mas

See also: Appendix:Variations of "mas"

TranslingualEdit

EtymologyEdit

From m- +‎ as.

SymbolEdit

mas

  1. (metrology) milliarcsecond

EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From French mas, Occitan mas. Doublet of manse.

NounEdit

mas (plural mas)

  1. A country cottage or farmstead in southern France.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 520:
      When she was pregnant with her second child they ran away to France and played at being artists in a secluded mas near Avignon – two months of bliss.

Etymology 2Edit

NounEdit

mas

  1. plural of ma

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

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.
    • 2017 December 22, Shane Superville, Trinidad and Tobago Newsday:
      Ward, who was best known for his winning portrayal of George Bailey’s Cylindul the Sun God from the Golden City of Palengue, became a staple on the mas circuit up until the 1990s, lending his support to the likes of Peter Minshall and others.
    • 2017 September 28, “Neville Aming Passes Away At 96 In T&T”, in Bernews:
      Aming was a recipient of the Humming Bird Silver for his contribution to the vibrancy of T&T mas in 1996.
    • 2016 February 7, Michelle Loubon, “Taking a Carnival tour”, in Trinidad & Tobago Express:
      Belmont masman and wire bender Richard Lera displays a headpiece at his Norfolk Street mas camp.

AnagramsEdit

AfrikaansEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mas (plural maste)

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

Derived termsEdit

AlbanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Proto-Albanian *matja, from *mh̥₁ti̯-e-, from Proto-Indo-European *meh₁- (compare Old English mǣd, Latin mētior).[1]

PronunciationEdit

VerbEdit

mas (first-person singular past tense mata, participle matur)

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

Related termsEdit

Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

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”)).

PrepositionEdit

mas (+ablative)

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

AdverbEdit

mas

  1. behind, after
  2. hence

Derived termsEdit

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “mas”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Cologne: Brill, →ISBN, page 246-7

AsturianEdit

NounEdit

mas f pl

  1. plural of ma

CatalanEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old Occitan mas, from Latin mansum.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mas m (plural masos)

  1. farmhouse, typical country house in Catalonia.

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

CzechEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mas

  1. genitive plural of maso

DanishEdit

NounEdit

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

  1. bother, trouble

VerbEdit

mas

  1. imperative of mase

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Occitan mas, from Latin mānsum.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mas m (plural mas)

  1. (Provence) farm, ranch, (country) house (type of rural farmstead in southern France)

Further readingEdit

Haitian CreoleEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From French mars (“March”)

NounEdit

mas

  1. March

Etymology 2Edit

From French masse (“mass”)

NounEdit

mas

  1. mass

IcelandicEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mas n (genitive singular mass, no plural)

  1. chatter, small talk, chit-chat

DeclensionEdit

declension of mas
n-s singular
indefinite definite
nominative mas masið
accusative mas masið
dative masi masinu
genitive mass massins

IndonesianEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

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

PronounEdit

mas

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

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 (Java, gender-neutral)
  • panjenengan (Java, gender-neutral, very formal)

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

mas

  1. Alternative form of emas (“gold”)

Derived termsEdit

Further readingEdit

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From motoscafo armato silurante.

NounEdit

mas m (sometimes MAS, invariable)

  1. (nautical) motor torpedo boat

LatinEdit

EtymologyEdit

Origin unknown. Traditionally theorized to be from Proto-Indo-European *méryos (“young man”) [whence Sanskrit मर्य (marya, “suitor, young man”), Ancient Greek μεῖραξ (meîrax), and Old Armenian մարի (mari)], but this cannot account for the resultant phonetics, particularly the a-vocalism.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mās m (genitive maris); third declension

  1. man, male (in the sense of male human being)

Usage notesEdit

The sense of “human being” is rendered by homō, the sense of “male human being” by mās, and the sense of “adult male human being” by Latin vir.

DeclensionEdit

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative mās marēs
Genitive maris marium
Dative marī maribus
Accusative marem marēs
marīs
Ablative mare maribus
Vocative mās marēs

SynonymsEdit

AntonymsEdit

Coordinate termsEdit

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

  • Aromanian: mari
  • Romanian: mare

AdjectiveEdit

mās (genitive maris); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. male, masculine, manly

DeclensionEdit

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative mās marēs maria
Genitive maris marium
Dative marī maribus
Accusative marem mās marēs maria
Ablative marī maribus
Vocative mās marēs maria

Related termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • 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.
    • (ambiguous) there is a storm at sea: mare ventorum vi agitatur et turbatur
    • (ambiguous) the Mediterranean Sea: mare medium or internum
    • (ambiguous) the town lies near the sea: oppidum mari adiacet
    • (ambiguous) a promontory juts out into the sea: promunturium in mare procurrit
    • (ambiguous) a peninsula projects into the sea: paeninsula in mare excurrit, procurrit

MalayEdit

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Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mas (Jawi spelling امس)

  1. Alternative form of emas

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Anglo-Norman masse.

NounEdit

mas

  1. Alternative form of masse (“mass”)

Etymology 2Edit

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

NounEdit

mas

  1. Alternative form of messe (“mass”)

Northern SamiEdit

PronounEdit

mas

  1. locative singular of mii

Norwegian BokmålEdit

VerbEdit

mas

  1. imperative of mase

Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

mas

  1. imperative of masa

OccitanEdit

EtymologyEdit

Ultimately from Latin mansum. Cognate with Romanian mas.

PronunciationEdit

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NounEdit

mas m (plural mases)

  1. farmhouse, typical country house

PapiamentuEdit

AdverbEdit

mas

  1. most

PolishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

mas f

  1. genitive plural of masa

PortugueseEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

ConjunctionEdit

mas

  2. but (introduces a clause that contradicts the implications of the previous clause)
    O livro é curto, mas bom.
    The book is short, but good.
    Somos preguiçosos mas fazemos o que precisa ser feito.
    We are lazy but we do what needs to be done.
    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)
    Fomos recebidos não com aplausos, mas pedradas.
    We were not received with applause, but [with] rocks.
  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)
    Todos alunos reprovaram em matemática, mas ninguém estudou mesmo.
    All students flunked mathematics, but no one studied really.
  8. (beginning a sentence) emphasises an exclamation
    Mas que porcaria!
    What the heck!
    Mas que diabos vocês estão fazendo aqui?
    What the hell are you doing here?

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

Derived termsEdit

AdverbEdit

mas (not comparable)

  2. (colloquial) emphasises a previous clause, adverb or adjective; really; and how
    Este livro é bom, mas bom mesmo.
    This book is good, really good.
    Os ladrões correram, mas correram.
    The thieves ran, and how they ran.
    Synonyms: e como, e

QuotationsEdit

For quotations using this term, see Citations:mas.

NounEdit

mas m (plural mas)

  2. but (an instance of proclaiming an exception)
    Quero que você termine isso, sem mas nem porquês.
    I want you to finish this, no buts or whys.

Derived termsEdit

RohingyaEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Bengali মাছ (mach).

NounEdit

mas

  1. fish

RomaniEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

NounEdit

mas m (plural masa)

  1. meat

ReferencesEdit

  • 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

RomanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin mansum, from mansus.

NounEdit

mas n (plural masuri)

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mas
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mas masul (niște) masuri masurile
genitive/dative (unui) mas masului (unor) masuri masurilor
vocative masule masurilor

Related termsEdit

VerbEdit

mas

  1. past participle of mânea

Scottish GaelicEdit

ConjunctionEdit

mas

  1. if is

Usage notesEdit

  • This is a shortened form of ma (“if”) is (“am, is, are”).
    mas cuimhne leat - if you remember (literally "if memory is with you")

SomaliEdit

NounEdit

mas m

  1. snake

SpanishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin magis.

PronunciationEdit

ConjunctionEdit

mas

  1. (formal) but
    Synonym: pero
  2. (formal) however
    Synonyms: sin embargo, no obstante

AdverbEdit

mas

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

Further readingEdit

SwedishEdit

NounEdit

mas c

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

DeclensionEdit

Declension of mas 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mas masen masar masarna
Genitive mas masens masars masarnas

SynonymsEdit

man from Dalecarlia
tax collector

ReferencesEdit

AnagramsEdit

TagalogEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Spanish más.

ParticleEdit

mas

  1. comparative marker of inequality
    Mas malaki ako kumpara sa kaniya.
    I am bigger than him/her.
    Mas mahal ang talong dito kumpara sa kabilang palengke.
    The eggplant here is more expensive than the one on the other market.

Tok PisinEdit

EtymologyEdit

From English must.

VerbEdit

mas

  1. must
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mas

WelshEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

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”).

PronunciationEdit

AdverbEdit

mas

  1. (South Wales, colloquial) out
    Synonym: allan

Derived termsEdit

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
mas fas unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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