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‖ maat S. Afr.|maːt|
[Afrikaans = mate n.2 1.]
A companion, partner, friend.
1812W. J. Burchell Trav. S. Afr. 24 July (1822) II. 466 Another chieftain who was his maat (partner, or agent). Ibid. 555 Thus a Hottentot..when he visits Litakun..goes directly to the house of his correspondent, whom he calls his maat (a Dutch word identical with ‘mate’). 1827G. Thompson Trav. S. Afr. (ed. 2) I. xii. 238 Many of the Bechuanas selected maats or comrades..from among their allies. 1932C. Fuller Louis Trigardt's Trek x. 124 We drank it as my maats had just come to my wagon. |