What is the correct way to pronounce yerba mate?

Question

Is it pronounced yerba matea or matay?

Answer 1

mahtay

Answer 2

(mä'tā, mä-tā') matay

Answer 3

If you want to say it like a redneck gringo yankey american it is. Yerbah matay.However to say it in a proper argentinean form. Sherba Mate not ay like the san diego padrays.

Answer 4

A is pronounced similarly to the "a" in "father" or the "o" in "loft." Examples: madre, ambos, mapa. There are some speakers who sometimes pronounce the a something halfway between the "a" in "father" and the "a" in "mat," but in most areas the first sound given is standard.

E is generally pronounced like the "e" in "met" when it is at the beginning or within a word. It is pronounced similarly to the Canadian "eh," kind of a shortened version of the "é" in the English "café," when it is at the end of the word. Sometimes it can be somewhere between those two sounds. It's not quite the sound of the English letter "A," which if pronounced slowly often has an "ee" sound at the end, but closer to the "e" of "met." Keep in mind that even when it's at the end of the word, in a sentence it may sound more like the "e" of met. For example, in a phrase such as de vez en cuando, each e has approximately the same sound. Examples: café, compadre, embarcar, enero.

Also you can hear the pronunciation at  www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yerba mate