mase
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /meɪz/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪz
Etymology 1 edit
Back-formation from maser as if mase + agentive -er. Compare lase from laser.
Verb edit
mase (third-person singular simple present mases, present participle masing, simple past and past participle mased)
- To act as a maser; to emit or subject to maser radiation.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
mase (plural mases)
Anagrams edit
Czech edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mase
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From West Frisian maschen, from Old Frisian *māsk, from Proto-West Germanic *maisk, from Proto-Germanic *maiskaz (“mash, mixture”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
mase (imperative mas, present maser, past maste or masede, past participle mast or maset)
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
mase
Manchu edit
Romanization edit
mase
- Romanization of ᠮᠠᠰᡝ
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French Meuse
Noun edit
māse f
- Meuse (a river)
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
- Dutch: Maas
Further reading edit
- “mase”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Probably from masen; further etymology is disputed.
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
mase (plural mases)
- Something that causes bewilderment or mystery (e.g. a wild fancy; a confused notion)
- Something that causes misleadingness or chicanery.
- (rare, later ME) A maze or labyrinth.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “māse, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-27.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
mase
- Alternative form of messe
Etymology 3 edit
Noun edit
mase
- Alternative form of mace (“mace”)
Etymology 4 edit
Probably from amased.
Verb edit
mase
- Alternative form of masen
Northern Kurdish edit
Noun edit
mase f
Synonyms edit
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Verb edit
mase (imperative mas, present tense maser, simple past masa or maset or maste, past participle masa or maset or mast)
- to nag
References edit
- “mase” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
mase (present tense masar, past tense masa, past participle masa, passive infinitive masast, present participle masande, imperative mase/mas)
- Alternative form of masa
Old English edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *maisā.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
māse f (nominative plural māsan)
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Spanish edit
Verb edit
mase
- inflection of masar:
Zazaki edit
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ma‧se
Etymology 1 edit
Related to Persian ماهی (mâhi).
Noun edit
mase
Etymology 2 edit
Borrowed from Turkish masa.
Noun edit
mase