masa
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
masa (uncountable) (More fully, masa paper)
- (art) A strong form of paper, smooth on one side and lightly textured on the other, used for drawing and painting
Etymology 2 edit
From Spanish masa (“dough”). Doublet of mass.
Noun edit
masa (usually uncountable, plural masas)
- (US) Maize dough made from freshly prepared hominy, used for making tortillas, tamales, etc.
- 2023 July 7, Rick A. Martínez, quoting Fermín Núñez, “For the Best Tortillas (and Gorditas and Tetelas), You Need Fresh Masa”, in The New York Times[3], →ISSN:
- The chef Fermín Núñez of Suerte, in Austin, Texas, considers masa “the canvas of what Mexican cooking is all about.” “Without masa,” he said, “there’s no tortillas, and, without tortillas, there’s no tacos!”
Anagrams edit
Azerbaijani edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish ماسه, from Bulgarian ма́са (mása), from Romanian masă, from Latin mēnsa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masa (definite accusative masanı, plural masalar)
Declension edit
Declension of masa | ||||||||
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singular | plural | |||||||
nominative | masa |
masalar | ||||||
definite accusative | masanı |
masaları | ||||||
dative | masaya |
masalara | ||||||
locative | masada |
masalarda | ||||||
ablative | masadan |
masalardan | ||||||
definite genitive | masanın |
masaların |
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “masa” in Obastan.com.
Balinese edit
Romanization edit
masa
Bambara edit
Noun edit
masa
Derived terms edit
References edit
- Richard Nci Diarra, Lexique bambara-français-anglais, December 13, 2010
Bikol Central edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masa
Derived terms edit
Coatepec Nahuatl edit
Noun edit
masa
- deer.
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
masa f (related adjective masový)
- mass (a large body of individuals, especially persons)
- masa lidí ― mass of people
Declension edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Noun edit
masa
- inflection of maso:
Further reading edit
Dalmatian edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin missa, from Latin missum < mittō.
Noun edit
masa f
Galician edit
Etymology edit
From Old Galician-Portuguese massa (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin massa (“dough”). Cognate with Portuguese massa and Spanish masa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masa f (plural masas)
- dough
- Synonym: amoado
- 1438, X. Ferro Couselo, editor, A vida e a fala dos devanceiros. Escolma de documentos en galego dos séculos XIII ao XVI, Vigo: Galaxia, page 123:
- logo todos ordenaron que fesesen as paandeiras o pan do dia, triigo de tres onças, ben apostado e ben linpo e de boa masa
- after this everyone ordered the bakers to make the daily bread, wheat of three ounces, well prepared and very clean and of good dough
- mortar
- (Physics) mass
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “massa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
- “massa” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
- “masa” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “masa” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
- “masa” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
Hopi edit
Noun edit
masa
- wing (body part of an animal)
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse masa, from Proto-Germanic *masōną. Cognate with English maze.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
masa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative masaði, supine masað)
- (intransitive) to chat, to chatter
Conjugation edit
infinitive (nafnháttur) |
að masa | ||||
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supine (sagnbót) |
masað | ||||
present participle (lýsingarháttur nútíðar) |
masandi | ||||
indicative (framsöguháttur) |
subjunctive (viðtengingarháttur) | ||||
present (nútíð) |
ég masa | við mösum | present (nútíð) |
ég masi | við mösum |
þú masar | þið masið | þú masir | þið masið | ||
hann, hún, það masar | þeir, þær, þau masa | hann, hún, það masi | þeir, þær, þau masi | ||
past (þátíð) |
ég masaði | við mösuðum | past (þátíð) |
ég masaði | við mösuðum |
þú masaðir | þið mösuðuð | þú masaðir | þið mösuðuð | ||
hann, hún, það masaði | þeir, þær, þau mösuðu | hann, hún, það masaði | þeir, þær, þau mösuðu | ||
imperative (boðháttur) |
masa (þú) | masið (þið) | |||
Forms with appended personal pronoun | |||||
masaðu | masiði * | ||||
* Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred. |
Anagrams edit
Indonesian edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Malay masa, from Old Javanese masa, māsa (“time, time of day; season”, literally “month”), from Sanskrit मास (māsa, “month”).
- The sense of doubt or disbelief expression is a semantic loan from Javanese ꦩꦺꦴꦱꦺꦴꦏ꧀ (mosok), variant of ꦩꦱ (masa, “disbelief expression”, literally “certainly not”), from Old Javanese masa (“certainly not”) (cf. salah masa (“at the wrong time”)).
Noun edit
masa (plural masa-masa, first-person possessive masaku, second-person possessive masamu, third-person possessive masanya)
- period,
- history: period of time seen as coherent entity.
- length of time.
- length of time during which something repeats.
- time,
- inevitable passing of events.
- quantity of availability in time.
- time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc.
- particular moment or hour.
- measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time.
- numerical indication of a particular moment in time.
- (geology) era
Synonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Adverb edit
masa
- words to express distrust and rhetorical in nature
- express the speaker's doubt or disbelief about something that they have just heard, learned, or noticed
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Ultimately from Sanskrit माष (māṣa, “a weight of gold”).
Adverb edit
masa
- (archaeology) unit of measurement of weight for gold and silver
Further reading edit
- “masa” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
masa
Ladino edit
Etymology edit
From Sephardi Hebrew מַצָּה (masá), from Biblical Hebrew מַצָּה (maṩå).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masa f (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מצה, plural masot)
Latvian edit
Noun edit
masa f (4th declension)
- (physics) mass
- mass, quantity, amount
- mass, body, bulk, blob
- (in the plural) the masses
- (genitive plural) mass, large-scale
Declension edit
Malay edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Sanskrit मास (māsa, “month”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /masə/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /masa/
- Rhymes: -asə, -sə, -ə
- Rhymes: -a
Noun edit
masa (Jawi spelling ماس, plural masa-masa, informal 1st possessive masaku, 2nd possessive masamu, 3rd possessive masanya)
- time (inevitable passing of events)
- time (quantity of availability in time)
- time (time of day, as indicated by a clock, etc)
- time (particular moment or hour)
- time (measurement under some system of the time of day or moment in time)
- time (numerical indication of a particular moment in time)
Synonyms edit
Further reading edit
- “masa” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Ngaju edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *hasaq.
Verb edit
masa
- to sharpen
Northern Sami edit
Pronoun edit
masa
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Verb edit
masa
- inflection of mase:
- simple past
- past participle
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
masa (present tense masar, past tense masa, past participle masa, passive infinitive masast, present participle masande, imperative masa/mas)
- to nag
- 1853, Ivar Aasen, Prøver af Landsmaalet i Norge:
- […] sidan tok han til aa masa um ei Gullkedja, som han visste, ho skulde hava; han vilde kaupa da Halsgullet, um da var aldri so dyrt […]
- […] then he started nagging about a gold chain, that he knew she had; he wanted to buy that necklace, no matter the price […]
References edit
- “masa” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Javanese edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
masa
- Alternative spelling of māsa (“month; time”)
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective edit
masa
- certainly not
- it is impossible
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- "masa" in P.J. Zoetmulder with the collaboration of S.O. Robson, Old Javanese-English Dictionary. 's-Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff, 1982.
Ometepec Nahuatl edit
Noun edit
masa
Polish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin māssa.[1][2][3] First attested in 1534.[4]
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /ˈma.sa/
- (Middle Polish) IPA(key): /ˈma.sa/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -asa
- Syllabification: ma‧sa
Noun edit
masa f
- (countable) mass (shapeless substance that is flexible and allows itself to be formed)
- Synonym: bryła
- (uncountable, colloquial) mass (large number or amount)
- Synonym: ogrom
- (countable, physics) mass (quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. It is one of four fundamental properties of matter)
- (electricity) ground (point against which potentials are measured in an electrical or electronic system)
- (countable) mass (large object or objects seen in faint outline)
- (uncountable, obsolete, property law) property remaining after the deceased testator or after the bankruptcy of a merchant or industrialist, subject to division among creditors or heirs
- (obsolete, uncountable, metallurgy) a type of greasy sand used in the production of steel castings
- (countable, obsolete, biliards) a billiard cue with a wide butt on the thinner end for better hitting the ball
- (countable, Middle Polish) mixture
- Synonym: mieszanina
- (in the plural) masses (people; especially a large number of people; the general population)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Trivia edit
According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), masa is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 44 times in scientific texts, 7 times in news, 33 times in essays, 6 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 5 times, making it the 95th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[5]
References edit
- ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000) “masa”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
- ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “masa”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language][1] (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
- ^ Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
- ^ Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “massa”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]
- ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “masa”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language][2] (in Polish), volume 235, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 664
Further reading edit
- masa in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- masy in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- masa in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- “MASA”, in Elektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century], 12.07.2019
- Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814) “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego[4]
- Aleksander Zdanowicz (1861) “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego, Wilno 1861[5]
- J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1902), “masa”, in Słownik języka polskiego[6] (in Polish), volume 2, Warsaw, page 892
Romanian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
a masa (third-person singular present masează, past participle masat) 1st conj.
- to massage
Conjugation edit
infinitive | a masa | ||||||
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gerund | masând | ||||||
past participle | masat | ||||||
number | singular | plural | |||||
person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |
indicative | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | masez | masezi | masează | masăm | masați | masează | |
imperfect | masam | masai | masa | masam | masați | masau | |
simple perfect | masai | masași | masă | masarăm | masarăți | masară | |
pluperfect | masasem | masaseși | masase | masaserăm | masaserăți | masaseră | |
subjunctive | eu | tu | el/ea | noi | voi | ei/ele | |
present | să masez | să masezi | să maseze | să masăm | să masați | să maseze | |
imperative | — | tu | — | — | voi | — | |
affirmative | masează | masați | |||||
negative | nu masa | nu masați |
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
masa f
Serbo-Croatian edit
Noun edit
màsa f (Cyrillic spelling ма̀са)
Declension edit
Slovene edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mȃsa f
- mass (large quantity; sum)
Inflection edit
Feminine, a-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | mása | ||
gen. sing. | máse | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
mása | mási | máse |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
máse | más | más |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
mási | másama | másam |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
máso | mási | máse |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
mási | másah | másah |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
máso | másama | másami |
Spanish edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).
Noun edit
masa f (plural masas)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
masa
- inflection of masar:
Further reading edit
- “masa”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From a dialectal masa (“move or work slowly”). Probably sound symbolic.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
masa (present masar, preterite masade, supine masat, imperative masa)
Conjugation edit
Active | Passive | |||
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Infinitive | masa | masas | ||
Supine | masat | masats | ||
Imperative | masa | — | ||
Imper. plural1 | masen | — | ||
Present | Past | Present | Past | |
Indicative | masar | masade | masas | masades |
Ind. plural1 | masa | masade | masas | masades |
Subjunctive2 | mase | masade | mases | masades |
Participles | ||||
Present participle | masande | |||
Past participle | — | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs. |
References edit
Anagrams edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Spanish masa, from Latin massa, from Ancient Greek μᾶζα (mâza, “bread”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Malay masa, from Old Javanese masa, māsa (“time, time of day; season”, literally “month”), ultimately borrowed from Sanskrit मास (māsa). Compare Tausug masa.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masa (Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
masa (complete nasa, progressive nanasa, contemplative babasa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)
Etymology 4 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
masâ (complete nasa, progressive nanasa, contemplative babasa, Baybayin spelling ᜋᜐ) (obsolete)
Further reading edit
- “masa”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
Tausug edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
masa
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish ماسه, borrowed from Bulgarian маса (masa, “table”), from Romanian masă.[1][2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
masa (definite accusative masayı, plural masalar)
Declension edit
Inflection | ||
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Nominative | masa | |
Definite accusative | masayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | masa | masalar |
Definite accusative | masayı | masaları |
Dative | masaya | masalara |
Locative | masada | masalarda |
Ablative | masadan | masalardan |
Genitive | masanın | masaların |
References edit
- ^ Eren, Hasan (1999) “masa”, in Türk Dilinin Etimolojik Sözlüğü [Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish Language] (in Turkish), Ankara: Bizim Büro Basım Evi, page 289
- ^ Gianguido Manzelli (2017) “The Lexical Influence of Italian on Turkish”, in Piera Molinelli, editor, Language and Identity in Multilingual Mediterranean Settings, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, →ISBN, page 174.
Venetian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
masa f (plural mase)
Adverb edit
masa