moat

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• Received-Pronunciation: /məʊt/
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• General-American: /moʊt/
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• rhymes with -əʊt
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• homophone: mote
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• CMU ARPABET: M OW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From moat, a topographic surname for someone who lived near a moat.

From Middle English mote, from Old French mote (“mound, embankment”); compared also to Old French motte (“hillock, lump, clod, turf”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mut- (“dark, dirty”). Cognate with Alemannic German Mott, Mutte (“peat, turf”), Bavarian Mott (“peat, turf”), dialectal Dutch mot (“dust, fine sand”), Saterland Frisian mut (“grit, litter, humus”), Swedish muta (“to drizzle”), Old English mot (“speck, particle”). More at mote, mud, smut. As term for a business strategy, popularized by American investor Warren Buffett.

93 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: خَنْدَق (ḵandaq) — defensive ditch
• Armenian: խրամ (xram) — defensive ditch
• Azerbaijani: xəndək — defensive ditch
• Belarusian: роў (row) — defensive ditch
• Bulgarian: ров (rov) — defensive ditch
• Burmese: ကျုံး (kyum:) — defensive ditch
• Catalan: fossat — defensive ditch
• Chinese Mandarin: 護城壕 /护城壕 (hùchéngháo) — defensive ditch
• Chinese Mandarin: 護城河 /护城河 (hùchénghé) — defensive ditch
• Chinese Mandarin: 城壕 (chéngháo) — defensive ditch
• Chinese Mandarin: 城河 (chénghé) — defensive ditch
• Czech: vodní příkop — defensive ditch
• Czech: příkop — defensive ditch
• Danish: voldgrav — defensive ditch
• Dutch: slotgracht — defensive ditch
• Dutch: gracht — defensive ditch
• Esperanto: fosaĵo — defensive ditch
• Estonian: vallikraav — defensive ditch
• Finnish: vallihauta — defensive ditch
• French: douve — defensive ditch
• Galician: foso — defensive ditch
• Galician: cárcava — defensive ditch
• Georgian: თხრილი (txrili) — defensive ditch
• Georgian: გუბი (gubi) — defensive ditch
• German: Burggraben — defensive ditch
• German: Wassergraben — defensive ditch
• Greek: τάφρος (táfros) — defensive ditch
• Hebrew: חֲפִיר (khafir) — defensive ditch
• Hindi: ख़ंदक़ (xandaq) — defensive ditch
• Hindi: परिखा (parikhā) — defensive ditch
• Hindi: खाई (khāī) — defensive ditch
• Hindi: खाल (khāl) — defensive ditch
• Hungarian: sáncárok — defensive ditch
• Hungarian: vizesárok — defensive ditch
• Icelandic: kastalasíki — defensive ditch
• Icelandic: síki — defensive ditch
• Icelandic: virkisgröf — defensive ditch
• Icelandic: kastaladíki — defensive ditch
• Icelandic: díki — defensive ditch
• Ido: fosato — defensive ditch
• Irish: móta — defensive ditch
• Irish: díog — defensive ditch
• Italian: fossato — defensive ditch
• Italian: fosso — defensive ditch
• Italian: canale — defensive ditch
• Italian: canalone — defensive ditch
• Japanese: 堀 (hori) — defensive ditch
• Kazakh: ор (or) — defensive ditch
• Khmer: ស្នាមភ្លោះ (snaam plʊəh) — defensive ditch
• Korean: 해자 (haeja) — defensive ditch
• Korean: 호 (ho) — defensive ditch
• Korean: 성호 (seongho) — defensive ditch
• Latin: fossa — defensive ditch
• Latvian: aizsarggrāvis — defensive ditch
• Macedonian: шанец (šanec) — defensive ditch
• Macedonian: ров (rov) — defensive ditch
• Māori: awamate — defensive ditch
• Norwegian Bokmål: vollgrav — defensive ditch
• Norwegian Nynorsk: vollgrav — defensive ditch
• Occitan: valat — defensive ditch
• Occitan: doga — defensive ditch
• Persian: خندق (xandaq) — defensive ditch
• Persian: پارگین (pârgin) — defensive ditch
• Polish: fosa — defensive ditch
• Portuguese: fosso — defensive ditch
• Romanian: șanț — defensive ditch
• Russian: ров (rov) — defensive ditch
• Serbo-Croatian: шанац — defensive ditch
• Serbo-Croatian: šanac — defensive ditch
• Sicilian: fossa — defensive ditch
• Sicilian: fussatu — defensive ditch
• Slovak: priekopa — defensive ditch
• Slovene: jarek — defensive ditch
• Spanish: fosa — defensive ditch
• Spanish: foso — defensive ditch
• Spanish: cava — defensive ditch
• Swedish: vallgrav — defensive ditch
• Swedish: stormgrav — defensive ditch
• Tajik: хандақ (xandaq) — defensive ditch
• Tamil: பாதுகாப்பு பள்ளம் (pātukāppu paḷḷam) — defensive ditch
• Tamil: அகழி (akaḻi) — defensive ditch
• Thai: คูปราสาท (koo bpraasàat) — defensive ditch
• Thai: คูเมือง (koo meuang) — defensive ditch
• Tibetan: ཆུ་དོང་ལྕགས་རི (chu dong lcags ri) — defensive ditch
• Turkish: hendek — defensive ditch
• Ottoman Turkish: خندق (hendek) — defensive ditch
• Ukrainian: рів (riv) — defensive ditch
• Urdu: خندق (xandaq) — defensive ditch
• Urdu: کھائی (khāi) — defensive ditch
• Uzbek: xandaq — defensive ditch
• Vietnamese: hào — defensive ditch
• Vietnamese: hố — defensive ditch
• Welsh: ffos — defensive ditch