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An evergreen tree, Ilex paraguariensis, native to South America, cultivated for its leaves.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: yerba mate, yerba
Antonyms: none provided
A beverage, resembling tea, made from the dried leaves of this plant.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- We spent a month in Buenos Aires drinking nothing but maté and Fernet with soda.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: maté tea
Antonyms: none provided
A cup of this drink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
The container used to prepare this drink, traditionally a small calabash.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncommon
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gourd
Antonyms: none provided
Borrowed from Spanish mate, from Quechua mati. Here, as well as in the matë variant, the unetymologically accented e serves the purpose in English of marking that vowel as pronounced, as in latte, rather than silent as in mate.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مَتَّة
(matta)
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Azerbaijani:
Paraqvay pirkalı
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Basque:
mate
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Finnish:
matee
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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German:
Matestrauch
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Polish:
mate
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Polish:
yerba mate
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Portuguese:
erva-mate
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Quechua:
mati wayusa
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Russian:
па́дуб парагва́йский
(pádub paragvájskij)
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Russian:
парагва́йский чай
(paragvájskij čaj)
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Russian:
ма́те
(mátɛ)
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Spanish:
yerba mate
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Spanish:
yerba
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Turkish:
mate yaprağı
— shrub that produces the beverage maté
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Arabic:
مَتَة
(mate)
— the beverage maté
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Armenian:
մատե
(mate)
— the beverage maté
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Aymara:
ka'ay
— the beverage maté
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Basque:
mate
— the beverage maté
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Bengali:
মাতে
(mate)
— the beverage maté
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Bulgarian:
мате́
(maté)
— the beverage maté
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Burmese:
ကွငျဖျော
(kwa.ngya.hpyau:)
— the beverage maté
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Chinese Mandarin:
馬黛茶 /马黛茶
(mǎdàichá)
— the beverage maté
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Chinese Mandarin:
瑪黛茶 /玛黛茶
(mǎdàichá)
— the beverage maté
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Esperanto:
mateo
— the beverage maté
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Finnish:
matee
— the beverage maté
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Finnish:
mate
— the beverage maté
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German:
Mate
— the beverage maté
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Greek:
ματέ
(maté)
— the beverage maté
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Irish:
maité
— the beverage maté
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Italian:
mate
— the beverage maté
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Japanese:
マテ茶
(matecha)
— the beverage maté
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Persian:
ماته
— the beverage maté
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Polish:
mate
— the beverage maté
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Polish:
yerba mate
— the beverage maté
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Portuguese:
chimarrão
— the beverage maté
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Portuguese:
mate
— the beverage maté
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Quechua:
mati
— the beverage maté
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Russian:
ма́те
(mátɛ)
— the beverage maté
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Sicilian:
mati
— the beverage maté
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Spanish:
mate
— the beverage maté
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Spanish:
yerba
— the beverage maté
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Spanish:
yerba mate
— the beverage maté
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Swedish:
mate
— the beverage maté
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Swedish:
paraguayte
— the beverage maté
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Turkish:
mate çayı
— the beverage maté
