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matter
مادّه
mâddé (#)
Fr.: matière
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Physical or corporeal substance in general, whether solid, liquid, or
gaseous, especially as distinguished from incorporeal substance, as spirit
or mind, or from qualities, actions, and the like.
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Whatever has size and shape, is solid and tangible, takes up space.
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Anything that contains mass. → material.
Etymology (EN): M.E. mater(e), materie, from O.Fr. mat(i)ere, materie,
from L. materia “substance from which something is made,”
also “hard inner wood of a tree,” from mater,
→ mother, PIE base *mater-, see below.
Etymology (PE): Mâddé, variant mâyé “substance, essence; quantity, amount;”
Mid.Pers. mâtak/mâdak “substance, the essential element of anything; materials”
(Sogd. patmâδé “matter, substance”),
from mât, mâd “mother; substance” (see E. matter, as above),
from O.Pers./Av. mātar-
“mother;” cf. Ossetic mad/madae “mother;” Khotanese mâta “mother;”
Skt. mātár- “mother;” Gk. meter, mater; L. mater
(Fr. mère, Sp. madre);
O.E. môdor from P.Gmc. *mothær (O.S. modar, Dan. moder,
Du. moeder, Ger. Mutter); Lith. mote “wife.”
Note:
Ar. mâddat is borrowed from Mid.Pers. mâdak, as above, and Arabicized through
association with madda “to extend.”
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