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mata

mata noun: a respectful title for a female spiritual leader or for a wife, mother, or grandmother of a male spiritual leader.

Noun

mata (plural matas)

  1. (India) A respectful title for a female spiritual leader or for a wife, mother, or grandmother of a male spiritual leader.
  2. (India) A Hindu goddess.
    • While possession is usually limited to Bhilala men, the mata entered women too, endowing them with the power of clairvoyance, enabling them to identify the evil spirits or daakans in their midst. The mata spoke through the possessed, forecasting the future, directing people and events for her...1995, Amita Baviskar, In the Belly of the River: Tribal Conflicts Over Development in the Narmada Valley, Bombay; […]: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 98
  3. (India) A mother (also used as a term of address for a woman).

mata meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Telugu

mata in Urdu

ماٹا

mata in Bengali

মাটা

mata in Telugu

మాటా

Forms of mata

pluralmatas
alternative formmātā

Plural of mata: matas

Origin of mata

Borrowed from Sanskrit माता (mātā), nom.sg. of मातृ (mātṛ, “mother”). Doublet of mater and mother.

Phrases with mata

Questions about mata

What does mata mean?
Mata means a respectful title for a female spiritual leader or for a wife, mother, or grandmother of a male spiritual leader.
What is mata in Urdu?
Mata in Urdu is ماٹا. See Mata meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is mata?
Mata is a noun.
What is the plural of mata?
The plural of mata is matas.

Words near mata in the dictionary

  1. Mat-i
  2. mat-shed
  3. mat-sheds
  4. Mat-Su
  5. mat.
  6. mata
  7. Mata Hari
  8. mata mata
  9. mata mata turtle
  10. mata mata turtles
  11. mata matas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mata (page history and authors); mata (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mata (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mata (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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