, feminine plural matées)

1. past participle of mater

Further reading

• “maté”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• méat

Spanish

Verb

maté

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of matar