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مَيِّت
dead person; corpse /ˈmaj.jit/
nounA1#310 most common
Also: the deceased, dead (adjective), lifeless
Example sentences
هٰذَا الْعُصْفُورُ مَيِّت.
This bird is dead.
وَجَدْنَا سَمَكَةً مَيِّتَةً فِي الْمَاء.
We found a dead fish in the water.
ظَنَنْتُ أَنَّهُ نَائِم، لٰكِنَّهُ كَانَ مَيِّتاً.
I thought he was asleep, but he was dead.
نَقَلَتِ الشُّرْطَةُ الْمَيِّتَ إِلَى الْمُسْتَشْفَى.
The police took the dead man to the hospital.
الشَّارِعُ مَيِّتٌ تَمَاماً بَعْدَ مُنْتَصَفِ اللَّيْل.
The street is completely dead after midnight.
لَمْ يَكُنْ مَيِّتاً بِالْمَعْنَى الطِّبِّيّ، لٰكِنَّ رُوحَهُ كَانَتْ قَدْ مَاتَتْ مُنْذُ سِنِين.
He was not dead in the medical sense, but his spirit had died years ago.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | مَيِّتٌ | أَمْوَاتٌ |
| Genitive | مَيِّتٍ | أَمْوَاتٍ |
| Accusative | مَيِّتاً | أَمْوَاتاً |
| Vocative | يَا مَيِّتُ | يَا أَمْوَاتُ |
Word family
Etymology
مَيِّت comes from the Semitic root م-و-ت (m-w-t), "to die." The word follows the فَيْعِل template, built from an earlier مَيْوِت in which the waw assimilated to the ya and produced the doubled consonant. The same root carries the idea of death across the Semitic languages, from Akkadian through Hebrew and Aramaic.
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