mas

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Translingual

Etymology

• (metrology): From m- +‎ as.

Symbol

mas

1. (metrology) milliarcsecond
2. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Maasai.

English

Etymology 1

From French mas, Occitan mas. Doublet of manse.

Noun

mas (plural mas)

1. A country cottage or farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories.

Etymology 2

Noun

mas

1. plural of ma

Etymology 3

Noun

mas (plural mas)

1. (Caribbean) A type of traveling dramatic performance conducted as part of a parade celebrating Carnival, originating in Trinidad and Tobago and performed throughout the Caribbean.

Anagrams

• 'ams, MSA, Sam., ASM, AMS, sam, sma, SMA, Sam, S. Am., A.M.s, SAM, asm

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch mast, from Middle Dutch mast, from Old Dutch *mast, from Proto-Germanic *mastaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Noun

mas (plural maste)

1. mast (pole on a ship, for holding sails)

Derived terms

• hoofmas

Albanian

Alternative forms

• mat

Etymology 1

From Proto-Albanian *matja, from *mh̥₁ti̯-e-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (compare Old English mǣd, Latin mētior).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas]

Verb

mas (aorist mata, participle matur)

1. to measure
2. to estimate, assess
3. to consider

Derived terms

• matem
• matje
• matshëm

Related terms

• mot

Etymology 2

Gheg variant of Tosk pas (“behind, beyond, after”). From mbasi, mbas (“after”). A compound of më (“more, most”) + pas (“behind, after, beyond”) (pas from Proto-Albanian *pa ̊ (see pa), from Proto-Indo-European *pos(t) (“directly to, at, after”). Cognate to Ancient Greek πός (pós, “at, to, by”), Old Church Slavonic по (po, “behind, after”)).

Preposition

mas (+ ablative)

1. behind, after, beyond
2. at
3. over
4. against

Adverb

mas

1. behind, after
2. hence

Derived terms

• masi (Gheg)
• masanej (Gheg)

Related terms

• pas
• mbasi
• përmasë
• mbas

References

Asturian

Noun

mas f pl

1. plural of ma

Conjunction

mas

1. but

   Synonym: pero

2. only, other than, no more than (used with negative)

Bikol Central

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]

Particle

mas (Basahan spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)

1. comparative marker of inequality

   Synonym: urog

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan mas, from Latin mānsum. Compare Occitan mas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmas]

Noun

mas m (plural masos)

1. farmhouse, typical country house in Catalan-speaking and Occitan-speaking territories

Derived terms

• Masdenverge
• Masdevall
• masia

Related terms

• masover

References

• “mas” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mas”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “mas” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mas” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Homophone: maz

Noun

mas

1. genitive plural of maso

Danish

Noun

mas n (singular definite maset, not used in plural form)

1. bother, trouble

Verb

mas

1. imperative of mase

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

• màs (ORB, narrow)

Etymology

Inherited from Latin magis. Doublet of més (“more”).

Conjunction

mas (ORB, broad)

1. but

References

• mais in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• mas in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin mānsum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ma/ ~ /mɑ/, /mas/ ~ /mɑs/

Noun

mas m (plural mas)

1. (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in Occitan-speaking territories)

Further reading

• “mas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Etymology 1

From French mars (“March”).

Noun

mas

1. March

Etymology 2

From French masse (“mass”).

Noun

mas

1. mass

Iban

Etymology

From Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Noun

mas

1. gold (element)

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Noun

mas n (genitive singular mass, no plural)

1. chatter, small talk, chit-chat

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas]

Etymology 1

From Javanese ꦩꦱ꧀ (mas, “brother, older brother; gold”), from Old Javanese mas, mās, ĕmas, hĕmas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronoun

mas

1. (formal) Second-person male singular pronoun: you, your, yours

Synonyms

Indonesian formal second-person pronouns:

• mas (used for males)
• mbak (used for females)
• kakak (gender-neutral, intimate nuance)
• Anda, saudara (used for people of either gender of equal status)
• saudari (used for women of equal status)
• bapak (lit. "father"; used for men of higher status)
• ibu (lit. "mother"; used for women of higher status)
• sampeyan (Central & East Java, gender-neutral)
• panjenengan (Central Java, gender-neutral, very formal)

Etymology 2

From Malay mas, shortened from emas, see previous etymology.

Noun

mas

1. Alternative form of emas (“gold”)

Derived terms

• mas kawin

Further reading

• “mas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Italian

Etymology

From motoscafo armato silurante.

Noun

mas m (invariable)

1. (nautical) motor torpedo boat

Latin

Etymology

Origin unknown. Traditionally theorized to be from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”), whence Proto-Indo-Iranian *máryas (“young man”), Sanskrit मर्य (márya, “suitor, young man”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax, “young girl”), and Old Armenian մարի (mari, “female bird, hen”). But this cannot account for the resultant phonetics, particularly the a-vocalism.

It has been connected with masturbor and with mālus (“pole”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /maːs/, [mäːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /mas/, [mäs]

Noun

mās m (genitive maris); third declension

1. male
2. man

   Synonym: vir

Usage notes

Mās means male, in contrast to fēmina (“female”); thus, it means man (in contrast to woman) when used in reference to an adult human, but it can also be used to refer to male animals, deities, or even plants. "Man" in the sense of “human being” is rendered by homō, and in the sense of “(free) adult male human being” by Latin vir.

Declension

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Coordinate terms

• fēmina (“female”)

Derived terms

Adjective

mās (neuter mare); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. male, masculine, manly

   Synonyms: masculus, masculīnus, virīlis

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

References

Further reading

• “mas” in volume 8, column 421, line 74 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mas in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Macanese

Alternative forms

• maz, mâz

Etymology

From Portuguese mas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɐʃ/, /mɐs/

Conjunction

mas

1. but

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with más.

Malay

Alternative forms

• emas
• امس
• مس

Etymology

Shortened from emas, from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “particular weight of gold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mas]
• Rhymes: -mas, -as

Noun

mas (Jawi spelling امس)

1. Alternative form of emas

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman masse.

Noun

mas

1. Alternative form of masse (“mass”)

Etymology 2

From a conflation of Anglo-Norman messe and Old English mæsse.

Noun

mas

1. Alternative form of messe (“mass”)

Northern Sami

Pronoun

mas

1. locative singular of mii

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

mas

1. imperative of mase

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

mas

1. imperative of masa

Occitan

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

Pronunciation

Noun

mas m (plural mases)

1. farmhouse, typical country house in Occitan-speaking and Catalan-speaking territories.

Papiamentu

Adverb

mas

1. most

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas

Noun

mas f

1. genitive plural of masa

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese mas, from Latin magis (“more”), from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh₂- (“great”). Doublet of mais.

Pronunciation

• Homophone: mais (Brazil, with intrusive /j/)
• Hyphenation: mas

Conjunction

mas

2. but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)

   Synonyms: (informal) só que, (more formal) contudo, (more formal) no entanto, (more formal) porém, (formal) todavia, (more formal) entretanto

4. but (introduces the correct information for something that was denied in the previous clause)

6. but ... really; of course; no wonder (introduces the cause of the previous clause, with the implication that the result was expected given this cause)

8. (beginning a sentence) emphasises an exclamation

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

Derived terms

• mas é
• mas sim
• mas também

Descendants

• Macanese: mas

Adverb

mas (not comparable)

2. (colloquial) emphasises a previous clause, adverb or adjective; really; and how

   Synonyms: e como, e

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

Noun

mas m (invariable)

2. but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)

Derived terms

• deixar de mas
• sem mas nem meio mas

Rohingya

Etymology

From Magadhi Prakrit 𑀫𑀰𑁆𑀘 (maśca).

Noun

mas

1. fish

Romani

Etymology

Inherited from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀁𑀲 (maṃsa), from Sanskrit मांस (māṃsa), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *māmsám, from Proto-Indo-European *mēms-ó-m, from *mḗms.

Noun

mas m (plural masa)

1. meat

References

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “mas”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 574
• Yaron Matras (2002) “Historical and linguistic origins”, in Romani: A Linguistic Introduction‎^[2], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 41

Romanian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mansum, from mansus.

Noun

mas n (plural masuri)

1. (popular) putting up for the night, spending the night

Declension

Related terms

• mânea

Verb

mas

1. past participle of mânea

Scottish Gaelic

Conjunction

mas

1. if is

Usage notes

• This is a shortened form of ma (“if”) is (“am, is, are”).

  mas cuimhne leat - if you remember (literally "if memory is with you")

Somali

Noun

mas m

1. snake

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin magis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/ [mas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas
• Homophone: más

Conjunction

mas

1. (formal) but

   Synonym: pero

2. (formal) however

   Synonyms: sin embargo, no obstante

Adverb

mas

1. Misspelling of más.
2. Obsolete spelling of más.

Noun

mas f pl

1. plural of ma

Further reading

• “mas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Noun

mas c

1. Dalecarlian; a man or boy from the province of Dalarna (“Dalecarlia”) (in particular one of the common people)
2. (colloquial) tax collector

Declension

Synonyms

man from Dalecarlia

• dalmas
• dalkarl

tax collector

• skatteindrivare
• skattmas

See also

• dalkulla (“female Dalecarlian”)

References

• mas in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• mas in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• mas in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• -sam, sam, sam-

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish más, from Latin magis.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈmas/ [ˈmas]
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: mas

Particle

mas (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ᜔)

1. comparative marker of inequality; -er

Anagrams

• sam-

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English must.

Verb

mas

1. must

Tsuut'ina

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mas/

Noun

más

1. knife

References

• "Tsuut'ina Nominalized Phrases (Video)." Youtube, uploaded by AlbertaUArts, 30 May. 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t6EdGunXLc

Welsh

Alternative forms

• ma's

Etymology

From i'r maes (“to the field”), ae in monosyllabic words often being pronounced /aː/ in South Wales. For the same semantic development compare Irish amuigh (“out”) < Old Irish i mmaig (literally “in (a) field”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maːs/
• Rhymes: -aːs

Adverb

mas

1. (South Wales, colloquial) out

   Synonym: allan

Derived terms

• mas draw (“extremely”)
• mas o'r glas (“out of the blue”)
• mas tu fas (“right outside”)
• maswr (“outside-half”)
• tu fas (“outside”)
• tu fewn tu fas (“inside out”)

Mutation

Woleaian

Verb

mas

1. to die